Except for his name, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. started out in the law like a lot of people. As a young man, he decided to go to law school, and after earning his JD from the University of Virginia in 1982, he became a prosecutor. All well and good. But then he decided to veer [...]

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Total attorneys | 764
Major departments/practices | litigation, corporate/tax, bankruptcy
First-year pay | $125,000
2001 summer associates | 171
2001 fall first-years | 81
Who to call | Kimberley Klein, attorney recruiting manager, 312-861-2000
Web site | kirkland.com
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Top Five Offices | Los Angeles HQ, New York, Washington, D.C., Orange County, California, San Francisco
Total attorneys | 787
Major departments/practices | litigation, corporate, labor, media
First-year pay | $125,000
2001 summer associates | 175
2001 fall first-years | 93
Who to call | Leslie Ripley, national manager, recruiting and professional development, 213-229-7000
Web site | gibsondunn.com
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Aiming high is so gauche. Striving to be the best, so very American. The awful burden of working for one of the top outfits in your field—and having to admit it! The horror! Please. We beg you. Steer clear of the jobs listed here. They are the prime career choices of the moment—the very positions [...]

“I eat like shit,” says Seth Gassman, an NYU law school 2L. Don’t believe him? Picture a fried mozzarella patty the size of a man’s wallet. One piece could give Dean Ornish an aortal blockage. Gassman likes three at a time. No wonder he gained 20 pounds in his first semester. Gassman usually skips breakfast, [...]

“Some people are naturally Zen,” observes 27-year-old Betsy Miller. That group does not include Miller. A former clerk for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson during U.S. v. Microsoft, Miller currently works at a Washington, D.C., dispute-resolution outfit, where she logs 60-hour-plus weeks. Think you’re stressed? Try organizing a two-day negotiation-skills workshop for 45 IRS lawyers and [...]

On the following pages, you’ll find a complete health and fitness regimen designed specifically for young lawyers and law students. Think we’re messin’? We are not. We had real lawyers and lawyers-to-be share their workout, diet, and stress-management habits with an authority in each field. Then we had the pros rip the budding legal eagles [...]

What’s a Golden Monkey? It’s the most contrived award in legal television. Who are the judges? You, the television-consuming J.D. public (specifically, six UCLA Law School students—see “The Judges“).
Deliberating in the UCLA law lounge, just a latte’s throw from Hollywood, the group vetted the thirty-plus law-related programs currently on the air—from Law & Order to [...]

On May 16, Timothy McVeigh is scheduled to be executed for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
One hundred sixty-eight people were killed in the bombing. Several hundred were injured. On June 2, 1997, McVeigh was convicted of eight counts of murder and three counts of conspiracy [...]

Top Five Offices | New York HQ, Washington, D.C. Chicago, Los Angeles, London
Total attorneys | 1,622
Major departments/practices | mergers and acquisitions, litigation, corporate restructuring
First-year pay | $140,000
2001 summer associates | 266
2001 fall first-years | 160
Who to call | Carol Sprague, director of legal hiring, 212-735-2076
Web site | skadden.com
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