Columbia Law School fee tops $110k, Jenner & Block hires ex-Jan. 6 panel defense lawyer, energy company sues law firm over 'botching up' case
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Columbia Law School fee rose to $110,450 for current academic year. Jenner & Block is hiring a lawyer who defended the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Former Sidley Austin partner Richard Weiner reported $3.4 million in partnership income since the start of 2021 and energy company GIT seeks $250 million from Quinn Emanuel over allegations of botched case.
A degree from Columbia Law School opens doors to lucrative law firm jobs but attending the highly ranked law school in expensive New York City comes with a hefty price tag.
Columbia now pegs its cost of attendance at $110,450 for the current academic year. The figure includes the Manhattan law school’s $75,572 tuition, plus living expenses and various university fees.
That means a Columbia law student would have to shell out over $330,000 for a three-year law degree.
A tweet by University of Iowa law professor Derek Muller about the latest cost estimates of attending Columbia and its peer schools sparked a discussion this week. NYU School of Law’s estimated annual cost is $109,290; both Harvard and Stanford come in at $107,000; the University of Chicago’s estimate is roughly $106,000; and Georgetown Law's is $103,400 per year.
According to Muller, this year’s “eye-popping” law school cost figures are connected to?rising associate pay?at the large law firms that recruit heavily from top-ranked law schools.?
“People will point out, ‘Well, there are scholarships.’ But not everyone gets very big scholarships, and very few get anything for cost of living.”
Chicago-founded law firm Jenner & Block is hiring a former House of Representatives lawyer in Washington, D.C., who defended the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by former President Donald Trump's supporters.
Michelle Kallen, a former solicitor general of Virginia, will join Jenner's appellate and Supreme Court practice as a partner on Sept. 6. She left the House’s Office of General Counsel last week, according to court filings.
Kallen’s cases at the House included opposing an effort by Trump lawyer John Eastman to shield emails from the Jan. 6 committee. She was one of the lawyers who signed a filing in March?alleging?that the committee has evidence that Trump committed crimes in connection with the Capitol riots.
She said her experience in the Virginia and House offices have prepared her to also work in Jenner’s government controversies practice.
She also added that she plans to get involved in Jenner’s task force that focuses on issues like abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion nationwide.
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Longtime Sidley Austin partner Richard Weiner made $3.4 million in partnership income from the law firm since the start of 2021, according to an ethics form he filed as part of his nomination to serve as U.S. director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Weiner's form said he expected his 2022 partner share to be between $1 million and $5 million.
Weiner, a global investment and trade partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., and Brussels offices, provided legal services to clients including Exxon Mobil Corp, Russian energy pipe manufacturer TMK PAO and Japanese company Nippon Steel Corp, his form showed. His practice has regularly involved energy and environment clients.
Many U.S. nominees and top officials are required to submit financial disclosures. The forms record income received from the prior calendar year up to the form-submission date.
Chicago-based Sidley, with more than 2,100 lawyers, was among the large U.S. firms?racing to match?the rising pay scale for midlevel and senior associates. Profits per partner at the firm rose last year to about $3.7 million, according to a report from legal industry publication The American Lawyer in January.
GIT Inc, the parent company of two oil and gas producers, has sought $250 million in damages from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, alleging the law firm botched its handling of a federal lawsuit two years ago that led to a $136 million loss to GIT.
The energy company, which was formerly known as Greka Integrated Inc, filed a lawsuit Thursday in the New York County Supreme Court wherein it alleged that Quinn Emanuel was negligent in its defense of a lawsuit filed against GIT by UBS AG.
UBS's London Branch had sued GIT after two of its affiliates, HVI Cat Canyon Inc and Rincon Island Limited Partnership, borrowed $100 million but allegedly never paid anything back. UBS won a?summary judgment?against GIT in April 2020; shortly after, Quinn Emanuel withdrew as GIT’s counsel.
Calling the lawsuit “frivolous”, Quinn Emanuel said an arbitrator last month ordered GIT to pay it $958,000 in legal fees, and that the lawsuit "attempts to resurrect allegations that GIT had dropped during arbitration."
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