Friday, September 20, 2002
layoffs and pay reduction
An interesting analysis of something my friends and I (government lawyers who have been, as of late, patting ourselves on the back for having job security) have been wondering: why don't law firms cut salaries rather than lay a bunch of associates off? After all, about 30K of the current first-year big-firm associate's salary came in the last four or five years. Why doesn't the salary settle down to what it was, pre-dot-com boom (adjusted for inflation, that is)?
The Amar brothers' explanation suggests that it relates to law firm culture somehow, the lack of partner/associate loyalty. And also
To begin with, law students - like their slightly more senior associate counterparts - may be arrogant enough to believe that they are not going to be the ones laid off by a firm, so that a firm policy of laying people off doesn't scare them. "So long as I get a foot in the door, I'll prove I'm worth keeping" is an admirable attitude, but only up to a point. If this is the kind of mindset that law schools themselves are creating, perhaps we in the academy need to do a better job.
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
practical reasons for multilateralism
From Ex-Friends, in The New Republic (discussing how unilateralism doesn't accomplish even those goals espoused by the Bush administration):
Since returning from his August vacation, President George W. Bush has lobbied numerous foreign leaders, which would seem to suggest an all-out White House effort to convince other governments to back war with Iraq. But in a deeper sense, that effort is an illusion. The Bush administration has actually put remarkably little effort into winning our allies' support for overthrowing Saddam. In fact, it has helped produce much of the international opposition it now seeks to overcome.
[...]
The point is not that the Bush administration was wrong, and the Europeans right, on each conflict. Rather, it is that compared with European support on Iraq, each conflict was trivial. The Bush administration prides itself on its ability to set aside distractions that interfere with its post-September 11 mission--which is why it has essentially put American policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on hold until we go after Saddam. But with regard to Europe, the administration has done exactly the opposite--miring itself in one peripheral spat after another. And those spats are coming back to haunt the United States today.
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