For the Record: August 20, 2015

• “ It’s late August, it’s Wachtell which is always mysterious and therefore attention getting, and folks have to feed their daily blog hole.”– Aric Press, of Bernero & Press, speaking about a Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz pilot program to track its lawyers’ work activity. (Big Law Business)

• “For Dewey & LeBoeuf, the process [of merging] has been particularly tricky, as it needed to digest the merger by effectively compensating … partners from [legacy] Dewey Ballantine as if their 2007 results would have been good, which they were not,” — an internal Wachovia memo from 2009 that called the firm a good bet. (American Lawyer)

• “We’re all saying: ‘It’s going to be Christmas in September,’” — Los Angeles-based divorce lawyer Steve Mindel predicted an uptick in business as a result of the Ashley Madison hack. (AP/Business Insider)

• “I once asked a young lawyer if he could imagine practicing law in a world without the Internet ... and other tools that lawyers now take for granted. He paused for a moment, looked up from his smartphone, gave me a ‘No,’ and resumed his texting.” — Jill Switzer, a California-based mediator writing about the tension between old and young lawyers. (Above the Law)