August 2006
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 8.22.06
* The Crackberry class action: it’s only a matter of time. [DealBreaker] * Interested in Manatt, Phelps & Phillips because of its sexy entertainment practice? Watch out — you might get stuck doing health care law. [National Law Journal] * A restaurant coalition has filed a lawsuit arguing that the Chicago City Council’s ban on […] -
Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs: 8.22.06
Lateral moves: * Corporate lawyer T. Robert Zochowski Jr., to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, from Shearman & Sterling (where he had headed the structured finance group). * Jonathan Marshall, to Fish & Richardson (as senior counsel), from Weil Gotshal & Manges. * Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez, to Weil, Gotshal & Manges (litigation/regulatory department), from SAI […] - Sponsored
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Kronish Lieb, Law Firm Mergers, Weddings
And What About Mr. Lieb?
Merger mania continues inside the world of Biglaw. Here’s the latest pair of firms to tie the knot: Cooley Godward LLP, a 445-lawyer law firm known for its representation of West Coast technology companies, plans to merge with Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP, a 110-lawyer New York firm specializing in commercial litigation, bankruptcy and […]
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Breasts, Drugs, Hotties, Marijuana
Allison Margolin: "Lawyer Hot"
Today’s Los Angeles Times has a profile of L.A. lawyer Allison Margolin. The article describes Margolin as “star-struck, young and unorthodox,” but also “Ivy League, savvy and successful.” The title of the piece — “A Law Unto Herself” — may promise more than the article delivers. But there are still some interesting tidbits: Matt Farrell, […] -
Dreier, Milberg Weiss, Musical Chairs
Milberg Weiss Death Watch: Finally Flatlining?
It’s been a few weeks since our last report on the much-maligned Milberg Weiss. So here’s the latest news about the plaintiff’s class-action firm that everyone loves to hate: The bleeding continues at Milberg Weiss Bershad & Shulman. [Last] week, four partners — Bruce Bernstein, Brian Kerr, Dan Scotti and Lee Weiss — announced they […] -
Lunacy
And You Thought American Judges Were Crazy
And now, a dispatch from our ancestral homeland, the Philippines: A Philippine judge who said he consulted imaginary mystic dwarves has failed to convince the Supreme Court to allow him to keep his job. Florentino Floro was appealing against a three-year inquiry which led to his removal due to incompetence and bias. He told investigators […] -
2nd Circuit, Court of Federal Claims, Judith Rogers, Shira Scheindlin, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: August 20, 2006
Wow — a whole lot of lawyers got married last weekend. And some of them are very impressive people. Like William Michael, a Yale law grad who will be clerking for the prestige-oozing Second Circuit. And Matthew Schwartz, who clerked for Judge Shira Scheindlin (S.D.N.Y.) from 2002 to 2004 — and lived to tell the […] -
Crime, Perverts, Sex Scandals, Sexual Harassment, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Judge Donald Thompson: Underneath His Robe
Judge Donald Thompson — remember him? The Oklahoma state court judge who was packing a penis pump underneath that robe? Well, here’s the latest development in his fall from grace: A former judge convicted of exposing himself while presiding over jury trials by using a sexual device under his robe was sentenced Friday to four […] - Sponsored
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Eavesdropping / Wiretapping, Federal Judges, Morning Docket, Tobacco / Smoking
Morning Docket: 8.18.06
* A federal judge in Detroit — Judge Anna Diggs Taylor (E.D. Mich.) — has struck down the NSA warrantless wiretapping program as unconstitutional. The Justice Department is appealing. [New York Times; Washington Post; Los Angeles Times] * A federal judge in Washington, D.C. — Judge Gladys Kessler (D.D.C.) — has ruled against major cigarette […]
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Judicial Divas, Shira Scheindlin
Happy Birthday, Judge Scheindlin
We briefly linked to this item yesterday, but now we have a little more to add. Here’s what the New York Post reported: [Organized crime defendant John “Junior”] Gotti helped Manhattan federal Judge Shira Scheindlin celebrate her 60th birthday by serenading her from his seat at the defense table yesterday. “I led the attack,” Gotti […] -
Dick Grasso, Eliot Spitzer, Non-Sequiturs, Shira Scheindlin
Non-Sequiturs: 8.17.06
* John Faso, the Republican candidate for New York governor, calls out Eliot Spitzer for his Dick Grasso grandstanding. Ha. [DealBreaker] * Wow, this is weird: John “Junior” Gotti serenades Judge Shira Scheindlin on her 60th birthday. [New York Post] * Musical chairs in legal academia: a whole lot of shakin’ goin’ on. [Concurring Opinions] […] -
Judge of the Day, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Above the Law Judge of the Day: Paul Zellerbach
California Superior Court Judge Paul Zellerbach is apparently a big baseball fan. So take him out to the ball game, take him out with the crowd? Actually, on second thought, don’t: A Riverside Superior Court judge who delayed the taking of a verdict in a murder trial because he was attending an Angels playoff game […] -
Lawyerly Lairs
Lawyerly Lairs: Greta Van Susteren and John Coale's Big Apple Crash Pad
Lawyer-turned-news-anchoress Greta Van Susteren, and her husband, Washington lawyer John Coale, have snagged themselves a nice piece of Manhattan real estate. Yes, they’re based in DC. But when they visit NYC, they can enjoy this pied-a-terre (as described in the New York Observer): The host of Fox’s On the Record and her husband, a D.C. […]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 8.17.06
* They’ve arrested someone in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case — seriously. And no, it’s not the parents. [New York Times; Washington Post] * The Third Circuit has ruled that Delaware can’t discriminate between its own citizens and citizens of other states in granting access to its government documents. Wilmington file clerks, warm up your […]
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Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: August 13, 2006
This week’s installment of Legal Eagle Wedding Watch is a little late. But we have an excuse: the New York Times wedding announcements went on forever this week! And so many of the couples getting hitched involved lawyers. Picking our contenders took us more time than usual. It was tough, but we managed to narrow […] -
Advice for the Lawlame
Advice for the Lawlame: Why Are Lady Lawyers So Bitchy?
Before you call us sexist and let slip the dogs of war, please note that the question in the title of this post isn’t ours. Rather, it’s a question submitted to one of the NYLawyer.com advice columns, by a female attorney. Here’s the complete query: I am a female associate, and I wonder if I’m […] -
Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs: 8.15.06
Here’s the latest news about moves within the legal profession. Before we proceed to the usual law firm announcements, here’s an ATL exclusive: a notable government-to-private-sector move that ATL just learned about: Grant Dixton, to Boeing, from the White House Counsel’s office. Dixton, you may recall, is the White House lawyer who went after The […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 8.15.06
* Ah, the Brits. We don’t want to emulate them on, say, the culinary front — bangers and mash, anyone? But we may be able to learn a thing or two from their counterterrorism laws. The Justice Department is comparing U.S. and British counterterrorism laws to see if any changes should be made in American […]
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Biglaw, Vault rankings
Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Most Prestigious of All?
Each year, just in time for fall on-campus recruiting season, Vault releases its prestige rankings of the nation’s biggest law firms. Here’s a report on the results of the latest survey, from The Recorder: In big law, prestige is important. And an annual survey from career-oriented Web site Vault attempts to gauge just how impressive […] -
Attorney Misconduct, Bad Ideas, Perverts, Pornography, Sexual Harassment, Too Clever By Half
What's a Little Kiddie Porn Between Friends?
We’ve already named William DiSalvatore our Lawyer of the Day, so that award is off the table. But if DiSalvatore hadn’t already grabbed the laurels, Kweku Hanson, of Hartford, Connecticut, would have been a deserving winner. Here’s why: Sexual assault and child pornography charges pending against Hartford attorney Kweku J. Hanson aren’t enough to warrant […]