September 2006
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Alice Fisher, Federal Judges, Interview Stories, Job Searches, Ken Wainstein, Law Professors, Skaddenfreude, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Weddings, Week in Review
ATL Week in Review: September 24, 2006
* Who is the hottest dean? Your nominations are needed. (At right: A portrait of Howard Dean as a young man. Seriously.) * Who is the Paris Hilton of the federal judiciary? * Are you a professor at a private law school? If so, how much money do you make? * Why are those Florida […] -
Fashion, Harriet Miers, New Yorker, Non-Sequiturs, Project Runway, Richard Posner
Non-Sequiturs: 09.23.06
Some random reading recommendations, which don’t have much to do with law. But that’s what weekends are for, right? * Suffering from Entourage withdrawal? Read about a real-life agent dumping (by Jim Carrey). [Defamer] * Suffering from Project Runway withdrawal, since there was no new episode this week? Get your hands on the New Yorker’s […] - Sponsored
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Bad Ideas, Judge of the Day, Pornography, R. Fred Lewis, Sexual Harassment, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Judge of the Day: Brandt C. Downey III
Okay, maybe he should be “Judge of Yesterday,” since this was in yesterday’s paper (and was picked up by How Appealing yesterday too). But it’s Saturday, and we’re still working hard to entertain you, so stop your quibbling. A judge who repeatedly viewed pornography on the computer in his chambers apologized Friday after receiving a […]
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10th Circuit, Insider Trading, Jon Corzine, Kellogg Huber, Neil Gorsuch, Non-Sequiturs, William Birdthistle
Non-Sequiturs: 09.22.06
* “Bless him Father, for he has sinned”: Msgr. John Woolsey made some unauthorized withdrawals from his church’s collection plate, which he blew on golf vacations and Rolex watches. (Monsignor: A Rolex is so unoriginal. Why not, say, a nice Patek Philippe?) [Judicial Reports] * Newly confirmed Tenth Circuit judge Neil M. Gorsuch — a […] -
Alice Fisher, Brett Gerry, Confirmations, Department of Justice, John Demers, Ken Wainstein, Supreme Court Clerks, War on Terror
Congratulations to Ken Wainstein!
Okay, so he’s no Alice Fisher — the ball-busting, badass blonde, recently confirmed to head the DOJ’s Criminal Division, who has white-collar criminals shaking in their boots. But he’s still a highly regarded attorney — and pretty cute, too. So ATL sends its congratulations to Kenneth L. Wainstein, just confirmed by the Senate as assistant […] -
Aerobics, Consuelo Callahan, David Souter, Exercise, Eyes of the Law, Federal Judges, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Michael Chertoff, Running, Sandra Day O'Connor, Stephen Breyer
The Eyes of the Law: But Can He Outrun Justice Souter?
Lately you haven’t been sending many legal celebrity sightings our way. C’mon, guys — we know you can do better. If you harbor doubt as to who constitutes a “legal celebrity” in our book, please review this post. Due to your delinquency, we’ll have to resort to some rather hoary sightings. Here’s the first, inspired […] -
Biglaw, Interview Stories, Job Searches
Interview Horror Stories: Power to the People
Remember the not-so-little secret we let you in on the other day: that all big law firms are pretty much the same?* If you question that conventional wisdom, consider this interview tale: I walked into an on-campus interview with a prominent DC firm. The interview room had a big window, and the interviewer must have […] -
Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Skaddenfreude, UVA Law
Skaddenfreude: Private Law School Salaries, Please
In response to our recent request for information about academic salaries, a number of you reminded us that the salaries of many professors at state law schools are already publicly available. We had a vague recollection of this, but were too lazy to dig up links. Thankfully, a number of you did that for us. […] - Sponsored
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Interview Stories
Interview Horror Stories: The Beantown Blooper
Our series on Interview Horror Stories has released a wave of funny interview anecdotes throughout the blogosphere. In addition to yesterday’s amusingly awkward anecdote from David Bernstein, check out Eric Muller’s two contributions: a funny-but-evil law firm story, and a butt-clenchingly mortifying faculty job talk story (anecdote #2). And now, our latest funny/embarrassing interview story, […] -
Alex Kozinski, Celebrities, Clerkships, Fabulosity, Federal Judges, Maryanne Trump Barry, Paris Hilton, Richard Posner, Sean Combs, Shira Scheindlin
Paris Hilton: When the Polls Will Close
Voter turnout in our ATL reader poll, Who Is the Paris Hilton of the Federal Judiciary?, has been surprisingly good. Not as good as turnout in our ERISA Hotties Contest; but certainly stronger than the anemic response to the August 2006 Couple of the Month survey. If you haven’t already voted, you can review the […] -
Money
Handicapping the Race to Partnership: Tips, Please
Partnership. It’s the Holy Grail of private practice. It’s the brass ring for Biglaw attorneys (at least those who didn’t bail on the firm years ago). It’s the six- or seven-figure pot of gold at the end of a decade-long rainbow. And it’s something that lawyers talk about incessantly — who’s a lock, who’s DOA, […] -
9th Circuit, Anna Nicole Smith, Cablevision, Dianne Feinstein, Federal Judges, J. Howard Marshall, Manuel Real, Morning Docket, Old People, Options Backdating
Morning Docket: 09.22.06
* Judge Manuel Real (C.D. Cal.) defends himself against impeachment charges before the Senate. The accusation that he made rulings “to benefit an attractive female” is one that the 82-year-old jurist “find[s] repugnant, particularly at my age.” [Los Angeles Times] (But who says old guys can’t be horndogs? See, e.g., J. Howard Marshall, the late […]
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Biglaw, Interview Stories
Interview Horror Stories: "When I Grow Up..."
We recently heard about a 1L at a top law school who knew, since he was a wee lad, that he wanted to go into international commercial arbitration. We found this rather odd. No one in his family worked in the field. He had no other prior exposure to this area of law. And ICA […]
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Amy Schulman, Biglaw, David Bernstein, Dianne Feinstein, Eugene Volokh, Glenn Reynolds, Interview Stories, Litigatrix, Non-Sequiturs, Paris Hilton
Non-Sequiturs: 09.21.06
* DLA Piper’s Amy Schulman (at right): Leading litigatrix, or Dianne Feinstein doppelganger? [WSJ Law Blog] * “Eugene Volokh” on Boston Legal: the mystery revealed. Congrats on the shout-out, Professor Volokh! [Volokh Conspiracy] * We enjoyed this. Or, to do our best Instapundit impression: HEH. [Concurring Opinions] * Another funny interview story, courtesy of David […] -
Association of American Law Schools, Law Schools, Money, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: Academic Salaries, Please
It’s been a while since the last installment of Skaddenfreude, ATL’s informal survey of compensation within the legal profession. And we’d like to bring you some fresh data. Unfortunately, right now we don’t have enough submissions to fill a post. But based on the submissions that we HAVE received, we have a theme: salaries in […] -
Morgan Stanley, Musical Chairs, Peter Lattman, Wall Street Journal, WSJ Law Blog
Musical Chairs: 09.21.06
Lateral Moves: * Tax litigators B. John Williams, Jr. and Alan Swirski, to Skadden Arps (DC), from Shearman & Sterling (DC). The WSJ Law Blog refers to the two men as “Tax Litigation Studs.” First: What do these guys look like? Second: Is using the word “stud” conduct unbecoming an MSM blog? (Just kidding, Peter.) […] -
Advice for the Lawlame, Ann Israel, Biglaw, NYLawyer.com
Advice for the Lawlame: An Amusing Anecdote
This actually isn’t a new installment of our Advice for the Lawlame column (although one is in the works). Rather, it’s a funny email we received from a reader who shares our fascination with NYLawyer.com’s Advice for the Lawlorn column. Here it is: Love the “Advice for the Lawlame” column. My friends and I have […] -
Announcements, Biglaw, Clerkships, Interview Stories, Job Searches
A PSA from ATL: Top Ten Interview Tips
Since fall is job hunting season in the legal profession, both in terms of firm jobs and judicial clerkships, ATL offers you this “public service announcement”: our top ten interview tips. We’ve received requests for interview advice from readers. Rather than repeat ourselves in emails, we thought we’d just write our “wisdom” down in a […] -
Hotties, Law School Deans
Above the Law Hotties: Law School Deans
Some time has passed since our last attempt to bring down western civilization — namely, our ERISA Hotties Contest. So it’s time for another legal professional beauty pageant. Our latest competition is based on the suggestion of a helpful law professor reader. It’s a contest for the HOTTEST LAW SCHOOL DEAN in America. Two notes […] -
Cert Pool, Harvard, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Roberts and Alito, Skinnydipping in the Cert Pool
From the same Tony Mauro column that discussed Chief Justice Roberts’s new summer house comes this update on the SCOTUS cert pool: [T]he Supreme Court’s two newest justices have decided, at least temporarily, to stick with the Court’s clerk-pooling arrangement…. [B]oth Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel Alito Jr. said they will stay […]