October 2006
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Contests, Reader Polls, Weddings
September 2006 Couple of the Month: Polls Close Tomorrow
Voter turnout has been very good for our September 2006 Couple of the Month contest. And it’s a close race: Beth Hansher and David Javdan lead with 37 percent of the vote, but Michèle Lallemand and Joseph Brazil are right behind them (36 percent). We expect this to be a photo finish. To cast your […] -
10th Circuit, Federal Judges, Lesbians, Morning Docket, Murder, Robert Wone, Sentencing Law
Morning Docket: 10.09.06
North Korea now has nukes. Happy Columbus Day! A number of you — e.g., federal government employees — are probably enjoying a day off right now. But for those of you who are stuck in the office and looking for distraction, you can always count on us to provide it. * A California appeals court […]
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Alex Kozinski, Ann Althouse, Celebrities, Federal Judges, Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, Richard Posner, Stephen Breyer
A Bit More On Justice Breyer, and Judicial 'Rock Stars'
It’s another amazingly beautiful day here in New York, and we’re blogging from Bryant Park. The temperature is in the low 70’s, there’s not a cloud in the sky, and a slight breeze is blowing. Life is good. We don’t have much time — we’re about to run off to another New Yorker Festival event […]
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Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, Stephen Breyer
A Quick Take on Justice Breyer's Talk
We’re about to head to dinner, so we’ll write more about this later. For now, from Bryant Park — free wireless! — here’s a quick, rushed, half-baked commentary on Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s interview with Jeffrey Toobin at the New Yorker Festival. It’s always thrilling to see a Supreme Court justice in the flesh. But, […] -
9th Circuit, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Fashion, Food, Parties
DFOpalooza: The Farewell Brunch
Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain’s current law clerks, a merry band: Vincent Kalafat, from Notre Dame; Rod Forter, from Columbia; Marah Stith, from Yale (blogged about supra); and Father Bill Dailey, from Columbia. Well, Ninth Circuit and O’Scannlain groupies, we’ve come to the end of the road. This is our last batch of pictures from our delightful […] -
Biglaw, Kramer Levin, Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs: 10.06.06
The second half of today’s legal professional moves. Lateral Moves: * Robin Weisman, to NASDAQ, where she will serve as director of government relations,from Akin Gump, where she was counsel. New Partners: * Kirkland & Ellis. A boatload of new partners — fifteen of them, in fact. Here they are, per the New York Law […] -
Admin, Announcements, Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, Stephen Breyer
The New Yorker Festival: "My Name Is SGB, Yeah You Know Me"
Another weekend, another out-of-town excursion. In a few hours, we’re heading back up to the Big Apple, to attend events at the New Yorker Festival. A brief description of the Festival, from its website: The New Yorker Festival returns for its seventh year, from October 6th through October 8th, in a celebratory weekend of public […] -
Martha Stewart, Musical Chairs, Old People
Musical Chairs: John Martin + Otto Obermaier = $$$
Hey, there’s a new firm on the block — or maybe it’s an old firm? Think of it as a movie remake, a Broadway revival, or the Simon and Garfunkel reunion concert. Former federal judge John S. Martin (S.D.N.Y.; black-and-white pic), and prominent criminal defense lawyer (and ex-U.S. Attorney) Otto G. Obermaier (color pic) — […] - Sponsored
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Antonin Scalia, Dahlia Lithwick, Ridiculousness, Supreme Court
Justice Scalia: Shaking His Bon Bon?
After yesterday’s discussion of Tequilagate, the pseudo-scandal in which Justice Antonin Scalia stands accused of racial insensitivity for a passing reference at oral argument to Mexico’s national drink, we received this reader email: Scalia’s “tequila” comment from the other day reminded me of a remark he made during oral argument in Hoffman Plastics, an immigration […] -
9th Circuit, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, John Demers, Jonathan Cohn, Law Professors, Office of Legal Policy, Parties, Pictures, Rachel Brand, William Birdthistle
Another Dispatch from DFOpalooza
Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain, Mrs. Maura O’Scannlain, and two decades’ worth of law clerks and judicial assistants. (We apologize for the less-than-stellar quality of this pic. If you live in the D.C. area and would like to give us a tutorial in digital photography, email us.) Our photo essay about the historic Pioneer Courthouse, in Portland, […] -
Contests, Pictures, Reader Polls, Weddings
September 2006 Couple of the Month: The Campaigning Begins
We were a little disappointed in voter turnout for Legal Eagle Wedding Watch’s August 2006 Couple of the Month contest. We’re happy to report that, based on early returns, the electorate appears to be much more enthused about the September 2006 Couple of the Month contest. Perhaps you’re intrigued by the “Survivor: Race Wars” aspect […] -
Benchslaps, Death Penalty, Gay, Gay Marriage, Morning Docket, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sun Microsystems
Morning Docket: 10.06.06
* ATL Stock Tip of the Day: Start shorting Pottery Barn. [How Appealing (linkwrap)]** * A hot new trend among federal judges out west (even more popular than Bikram yoga): Benchslapping the Bush Administration over its environmental policies. [Washington Post] * Joan Biskupic is a distinguished Supreme Court reporter; but this article is très USA […]
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9th Circuit, Courthouses, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Pictures, Ridiculousness
ATL Caption Contest Winner: Schopenhauerian
No, we didn’t forget about our little caption contest. But we almost did, due to the paucity of entries. The runaway winner: Schopenhauerian, our “celebrity commenter” here at ATL. Here is his — or her? — winning entry, to accompany the photo shown above: Meet legal supergeniuses Emily and Mandy, the youngest clerks in the […]
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Biglaw, Dorsey & Whitney, Federal Government, HP, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Milberg Weiss, Money, Musical Chairs, S.D.N.Y., Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Attorneys Offices, White-Collar Crime
Musical Chairs: 10.05.06
Oodles of juicy moves today, especially out of and into the federal government. As the leaves change, so do the lawyers. Government to Private Sector: * Federal prosecutor John Hueston, a leader of the team that prosecuted Enron execs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, is heading for the greener pastures of Irell & Manella. All […] -
Antonin Scalia, Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Sandra Day O'Connor, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, William Pryor
An Anthology of Benchslappery
Judge William H. Pryor, Jr., of the Eleventh Circuit, had an interesting op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, in which he took issue with various “leaders of the bench and bar [who] have decried what they describe as unprecedented threats to the independence of the judiciary.” It’s a fun little piece, largely because the position […] -
Reader Polls, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: September 2006 Couple of the Month
Now that Legal Eagle Wedding Watch has declared the winning couples for September 2006, it’s your turn to weigh in. We need you to vote on which one of these couples deserves to be crowned ATL’s September 2006 Couple of the Month. If you need to refresh your memory about these different couples, our prior […] -
Antonin Scalia, Dahlia Lithwick, Drinking, Ridiculousness, Supreme Court
How Many Drunk Mexicans Live In Dahlia's Head?
We recently received an interesting piece of reader feedback that we’d like to pass along to you. It relates to the recent Tequilagate scandal, which we previously deemed to be “kinda stupid.” We predict that we’ll get some hate mail and negative comments over this (perhaps from the webmaster of this site). But we’ll push […] -
Fashion, Federal Judges, Frank Easterbrook, Richard Posner
A Rather Random Meditation on Techne
Gee, we sure wandered off the reservation. We started off intending to write about this interesting Wall Street Journal article, discussing the lawsuit filed by high-end handbag maker Coach against big-box retailer Target (pronounced by some “tar-ZHAY”). Sure, the news is a few days old. But we couldn’t resist writing about it, since it combines […] -
Arnold & Porter, Weddings, Willkie Farr
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: September 24, 2006
Lawyer weddings come, and lawyer weddings go. The weekend of September 16-17, a veritable cornucopia of attorney nuptials, was followed by the weekend of September 23-24 — not an embarrassment of riches, but just an embarrassment.* No way are we writing about Cheryl Connolly and Kyle Lewis — Lewis was wounded in Iraq, so the […] -
Alan Dershowitz, Jews, Laurence Tribe, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Legal Fee Voyeurism, Money
Legal Fee Voyeurism: Burt Neuborne, Five Million Dollar Man
Recently we asked you for juicy gossip about gigantic legal fees. We didn’t expect to receive a response so quickly. From the WSJ Law Blog: NYU Law School professor Burt Neuborne worked for nearly eight years to help Holocaust survivors win a $1.25 billion settlement from Swiss banks accused of helping the Nazis steal Jewish […]