November 2006
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Aquagirl, Bar Exams, Biglaw, Drinking, Summer Associates, You Go Girl
A Further Update on Aquagirl: Is She Still Afloat?
In response to our last post about Aquagirl — the Clearly Goatlips Cleary Gottlieb summer associate who stripped down to her underwear and dove into the Hudson River, at a summer associate event — one of you wrote: Aquagirl was in my bar review class, for the Virginia bar exam. But she is NOT on […]
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Crime, Deaths, Fast Food, Murder, Violence
Burger King: Vector for Criminality
What is in the frying oil over at Burger King? First they’re accused by cops of lacing their burgers with marijuana. And now, this: A Burger King restaurant manager is being charged with shooting a teenage boy dead the two argued, and the boy spit in the manager’s face. Police say 16-year-old Shaka Walcott and […]
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3 Big Student Loan Myths Demystified
When was the last time you took a second look at your student loans? If you’re like most borrowers, you probably try hard not to think about them. After all, dwelling on your debt isn’t going to make it go away any faster. Or is it?
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Antonin Scalia, Eyes of the Law, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
The Eyes of the Law: Did Poor Justice Scalia Have to Spend the Night in New Haven?
Last Thursday, Justice Antonin Scalia spoke before the Yale Political Union (an appearance we discussed here). And on Friday morning, Justice Scalia made an appearance at (the) Yale Law School. Justice Scalia was introduced by his former clerk, the beautiful and brilliant Professor Christine Jolls. This past June, Professor Jolls was lured away from Harvard […]
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Affirmative Action, Drinking, Football, Morning Docket, Politics
* NY accidentally cracks down on gargling mouthwash and driving. [MSNBC] * The less-than-unique trend among ex-athletes running for office this year: Dems won, Repubs lost. [AP via Yahoo] * This is how bad it was for Republicans last week: “Dead woman wins county race.” [MSNBC] * Lexis and Westlaw might want to throw a […]
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Biglaw, Borat, Britney Spears, Celebrities, Dewey Ballantine, Divorce Train Wrecks, John Paul Stevens, Money, Movies, Music, Politics, Robert Bork, SCOTUS, Senate Judiciary Committee, Shakira, Supreme Court, Wall Street, Week in Review
ATL Week in Review: November 6-10
* The Democrats are in the House — and Senate, too. Say hello to the new chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Judiciary Committee. (And goodbye to Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.) * It was a big week for politics — and celebrity divorces. Parting ways: Britney Spears and Kevin Federline. * Dewey Ballantine […]
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In case you’re wondering, the email problems that we alluded to earlier today have been solved. So if you have a Supreme Court justice sighting for Eyes of the Law, a law firm interview horror story, salary information for Skaddenfreude, or any other juicy gossip or funny story, please send it to us at our […]
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Biglaw, Canada, Eliot Spitzer, Football, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Tax Law
* A rather innocuous profile of New York’s new first lady, ex-attorney Silda Wall Spitzer (who was an up-and-coming corporate superstar at Skadden, but aren’t they all). She was previously married to a Harvard Law classmate for 29 days. Another HLS classmate, Jim Cramer, thinks she’s pretty, and the journalist probably does not understand the […]
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Antonin Scalia, Eyes of the Law, Supreme Court
The Eyes of the Law: Justice Scalia
in the Lions’ Denat YaleWe often compare law firm mergers to weddings. And other folks do, too. So if law firm mergers are marriages, how do they get consummated? Enough about the wedding; what about the honeymoon? One ATL reader had some thoughts on the matter: Sorry to continue to batter you with sexual innuendo, but Law.com — which […]
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INNOVATION IN ENTRY LEVEL RECRUITING
We’ve all heard how dysfunctional entry-level legal recruiting is: Inordinate expense, decisions made on the briefest of subjective impressions with opacity all around, and what do firms reap for all their efforts? Shocking attrition rates among junior associates. It’s time for a conference on what could work better, and this is it.
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Cablevision, Federal Government, Musical Chairs, Politics, Senate Judiciary Committee, Sonnenschein
Today is the observation of Veterans’ Day (which falls on Saturday). Many of you are enjoying a well-deserved day off. And so is NYLawyer.com, which assiduously covers job hopping in the legal profession. So it’s a pretty quiet day. But we still have a few things to write about: Government to Private Sector (or vice […]
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Fabulosity, Lady Booth, Pictures, Robert Bork, Ted Olson, Weddings, White People
An Update on the Ted Olson – Lady Booth Wedding
Here at Above the Law, we offered up lavish coverage of the magnificent wedding of Ted Olson and Lady Booth. Given Olson’s status as a giant of the legal profession, a former Solicitor General and leading Supreme Court advocate, this coverage was fitting and proper. But, alas, it was not complete — and it may […]
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Andrew Fastow, Depositions, Enron, Murder
Now That Would Have Been the Most Exciting Depo Ever
Depositions can be pretty boring affairs. Back when we were in private practice, we once fell asleep during one. But the deposition of Andrew Fastow, former chief financial officer of Enron, appears to have kept people awake. The Times offers an interesting and detailed account of Fastow’s “moment in the sun.” This was our favorite […]
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Blackberry-Crackberry, Intellectual Property, Patents
During the long-running patent litigation between NTP and Research in Motion, Blackberry uses periodically had to confront the possibility of having their happily vibrating devices rendered useless. Such an apocalyptic scenario was averted when RIM settled with NTP — for the handsome sum of $612.5 million (of which $200 million wound up in the coffers […]
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Art, Cablevision, Deaths, Morning Docket, Murder, Options Backdating, War on Terror
* German citizen files state action to block sale of Picasso painting after federal action was dismissed earlier this week. [CNN] * Talk about court tv: Cablevision is involved in a little bit of litigation. [WSJ Law Blog] * Prosecutors file 12 murder counts in Reno Halloween hotel fire. [Reno Gazette-Journal] * Must not have […]
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Some Technical Difficulties: Issues With Our Email
If you’ve tried emailing us lately, your message may have bounced back to you. We seem to be having some difficulties with our email. We’re not quite sure when these problems will be resolved (but they’re being investigated). In the meantime, we’ve set up a temporary email address that you can use to reach us […]
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“Lexytime”: Let the Borat Litigation Begin
A Borat lawsuit has been filed. But the plaintiff isn’t a Turkish “internet celebrity” with a dubious claim that he’s the “real” Borat. Plaintiffs are two frat boys who appeared in the movie. From TMZ (via Overlawyered): Two anonymous plaintiffs are suing 20th Century Fox and One America Productions, claiming members of their college fraternity […]
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Canada, Perverts, Sentencing Law, Sex
If We End Up Getting Stuck With That Perv… Blame Canada
The United States and Canada are playing “hot potato” with sex offender Malcolm Watson. Here’s the latest development in the story (which we’ve been following): An American teacher allowed to serve probation in Ontario for a misdemeanour sex offence was never “exiled” to Canada as was widely reported, the U.S. judge who approved the deal […]
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Celebrities, Crime, Cyberlaw, Defamation, Gambling, Nauseating Things, Non-Sequiturs, Pets, Religion, Sex
* It’s not slander if you call him a balding pervert. Or her an opportunist (and probably a desperate one at that — this is really scratching the bottom of the barrel, honey). [Page Six] * Quakers like to keep their lawsuits confined to townhouse meetings. If you think you knew this because you saw […]
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KINNEY’S EVAN JOWERS IN HONG KONG TODAY THROUGH MARCH 4
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