December 2006
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Crime, Death Penalty, Fast Food, Food, Gay, Gay Marriage, Lunacy, Morning Docket, War on Terror, Weirdness
Morning Docket: 12.06.06
* How crazy are bedbugs, exactly? [CNN] * Which of your personalities is the arsonist?. [CNN] * Yo quiero to sue Taco Bell. [WSJ Law Blog] * Chinese Gitmo detainees say the same evidence being used to detain them was used to clear five others. [Jurist] * Maryland Court of Appeals considers same-sex marriage. [Jurist]
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Borat, Movies, S.D.N.Y.
Exactly What Kind of Sex Toy Was Attached to Plaintiff's Stump?
The latest news in the world of Borat-related litigation: A judge on Monday told lawyers who filed a $30 million lawsuit accusing the makers of the hit movie “Borat” of misleading residents of a remote Romanian village that they must make specific allegations in their lawsuit if they want it to have a chance at […] - Sponsored
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Celebrities, Drinking, Hotties, Movies, Non-Sequiturs, Old People, Perverts, Police, Sex, Videos
Non-Sequiturs: 12.05.06
* In Breathless, Michel (played by Jean-Paul Belmondo) remarks that the women of Sweden, despite their reputation, are pretty much like women everywhere: there are indeed many pretty ones, but most are plain or ugly. So you can understand why these two busted Swedish cops kept records of the former. [AP via MSNBC] * Harold […]
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Biglaw, Cheapness, Dewey Ballantine, Dewy Orifice, Paralegals, Parties
This Is Just Plain Depressing
Dewey Ballantine partners, have you no sense of decency? If your associates are going to act in completely undignified fashion, can’t you at least give them dignified surroundings in which to do so? No amount of tinsel and mistletoe can disguise this basic truth: making out with a paralegal in the cafeteria is beyond humiliating. […] -
Admin, Announcements, Antonin Scalia, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
Programming Note: Nino-Breyer Smackdown
We’ll be stepping away shortly to attend what should be a fantastic event: A Conversation on the Constitution: Perspectives from Active Liberty and A Matter of Interpretation. It’s being sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society, and we’re attending as a guest of the ACS (whom we thank for the gracious invitation). […] -
Attorney Misconduct, Holidays and Seasons, Parties
Holiday Party Scandal Stories, Please
It’s December, and you know what that means. In addition to law firm associate bonuses — which we’re still waiting for, with bated breath — we get to go to… Christmas HOLIDAY PARTIES!!! As noted by Alan Kopit, hosting a holiday party is fraught with legal peril. If you’re planning to host such a party, […] -
2nd Circuit, Erwin Chemerinsky, Gender, Goldman Sachs, Hotties, Money, Wall Street, WSJ Law Blog
Shouldn't That Be "Mistress" of the Universe?
Our big sibling reports on the departure of high-finance hottie Suzanne Nora Johnson from Goldman Sachs, the obscenely profitable investment bank. Johnson, who served on the firm’s 23-member management committee, was the highest-ranking woman at Goldman Sachs.* And as the WSJ Law Blog notes, in a post entitled Associates, You Too Can Become a Master […] -
Hotties, Litigatrix, Old People, Sex
UrbanCougar, Esquire?
In case you’re not familiar with it — and we’re guessing you’re not — check out urbancougar.com (probably safe for work, although the IT people might snicker around you). Here is the website’s mission statement: urbancougar: it’s not a stigma, it’s a sophisticated species of female who seeks the pleasure of younger males. She avoids […] - Sponsored
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Advice for the Lawlame, Ann Israel, Biglaw, NYLawyer.com, Pranks
Advice for the Lawlame: Hell Hath No Fury Like An Advice Columnist Mocked
Back in this post, an ATL reader confessed to playing a little trick on Ann Israel, the legal recruiter who writes NYLawyer.com’s popular Advice for the Lawlorn column. He wrote: Love ATL’s Advice for the Lawlame column. My friends and I have been reading NYLawyer.com’s Advice for the Lawlorn with a sort of amused contempt […] -
Andrew Gardner, Biglaw, Bonuses, Gay, Money, Rank Stupidity, Sex
Associate Bonus Watch: Waiting for the White Shoe To Drop
Sigh. We’re still waiting for the first big announcement of law firm associate bonuses — and we’re getting impatient. As soon as you hear something, please let us know. We’ve visited the message boards this morning, to see if there’s any news, and to kill some time. They didn’t offer any enlightenment. But they did […] -
Cellphones, Drudge Report, Hillary Clinton, Pictures, Politics
Matt Drudge Is Too Funny
(Yes, politics may lie slightly beyond the legal beat — but not by much. Senatrix Hillary Clinton is, of course, a lawyer by training. And if elected president, she’d probably get to appoint at least two Supreme Court justices. So we think we’ve established an adequate topical nexus for posting this amusing screenshot.) Clinton Reaches […] -
Affirmative Action, Anthony Kennedy, Constitutional Law, John Roberts, Paul Clement, Racism, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
Dispatch from One First Street: The Race in Public School Cases
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases concerning the use of race as a factor in assigning students to public schools: Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District #1, out of the Ninth Circuit, and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, out of the Sixth Circuit. It appears that […] -
Weddings
Your November 2006 Couple of the Month
This morning we closed the polls in our November 2006 Couple of the Month contest. And this was not, we’re sorry to report, one of our more exciting races. It was nowhere near as thrilling as last month’s competition, in which Katherine Dowling and Marc Axelbaum staged a dramatic, come-from-behind victory over Lori Alvino and […]
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Biglaw, Crime, Gambling, Kids, Morning Docket, Perverts, SCOTUS, Sex, Supreme Court, Violence
Morning Docket: 12.05.06
* This, this, and this from How Appealing on the race in public schools cases argued before the Supreme Court yesterday. * And for the second straight day, someone blames their crime on bingo. [CNN] * A “temporary” solution for being burned out on biglaw. [WSJ Law Blog] * I guess this is kinda like […]
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Deaths, Fast Food, Food, New Jersey
Are We Prophetic, or What?
Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Investigations are underway — and lawsuits can’t be far behind. And when the plaintiffs are ready to file suit, they can turn to law firms that actually specialize in E. coli litigation. Take, for example, Marler Clark, which touts itself as “the nation’s foremost law firm with a practice […] -
Judicial Nominations, Politics, Senate Judiciary Committee
About That Cancelled SJC Hearing, and New Leadership at CFJ
Via Howard Bashman, we learned of the cancellation of tomorrow’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. This piqued our curiosity: What was the hearing for, and why was it canceled? So we did a little poking around. We learned that the SJC was planning to hold confirmation hearings for an “unspecified handful of district court nominees.” But […] -
Blogging, Deaths, Non-Sequiturs, Old People, Service of Process
Non-Sequiturs: 12.04.06
* For those of you who prefer oral, a new service. For free. [Robert Ambrogi’s Lawsites] * If you’ve never believed in God, now is the time to believe in Judgment Day. [The Notion] * The very funny and talented Melissa Lafsky, aka Opinionista, will now be writing for Eat the Press, the HuffPo fiefdom […] -
Affirmative Action, Biglaw, New York Times, Racism
More About Minority Lawyers and Biglaw
In response to this post — about the low partnership rate for minority lawyers at large law firms, the subject of a recent New York Times piece — an ATL commenter wrote: [UCLA law professor Richard] Sander relies too heavily upon grades as predictors of law firm performance. All of us know scores of brilliant […] -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Law Firm Mergers, Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs: 12.04.06
Law Firm Mergers: * One of Seattle’s top firms, Davis Wright Tremaine, is acquiring D.C-based Cole, Raywid & Braverman, a telecom boutique with 35 lawyers. The acquisition will be effective on January 1. Lateral Moves: * Intellectual property/M&A lawyer Leonard Jacoby, to Cleary Gottlieb, from Wilson Sonsini. Jacoby’s practice focuses on IP issues related to […] -
Advice for the Lawlame, Biglaw, Practice Pointers
Advice for the Lawlame: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
It has been forever since the last edition of Advice for the Lawlame. In this feature, we take a question submitted to one of NYLawyer.com’s popular advice columns, such as “Advice for the Lawlorn,” and offer our own unique take. Here’s the condensed version of today’s question: I am a mentor in my firm to […]