February 2007

The title of our recent photo post should have been “Tier TWO Law Students Are Hotter.” According to several commenters, the pictured students are from St. John’s Law School, rather than New York Law School. Since we didn’t chat with these students about their law school — we erroneously assumed the conference attendees were all […]

* Beer and baseball, not as intertwined as you’d think. [Sports Law Blog] * Boring as it may be, is class really the place for a boner? [Feminist Law Professors] * They should have gone with the special brownies instead. [Austin Daily Herald] * The only place this should be happening is Hollywood. Actually, disregard […]

Take heart, Loyola 2L. New York Law School, which is distinct from NYU Law School, is a Tier 3 school, according to U.S. News & World Reports (for whatever the rankings are worth). But the law students we saw at today’s conference at New York Law School were way cuter, on the whole, than our […]

The will of Anna Nicole Smith, aka Vickie Lynn Marshall, is now available. You can check it out here (PDF). We haven’t read it yet; right now we’re in another panel at the NYLS conference. But we welcome your thoughts on it in the comments to this post. To get things started, the CNN article […]

We just got back from a most engaging luncheon talk at the NYLS legal writing conference by John Jay Osborn, a law professor at the University of San Francisco and author of the 1973 novel, The Paper Chase (which led to a movie and television series). Here’s the Westlaw headnotes version of John Osborn’s talk: […]

We are huge fans of the delicious Alexandra Korry, the high-powered Sullivan & Cromwell partner who figures prominently in Charney v. Sullivan & Cromwell, the lawsuit brought by gay lawyer Aaron Charney against his former employer. In the course of our writing about this case, numerous comments have been made about Korry, a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer […]

We’re at the next panel of the day at the New York Law School conference on legal writing. Morning Panel #2 (11:00–12:15): Lost in Translation? Writing About the Law for a Non-Legal Audience “Writing about law for a lay audience poses its own unique challenges. What is lost and what is gained by having to […]

Right now we’re in the audience for this panel at the NYLS conference on writing about the law: Morning Panel #1 (9:30-10:45): Just Cite It! The Traditional Law Review Structure Law reviews have been attacked as irrelevant and their student editors criticized as incompetent, yet legal scholars still need to publish in law reviews to […]

Here’s the morning thread for discussion about associate compensation. We’d like to launch the discussion by quoting from a great reader email we recently received: I am writing this (from an anonymous account of course) to plead and beg for you guys to give us some senior associate love. All these threads about compensation and […]

We’re up in New York right now for a symposium on legal writing at New York Law School. Topics to be covered include both legal academic writing, for student-run law reviews, as well as writing about legal affairs for a lay audience (e.g., through legal journalism and blogging). The comfortable, well-lit classroom that we’re in […]

* MySpace suit dismissed in Texas. [AP via How Appealing] * War powers battle heating up between Articles I and II. [CNN] * WSJ Law Blog: Pay the judges? [WSJ Law Blog] * 26 Americans indicted in Italy CIA rendition case. [CNN] * A tongue-in-cheek wrap-up of Libby trial highlights. (Warning: not real news!) [The […]

* My issue with this decision is, what can’t be used as a sex toy? [Dorf on Law] * We’ll give the FDA tobacco if they leave love alone. (They can keep the Viagra though). [MSNBC] * Can your Valentine’s Day top this? [East Valley Tribune via Quizlaw] * Autobiographies don’t always lead to redemption. […]

We have to step away from the computer for a bit. We’re about to miss the Chinatown bus up to New York, our oh-so-glamorous mode of travel. But we’re leaving this open thread about salaries to keep you entertained in the meantime. And content will be posted at ATL in our absence, so do check […]

This is a continuation of our earlier post evaluating the fashions on display last week, at the New York Supreme Court hearing in the litigation between gay lawyer Aaron Charney and his former employer, Sullivan & Cromwell. We gave out the big awards — e.g., Best-Dressed Lawyer — yesterday. But there are still a few […]

Two quick pieces of news. First, multiple sources at Baker Botts in New York confirm that “Baker Botts NY has gone to market — retroactive to January 1.” Second, we have some information about Munger, Tolles & Olson — the super-prestigious L.A. firm with a knack for scooping up SCOTUS clerks. We reprint the info […]

In response to yesterday’s post about Aaron Charney’s fabulous new apartment, two comments were made that caught our eye: “Looks like Charney is going to default both on his complaint and his mortgage. Plus there’s no way he gets $820k for his condo in this market when he has to sell it. I’d say poor […]

Check out this very interesting interview, conducted by LX.TV, with celebrity divorce lawyer Raoul Felder (who was, interestingly enough, an assistant U.S. attorney before he ventured into matrimonial law). Some questions that Felder answers in the course of the interview: 1. What time does he start work? (Digression: We’re fascinated by the work habits and […]

As we’ve discussed in these pages, certain concerns have been raised with respect to the diva-licious Shanetta Y. Cutlar’s management of the Special Litigation Section, in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. But figuring out how to deal with the Shanetta Cutlar situation is a bit tricky. We recently learned of […]

Time for a quick plug for our law librarian hotties contest, which is currently underway. From an informed reader: Apropos of your contest (and Valentine’s Day): Are you aware that February is Library Lovers’ Month? No, not until this email — so thanks for the factoid! It makes our hot law librarian contest even more […]

But it was much more fun to speculate that he was pulling a Judith Miller, hiding out because of his role in Brokeback Lawfirm. As it turns out, there’s pretty much no doubt that Aaron Charney leaked the Goldman Sachs / Sullivan & Cromwell reviews to Peter Lattman and the Wall Street Journal (as if […]