An Update on the Managhan Law Firm (aka 'My Wife Is Sleeping Around and That's Why We're No Longer Law Partners')
In case you missed this story from last week, here's a recap. Earlier this month, a plaintiffs' lawyer in Montana by the name of William Managhan sent out the following email, to the entire Montana Trial Lawyers Association:
From: William L. Managhan
To: Montana Trial Lawyers
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 6:32 PM
Subject: [mtla_members_all] Firm Name ChangeManaghan & Kortum-Managhan Law Firm will no longer be known as such. The name is returning to Managhan Law Firm as Santana Kortum-Managhan is leaving the firm. Turns out that she was having sex with Tim McKeon of Anaconda while attending MMLP hearings in Helena.
Call me silly but I no longer fill [sic] comfortable with her as my law partner or wife. Some will think this is an inappropriate announcement, but considering the small legal community in our state, I might as well preempt the roomer mill [sic]. Please address communication to William L. Managhan through Managhan Law Firm.
More discussion, including accounts of our telephone conversations with Bobbi Bonnington and Tim of Anaconda, after the jump.
We called the Managhans last week to see if they might have any comment. A staffer at the firm, Bobbi Bonnington, said she'd look into the authenticity of the email and get back to us. She never did, so we called her again yesterday. She stated that the firm had no comment (but did not deny the email's authenticity).
Since nobody at the Managhan firm was willing to talk to us, we called Timothy McKeon -- the alleged "other man." Neither Tim nor his Anaconda seemed happy to hear from us. After we described the email to him, he said, "I've heard there was something. I haven't read it. So I don't have comment on it."
Our speculation is that Mr. Managhan had a meltdown, sent out that insane email, but then calmed down. It appears that Santana Kortum-Managhan remains at the firm, whose website and answering machine still identify it as the "Managhan & Kortum-Managhan Law Firm" (although we note that the lawyer profiles are gone).
We've passed along Managhan's email rant for your edification. Since it went out to a state-wide group of lawyers, and has been endlessly forwarded on the internet, the cat is out of the bag. We received it from multiple sources.
But we won't be too hard on Bill Managhan. Everybody goes crazy sometimes, right?
(29) Comments
I hope it was sent out during a meltdown...not because of the professional implications, but because of the spelling errors! "Roomer mill?" Spell check still works during a meltdown, right?
Roomer is a word; that's why spellcheck missed it. Ditto on "fill comfortable."
Other than the inexcusable proofreading errors (if ever triple-checking was necessary this was it), this is great. Good for him. Tim McKeon is a real doosh-baiig-uh.
My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hon!
I wonder if Lat ever imagined, while working late at night at one of the nation's premier law firms (Wachtell), that he would one day make a living calling up half-literate lawyers in Montana to ask them to comment on a redneck love affair in which they (or their spouse) were engaged.
Picture available here:
http://managhanlaw.com/contactinformation/
He's better off.
Profiles available here:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:GELLPoYGMQEJ:www.managhanlawfirm.com/profiles.htm+http://www.managhanlawfirm.com/profiles.htm&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
I wonder if Lat ever imagined, while working late at night while wearing a tiny noose around his neck and drinking his fifth espresso of the day, that he would one day make a living sleeping late and sitting at home in his pajamas.
Lat, I think you should get a Pulitzer for your ace reporting of this story.
nice 8:05
We all go a little mad sometimes.
Automatic spell check came up during the meltdown and he had originally spelled them wrong. In haste he clicked change to whatever outlook's first choice was, thus the right spellings and wrong usages. Sound plausible?
8:05 - It seems like investigating a salacious love triangle involving redneck attorneys would be infinitely more fun than kissing the butts of literate partners all day.
I can tell you, 8:20, that never in law school did I imagine that while working late one night, having recently finished my third grande coffee of the day with my firm-provided dinner buffet and the noose around my neck feeling particularly tight, I would take a sanity break by reading about a sordid redneck legal love triangle. It makes me feel just a little bit better.
Well, that, and tonight was Chinese food night, and the orange peel beef was pretty good.
Don't taze me bro.
The "Anaconda" makes this story.
Roomer is not a word.
Check a dictionary before you chime in, 9:00
Main Entry: room·er
Pronunciation: 'rü-m&r, 'ru-
Function: noun
: one who occupies a rented room in another's house
I heard a roomer that being tased is painful.
Why is everyone so hard on Lat? He gives us hours of entertainment everyday and yet there are lines of people ready to shoot him down. If you don't like Lat (and Lat, I thank you every day for your existence and providing a legal gossip blog), then go back to work and let Lat be.
Heh heh, you said "hard on."
I fill this is just a roomer.
10:10: Because the asshole quotient among the commenters here is very high (in case you hadn't noticed).
They don't seem to bother Lat, who just keeps on doing his thing. Good for him.
Any chance that "roomer" was a clever pun meaning "sloot"?
to 10:10,
its all these idiotic AutoAdmit people. they are the people making idiotic comments and complaints. that place is a garbage bin overflowing into the streets of the legal world.
ditto 12:39
12:39
what's an AutoAdmit
Dennis Franz, didn't anyone tell you that using "esq." after your name makes you look like a dork? No wonder there are so many lawyer jokes out there!
Well,
I took McKeon to task with the office of Disciplinary Counsel, after he 'botched' child support and parenting plan work, he told me that 4 hours per year visitation with my son was what I got for 'not keeping my dick in my pants' - funny, he wasn't keeping his dick in his pants!
I am laughing so hard right now, so hard!
John
Reply to John. If the court protected your son from you for the rest of his life, it would be a blessing for him. I had you for a teacher and you were BAD! If you remove your comment, I'll remove mine.