Geez, they made him a SCOTUS clerk and didn't even give a good justice.

Problem A, if he is going to go through a conversion have him clerk for a conservative, a Rehnquist would probably be ideal given the timeline and the right amount of pragmatic without putting off the wackos that flip out at the mention of Thomas or Scalia.

Problem B, if you want him to have clerked for a liberal at least have it be for somebody that is smart and entertaining, namely Breyer (or even Souter, not all that smart, but plenty entertaining).

I like 3L for hire's idea. Save a tree, you know? On the other hand... I already get rejection letters from firms to which I have not applied, and I've had a job for a month.

What a douche, still puts his fraternity on his resume. No wonder he didn't get an offer from his summer employer and has to make a website.

Really!?! He still puts his fraternity on his resume. No wonder he didn't get an offer from his summer employer and has to make a website.

Feb club eve baby.

I think we need to find out if this 3Lforhire website works for him. Lat, email him and make sure he lets you know when he gets a job.

6:41/6:43, nice job moron. You posted once, edited it, then posted it again. Genius.

I'm not a fraternity lothario myself, but I can definitely see why it would be on his resume. It serves as a great networking device. That point aside, he lists it because he was the Vice President of the IFC. That's good "leadership experience" - almost certainly better than whatever you did in school, unless you were the student body President or the phenom leader of 5 different student groups. Doubtful, given how big of a tool you seem to be.

milbank got rid of 18 associates in nyc

Fraternities are for retards who need help figuring out how to use a bottle opener. Leadership fraternities also work with corkscrews.

11:42, am I to assume you are the same person as 6:41 and 6:43? Or are their two frat-hating wimps on here?

Boo hoo. I wasn't cool in college. Woe is me.

Boo hoo. I also don't know which "there" to use. More woe to me.

Eli Stone - great show.

All y'all need to chill. Some frats are cool and made up of good guys; some aren't.

The Eli Stone show was pretty good. However, whereas it went to great effor to realistically and accurately portray the legal ethical issues (just in time to start studying for the MPRE!), when the damage award was announced, it was one lump sum (i.e. not "X$ for compensatory" and "Y$ for pain and suff..."). The scene at the end when he let his father's ashes go was pretty bitchin'.

Somebody didn't get a bid...

I'm pretty sure that's not how an ethical screen works, i.e. ethical screens don't permit an attorney who formerly represented a client (there, the vaccine manufacturer) at the settlement table to then switch sides and take the plaintiff's (the mother of autistic child) case to trial. Nor can an ethical screen cure the fact that the adverse parties are being represented in the suit against one another (as opposed to parties with adverse interests being represented in wholly different matters). Also, trial would not happen the next day, be decided the same day, and consist of only two witnesses. Especially not a trial about vaccine injury. That show sucks.

The problems just don't stop with WCL.

When the internet does work, douchebags like this have to try and get a job by making a website. He should definitely post on his site how on earth he didn't get an offer back to is firm.

Give me internet, or give me death.

CWT had additional massive stealth firings in addition to not paying bonuses to 50% or more of their associates.

Finley Kumbe, Mudge Rose, Cadwalader?

2L, You should definitely read his site before posting. It says in the cover letter that the firm he summered for doesn't hire entry-levels.

I think it's an excellent idea. The site is clean and includes all the traditional application materials, showing that while he's innovative, he's not a weirdo.

Lat--are you looking into the Milbank cuts? I keep hearing about them, but you haven't addressed them at all.

do you think innovative, in this context, means desperate and undesirable?

9:43, the firm he summered for - Pepper Hamilton - most certainly does hire "entry-levels." It does so via an arcane practice known as "extending an offer" to the individual at the end of the summer. I think there are a few firms doing the same.

RE: Eli Stone

Since when does an "8th year associate" have an office the size of a conference room?

I knew of the guy when we were both undergrads at GW. He was a douche then, and presumably is a douche now. Also, for those curious, he was in one of the lamest frats on campus.

RE: Eli Stone

Since when does a "Corporate Lawyer" (as described in the promo spots) set foot in a courtroom? Does the American public think "litigator" means "ambulance-chasing trial lawyer"?

I had to turn Eli off in disgust after five minutes.

PS: Johnny Lee, your Yankee accent needs some work.

Actually, the show just said he clerked for "Ginsburg." Didn't say whether that was on the SCOTUS or the DC Cir.

Eli Stone - I agree. The woman said he "clerked for Ginsburg." I assumed Douglas Ginsburg, Chief Judge of D.C. Circuit, not Ruth Bader. Especially the way she presented it as a chronology: she described his undergrad, then "valedictorian at Stanford Law," then "clerk for Ginsburg," then associate at law firm. Given SCOTUS doesn't hire right out of law school it seemed like the D.C. Circuit Ginsburg (still very impressive).

Fraternities are great leadership experiences. You have the opportunity to lead a 50-100+ person organization, manage a $100-500k budget, and improve your social and networking skills. You get to sell an intangible product, raise funds, and deal with the regulatory authorities (the administration). Not to mention the alumni networks it opens up. Large fraternities have very large alumni networks, and smaller fraternities often have alumni that are very motiavted to help a brother out.

There were so many problems with Eli Stone it wasn't even funny.

Putting aside the normal hollywood problem with thinking that lawyers actually go to court...

1) What kind of idiot partner on the firm management (or maybe just conflicts?) committee hasn't heard of a screen before.

2) A directly adverse conflict like the one at issue here couldn't be waived by the parties involved.

3) I'm not sure if the failure to disclose a relevant document (and knowingly doing so) is something that a lawyer can (let alone must) hide from the tribunal. At most I'd imagine the model rules give the attorney discretion in this case. Granted I don't know anything about what the California rules might say.

Not to mention the first episode propagated the myth that vaccinations cause autism. Apparently, being wrong on the law isn't enough. They need to use "junk science" too. Got it. then why don;t the trailers for Eli Stone say something like this?

"Rich lawyer from Stanford has 'supernatural' vision, then violates ethical rules and uses junk science to extort money from big corporation. Tune in for the drama."

It sounds like somebody spliced the DNA of Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards.