Wow! You're a 1L AND you're currently in law school? That is nothing short of amazing.

This blog is over.

Will this end will?

hot

Any adult who feels the need to identify herself as a "blond girl", has no place on the serious blog.

I, too, had a crazy daddy and that was an experience.

hot

tee hee hee

well, at least we have an attractive blogger for the day

and yet another ATL blogger to like the penis.

"I'm a curious little blonde girl with poor impulse control."

Isn't this how 90% of all internet porn films begin?

Blonde.........Alabama.

How you doin'?

In before someone complains that lat has jumped the shark/let the blog go to shit

Ouh buoy.

100% improvement from Billy Merck

This post reads like a story from Penthouse Letters.

Roll Tide, miss sharon. This blog could stand for some straight-up Tuscaloosa snark. Don't pay attention to the haters - there are plenty of us here who are glad to see you.

So you couldn't get a job during OCI?

Didn't know Alabama was that bad

Now why did YOU go to law school? Couldn't figure out what else to do with your life? The worlds of journalism/editing/publishing are much more interesting...

this is a fresh friday feel...

i love you.

really sexy babe. stay on full time - new pics every hour, on the hour -- ATL will take off

pls post additional pics and phone #

tyia

Ah, so Lat has finally revealed the REAL Article III Groupie. All the guys who had fantasized about her can relax now - she's not "a man, baby," and she's hot.

Ms. Sharon,
I think we'd all love your inside perspective on the infamous failed Valentine's Day massacre (or, alternatively, the crazy awkward moment in class) at UA.
On a more selfish level, are you looking at firms in the South for this summer?

Awesome, finally a Bama girl on this blog! If you please, ignore the Yankees and you will do just fine.

I judge you less by your grammar and more by your dismal punctuation. Strunk and White.

So we have a new blogger and my suspension has been lifted; I am now on probation. I have made a deal, whereby, I shall no longer denigrate any constitutionally protected class, or sexual orientation. I think there is a quasi-protection for gender (not sure of these terms). However, fat people, TTT law students (including the delightful new blogger) and terrorists are not covered (apparently, all muslims are not terrorists, but to the extent terrorists are muslim they are likely protected by liberal probation rules).

You judge my grammar; I will judge your law school choices. One word: transfer! Stop BLOGGING NOW. START STUDYING. Or you will end up like Studs Terkel (no, not dead) with a law degree from the Law School and dismal writing career (and radio?).

The contrived wit is hard to bear.

"...ignore the Yankees and you will do just fine."

Such advice has worked so well in the past, it's bound to work wonders in the future.

According to her 'Thank You Ma'am' site Ms. Nichols would like to bring some notoriety to her "prestigious" law school, yeah, this will do great things for your school.

Check your commas.

I always put my hair color in my cover letters, don't you???

HOT LIKE FIYAAAAAAAH!

(AND I USUALLY DON'T GO FOR TOE HEADS.)

ATL is at a cross-roads, having recently reached puberty. It has staked its claim as trusted source for bonus news -- which has attracted a devoted following. But ATL (as a blog) is a confused teenager -- swirling in hormones -- chasing after every cute boy in a skirt. "Legal Weddings" Supreme Court Clerkships. Judge of the Day. Lawyer of the Day. Law School Gossip. Firm Gossip. Politics? Trivial or Outrageous Lawsuits. Basically, ATL takes any piece of news, gossip or data and adds law. Rather than Law and Econ or Law and Philosophy it has become "the law of everything." And "everything" includes a lot of TTT nonsense. What this site needs is direction -- a theme. An elitist flair -- the Barney's of Law Blogs. Let Alabama 1Ls blog at AutoAdmit. What is next, random college student that dreams of law school? I joined the peace corp to change the world; now I want money, power and prestige (although I had far more power and prestige with the tribe I lorded over during my peace corp days). Let us focus on the task at hand: namely, polishing the brand, dusting off references to top 6 law schools and V20 law firms. Keep news focused on the elite, cream of the crop. Let comments sing the praises of TTT and V100 law firms.

"If information is power, and we are in the information age... then it is the age of Power!" quote for obamas next speech(es)

Marry me

ttt

9:06

Great Simpson reference.

How hard is it to master the f'ing serial comma, you wannabe grammar snob?

If you're not careful, blondie, you'll blog yourself right out of a job.

9:51, exactly.

She gets a book deal w/ St. Martin's press, but got a B- in legal writing at Alabama... hmmm

Can I guest-blog too? I'm a first year NY attny working in small law by day and "living it up" at night (usually off the salaries of friends employed in biglaw/finance sector). I won't have anything interesting to say but I'm hot too!

I would, like a 1980's-era Mike Tyson; also, six ways from Sunday.

Chill out, people!

For those of you who are billing, you sure have a lot of billed-up angst and anger. Live and Let Live, and let the guest blogger do what she was invited to do: blog.

If you want erudite information about the law, pick up a law review article and read it. And read the footnotes, too, while you're at it. They need love as well.

Yawn. You just posted your bio from your blog. Couldn't bother to write anything original?

Why's she so upset about grammar? She's from the South, isn't mere literacy an accomplishment there?

Just what the internet needs: another left-wing blogger. Southern, white, educated women have had their "place in the sun" since "Gone with the Wind" captured America's heart and swept generations of readers into the mythical fantasy world of southern white women. Fabulous dresses, plantation homes, windswept moors. However, if the election told us anything, it is that America is weary of southern white women and their entitlement programs (and entitled attitudes). Does anyone notice inflation; gas prices, milk prices, gold, etc., and think, "hmmm, you know what would go well with my $4 gas? higher taxes!" Somehow we are on the brink (or in) a recession, and people are hysterically surrounding the "hope" of higher taxes and bigger government.

P.S. The moors are actually an English fantasy -- but Southern Belles followed closely the Jane Austin era of romance. Not to be confused with the Spanish Moors, which were not so romantic.

f*ck the grammar, tell us about the poor impulse control..

Here are my goals for today:

* Get some notoriety for myself as a writer and for my law school as a prestigious place

* Break some interesting legal news in a fun, accurate way

* Make y'all stuffy lawyers and lawyers-in-training laugh out loud. Entertain the heck out of you, so your billing hours may be lighter for this one day. Oh well, it's a Friday anyway.

Good grammar is SO prestigious

T6 Law Schools are fun to make fun of. Their students are wholly without personality, they don't have football teams to speak of, can't hold their liquor, marry for money, and couldn't take a punch if their collective lives depended on it, are obsessed about where they went to law school, can't carry a conversation, have never seen the inside of a courtroom, and do document review all day long. But of course, they can use a serial comma. Congratulations. Well deserved, I'm sure.

"You can be sure that, in the eyes of the rest of the world, and much of America, if Mr McCain wins it will be not because of his superior experience or the quality of his ideas, but because America is irredeemably racist....[McCain] will be painted as a continuation of it. Worse, that that, he will have won by vanquishing Hope and Peace. He will be for ever The Man Who Shot Bambi."

It's slightly awkward when someone writes a self-description that smacks of a grossly overestimated sense of their own wit, charm and intellect. She's young; maybe she'll learn.

Most importantly, however, she severely misjudged her audience with regard to establishing her own credibility. If all else is forgivable, that shows a fundamental lack of the aptitude requisite for most professions.

"...ignore the Yankees and you will do just fine."

That's right, ignore your biggest audience and you'll do just fine.

Hi. Welcome.

On a radio station the other day, the host started off the call-in period by putting a topic on the table. "Put a bullet in my head if I ever start to ____." He offered "play golf" first. One caller had me laughing at "tuck my t-shirt into my jean shorts." The killer line though was the caller who said simply "blog."

Oh, and "cheers" is for brits. You can find some good alternatives here:
http://www.abovethelaw.com/2008/02/a_random_friday_poll_favorite.php

You manage to come across as both incompetent and righteously indignant at other's incompetence. A pretty neat trick.

Illusion, rather. A trick is something whores do for money. Or cocaine.

A blonde who claims to love shiny objects?

'Nuff said.

I'm not a pimp, 10:29. I wear this hat, make some threats, and I take my 10%.

The only reason anyone should blog under their real name and use their real picture and talk about their real family is if they intend to blog as a career -- and get paid for it.

Clients like their lawyers to be discrete. Good luck finding a job after law school with this hobby of yours all over the internet.

In the meantime, why are you in law school again? Just so you'll have something to write about?

I want to like you but I cannot. Alabama is a backwater and a law school there is like an elementary school in civilization.

But I bet you look nice in your undies!

10:35,

Clients also like their lawyers to know the difference between "discreet" and "discrete."

do you have nice boobies

Even worse, I just realized that she uses her full middle name -- I guess just so there will be no mistaking it when the attorney recruiting manager googles her name and decides to throw her resume in the trash because she would be too much of a liability to the firm!!!!

Even worse, I just realized that she uses her full middle name -- I guess just so there will be no mistaking it when the attorney recruiting manager googles her name and decides to throw her resume in the trash because she would be too much of a liability to the firm!!!!

10:13- couldn't agree more

10:19- also agreed. There's nothing that smacks more of affectation and too much time spent on the internet than Americans adopting Britishisms.

"I'm a curious little blonde girl with poor impulse control."?
Perhaps you're confused, the website you were looking for with an intro like that was www.myspace.com.

"*Get some notoriety for myself as a writer and for my law school as a prestigious place"

Good luck with the prestige bit.

"Here I am, ready for service. I start blogging at Above the Law in the next few minutes, starting with a little introduction of myself. Here are my goals for today:

Get some notoriety for myself as a writer and for my law school as a prestigious place
Break some interesting legal news in a fun, accurate way
Make y'all stuffy lawyers and lawyers-in-training laugh out loud. Entertain the heck out of you, so your billing hours may be lighter for this one day. Oh well, it's a Friday anyway."

0-3

10:41,

Are you having a laugh?

Excerpt from her blog insulting others for their self descriptions: "Facebook profiles are a pretty liberal forum -- you can get by with a lot, as long as it's funny and well written. However, the girl at Florida whose Facebook profile included "Being slutty" as her primary interest probably quickly realized that "Being slutty" 1) wasn't funny, and 2) made her look stupid. I'd bet my siblings that the girl changed it before the end of the day."

Sharon should take her own advice. Describing yourself as a little blonde girl that likes shiny objects is just stupid and very uninteresting and weird.

WTF? All the nerds who hate all day now are going ga ga over this lady who judges on grammar yet writes like a moron?

Sharon, blogging for an audience of judgmental assholes is a tough racket. You might want to rethink your career path.

Please tell me this is temporary.

I think she is sweet -- and brave -- honesty is endearing. She looks like a real sweet-heart and I admire her.

Did your career services recommend this? In all honesty, this will make you suspect (or at least laughed at) at any NYC law firm. But, since you are cute, and grammar-conscious, you will likely be hired! If you were a guy, you might as well put a gun in your mouth...(than blog under real name).

10:48, you're obviously 0-life. Also, its been statistically proven that people that overuse TTT in casual conversation fall into one of two categories:
1. You go to a law school that won't ever be in the top 100 of any list, except unemployment rate.
2. You have never given your sexual partner pleasure.

That is all.

love the arrested development references in this thread.

back to my law blog.

10:48, you're obviously 0-life.

Also, to others, its been statistically proven that people that overuse TTT in casual conversation (including comment sections) fall into one of two categories:
1. You go to a law school that won't ever be in the top 100 of any list, except unemployment rate.
2. You have never given your sexual partner pleasure.

That is all.

10:03 can go to hell

Once I build (and patent) a machine that allows me to throatpunch anonymous internet trolls through their computers I will donate millions to you who helped me overcome procrastination to do something worthwhile with my life.

Thanks.

hot.

Can we get a full size pic?

Yes, I believe what we would all like is a full-size pic.

This girl should be laughed off the page. For someone to start a "poor grammar" Facebook group then show off her own poor grammar for all to see points to one thing: such insecurity with her own bad grammar that she had to start a group as a smokescreen. Bad call, Lat.

1Ls should be seen and NOT heard.

I have a suggestion for our guest blogger. Start the Facebook group "I judge you when you use ad homonym attacks." [malapropism intentional]

"which all of you should immediately join"

You should transpose the last two words. The proper order is verb then adverb.

kh--"anyone" is singular and takes the pronoun reference "he or she."

Also, you meant "discreet," not "discrete."

Everyone else--it's called the Oxford comma.

11:58:

Thank you for your time and patience with my no-spell-check-or-grammar-check-to-save-me-from-my-inadequate-public-school-education disease.

I would like to know two things:

1. Does ANY ONE know how I can file for social security for this disease once BHO is elected and the social security tax money starts overflowing in the US Treasury?

2. How can I discreetly contact you so as to provide you with your grammar and spelling trophy for today?

11:58:

Thank you for your time and patience with my no-spell-check-or-grammar-check-to-save-me-from-my-inadequate-public-school-education disease.

I would like to know two things:

1. Does ANY ONE know how I can file for social security for this disease once BHO is elected and the social security tax money starts overflowing in the US Treasury?

2. How can I discreetly contact you so as to provide you with your grammar and spelling trophy for today?

tits or gtfo

Also, this is an example of a comma splice: "It's my sincere desire to contribute to the world of legal sensationalism, and preferably not as the object of some politician's philandering." Since there is no new subject accompanied by a verb in the phrase following the comma, the comma is not required.

kh--it's not a matter of not having time to run a spelling or grammar check. You should have learned the concept of singular vs. plaural and pronoun referrents in elementary school and the difference between "discrete" and "discreet" in high school at the latest. I am also a graduate of k-12 public schools, but I payed attention.

kh--it's not a matter of not having time to run a spelling or grammar check. You should have learned the concept of singular vs. plural and pronoun referrents in elementary school and the difference between "discrete" and "discreet" in high school at the latest. I am also a graduate of k-12 public schools, but I payed attention.

Sharon,

If your so well at grammEr, but why does Bama you ended at up?

I feel like I am back in middle school with a hot substitute teacher.

I think this thread has lost focus. Can't we all just admire our guest blogger for her huge . . . tracts of land?!

9:48

quote:

(AND I USUALLY DON'T GO FOR TOE HEADS.)

it's tow head, idiot. i'm sure she'll judge you for the mistake. i know i have. makes your "fiyaah" thing even more pathetic.

post pics. bikini shots?

Her?

She's cute and smart.

Welcome to ATL!

Here's the $64,000 question: why was it necessary to post a picture? Why not be judged solely on the basis of your writing?

Wither the Merk-tastrophe?

Methinks you have a better future in porno. Time to display your talents on this crappy blog. Ok....GO.

I want you to be the object of my philandering.

Terrible. F.

I want her out of here.

I ask, beg, and beseech you to use the serial comma correctly.

show us yer tits.

(Has anyone said that yet? No? No? Ok, good then.)

I am a dark haired Latino with a love for working out my chest and balancing on Bosu balls. In my spare time I enjoy removing my excess body hair, practicing patent law, and reading ATL postings from hott blondes.

Besos,
Who's Your Papi

I'm pretty sure your average 'Bama 1L has about 0 interest in ever working for a New York City law firm, which is apparently the Promised Land for most ATL commentators.

That still doesn't make it a great idea to advertise the fact that "I'm not a details person" on the front page of your blog. Her complaints about Bluebooking are also kind of ironic, considering that she gained what little noteriety she has from starting a Facebook group dedicated to ridiculing others for making typos.

Show them- seriously!

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, esq., I think you mean the moops!

I'm calling bullshit--this has to be either a character of Lat's creation or a joke.

I think it is HILARIOUS (shout out to caps man) when people on here try to correct other's bad grammar and yet misspell words themselves whilst correcting such other's bad grammar. (Shout out to singular v. plaural guy) its PLURAL (another shout out to caps man!)

I've never met you, but I am ashamed to go to the same law school with someone who describes themselves as "a curious blonde girl with poor impulse control."

You failed to meet a single one of your goals today.

If you have poor impulse control, maybe you should go into porn instead of law.

And good luck of EVER getting a legal job. I've already informed my future employer not to hire you. However, I'm fairly certain you don't have the grades for it anyway.

why is the self-portrayal "a curious blonde girl with poor impulse control" such a bad description?

Americans in general have poor impulse control all the time. I for one, give out way too much LOVE. I have an impulse for LOVING. Too bad her that she has poor impulses for dissing people's bad writing while misspelling and misplacing commas all the while!

note the sarcasm with leaving out the word "for" in my last post.

another shout out to guys who stick up for themselves by pretending to be some random defender of stupid comment guys!

6:08 = all caps guy (gosh, that was hard to figure out!)

making a typo does nothing to diminish the message of singular v. plural guy b/c his message was about usage, not typos. or even misspellings.

6:08/all caps guy - your posts are cringe-worthy in the extreme.