Most law firm name changes are pretty silly. The general approach: lop off all names after the first two. If you like, squish the surviving names together into one word, to make yourselves seem contemporary and cool. E.g., “WilmerHale.” (A law firm marketing firm would charge you five figures for that advice.) Okay, so how […]
Here’s news of an interesting, high-profile move. Our source offers this preface: “[A] number of the younger lawyers at K&E tend to be moderate to liberal and have donated a great deal to Obama. Yet K&E seems to be a popular destination for right-wingers nonetheless.” (Well, that depends on the office. There are lots of […]
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Since yesterday, when the big Eliot Spitzer news broke, we’ve been on a bad-behavior kick here at ATL. So let’s keep going down that path. A tipster sent us a juicy story, with this intro: This is wild. And by wild, I mean INSANE… He’s 61. She’s 25. He likes booze, cocaine, and turtlenecks. How’s […]
When it comes to horrible (and horribly trashy) conduct, it’s tough to top microwaving your baby. In a room at a La Quinta motel. But you can certainly supplement it with additional misbehavior. From the Houston Chronicle: A jury should not hear an allegation about sex in an interrogation room that occurred after the arrest […]
Longtime readers will recall that Chief Judge Edward Nottingham (D. Colorado) is no longer eligible for our coveted Judge of the Day prize. After he threatened to call the U.S. Marshals service on a handicapped woman whose handicapped parking spot he stole, a few short months after it was revealed he dropped more than $3,000 […]
Over a month has passed since our last update on Supreme Court clerk hiring. We hear through the grapevine that Justice David H. Souter has finally picked his law clerks for October Term 2008. And we’re guessing that Justice Samuel A. Alito has too (since we’ve known about his first two hires for quite some […]
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We received 1,046 responses to last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on vacation time. Roughly two thirds of respondents reported that their firms offered four weeks of vacation, but sixteen percent are at three-week firms, six percent are at firms with only two weeks of vacation, and a handful are at firms with but […]
* Spitzer considers resignation. [New York Times] * NYT slams him. [New York Times] * Boeing to protest Air Force contract awarded to Northrop and European Airbus maker. [CNN] * Oklahoma legislator says gay people are worse than terrorists… [CNN Video] * Sen. Obama: stop calling me veep. [Washington Post] * Colorado woman to fight […]
There are a few things we could write about right now, but let’s just talk about what everyone is talking about: New York’s prostitute-patronizing governor, Eliot Spitzer. Here’s a fresh thread for discussion (since the old one is already a comments clusterf**k). From the New York Times (which broke the story): Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who […]
We’re offline right now, speaking at Stanford Law School. We’ll be back shortly (and pick up where we left off with the Eliot Spitzer scandal). In the meantime, check out this funny post by Marc Randazza, about some dubious proposed legislation in Massachusetts that could criminalize certain types of pick-up lines. Pickup Line Quagmire in […]
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Guess we picked our Lawyer of the Day too soon. Update (2:30 PM): Press conference scheduled for 2:15 p.m., but Governor Spitzer is running 15 minutes late. “I don’t blame him,” said Ben Smith of the Politico, interviewed just now on CNN. Update (2:35 PM): Jeffrey Toobin, who was an HLS classmate of Eliot Spitzer, […]
Last week, we linked to Professor Dan Solove’s spoof of the U.S. News law school rankings. For the record, the magazine has responded (as noted in updates at TaxProf Blog and Concurring Opinions, but not yet in these pages). Robert Morse, director of data research for U.S. News & World Report, emailed us: “We do […]
Today’s Lawyer of the Day is, in blackjack parlance, “a natural” — utterly unbeatable. From the New York Post: A crooked Queens lawyer who bottomed out at the blackjack tables to the tune of $1 million is trying to recoup her losses and then some with a $20 million lawsuit blaming seven casinos for her […]
Palm Sunday is this coming weekend, and Easter isn’t far away. So please indulge us as we go on a little religious digression. The Vatican just rolled out seven new deadly sins. From the Telegraph: Failing to recycle plastic bags could find you spending eternity in Hell, the Vatican said after drawing up a list […]
Check out this rather odd appeal from Florida, arising out of a prosecution for sexual assault charges. The defendant was originally charged with three counts of sexual battery, but was convicted on lesser included charges of misdemeanor battery. One of the issues was whether the trial court should have granted a continuance based on the […]