Non-Sequiturs: 04.25.08
* We're not the only ones obsessed with Nina Totenberg. NPR sold out of their first run of Nina Totin' Bags. [NPR Shop]
* Will it be as marketable as a book on how NOT to get sued? [What About Clients?]
* "Your Honor, I Move To Strike Your Mother For Cause" [Deliberations]
* The winning bid for the Red Sox shirt buried in Yankee stadium was $175k, with the proceeds going to The Jimmy Fund. But what if the 174k over the asking price isn't actually tax-deductible? [TaxProf Blog]
* Musical Chairs: UVA hires constitutional law expert Frederick Schauer away from Harvard. [Virginia Law]
* This was too dirty for a full post, even for Kash. NY law firm Bivona & Cohen is pre-emptively suing a secretary who gave a partner a lap dance with a happy ending, and kept the "towel of proof." [Law.com]
(18) Comments
Kash - back from the dead!!
Figgiti-FIRST!
Captain FIRST!
Kash, I have faith that nothing is too dirty for your full post. You're just warming up for something big, aren't you?
KASH -- If I fly out to DC tonight, can we hang out tomorrow?
6:00, if you do it don't let her keep the towel.
6:37 PM = comment of the century
I believe Frederick Schauer was a professor in the JFK School of Government, not HLS. Still, a major coup for UVA. Check out the guy's CV: http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/faculty/cv/FrederickSchauer.pdf
Schauer was at Kennedy, not HLS, and that was always strange. He had gone there from Michigan Law School, perhaps with the expectation that he would join HLS faculty at some point, but that never happened. Perhaps that figures in his move. His writing is more philosophical than journalistic and that always made him a fish out of water at Kennedy. He must have gotten tired of lightweights like Samantha Power getting the attention when he, and a few others, did all the heavy lifting. It is a good coup for UVa, and it needs one. No school has lost more in the last few years than it.
The secretary is also being sued for tortious interference and intentional infliction of emotional distress -- by the firm, not the attorney involved. I doubt the attorney found the "interference" to be tortious, and if physiology and personal experience are any guide, she inflicted anything but "distress."
Great end to a week that included Administrative Professionals Day.
I love the look of the bag, all Warholed out and all. It's a pity the NPR folks had to ruin it by plastering a silly pun on the side of it.
Note that the "towel of proof" is the law firm's allegation, not necessarily the truth.
Among the other allegations in the complaint is that the secretary knew that the partner had a drinking problem and decided to "exploit his vulnerability."
Once your secretary has a towel of proof, she becomes very difficult to fire, regardless of what happened.
a story too dirty for Kash? that's a first...
Pre-emptively suing for theft of DNA?
No perhaps pre-emptively suing for premature EJ
PH shooting?
Let me get this straight. Something that has already been written about by law.com, has no NSFW images or videos and is actually of interest to lawyers (the merits of preemptive litigation in the employment context) is "too dirty" for ATL to post at length about? That's pretty lame for a self-proclaimed legal tabloid.
"This was too dirty for a full post,"
Shame on you, ATL ... shame, shame, shame.
Do you thing we read this blog for your witty commentary on maternity leave policies or those boring sports law posts that make the extra credit problems in a NY Practice law text seem interesting.
This is a dark day in the history of journalism...
Did Lat cover this anywnere?
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1207904889529
Hey, it was nice to see GW "only" ten points behind GULC on that list, 12:28. I guess it's because ten percent more of GW's class has prestigious federal clerkships so they weren't available for BigLaw jobs.