Morning Docket: 07.25.08
* Where and what you eat as you climb the law firm ladder. It's not particularly pretty from year four through partner. Slim Jim, anyone? [Law.com]
* A former GE in-house attorney leaked documents to a reporter, says lawsuit. [Corporate Crime Reporter]
* "Who in the Bush administration broke the law, and who could be prosecuted?" [Jurisprudence / Slate]
* Iraqi team is banned from the Olympics, and considering a lawsuit. [Wall Street Journal Law Blog]
* There's still some steam left in the scandal that is Eliot Spitzer. Four of his aides have been charged with violating an ethics law by using state police to gather dirt on a state senator. [New York Times]
* Wow, that was fast. Just 36 hours after an oil spill in the Mississippi River, New Orleans' residents filed a class-action lawsuit. [New Orleans Times-Picayune]
* Comcast is watching you... or at least, monitoring your blog. That's some serious grassroots PR work. [New York Times]
*San Francisco wants to join Nevada's ranks and make prostitution legal. [Newsweek via Jezebel]
(17) Comments
poopin' in a hat
The whole "Let's prosecute the Bush administration" represents nothing more than the fantasies of dirty, powerless hippies with zero understanding of how law works. Yawn.
Is it me or did the asian guy in Dark Knight look just look like Lat?
2, why not? If they broke the law, they can be prosecuted. Maybe the political will isn't there, but that's not how the law works.
The lunch article is a classic. It should have its own thread.
They all look the same, huh, 3?
comcast is definitely not the only business who is doing that. i've had several businesses respond to blog posts of mine that discussed either their company in general or specific experiences with it, ranging from larger businesses (MicroCenter) to small ones (thatsmystop.com). i think it's getting to be more and more normal to have people in PR do blog searches on the business to see what the word-of-mouth (word-of-blog?) is about the business. it makes sense, because that's what more and more people do nowadays if something goes wrong, just complain in their blog. i know that's what i've been doing for years.
Co-sign 4.
If the lunch time scale is even half true, It's no wonder why associates are out in 3 -5 yrs... Funny thing is the "snap into a Slim Jim" saying makes me think about the legalized prostitution in San Francisco.
lunch article is too true, although it down played that non-equity partner is the worst--most likely you will get no lunch at all as non-equity.
Mm. Lunch.
11:31 - i agree. not that im in that position but i would think that in order to get that coveted equity there is no time to eat period
while i hate all things hippie i might have to move to SF if they legalize hooking
re the ex-GE lawyer-- she claimed "she was being discriminated against based on her ethnicity".
Nationality ain't ethnicity. Being a chilean of german descent doesn't make one an underrepresented minority. It just means you speak spanish.
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"re the ex-GE lawyer-- she claimed "she was being discriminated against based on her ethnicity".
Nationality ain't ethnicity. Being a chilean of german descent doesn't make one an underrepresented minority. It just means you speak spanish."
Err, Title VII extends to claims based on "national origin." And under the case law interpreting 42 USC 1981, "nationality" is a protected class to the degree it's a proxy for race (with "race" understood as it was in th 19th century). Saint Francis College v. Al-Khazraji.
Who cares what her nationality is. Have you seen her bio? I'd hit it.
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