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Morning Docket 09.29.08

parent trap.jpg*The bailout plan was hammered out this weekend, and will be voted on this week. Lawmakers will give Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a bunch of money to clean up the mess that is our economy. Hopefully, Pennsylvania Avenue fares better than Wall Street. [Washington Post]

*No criminal charges expected in DOJ attorney firings. [New York Times]

*Williams & Connolly’s $180k starting salary announcement last year is the last increase we should expect to hear about for quite a while. Pay will stay stagnant… but hours are a different matter. [Legal Times]

*It’s the Italian legal version of The Parent Trap. A part-time judge in Milan had her non-lawyer twin sister step in to advise clients. [Reuters]

*Lawyer going after Wal-Mart in Massachusetts over missed meal breaks wakes the state up by telling it the megastore owes $600 million in back fines for the lunch-denying practice. [Boston Herald]

*Good news for celebs with legal problems. [New York Times]

*Model sues magazine because he wants to be a “dapper college man” and not a gay pin-up boy. [Daily News]

* Shana tova. Happy Rosh Hashanah.

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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 9:51 AM

GULC to $180! Seriously, W&C hires from GULC

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2 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 9:55 AM

Shana tova, Kash. Thanks for that.

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3 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 9:58 AM

Also, L'Shanah Tovah, Kash. The more pretentious the spelling, the more joyous the new year!

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4 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 10:04 AM

Wachovia being sold means Charlotte is fucked. Alston, Parker Poe, Moore Van Allen, Womble, Mayer Brown, McGuireWoods and Robinson Bradshaw just lost a shit load of business. Layoffs, partners jumping ship etc to follow.

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 10:12 AM

Partners jumping out of windows!

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 10:12 AM

This can only be good news for Wildman Harrold and the Van Winkle Firm.

Suck it, Mystal.

UVA2L

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7 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 10:12 AM

Seriously, is Mystal gone?

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 10:20 AM

Why would Mystal be gone? Kash always does the docket.

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9 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 10:39 AM

Mystal was just hired by GULC to head up their new Blog and Blumpkin Dept, balls deep.

UVA2L

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10 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 10:48 AM

Are law firms that put together the mortgage backed security deals at fault, in part, for this mess?

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11 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 10:48 AM

Are law firms that put together the mortgage backed security deals at fault, in part, for this mess?

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12 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 10:48 AM

Are law firms that put together the mortgage backed security deals at fault, in part, for this mess?

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13 Posted by guest | Permalink Monday, September 29, 2008 5:19 PM

turd-teenth

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