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Non-Sequiturs: 12.23.08

Facebook logo MySpace Friendster Abovethelaw Above the Law blog.jpg* “Does Your Law Firm Face-block? Take this Survey!” [Stem Legal]

* News you can use: how to drink in a work-related context. Hey ladies: “some male attorneys will probably try to get you drunk in order to hook up with you.” [Concurring Opinions]

* Written without irony by Eliot Spitzer: “As Justice Brandeis observed, sunlight is the best disinfectant.” [Slate]

* Marc Dreier got by with a little help from his friend: former stockbroker Kosta Kovachev, another alleged impersonator. [City Room / NYT]

* Sorry, Hillary — the $13.2 million you lent your presidential campaign is not tax-deductible. [TaxProf Blog]

* Credit Crunch: The Board Game. If only emerging from bankruptcy were as easy as playing a “get out of Chapter 11” card. [The Economist]

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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:08 PM

Latham sucks.

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2 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:13 PM

First to say First

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3 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:19 PM

Hi Lat!

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4 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:29 PM

Wow, what a cock-blocker that Concurring Opinions author is.

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:39 PM

Jonathan Lee Riches will never have to go into Chapter 11. The money that his lawsuit against Zeus will provide ample income for him to live happily (and solvently) for the rest of his years.

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:43 PM

666

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7 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:44 PM

well, that and the fact that Jonathan Lee Riches will never form a coorporation

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:47 PM

Hi Lat --

So Lat, you see that awful thread that Elie published below, the one calling out a transfer student, a transfer student that is pretty easy to identify?

Please take it off this site.

The transfer student was a douche, sure, but does not deserve public ridicule like this.

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9 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:59 PM

8, Lat's not going to listen to you. Why don't you do some stretches to help get your panties out of a bunch...

Maybe public ridicule will cure this student from his/her douchiness

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10 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:06 PM

I mean--from his douchiness.

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11 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:07 PM

8 - The transfer student already made himself public by sending to a listserv with hundreds of subscribers.

There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in anything that goes out on a law school listserv.

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12 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:12 PM

Hell, at this point there's no reasonable expectation of privacy for anything that goes on in the entire field of law. Lawyers are clearly a buncha bitchy little girls, you know how it is. (Yes, I am a lawyer, no I don't exclude myself.)

But 8, I have to admit, you're fucking irritating.

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13 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:15 PM

"I mean--from his douchiness."

I love how all the ducks say "douche" now. It's like the cool slang for dorks. I'm old enough to remember that that was a popular term in the 80's.

Apparently, some fag somewhere cooked-up a plot to make the word cool again, and the sheeple followed suit. Good job - you provide a reliable source of entertainment for me.

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14 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:16 PM

12, I don't know if I'd go THAT far. I can see a distinction between an email sent to one person and a mass mailing to a school listserv.

I do agree that 8 is annoying. Hey 8 - If you don't like d-bags getting called out, then ATL is not the place cor you.

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15 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:21 PM

14 - Really? (Not snark, just asking) It seems that this site, and others like it, thrive off exactly the sorts of things that were formerly kept just a bit more private. In this specific case? Yeah, maybe. For most of the other "oooh, look at us we got super-special info" posts??

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16 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:49 PM

I hate cockdraggers.

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17 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:53 PM

What's with the bullshit advice to female associates/attorneys not to drink? be afraid of drunken senior attorneys, etc. Are you kidding me!!?? If the women want to have a little fun, let them, for Christ's sake. Nobody is going to die. Law firm life is boring and drudgery enough. Now you want to take away our booze too? It goes without saying that the author acknowledges right off the bat, "I'm not much of a drinker, but......" In other words, you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

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18 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:57 PM

hey buttfuck 13, would you prefer to be called buttfuck instead of douche? nice that you know how to use cool words like "ducks" and "fags". Next time save us from your utter stupidity by keeping your fat, old mouth shut.

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19 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:00 PM

hey buttfuck 13, would you prefer to be called buttfuck instead of douche? nice that you know how to use cool words like "ducks" and "fags". Next time save us from your utter stupidity by keeping your fat, old mouth shut.

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20 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12:46 AM

Lat is a virgin, true story

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21 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2:32 AM

I'm not sure that Concurring Opinion person has worked at a frim, or otherwise ventured into the real world. It might soften the feminist bullshit propaganda if she realized that sometimes drunk people hook up and that, as often as not, the uncomfortably aggressive person is, TADA, the female.

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22 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2:48 AM

You're supposed to get women liquored up and bang them. That's life. Nobody is forcing booze into their gullets...alcohol just lowers their prissy inhibitions and turns them into the skanks they are. They're obviously choosing to go out and get soused and whore around.

No one is going to "try to get women drunk." Some women will CHOOSE to get loosened up and CHOOSE to follow that path that leads them on. It's not like you didn't know what you were getting yourself into, sister. The plethora of excuses and victim cards these poor womyn have...amazing.

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