BOOOOOOOOOOOOO-YA!

I wanna smear my cum on Elie's bum.

1) I wonder how much ATL had to pay the King racket- er, family- to use that photo.

2) I agree with many of MLK's ideas. But he was a despicable person- money-grubbing, cheating on his wife, and spent the last night of his life in an orgy with prostitutes. A great "moral leader."

Is Cahill having stealth layoffs today since nobody's around?

Happy MLK Day! (even though I am at the office and my firm didnt even blink to let us off today, still happy to have a job though)

another good post by elie

keep up the great work

FIRST to say #4 is a HUGE RACIST

4,

How dare you attack Saint King!!!

#8 = MLK's Orgy Spawn Jiggaspook

Happy Robert E. Lee Day!

Why is #4 a recist? He did not criticize King because of his race, but rather because of certain aspects of his private life.

To number 4, add to the list plagiarizer. Truth hurts, I know. Guess what people, not everything you were taught in school is the truth. There is a lot to King the msm leaves out.

I have no idea how true any of this is, but here's the alleged scoop on the prostitute orgy thing:

http://tinyurl.com/36sy85

racist orgies to 190!

I am the new TOTAL DOMINATION!

Happy Lee-Jackson-King Day, Commonwealth of Virginia!

BITCH SPREAD DEM BUTTCHEEKS OPEN SO I CAN BUTTER UP THAT CORNBREAD IN YOUR JUICY INSIDES!

-MLK

13 to worldnetdaily!

ATL should know better than to enable comments on posts like this.

Thank you Congresman John Conyers, Jr. for making this a federal holiday (and for your own contributions to ongoing civil rights fight. Why some are still struggling against equal rights for all is a mystery in this day and age).

All you billable losers can bite me.

Despite MLK Day, Elie takes no vacation from his grammatical abuse of the English language...

(race color, or creed??)

Anything on the MLK layoff rumors?

Lee-Jackson Day was last Friday #17. It was moved from MLK day several years ago. Even the Commonwealth can move forward. Just takes a little longer than some other places.

Liked Creed's first album.

That shit was the TRUTH!

too black --- not enough proud.

scratch a third tier turde, find a racist....

but enough with that as President Obama will lead us out of the racist republiKKKan disaster of bush/cheney back to prosperity and justice for all

This would never happen in Texas. People know their place.

I went noodling once and caught a catfish that looked just like MLK. Weird.

29 - That rocked.

MLK - You were the Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson of your time. Obama will hand out welfare checks to the ghetto.

29 - You attempted oral copulation with a catfish?

#27 to 190!!!

Noodling to 190!

I only attempt oral copulation with Kash's ASS LOBSTER.

He was a communist. There is no greater sin.

ha ha, catfish. priceless.

35 - What's wrong with communists? Communism certainly isn't perfect, but certainly communism > capitalism.

What is this, ATL B-List Troll Day?

38 - yes, because only B-List attorneys are stuck working today

37 - of course you are correct.

The U.S.S.R. vs. the U.S.A. is the greatest example of your sharp historical analysis. Well done.

Here's a quetion for you guys. When you see a completly bald woman, do you think (a) a subversive anti-establishment loser, or (b) dying of cancer?

How do I get on the Lobster List?

41 -- I think she is obviously not a CWT NY 05 female associate.

41 - i look for the female with the largest CLUTCH OF EGGS

.......................CATFISH............

For a reasonable take on the issues raised by 4, take a look:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2449/was-martin-luther-king-jr-a-plagiarist

As for the deifying of folks like King, don't we do this all the time? And doesn't it serve a non-nefarious purpose (as well as providing fodder for angry people)? David McCullough's book on John Adams, supposedly an exhaustive history, barely mentions the Alien and Sedition Acts, which he pushed publicly & vehemently and which represent a low point in the exercise of federal power (as opposed to a low point in personal ethics like screwing around on your spouse).

When you see a hot black girl, do you discount her hotness by the 90% chance that she will outweigh you by age 50.

44 -- Awesome schtick.

I heard that black women eat their young.

49,

Soylent green is WELFARE BABIES!!!

I HAVE A DREAM, A DREAM OF SPREAD BUTT CHEEKS AND LOBSTERS COATED IN BUTTER!

Can I get an Amen for celebrating the end of the Reagan Era?

Happy St. Martins Day!
I'm glad it and St. Bob's Day can now mutually co-exist.

41- I think b) cancer
47- no I discount it not at all, because all I want is to bang her tonight. However, I do give a 10% deduction over the STD % #s I've read. (not that that's going to stop me, probably just double-bag).

Banging a black chick = banging bucket of chicken (all thighs and grease)

Capitalism failed without regulations. Get over yourselves.

W abandonded lassaiz faire when he loaned billions to the airline industry. Why shouldn't Wall Street come begging?

41- I think bull dyke

CATFISH!!

JAMBALAYA!

Is there any actual legal news today?

Elie,

I'm all about free speech, but you really need to start pulling racist and/or sexist comments, or BigLaw will start blocking this site. These comments are providing them the perfect justification and, frankly, making some of us uncomfortable with coming here. We're all adults (hopefully), but this has gotten completely out of hand. This stuff isn't funny -- not even in an ironic, Blazing Saddles sort of way. It's just offensive.

Cheers,

59, NIgga, you crazy!

Hey, where all da white women at?

59 = racist Mormon

No prob with Elie taking the day off, but don't say you will post and not post anything as of 2:30

Elie = racist catfish

Schiff layoffs?

Do you think Obama stocked his daughter's fridges with malt liquor 40's?

MLK = Terrorist

Catfish are jealous of Lobsters.

agree with 59

PitneyBowes is announcing layoffs the end of this week.

I fail to see what any of this has to do with the rumored Cahill layoffs.

MLK, Jr's Struggle WAS AGAINST DEMOCRATS

The police chief of Birmingham, Alabama during the civil rights era was a Democrat. A member of the Ku Klux Klan, Eugene "Bull" Connor had been a Democrat state legislator and a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention.

In 1963, police under Connor's command attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights. At the time, it should be noted, he was the Democratic National Committeeman for Alabama. Connor's men used high-pressure hoses, clubs and dogs in their assault, and then jailed nearly a thousand children. A year after attacking the children, Connor was elected, as a Democrat, to statewide office.

How did it come to be that African-Americans in Alabama were so oppressed?

In 1901, the Alabama Democratic Party called for a convention to write a new state constitution that would prohibit African-Americans from voting. Despite vocal opposition from Booker T. Washington and other Republican civil rights activists, the Democrat scam succeeded.

Democrats dominated Alabama's 1901 constitutional convention, and its chairman was a Democrat. In his opening address, he said:

"If we would have white supremacy, we must establish it by law -- not by force or fraud... The negro is descended from a race lowest in intelligence and moral precepts of all the races of men."

Alabama's African-American citizens would not vote in appreciable numbers again until the 1950s. It was a Republican federal judge, Frank Johnson, who in 1956 ruled in favor of Rosa Parks and who in 1965 ordered the Democrat governor, George Wallace, to permit Martin Luther King's voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

At the 2000 Republican National Convention, Condoleezza Rice said:

"The first Republican I knew was my father, and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I."

And, as Republicans celebrate Martin Luther King Day, they should remember that his struggle was against Democrats.

holy shit, my post got removed. So you can say nigga but you can't say vagina?

When in doubt, consult Kash's ASS LOBSTER.

This new medium, the internets, gives us unfettered access to news however, it also enables every Tom, Dick and Racist to spew his or her (mostly his!) racists and intolerant views. I employ you Elie and Lat to put a STOP to the racist, sexist and anti-semitic comments that are spewed on this board. In this dawning of a new era, we will all need each other. I don't know if you dickheads have noticed but the Capitalism that you knew no longer exists. There is 500 Trillion dollars in debt spread throughout the world. The World's GDP is only 50 trillion (give or take 10 trillion), the banks have been exposed our (capitalism) house of cards has collapsed we are all fucked. You may want to at least keep your biases to a minumum, you never know with whom or where you'll HAVE to work! You were warned!

I'm with 59 - please pull the racist and sexist comments, they are offensive.

59 - I asked Lat to clean it up about a year ago. I got a pithy response saying it was only the extrememly offensive posts that get removed.

So basically only if Lat finds them offensive enough.

71 - Its true the Jim Crow was largely the work of a Democratic South.

But its also true that these "Dixiecrats" left the party in large numbers once the national Democratic party moved towards a more pro-black/pro-civil rights position. Thus, today, the have a largely Republican South.

yikes, this site is really offensive today - i guess most of the quality folks are out doing service projects.

no need for racism or sexism -- ever.

59 = racist GULCer

I am offended at the lack of Lobster comments.

I wonder what Captain Stabbin' is up to today . . .

I am offended at nobody mentioning the rumor that Cahill might be having layoffs.

I am offended that so many people are offended. I find that offensive.

74, do you "employ" Lat and Elie, or do you "implore" them to stop the racist comments. If you employ them, then you can simply fire them if they do not do as you ask. However, if you merely implore them, you sir are simply a douche bag.

74, do you "employ" Lat and Elie, or do you "implore" them to stop the racist comments. If you employ them, then you can simply fire them if they do not do as you ask. However, if you merely implore them, you sir are simply a douche bag.

This site has turned into AutoAdmit.

Pull posts and ban some of these knuckledragger IP's.

I love how on every holiday ATL says "We are around, but will be posting less than usual." Which is code for "won't be posting at all today but want to encourage you to keep visiting the site 'just in case' we decide to."

I refuse to employ people who implore other people. I find that deplorable, despicable, highly offensive.

87 - yeah, except those of us who are working keep visiting the site anyway so that we don't feel so alone.

59,

Don't be spooked by the occasional racist comments. I grant you that Lat may be a reneger for promising to do something about it and then failing to. That has colored my view of him. His niggardly approach to comment moderation needs to stop.

I will dance a jig if and when racist commenters stop monkeying around on the comment threads. Spearing these comments in chunks with mass deletions will get the point across that racism is inappropriate. Lat should call a spade a spade and do something about this. Then the appropriate comments can shine without being blackened by the stench of racism.

90 - bravo sir, bravo

90 - I feel gypped by your lack of sincerity. If makes me feel as if your comment was given with Indians in mind. How lazy could you be? If you weren't drinking the day away you could be helping a priest, building homes for those that can't afford mortgages (like me), or even feeding the hungry (Tom's Glasscock). The truly chritable will inherit the earth after beating the crap out of the meek.

90, that was awesome.

The Glass Cock here, agreeing with 90 and 92 and advising Lat that the unmoderated commentary is a chink in the armor of this site, akin to yellow journalism.

NOODLING CATFISH =/= ASS LOBSTER

The site is becoming autoadmit.com. This is really silly and sad.

CWT 2005 and CWT 2006 slut associates were involved in an orgy with MLK!

90, classic comment. I was laughing my ass off.

If you provide a forum for crap like this, you are part of the problem. NO ONE owes commenters some completely uncritical place to say whatever they want. This is a public space, and these people are, verbally, smearing their shit on the walls because they can. No possible reading of free speech theory makes this ok. This is hate speech. Please stop inflicting it on the rest of the world through an inability to handle the technology. Require registration, and set up a standard of relevance to the topic for comments. Lots of boards do this.

Most people are aware that commenters make money for a site, and it's hard to justify this crap. I'm sure there's some sort of a rationale in place for allowing racist, sexist speech. But it looks like a professional board is making money off the worst members of the profession.

99 -- Sure thing, comrade. Who gets to decide who's censored? You? Your Politburo?

100

100

I want to buy a new watch -- something fancy. I have a few in mind but want some opinions first. Any thoughts?

I want to buy a new watch -- something fancy. I have a few in mind but want some opinions first. Any thoughts?

99, I'm not even sure that these comments are (1) generated by more than one person, and that the commenter/s is/are (2) a part of the profession. It's probably some silly wannabe lawyer who keeps posting inflammatory comments to get a rise out of people.

I agree with you though. If ATL strives to be the marketplace to discuss the goingson within the profession, it should do as state bars do and at least require a modicum of professionalism to participate.

103-104: Cartier, probably. Cheap but nice enough as sub-$50K watches go.

105 - what about posts re: LOBSTER?!?!?!?!?!

MAN ARRESTED AFTER RETURNING HOLLOWED OUT LOBSTER TO GROCERY STORE

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=761318

90- I join the Glass Cock in saluting you. The slope of ATL commentary is definitely on a steap decline. Lat should definitely curry favor with his audience by applying a greaser to the wheels of comment moderation to keep this place spic and span.

103/104 - don't listen to 106, Cartier watches are for fags only. Go with a Jaeger LeCoultre. Classy, not too expensive, and not overdone like a Rolex.

I am amazed at all the comments posted by the racist couples of LEWW.

103 - Now is the time. Demand a discount wherever you go. Retailers are bleeding money. My fav is Jaquet Droz but I may be alone on that.

watch guy here -- I was thinking about a Rolex Submariner, stainless steel with the black face

If you are a big law prestige whore, the only choice is Patek Philippe.

I am a lowly ID attorney so I go with Omega (good bang for bucks--especially speedmaster professional or seamaster professional).

Panerai and Breitling are also nice.

"Hot black girl" ??

No such thang.

Dear ATL: Understand your audience (mostly juvenile idiots) and disable comments for posts like this. What did you honestly expect? Mature discussion?

You claimed you would post less than usual. Not nothing at all. Why not just take the day off?

No wonder everybody hates lawyers...

More layoffs at DLA this week (you heard it here first)!

Catfish and Post 90....

We just added two staples to the ATL feces smearing collection. Way to go team.

LOL! http://justmarvy.blogspot.com/2009/01/harry-youre-still-wrong.html

It's disappointing that MLK's legacy has led to Elie butchering the English language on a daily basis. Please find another non-AA editor.

Why is it everyone gets their panties in a bunch over "racist" comments finding them SO offensive and embarassing to the profession or whatever but no one has a problem with posts about "ass lobsters" and "glasscocks"? That sort of shits "offensive" too!

Can someone explain to me what post was racist? I don't see a single one.

123 -

I think the ones about black women and their propensities toward STDs and fried chicken could be fairly described as racist. Whether you think they are "offensive" varies with how sensitive you are. Whether you they should be "banned" is a function of how much of a communist thug you are.

Officially, not visiting this site anymore.

"What the hell are you spooks up to?"

Gran Torino

Is this a law blog or a KKK meeting?

MysTTTal, you sound like a commie

CWT 2006 associate willl fuck anyone to get ahead.

99: "No possible reading of free speech theory makes this ok. This is hate speech."

"no possible..." Except the one we have. so wait...it is possible.

"...hate speech." is protected speech, regardless of how distasteful it is. What kind of fucking retard are you?

124-
The truth is not racist.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats07/minorities.htm

130 -- whatever kind he is, he's got something you don't: class.

To all the racist idiot posters,

Racial supremacy is so 1863. The incoming President is black, and the world is moving on without you. Have fun in your Texas megachurches with your closet homosexual hypocrite preachers and senators. And your retired idiot failure politicians.

Agree with you, 125.

Fuck this site. It's gone to shit.

Lat, Elie, Kash, whoever: You now seem to be actively catering to the trolls.

Goodbye ATL. This will be my last visit.

Signed,
Been reading since A3G

Totally agree - this site now sucks. It almost never has news not already posted by another blog, it fills a lack of news with surveys and advertisements, and the comments are apparently posted by horny racist 15 year old boys.

133, NAILED IT!

Can we get any updates on catfish layoffs or buttery ASS LOBSTERS?

114 - Big LAW prestige whores can't even afford a Patek. Try going with a Bulgari or Vacheron first.

@122 - there have been complaints about the sexism, too. I think the racism is particularly noticeable today, though.

anyone who comments on this blog is racist. I am now racist for commenting on this blog.

I'm sorry mom.

Catfish

Sign 125, 134, 135. Enough of the advertising and racist/sexist idiots.

What, MLK looks like a catfish. Is that so wrong?

Anyone notice that the timestamp of this post was made earlier, so that it's not the first one to show at the top of the page?

I smell a slight concession to the whiny babies above. Trolls are trolls. Whatever.

Amen brother (aka 133). This board if proof positive that no matter how far we've come since 1968, bigotry and xenophobia is alive and well in the "Real America."

I sort of agree with Bill Maher that after 140 years we should reconsider, and allow the southern states (plus Texas) to secede.

comment 90 should have its own holiday

144 descries "bigotry" and then negatively paints an entire swathe of America with one broad brush. Who's the bigot really?

146 - completely missing the Sarah Palin reference... Perhaps not a bigot, but dumber than a brick.

Who's here working and who's here sniffing the JUICEY INSIDES?

147 = EPIC FAIL.

146 said this Internet post somehow shows bigotry was alive and well in Palin's "Real America", i.e., non-Dem areas, i.e., an entire swathe of America. 147, what's your point?

Plus did you miss the part about "southern states"? Thanks.

After clicking and choosing to read 150 comments, I will now say something about how offended I am that people would mention race (and of course I'm cool with ass-lobster jokes), and say I will never visit this site again.
Oh if only there were some way to visit abovethelaw.com and not read comments!

150, there is douche, don't click on the story, just read Elie's grammatically "uncorrect" commentary.

''We expect that 25 years from now the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today,'' Justice O'Connor in Grutter v. Bollinger. I'd say we are right on the expected pace.

90 ftw. Post of the year.

MysTTTal sucks

I always thought Elie was some cute blonde that drank too much Obama koolaid. Then I find out Elie is a fat ass Puerto Rican with bad acne. Like MLK, my dreams are shattered tonight.

Also, 90....Best. Post. Ever.

As an xoxoth ex-pat, I can say this place is actually worse than xoxo. At least over there the threads are split up, so that you have your "N-word N-word N-word" threads, which everyone ignores except the loser troll who wrote it, and substantive threads, which are targeted and actually yield decent advice and discussion from time to time.
Here you're lucky to get 5% of the comments even relating to the post; the rest is just lobster and juicy insides.

103: sorry I missed the watch discussion. A Rolex submariner is a classy (and classic) watch, but the bracelets are a bit weak and it's not a style that goes particularly well with a suit.

It all depends on your price point and the size of your wrist. Patek and Vacheron are tops, but very expensive (Patek more so than VC), perhaps too expensive. JLC is nice; I'd avoid Cartier or Bulgari, which tend towards "bling". Breitlings are also "busy" watches that don't necessarily work well with suits; Panerai is expensive and very, very large.

For a classic, high-grade "professional" watch, you might consider IWC. For a watch-geek American twist, look up RGM. And please, please, don't buy a quartz watch (even if they do tell better time and require less care).

It's easy to spew racism and hate when it's done from the safety of your computer. The funny thing is, in the real world, these hatemongers are timid, weak, and wouldn't dare say the things they say on this site. They are like children who run a muck knowing there will be no consequences for their actions. However, face to face, they are nothing but cowards. You can be as tough as you want in front of your computer monitor, but deep down, you have no backbone. If that's how some of you really feel, why don't you come out in public and let it be known...or are you just scared?

It's easy to spew racism and hate when it's done from the safety of your computer. The funny thing is, in the real world, these hatemongers are timid, weak, and wouldn't dare say the things they say on this site. They are like children who run a muck knowing there will be no consequences for their actions. However, face to face, they are nothing but cowards. You can be as tough as you want in front of your computer monitor, but deep down, you have no backbone. If that's how some of you really feel, why don't you come out in public and let it be known...or are you just scared?

159, it's run amok, not "run a muck." I guess they don't teach English in Compton.

160 - that's a good catch! Why don't you leave your name next time?

160 - not from Compton and also WHITE...just fed up with computer tough guys, that's all.

161, I won't leave my name because I'm a highly compensated corporate lawyer and I don't want to imperil my career by bringing such controversy onto myself. This is why I prefer anonymity. Sorry if you find that frustrating.

Cheers,
Andrew

Has anybody heard anything about layoffs at Cahill?

(We are around, but will be posting less than usual.) = no posting all day

"I'm a highly compensated corporate lawyer." You're also quite modest. So essentially, you do fear the consequences of your prejudices which is exactly why you choose to make silly comments on this site, knowing you will never have to owe up to them. You don't prefer anonymity because you are a highly compensated lawyer, you prefer it because you fear the consequences of your actions (read: backlash). I thought a man as proud (and highly compensated) as you are would find such chickenheartedness appalling. (I also figured such highly compensated corporate lawyers would have better rebuttals than: “it's run amok, not ‘run a muck.’ I guess they don't teach English in Compton.” But, as you have proven, high compensation does not always equal high I.Q., or class for that matter)

-Jason

The above was for 163 btw

""...hate speech." is protected speech, regardless of how distasteful it is. What kind of fucking retard are you?"

I'm the kind who's actually had to take a class, about the law, in a law school. There is no right to say whatever you want. There are categories of protected speech, and everything else. I'd say this board definitely fits into the "everything else" slot.

157: I've always thought that a nice Timex or Bulova is what the movers and shakers should buy.

168,

If you believe that the speech on this blog is not "protected speech" as that term is used vis-a-vis the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, then you have you business being in law school, earning a J.D., or getting a law license.

168, aka Captain 1L, no, there are categories of "unprotected speech" and then there is everything else (protected). Which exception does this blog fit under? fighting words? obscenity? blasphemy of a liberal icon/plagiarist/whoremonger?

Btw, one of the above is not a real exception.