Morning Docket 03.30.09
* Dahlia Lithwick likens the high drama at the High Court over who-will-retire-first to an Oscar Wilde play. [Slate]
* Holland & Knight was one of the firms that took part in the pre-Valentine’s Day massacre, but one practice group was actually hiring. It’s a good time to be a lawyer-lobbyist. [Washington Post]
* Dewey & LeBeouf may help the MGM Mirage unwind. [Swiss Press]
* Jury selection begins today for the trial of Brooke Astor’s son and lawyer, who allegedly took advantage of her Alzheimer’s to steal millions from her. The case has been getting media attention for years, but now (post-Bernie Madoff) It seems almost quaint. [New York Times]
* Solo practitioners and small firms are getting creative in how they bill. Some are even bartering. A cow for some document review perhaps? [National Law Journal]
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Still the first!
Regarding bartering: Not a bad idea when "a penny for your thoughts" is the going rate.
Should've been a doctor folks - no layoff news in medicine, more money, and more prestige to boot!
The billing story has this item:
She also agreed when local business owners asked her to join an established Internet-based bartering network. The network lets participants convert their goods and services into "trading dollars" that work like cash at other member businesses.
"Trading dollars" - WTF is the difference between "trading dollars" and dollars? That's the whole point of money - so you can trade things. "Trading dollars" is the most redundant idiotic thing I've read in a long, long time.
4 - you are making too much sense, please stop.
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It's like a pack of smokes in the joint. You need some medium of exchange. In normal times, that's the dollar. Now, people cannot earn enough of them. In order to set prices across a range of goods or services, it's easier to have a medium of exchange. Thus, trading dollars, smokes, etc.
HTH
charlotte law>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>UNC
I hope this week brings more Playboy models and less layoffs.
Suck on my Skadden Prestige, bitches!
Dear Nine:
I would, but your Skadden Prestige is just a bit too small for my, um, taste.
John Paul Stevens is my hero. May he live forever.
most lobbysists aren't lawyers you moron. 90% are poli sci majors who went to TTT state U or micro-libral arts college, and spent 3-8 years as an $18-50K per year staffer (sending faxes, writing letters to constituents, kissing lobbyist tail)... eventually these hardscabble poors graduate to K street, where they keep a chip on their shoulder from their years as poors and are willing to do anything to make a buck, and get free tickets to Gold Cup every year. Lobbyists and lawyers are easily confused, as they are typically equally ugly and socially awkward, and have similar debt loads (lobbyists from being underpaid staffers living in DC, and lawyers from goign to LS). The only lobbyists with law degrees tend to be TTT law degrees e.g. Albany, Arkansas, etc.
12 nailed it - most lobbyists are former underpaid hill staffers, desperate for ca$h, and willing to do whatever it takes to erase the stench of their ttt UG degree. some of them flock to GW part time public policy degrees, thinking it will erase the odor, but it fo0ols nobody.
I will gladly trade you a NDA next Tuesday for a hamburger today.
-Wimpy,
1st-Year Associate
12 and 13 -
1. lobbyist
2. T10 or T7 or whatever it is this year.
3. Remember, Mr. O'Neill said it best : "All politics is local."
So, those "TTT degrees" may not open doors to BIGLAW, but a University of Nevada Law School, if there is one, may help you get to Mr. Reid a lot faster than a CLS degree . . .
Anonymous blog commenter likens Dahlia Lithwick's journalism skills to that found in a junior high newspaper.
Oh Kash, how you tickle me.
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