Winston (Chicago) associate headcount Feb. 2008 (from NALP): 259

Plus summer 2007 incoming class: ~30

= 289

Winston Chicago headcount today (from website): 219

A difference of: 70 associates.

Hello!

***Hellooooooooooo***

(the second one is the echo)

DEFERRAL DAY MASSACRE BEGINS!!! YEEEHAW!

WHAT?!?!?!?! No shout out to the awesome dorkdom that is the PATENT PROM? It's today bitches!!!!!!! 3000 engineers/lawyers in tuxedos and ball gowns with an open bar!! New York better watch out!!!

"Malasian"? Is that a bad Asian? Been having breakfast with Elie, have we?

It's "Malaysian", you boondoggle.

6 here - just wanted to note that my comment was directed at Ms. Gray, not 5. 5, we're still friends.

Eliza, the only thing you smell is the excrement you just smeared all over this site with your horrible Morning Docket post.

LEARN.

TO.

WRITE.

Also (although I have to assume you're just trying to look really stupid and uninformed on this point), it should be pretty f*king clear to anyone who can both breathe and chew at the same time that Andrew Cuomo, Democrat, will not be running for President in 2012. I will leave it to your stunning intellect to figure out why.

"In a stunning act of self parody, President Barack Obama has picked the defense attorney for John Walker Lindh to serve as AAG."

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/03/13/media-forgets-obamas-nominee-justice-dept-was-terrorists-lawyer

Seriously, no mention of the judges dinner occuring tonight? Why not report on legal events. . . especially large, prominent, famous ones.

10 - Don't you know? Nobody at ATL cares about your TTT judges unless it's SCOTUS or Court of Appeals.

From the link provided by 9:

"This appointment of a terrorist's defense lawyer to the Department of Justice announces that Barack Obama is in favor of a more lenient stance on terrorists."

Talk about self-parody. This is why its hard to take people like you seriously, 9.

7: It's cool. I gotcha.

- 5

Well there goes the STB v. Cov poll

4: That's 3000 EMPLOYED engineers/lawyers. Although mixing them with alcohol is not a pretty sight, tuxes notwithstanding.

Are you sure Chertoff didn't actually join those crazy witches from Vermont, Burlington & Coven?

9, yes, because defense lawyers are just as bad as their clients and inherently forfit any right to any official position by representing scum who are clearly guilty. And bullying the American legal establishment to not provide representation to those accused of capital crimes is such a noble effort.

Moron.

15, I say it's a good thing in this economy for a legal blog to focus on events that are still occuring showing that the entire "ship ain't sinkin." Firms are still putting out large chunks of money for this event. Hence, everything is not an epic failure. Some hope.

17, but leading a state organization dedicated to vindicating ANOTHER Constitutional right should subject executive nominees/appointments to scorn? Hmm...

"In a stunning act of self parody, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has picked a Director for the NRA for the state's new Attorney General."

Looks like someone is still bitter about Heller... BWAHAHAHA! Eat it!

11, it is court of appeals you retard. Court of appeals for the federal circuit. God, you're obviously some retarded 1L. Don' comment if you're ignorant on the topic. It just emphasizes your ignorance.

How about including the NY Times' scrutiny of Gillibrand's work with Davis Polk's tobacco defense?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/nyregion/27gillibrand.html?_r=1&hp

It's Malaysian

Welcome to the party, 23. The coat room is full, but you can just toss your jacket in the corner.

Eliza, the only thing you smell is the excrement you just smeared all over this site with your horrible Morning Docket post.

LEARN.

TO.

WRITE.

Also (although I have to assume you're just trying to look really stupid and uninformed on this point), it should be pretty f*king clear to anyone who can both breathe and chew at the same time that Andrew Cuomo, Democrat, will not be running for President in 2012. I will leave it to your stunning intellect to figure out why.

11 = Moron. It is the Court of Appeals. Good luck graduating law school and landing a job, jackass.

Cheap shot at Palin He has experience you just don't loke his politics.

21,

DC = TTT.

That is all.

22 - Clearly, all ATL cares about from the Times is "shout-outs". If articles like this one were paid more attention to, then maybe they'd have a better understanding of what Cuomo will be doing in 2012.

Your political bias is sickening.

Very cheap shot at Palin, and at supporters of gun rights, who, in your view, I suppose, are disqualified from being state attorney general.

But I'm sure you'd make the same kind of remark about the recently appointed, pro-gun rights, Democratic senator from New York, right? Right?

i guess it depends on which federal circuit it is. there's more than one, you know.

-11

30, 31 - I think a lot of what Elie was pointing out was the ridiculous pose the guy is striking in his picture, like he's Ms. November sitting on his Hummer with his belly hanging out. It's just funny to see what flies (and is popular) in Alaska state politics. I don't want to put words into Elie's mouth, but I don't think it was really so much a jab at gun rights as a jab at the "run over anyone in my Canyonero, shoot animals from a helicopter and middle finger at the environment" style that Palin sort of whoops up. Granted it's a 2002 picture, back Ahhnold still drove his H1, but still.

32, 11:
You are obviously a retarded 1L. There is this court of appeals called "The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit." Please go look it up in Wikipedia before you comment back about "more than one federal circuit." Now go learn this in Civ. Pro. before you comment TWICE revealing your ignorance on a blog for ACTUAL lawyers. I actually pity you know for being 2x's the douchebag.

- not the previous poster, but cannot believe your stupidity.

34,
Don't feed the trolls.

I thought this was an Elie Mystal post. Turns out, it was Eliza Gray. Attention Eliza: snide political quips will alienate half your readers. This is your last warning before we trash you like we trashed Elie.

Besides the fact that no Democrat who wants to have a future in the party* (or who doesn't want to be annihilated in the primary) will be challenging Obama in 2012, Cuomo has to do something else before making a viable run. Probably governor -- follow the Spitzer path, minus the hookers, of course.

* Didn't he have an ugly divorce from a Kennedy? Seems like that could hurt in some ways too (re intraparty politics).

Has anyone ever seen Eliza Gray and Sharon Eliza Nichols together? I thought not.

33, your attempt at covering Elie's partisan hackery doesn't survive a simple reading of the post.

"In a stunning act of self parody, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has picked a Director for the NRA for the state's new Attorney General. Check out this sweet picture of him sitting on a hummer."

The "stunning act" is clearly the picking of the NRA Director. The (admittedly ridiculous) picture is completely superfluous to the point Elie was making. Elie did not write, "In a stunning act of self parody, Palin picked a goober who poses on the hood of his Hummer."

32 FTW.

Ending it with "you know" is just icing on the cake. As if to say "let me reacquaint you with our shared field of experience."

Chertoff was at Latham, before he was at Homeland Security (and before he was on the 3d Circuit). Wonder why he didn't go back to Latham.

39 - You really put a lot of thought into your comment; too bad Elie didn't write the post, as is noted several times throughout the comment section.

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