Morning Docket 04.16.09
* The NYCLU is suing the NYPD to protect Yankees fans’ right to hate America. [Gothamist and New York Law Journal]
* Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan is resigning this weekend. Among those gunning for his job are two Foley Hoag partners: Michael B. Keating and Martin Murphy. That’s a little awkward when it comes to intra-firm politics, no? [Boston Globe]
* Former ATL ‘Lawyer’ of the Day Howard Kieffer was back in the courtroom this week, being convicted of mail fraud and making false statements. [Associated Press]
* Easter’s celebration of resurrection has inspired Eliot Spitzer. He’s contemplating another run for Attorney General. [New York Post]
* Earlier this week, a judge ruled that law firms need to make it clear that they are representing the company and not individual employees during the course of their investigations— Irell & Manella was on the short end of that ruling. Stanford Group’s former CIO was likely following that case closely. She has filed a malpractice and conspiracy complaint against Proskauer Rose and others for the same practices. [Courthouse News Service]
* More on the monster $55.1 million Lehman bill submitted in Manhattan bankruptcy court by Weil Gotshal. In addition to over 100,000 billable hours over four months, the bill includes “$200,000 for business meals, $439,000 for computerized and “other” research, [and] $115,000 on local transportation and $287,000 on duplicating charges.” Sigh. Just when Americans were starting to hate bankers more than lawyers. [Wall Street Journal (subscription)]
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$55.1????
Wow, looks like Weil is giving a pretty steep discount.
Idiot.
Lehman is getting ripped off for having to pay $0.000551 a hour.
Weil is making a shit-ton of money off of Lehman, and if GM falls, even more. Lawyers will always be hated because we make money off of trouble.
Lehman is getting ripped off for having to pay $0.000551 an hour.
Yankees SUCK. A-Rod is the biggest douche ever. Go Rays!
I have a strong feeling of deja-vu with that Yanks story. Hasn't this lawsuit been done before? At the very least, similar articles have been written in past years about this "phenomenon."
@6: don't be a douchebag.
@6 = racist swamp midget
#6, you blow buddy. Go back to Houston.
$287,000 in duplicating charges? That's a lot of photocopying.
Viagra on a Thursday, bitches!
If the first bullet were written by MysTTTal (minus spelling/grammar errors):
* The evil, liberty-hating NYPD, after a near-murderous rampage against innocent baseball fans, is finally getting what it deserves via the heroic Civil Liberties Union.
I'm a lifelong Yankee fan, and a veteran. But for the love of dog, can we please stop playing that damned song during the stretch? It's a baseball game, not a rally.
Was there any teabagging at Yanks stadium yesterday?
Skadden = The Yankees
Kirkland = The Cubs Curse
N. Wacker Stud
Research doesn't usually get paid for out of the estate. Bk courts analogize Westlaw access to a law firm's library, and chalk it up to overhead; so, it's not considered an expense for the benefit of the estate.
I knew N. Wacker Stud was from Skadden!
Too much Northeast BS on here. Makes me want to puke.
I auto-fellated myself once at a Yankees game and the police never even said anything.
LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!! LET'S GO METS!!!
Canadians are almost as bad as Minnesota law students.
I plan on making a promassory estoppelobster argument on behalf of the poor folks at Cadwalader.
Weil just filed another major bankruptcy. Wake up, ATL.
20 = racist Hofstra grad
20 also is a douchebag. And I'm a Mets fan saying that.
N. Wacker Stud, I must draw you.
V. Diesel as Leo DiCaprio
A-Rod did some Tea-bagging yesterday, but it had nothing to do with taxes.
Where is the story about the abnormally large wives in Texas that have become all the rage?
We want our fillet-o-fish!
I'm glad the Yankees story came out when it did. I was going to bid on some tickets in a charity auction today, but I won't, now that I know to avoid Yankee stadium until the team stops forcing fans to participate in their right-wing, know-nothing, revival-tent rallies.
The Yankees should move to Pyongyang; I understand mandatory "patriotic" rallies are very popular there.
@29 - Go back to San Fran you homo gay racist. You are not among friends.
29 nailed it!! Take you ultra-nationalist agenda back to 1939 Germany before you miss the book burning
29/31 = Why do you hate freedom?
32 -- freedom isn't free. apparently it takes blind obedience, and police-enforced compliance.
But anyway, this whole issue was covered a long time ago...didn't that sports law guy even do a write up on it?
Elie read the story. It wasn't a Yankee fan. It was a Red Sox fan that hated America!
I never pay for my freedom, I steal it from the elderly. Haven't paid for it in years.
Warren Earmuffs Baseballs
In the case above it was a Red Sox fan, not a Yankees fan. I don't remember ever being hassled during the stretch. So it seems like, as applied, the rule is fine.
34 - read the byline
The Red Socks Hate America is their new team motto.
No. 2 mall owner files largest U.S. real estate bankruptcy. General Growth Properties (GGP), owner of more than 200 malls, including Fashion Show in Las Vegas and Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, declared bankruptcy Thursday in the biggest real estate failure in U.S. history.
The company has hired law firms Weil Gotshal & Manges and Kirkland & Ellis to represent it, according to court papers.
If we cannot urinate during the replaying of God Bless America, then the terrorists win.
Everyone knows you are allowed to go pee during God Bless America.
You just have to pee on somebody from Hoboken.
@32: freedom = compulsion, patriotism = secession, etc. Just ask someone from Oceana (i.e., Texas).
When will you people learn, "freedom isn't free"? If this unpatriotic BoSux fan won't chip in his $1.05, who will?
"Elie read the story. It wasn't a Yankee fan. It was a Red Sox fan that hated America!"
All Red Sox fans hate America.
$287,000 on duplicating charges??? Standard pricing would mean they had over 2 million pages printed during that time. Sneaky Bastards...
$287,000 on duplicating charges??? Standard pricing would mean they had over 2 million pages printed during that time. Sneaky Bastards...