Morning Docket 5.21.09
* President Obama will talk about his plans to close Guantanamo in a national address in order to rally support from the public after getting shut down by members of Congress. [CNN]
* After quietly accepting charges from several states, Craiglist is fighting back. The company sued South Carolina’s attorney general for violating free speech and the Commerce Clause with his prosecution threats. [San Francisco Chronicle]
* A “flamboyant” high profile defense attorney in New Jersey who was famous for saying “no witness, no case” has been charged with having key witnesses murdered. [New York Times]
* “Manhattan prosecutors have charged a New York personal injury lawyer with stealing $650,000 in client settlement money. [ABA Journal]
* Despite his liberal tendencies, David Souter treated the business community well. Will Obama’s successor do the same? [Wall Street Journal]
* The pitfalls and benefits of power of attorney. [New York Times]
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Comments
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This site is an affront to all that is good and holy.
Nothing worse than a room full of Pakistanis in the summer.
Louis Zaccareli is better than all of you.
Anyone know where I can get a good bologna sandwich?
This ATL post is boring and says basically nothing.
And yet, I am an attorney at Thompson Hine, so I have no work to do (and the only work I get is fluff barely suitable for a first year).
No new clients coming in. No new work from existing clients. Staff layoffs mean that associates have essentially no secretarial support.
All salaries slashed. Announced layoffs.
And constantly with the stealth layoffs.
I watch the young associates, people from tier 1 schools near the top of their classes, and I watch them sit and wait while their careers wither on the vine. What they want is work of substance to develop their skills. The way things are now, most are begging for doc reviews and research memos, and get nothing.
The partners share no information. They say all is well. Yet they never have work to assign. And the stealth layoffs continue.
I hate this firm. My only solace is to sit here and write this while they pay me to do it. Cold comfort is better than none at all, I suppose.
Success in the legal profession is based on results. Thompson Hine partners are consistently failing to bring tangible results. I have no confidence in this firm or its leadership. Many of us will be moving lateral just as soon as we can.
THOMPSON HINE - if you ignore having clients and doing important work, then we're great!
-Rogue Associate
gays
South Carolina sucks almost as much as Texis.
First Lady Phallus
6,
Stand strong. Like the Fremen, you may find that while extreme adversity kills most, some will adapt and prevail. They will return hard, ruthless and resourceful.
Like a holy wind through the partners and their Sardaukar. The gluttonous, lazy, entitled Harkonnen partners will yet see the end of their house.
-Desert Mouse
Coke on a Thursday, bitches!
Obama's successor is the next president. I think you mean Souter's successor.
Oh, Rogue Associate, what would our mornings be like without your constant complaining.
I can't possibly imagine that nobody at Thompson Hine has seen your posts.
Don't you worry that your posts are going to cause you to be miserable, poor and unemployed instead of just being miserable?
If the partners at your firm are anything like at mine, then they have paper thin egos and must be absolutely seething that you keep doing these posts.
That amuses me.
Looks like that Bergin guy has been promoted from pimp to hitman. Not bad for a Hofstra grad.
http://www.abovethelaw.com/paul_bergrin/
Looks like that Bergrin guy has been promoted from pimp to hitman. Not bad for a Hofstra grad.
http://www.abovethelaw.com/paul_bergrin/
5 - Follow http://hotdoggerblog.com/ (looks like the Weinermobile is coming to Madison, Wisconsin today!)
16 here again. Rogue Associate, if you're so miserable at Thompson Hine, why don't you apply to become a Weinermobile driver? Can't be worse than being a cupcake driver...
http://brands.kraftfoods.com/oscarmayer/omm_hotdogger.htm
Juice here. I'm firing Jonnie. If I ever get in trouble again, I want Paul Bergrin to represent me. Now *that* man knows how to advocate!
--O.J. Simpson
Eliza had a great article the other month in Newsweek magazine.
PE is a 1L. He is spending his summer as a camp counselor. Just wanted to share....
3500 sq ft wife and a Lexis.
Don't hate the player.
Question: has anyone posted a link to the song "If You Own the Washington Redskins, You're a Cock" by Atom and His Package? It contains a very subtle and understated argument against the use of Native American sports team nicknames.
MUAD'DIB
MUAD'DIB
MUAD'DIB
The will o'the wisp of the desert who will strike against the Harkonnens and their partners.
I am one of LATHAM'S laid off FIRST YEARS. My life and career have been ruined because I went to Latham. I had so many opportunities my second year, now there is nothing.
Go to a firm that will honor its commitment to you when times are bad.
"A 'flamboyant' high profile defense attorney in New Jersey"
Flamboyant + New Jersey = Guido with teh ghey.
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I understand. It's hard to support a $100,000 plus student loan on the salary of a short order fry cook. On the plus side, you can deduct the cost of hairnets.
17,
If I had a job offer driving a food service truck instead of working at Thompson Hine, I would take it in a heartbeat.
The sad thing? I don't know that I'm kidding.
Thompson Hine - working for us MIGHT not be the worst decision you ever made! Sign up today!
DEMOCRATS' desire to release jihadists into the homeland is consistent with their desire to destroy America.
At least they're being consistent.
"Our government made decisions based upon fear rather than foresight and all too often trimmed facts and evidence to fit ideological predispositions," he said."
Damn right.
Republicans are pussies. We have the best supermax prisons in the world. Why so scared?
I think we ought to exercise eminent domain and put a SuperMax prison on Fisher Island in Florida.
That ought to do wonders for property values and piss off the rich Republican donors who live there.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2896782.ece