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I’d love to take a road trip to Delaware in the Coyote X, the sweet car from Hardcastle and McCormick.

Delawhere? Been there, done that, got the t-shirt and threw it away (i.e. the DE bar). They are all about being a free riding parasite whether it be their banking or corporate laws or the outrageous 5 USD toll on I-95, so legalizing gambling as a way to make immoral gains at the expense of the masses is no surprise to me.

You really thing gambling is the biggest reason that football is so popular?

4 - Not to mention their 55 mph speed limit on I-95, lower than every other state on the eastern seaboard from Virginia to NY. Just for the added 10mph-over "revenue bonus" from each and every speeding ticket.

Delaware is the perfect example of the "race to the bottom" theory.

Loose principles in Delaware attracts corporations with easy morals.

In 1987, the firm terminated the employment of a homosexual associate that we sent for an assignment in Wilmington, Delaware. Apparently, this associate decided to make a detour and head to Rehoboth Beach where he was detained for DUI. Practitioner's Tip for young associates: If you are in the closet and wish to remain there, try not to land in jail in Rehoboth Beach. Your cover at the firm will be blown.

5. Yes. There are lots of reasons, gambling is the single biggest reason. Though, I'll admit that fantasy sports is a strong second.
--Elie

how is this news? i swear this site is going down the tubes..

My bet's on Richards Layton & Finger to fold! Hahah Delaware humor!

Delaware bitches!!! While all of you are in your NYC studio apartments, we're down here making the same salary as you and living in 4000 sq. ft. homes. Suckers!!

I know tons of football fans who never placed a bet in their lives on a game. At my firm our eagles tickets would go really fast, and it had nothing to do with gambling.

Partner Emeritus, do you have a life? I've looked at your profile and you've posted just about every hour each day and into the evening. Do yourself a favor and get a life, whoever you may be in real life. The joke was over a while ago.

- PE Stands for Pretty Embarrassing.

6,

I ride through delaware all the time on 95 and if I get to 55 MPH because of low traffic I get excited in my pants. 95 in DE is one giant parking lot.

13. I know tons of football fans that would never watch the fourth quarter of a 20 point game involving Detroit and Minnesota unless the spread was 21.
--Elie

Tim Tebow would never even consider having sex with a white mouse that has a huge head.

A Man Who Knows Things.

My 3500 sq ft wife doesn't fit in DE.

This comment is addressed to post no. 14.

I am 67 years old. My days are numbered. I have done and seen more in my lifetime than the male eunuchs in your family put together. Instead of wasting your life away by asking questions that do not merit response due to their sheer ignorance, you should be asking yourself why are you reading my profile? Don't you have anything better to do besides dial in your unemployment benefits every two weeks? Go read a book (that has nothing to do with the law) and become a better person. Or better yet, go read and find out how you helped elect a man that is destroying this nation's economy with his terrible policies?

18 -

HAHAHAH

-12

hey elie - blow me

Regardless of how many people you know that watch football that dont gamble, the fact that "gambling is the single biggest reason the sport is so popular" is not even debatable. Elie is right about this; yes this is newsworthy; yes there are typos. Quit bitching

I know this is off topic, but I am still deciding between going to Hofstra on full scholarship or Widener at sticker. Which will give me the best shot at being the next Marty Lipton (he works for some DE firm, right?)

Sheer curiosity is why I read your profile. I just see you on here so much, it begs the question, why? Actually I'm doing pretty well and I didn't vote for your favorite person.

Eunuchs....thats a big word PE. Was that on your SAT flashcards?

14

Sheer curiosity is why I read your profile. I just see you on here so much, it begs the question, why? Actually I'm doing pretty well and I didn't vote for your favorite person.

Eunuchs....thats a big word PE. Was that on your SAT flashcards?

"gambling is the single biggest reason the sport is so popular"

as usual, a bold conclusory statement with no hard data to back it up whatsoever

- not 5 or 13

What's the over/under on the amount of donuts ellie eats in a day?

This comment is addressed to post no. 25.

I did not know what a eunuch was until I saw the word tattooed on your mother's posterior. When I inquired what it stood for, she remarked that she had your father's name tattooed on her rear after their shotgun wedding.
I am on this site today as the weather is deplorable for golf. I sit in an office where I avoid people that are constantly trying to pander to my good nature. You should be thankful that I am here to impart wisdom to sloths like you.

You're an idiot, Elie. Not a single person I know watches football because of betting. It doesn't surprise me that a fat fuck like you would know nothing about sports.

15 - Try the middle of the night. Just watch out for the poop-brown state trooper cars. (Perfect color for the cesspool that is DE however.)

23, go to Widener and work in Delaware. You don't need or want the life of Marty Lipton. In Delaware you'll work reasonable hours while making the same amount of money as an associate in NYC. Admittedly, you won't make Wachtell level partner profits but, seriously, is one mil (sometimes more) a year not enough?

According to this Gallup poll, only 17% of Americans gamble on professional football.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/104086/one-six-americans-gamble-sports.aspx

29,
I'm sure you're quite the impressive athlete and you and all your jock friends watch football for the tight asses, but Elie is absolutely right about that
-Not Elie

Dear NFL,

Please explain why you can overcome the obstacle of gambling in Nevada, which has Las Vegas, but gambling in Delaware, which has freakin Dover, is too much for "young people" to handle.

Btw, this is pretty big news - not to everyone but to enough people to warrant a post.

Not that any of you care, but Drinker Biddle is letting go staff today.

Tim Tebow is pounding me in the ass right now.

32 -- 17 percent is a huge percentage to admit to gambling on football and shows the significant impact of gambling on football ratings. Every year the Super Bowl has approximately 40-45 percent of American households watching (usually about 100 million people total, including some international). In other words, one-third to one-half of the American viewers were gambling.

In contrast, the 2009 finale of American Idol received about 10 percent of US households (28 million total), with an 11 percent rating (30 million people) for the last 5-10 minutes.

Sorry haters. Elie is right on with this post. And I'm definitely going to Delaware come football season... right after I stop at that highway rest stop place.

I love that highway rest stop place. It feels totally unique, in the world of highway rest stop places.
--Elie

isn't widener the worst accredited law school in america? i knew this guy who went there- biggest idiot i have ever met

elie DIE already

Elie, I will concede that a majority of douchebag Harvard Law grads who are football fans are mostly interested in football because of the gambling, but it's remarkably closeminded to think that everyone who likes football likes it for that reason.

However, it is neither remarkable to me that you are that clueless nor more than a normal day's errors in judgment for you.

40 - Yes, Widener (Delawhere campus) is rated as the Worst ABA accredited law school. Its soo bad that most of the local law firms in the Wilmington area where its located will not even interview, let alone hire their graduates.

32 & 37 - How about you try reading the article? The 17% is talking about all sports and also includes office pools, which probably make up about 95% of the amount of people who said they gamble on sports since even a middle age lady can pay $2 to put her name in a hat and be assigned a couple of numbers that the score'll end in. Dumbasses... Elie, you suck.

43, I think you're mistaken about a few of your facts. Every firm in town hires Widener grads.

The Delaware lawyer is cute!

Elie:

A comfortable majority of people watch football solely because they enjoy the game. I am one of them, as are all of my friends. Not only do we not bet on football, some times we will organize poker nights and have football going on in the background - when the game gets exciting we all agree to pause a hand to watch the game. Given that, you could argue that football actually prevents gambling!

I'm shocked at all of the people attacking Elie for a comment that even casual sports fans know to be true

31,

PPP is $1 million/year in Delaware? With the exception of Skadden's Delaware office, I find that very hard to believe.

45 - as attorneys not janitors. Not a single one at my firm. Not a single one at several firms where my colleagues work. There might be a few as paralegals, but not as practicing attorneys.

12 & 31 - The problem is that NYC is a 24 hour town with something for everyone. Delhole has nothing. The only decent legal market is Wilmington and its a bombed out hell hole. If you must practice law in Delawhere then you should live in Philly and reverse commute to Wilmington. But if your going to do that then why not just practice law in Philly, the bar is easier, salaries are the same, tons of things to do etc.

Delaware.
I get it now.
I thought you were referring to Maryland.
My bad.

Johhny Chimpo.

That's it. I'm fucking convinced PE is not flame. In fact, I think he works at my firm.

49 - PPP at the big Wilmington firms is probably closer to $2 million, maybe more at some firms.

Basically DE's corporation-banking friendly laws are the product of a free-rider mentality to bring money to an otherwise small, poor state, not much unlike how small countries attract capital by serving as tax havens. A by product of all these corporate friendly laws is that DE courts serve as a venue for alot of corporations other legal work, transactions, litigation, bankruptcy etc. So its turned into a full employment program for DE lawyers. Their state bar raises a very high, almost protectionist, barrier to entry for all outside attorneys to ensure the work must pas through a DE lawyer. Wilmington has one of the highest lawyer to population ratios in the country because of all this, and many of then come from outside the state, as its own population is too small to produce all the necessary talent. A corporate law = Biglaw = Ivy League graduates most attorneys are not from DE, but instead are transplants.

Outside of this all that DE has to offer is chicken factory farms and gay beaches.

Of course De also exploits their strategic location along the eastern seaboard as a choke point for all north-south transportation on I95, hence their "Troll Booths" charging one of the highest tolls in the country of 5 USD one way for a mere 18 miles of highway, which is strangely always under construction/repair while simultaneously in very poor condition and always backed up. DO NOT STOP AT THEIR REST STOP. Wilmington is very crime ridden and travelers at the plaza are always being attacked and robbed by the wilmington criminal element near by. Avoid DE if you can, but if you can't then make sure you do not stop anywhere in DE while passing through. But for all the traffic caused by the poorly designed interchange and toll booths you'd just blink and be done with it!

30 - DE state trooper cars are navy blue. All the county and city ones are white. If you got tagged by a brown cop car in Delaware, you were seriously punk'd.

51 -- because the legal market in Philly is sooo boring, even Penn State grads flee that market.

57 - So you're recommending a practioner move from one boring legal market to another more boring legal and desolate social scene? What did you do, graduate from Widener or something?

What’s with all the hatin’ on Delaware? It’s employing a classic small state strategy to bleed all those that drive by in order to supplement their population. DE has no sales tax and low property taxes. If you live in Wilmington, you have Philadelphia in miniature, with the real Philly a mere 30 minutes away. You are 20 minutes form a major airport, 15 minutes from an Amtrak station, sit atop 95, 2 hrs from either NY or Washington and 1 ½ hrs from the beach. It’s a great place to live. But yeah, keep paying those taxes and living in brown water running apts or 2 hr commutes to work in NYC.

Delaware = New Jersey Lite

any documentation supporting the contention that Widener is the worst accredited law school - or did you just think that b/c it appears at the bottom of the list (they list in alphabetical order moron)

Wilmington is terrible. There is not one decent bar in the entire town, and every attractive person is married. With very limited exception, you should not walk around at night within city limits. Your other living options are in run-of-the-mill suburbia. The last thing you want after putting in an associate's workday is to have to commute a half hour to find a bar you won't get stabbed in or where you'll - gasp - see an attractive woman. If you're not married and expecting (such that suburbia is the right fit), don't consider Delaware. (Also, 1.5 hours to the beach is a joke unless you're driving in the middle of the night or in winter; and after your 3+ hour drive, picture the exotic Jersey Shore, but with more rainbow flags.)

That said, if you want to be a top-end corporate litigator or work in bankruptcy, and the social issues aren't a problem for you, you could do much worse. The good firms, and there are several, pay New York market, though I disagree with the previous comment stating that Delaware lawyers (at least the ones making NY market) work something other than New York market hours (assuming a non-recession baseline).

Because bar prep in Delaware is available only at Widener Law, I have been forced to go there. It is a horrible law school, though seeing so many recent Widener Law grads in bar prep will make you very confident, so that's nice. The good firms in town recruit T14 with limited local flavor, same as NY.

Regards,
The First State

yay! i want to see a screen door factory!

51 -
I would not suggest practicing anywhere but Wilmington for those interested in Delaware. Outside of Wilmington salaries are much lower and there is little if any sophisticated work. The other commenters are correct in that most of us are transplants (I am). I do, however, disagree about the knocks on Widener. I do not know of a firm in town that doesn't have at least a few attorneys from Widener. I've never had an issue with any of them and have actually enjoyed working with them at my firm.

61 - FYI I did not graduate from Widener so I am not legally a Moron. In the present case Widener is the lowest rated ABA law school because its both at the end of the alphabet for 4th tier law schools and its also the worst of the worst.

I whole heartly agree with 62's comments. I too was compelled to attend Widener for DE bar review. My nerves were assuaged after a gruelling will trusts & estates review when as I was leaving one Widener grad turned to another and asked "What's a legatee?" So I thank all the Widener grads for serving as the DE bar exam failures that made my essays look brilliant and serve as a breath of fresh air to the bar examiners.

One thing NYC has over Helawhere is a real newspaper and it looks like this little parasite advocate's jig is up as states move to clap down on their little free rider corporate tax loopholes:

"Critics Call Delaware a Tax Haven"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/business/30delaware.html?_r=1&ref=business