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Morning Docket 07.01.09

canada.jpg* Happy Canada Day to our readers from the Great White North. You can enjoy the celebration of your day of union, but you can’t yet celebrate a resolution of your lawsuit against river-stealing North Dakota. [Associated Press]

* The Michael Jackson autopsy report may have been fake, but his will is real. [New York Times]

* No more driving while under the influence of a BlackBerry in Virginia. [Washington Post]

* SCOTUS puts its right foot in and shakes it all about. [Washington Post via ABA Journal]

* Another case of online dating site customers getting screwed. And not in the good way. [Courthouse News Service]

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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:03 AM

First!!!! Take that you asses!

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2 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:13 AM

Speaking of Canada Day, WE DEMAND A FOLLOW UP INTERVIEW WITH THE FIRED HLS 2L!!!

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3 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:15 AM

Kash

This is really weak for a morning dockeTTT

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4 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:29 AM

Canadians are by their very nature, whores, who live, breath, and eat cock.

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:38 AM

Has Latham started laying off summers yet? No that'd be silly. LaTTTham likes to wait until 4 months after you start. That way, not only do you lose out on other firms' summer programs, but you also lose out on government honors programs. But hey, at least LaTTTham summers are getting all that great experience doing fake work.

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:39 AM

I hope Bob and Dave get torn apart by a pack of rabid dogs.

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7 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:42 AM

This blog is going real downhill, nothing good is posted anymore on ATTTL

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:47 AM

So wait, LaTTTham is still the only [formerly] top firm to do mass layoffs? Let's see, no mass layoffs at Skadden, DPW, PW, etc. No first years laid off either.

Latham, you are a RANCID gutter TTT.

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9 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:50 AM

Ralph Baxter's hairdresser raised his prices by 5%, so 16 Orrick associates and 27 staff will be laid off this week.

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10 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:52 AM

I bet Bob Dell is TINY.

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11 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:55 AM

Kashlobster is bringing the pain, 7. I do not know what the hell you are talking about. Your negativity offends. You must be a UT law student.

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12 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 10:00 AM

Is anyone else getting spam from "TheLaw.net Corporation"? I just got a spam e-mail that has this paragraph that made me do a double-take:

We're TheLaw.net Corporation. The legal research value proposition leaders! There's not even a close second. We're the folks who put a national primary law library at your fingertips 24/7/365. And at less than $50 a month annualized, we're in our 11th year of recession-proof pricing. What's next? Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Billy Mays passing in the same week?

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13 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 10:12 AM

Kash is winning the class war. I bet she will fund Elie's campaign for the NY state senate.

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14 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 10:54 AM

From the MJ article: " Danny O’Donovan, who identified himself as the spokesman for Mr. Jackson’s brothers other than Jermaine..."

Jermaine has own PR???

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15 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 11:10 AM

Did you take that flag from the South Park episode?

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16 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:08 PM

I'm pleased to hear Kash knows that it is Canada Day today. Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canucks! Oh, and Happy Canada Day to you too Kash! :)

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17 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 2:27 PM

Thanks for the Canada Day shout out ATL!

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18 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 2:47 PM

Canada.

Is there such a shortage of U.S. lawyers and law graduates that it is necessary to keep importing foreign attorneys to practice in the United States?

Recent posts estimate that foreign lawyers account for around 15% of positions in BigLaw. Is the country going to collapse if U.S. corporations don't have foreign attorneys drafting the agreements, structuring their taxes, and defending them from American citizens in court?

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19 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 2:50 PM

18, maybe the United States should attract the best and the brightest?

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20 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 3:44 PM

"The state wants the court to fine the company and bar it from future illegal activity."

Um, isn't illegal activity already barred?

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21 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 5:48 PM

18,

You are a coward.

Don't be afraid of competition from afar - put up or shut up.

Biglaw firms, especially internationl firms, want the best and hire the best. Do you really think that law students with mediocre grades from mediocre US law schools can compete with the top 5% of Canadian, Australian or British applicants?

If so, then you're also a moron.

Go tune on Lou Dobbs and retreat back into your protectionist shell, Mr. Smoot and/or Hawley

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22 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 5:59 PM

21 = Osama bin Laden

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23 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, July 1, 2009 6:28 PM

Are foreign LLMs really so special that an American attorney couldn't do their job if given the opportunity?

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