Morning Docket: 10.15.09
* The Justice Department is implementing reforms to avoid another Ted Stevens-style snafu. [Washington Post]
* Foley & Lardner officially confirms the 39 lawyer layoffs that we previously reported. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via ABA Journal]
* Chief Judge Vaughn Walker (N.D. Cal.) denies a motion to dismiss the gay marriage case brought by David Boies and Ted Olson. [Christian Science Monitor]
* Judicial hottie Ricardo Urbina (D.D.C.) has blocked public access to certain pretrial proceedings in the case of five Blackwater security guards charged with manslaughter. [Washington Post]
* More death sentences handed down for July’s ethnic riots in western China. [New York Times]
* More about what’s going on down in Puerto Rico — it’s not just the law school that’s in a state of unrest. [True/Slant]
* Maria Shriver, aka Mrs. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has apologized for using a cell phone while driving (a violation of California law). [CNN]
* Bruce Wasserstein, Harvard Law School graduate and former owner of the American Lawyer and the National Law Journal, RIP. [Am Law Daily]
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FIRSTY McFIRSTERSONNNNN
How much user generated content can ATL throw at the wall today? Have the advertisers realized the poor state this site is in?
2 - Actually, the list of advertisers they thank seems to grow longer and longer each week.
If you don't like the site, then don't read it.
Bruce Wasserstein was a classmate of mine at HLS. He was a good man. RIP
Wasserstein led a very full life. Tremendous accomplishments and a lot of success. A rich 61 years. He had a hell of a ride in life and stepped off in time for the next group to get on.
Much better than living to be 100 sucking off of society for medicare and social security and consuming precious resources that could be used by young parents and their children.
PE, are you listening?
http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/10/law-firm-layoffs-when-the-facts-obscure-the-news.html
Maria Shriver = 50% Amanda Peet, 50% alien who wants to eats your lung tissue with her chin probe
ATL got the Foley layoff story right? Not possible.
8 - Are you being sarcastic?
9 - of course
Wasserstein's fourth wife is one lucky bitch . . . .
Why is Shriver using a hand-held cell phone while driving? Hasn't she heard about Bluetooth wireless connectivity? So lame.
With the California economy, I'm surprised that they have cell phones rather than tin cans tied to a string
11,
She is obviously a good market timer. Amazing that bid 'em up Bruce became a billionaire by convincing his clients to overpay for assets. Kind of reminds me of biglaw partners and their foolish clients.