Laurie Lin
Laurie Lin is a former D.C. Biglaw associate now living in Charleston, West Virginia with her husband and sons. You can also find her on the Charleston Gazette-Mail op-ed page or West Virginia Public Broadcasting's "Front Porch" podcast. Follow her on Twitter (@wvpundette) or send wedding-related tips to her at leww.tips@gmail.com.
Posts by Laurie Lin
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John Roberts, Merrick Garland, Nauseating Things, New York Times, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Deb-acle!
LEWW salutes Laura Marshall Worth, a direct descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall, who celebrated her wedding last weekend. Laura wasted a great law-school admissions essay and became a teacher, so this hat-tip is all she gets. Here are our three lucky finalist-couples: 1. Rebecca Ingber and Anton Metlitsky 2. Alexandra Flood and Samuel Alcoff […] -
Contests, New York Times, Reader Polls, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: June's Couple of the Month
This should delight some of our commenters: With 36.7 percent of the vote, Avery Gardiner and Edwin U are the winners of our Couple of the Month contest for June! It was a close race, but in the end Avery and Edwin held off a strong challenge by Serena Hoy and James Reilly. Congratulations to […] - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.13.07
* Texas teen cut from cheerleading squad; sues. [Victoria Advocate via Drudge] * Virginia middle-schoolers receive diplomas bearing likeness of Frederick Douglas Karl Marx. [Richmond Times-Dispatch] * Lawyer who leaked BALCO testimony gets 2.5 years. [LA Times] * A “thumb on the scale” in college admissions — in favor of men. [US News]
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2nd Circuit, Benchslaps, Guido Calabresi
Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs: Not Running for Student Body President
Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals engages in some impressive benchslappery in a dissent released today. He’s not attacking the court’s majority opinion, just ignoring it: I concede that this short opinion of mine does not consider or take into account the majority opinion. So I should disclose at the […] -
Antonin Scalia, Harvard, Harvard Law Review, John Bash, New York Times, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 7.8.07: Seven on Earth
We’re posting this on Friday the 13th — hardly anyone’s lucky day. But last Saturday was 7-7-07, and couples all over the world rushed to the altar (and the gambling tables) to take advantage of the auspicious date. And sevens weren’t the only thing we saw multiples of in the NYT weddings section. We’ve got […] -
Fashion, Hair
English Judicial System Wigs Out
Fashion news from across the pond: English judges and barristers are leaping willy-nilly into the nineteenth century, shedding the curly horse-hair wigs that have symbolized the British legal system for centuries. (Memo to Lat: Explore possibility of haircut for ATL logo-thing.) The wigs are being removed despite their popularity with the public, who like to […] -
Contests, Reader Polls, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Couple of the Month for June
Oh, they say when you marry in June, You’re a bride all your life. And the bridegroom who marries in June Gets a sweetheart for a wife. – “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” Which of our four June brides and bridegrooms will soar into married life as Couple of the Month? As always, we’ve picked […] -
Ann Althouse, Bad Ideas, Education / Schools, Law Schools, Money, Politics
Wisconsin Lawmaker Seeks Death Penalty for Law School
Ann Althouse, call your dean! A Wisconsin lawmaker wants to address what he thinks is an overpopulation of lawyers in the state — by ending state funding for the University of Wisconsin Law School. State Representative Frank Lasee (Lah-SAY’) says the state doesn’t need any more ambulance chasers or frivolous lawsuits. The Green Bay Republican […] - Sponsored
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Antonin Scalia, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential
SCOTUS Forecast: Tom Goldstein Picks the Next Great Liberal Justices
Over at SCOTUSblog, Tom Goldstein has a long post on who a Democratic president might nominate to fill the Supreme Court vacancies that would surely open up if the GOP exits the White House in 2008. Goldstein’s criteria are fairly straightforward: ideology, experience, demographics, and age (he excluded anyone born before 1952). Some of the […] -
Judge of the Day
Judge of the Day: Profane Justice in Cincinnati
Remember that McDermott Will & Emery partner who was disciplined for telling a Miami bankruptcy judge she was “a few French fries short of a Happy Meal”? We wonder what he’d say about this breach of civility from the other side of the bench: A Hamilton County Municipal Court judge told an angry defendant “F— […] -
Bar Exams, Gay, Gay Marriage, Ridiculousness
Update: Fail the Bar, Blame the Gays, Solicit Donations for Lawsuit!
Last week we brought you news of Stephen Dunne, the would-be Massachusetts lawyer who’s suing the state Board of Bar Examiners, claiming that he failed the bar exam because one of the questions violated his First Amendment rights by requiring him to approve of gay marriage. As was noted here in Non Sequiturs yesterday, another […] -
Book Deals, Books
Beach Reading: Stephen Carter's New Novel
Our old professors continue to churn out best-selling fiction. First it was Stephen Carter, our contracts professor, who stunned the publishing world — and the YLS faculty — with a $4 million advance for his first thriller, The Emperor of Ocean Park. Then our con law professor, Jed Rubenfeld, came out with a novel of […] -
Announcements, Fashion, Reader Polls
Summer Fashion Poll Results
The results of our summer fashion polls are in (see our original posts here and here), and the message is loud and clear: ATL readers don’t like arms. You gave emphatic thumbs-down to spaghetti-strap tops for women and short-sleeved dress shirts for men. The latter was the object of much mockery: “i feel like telling […]
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Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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How Generative AI Will Improve Legal Service Delivery
Learn how emerging tools will likely change and enhance the work of lawyers for years to come in this new report.
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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New York Times, Patton Boggs, UVA Law, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 7.1.07: Lawyers, Literally
The NYT has served up a relatively weak batch of candidates this week. That’s okay with us; we needed to be brought down to earth after the heights of last week’s eminence-fest. Still, a warning: There’s not an Ivy League degree to be found in this column, so those of you who are nauseated by […] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs: 07.03.07
* Jesse Jackson Jr. wants George W. Bush impeached for the Libby pardon; Wall Street Journal doesn’t think Bush went far enough. [CBS Chicago] [WSJ] * Christopher Hitchens says the London car bomb attacks were targeted at women. [Slate] * Federal judge dismisses suit brought by NYT for classified domestic spying documents. [USA Today] * […] -
Fashion, Reader Polls
Summer Fashion Poll: The Ladies' Turn
Yesterday we promised a summer fashion poll for the ladies. Summertime attire is particularly hard for women, because we have to balance the hot temperatures outside with the often frigid indoor environments necessitated by the (entirely correct, we think) male aversion to short-sleeved dress shirts. Here you go, girls: Opinion Polls & Market Research Opinion Polls & Market Research -
Bar Exams, Gay, Gay Marriage, Lawsuit of the Day, Ridiculousness
Fail the Bar, Blame the Gays, Sue for Millions!
Memo to all the recent law school grads studying for the bar exam: July Fourth means it’s crunch time. If you need extra motivation, just think how excruciating it would be to fail. Especially by only 1.134 points! That’s what happened to Stephen Dunne, who narrowly failed the Massachusetts bar exam and is now suing […] -
Federal Judges, Money
Skaddenfreude: Chief Justice to $318,200?
One legal employer is pondering a hike in base pay from just over $165,000 to nearly $250,000: the United States courts! A bill, co-sponsored by Senators Feinstein, Graham, Hatch, McConnell, and Reid, would set judicial pay at the following levels: District Court Judges: $247,800 Court of Appeals Judges: $262,700 Associate Justices of the Supreme Court: […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Racism
Minorities Give Props to Are Props at Greenberg Traurig?
We were forwarded the following e-mail by a source. It concerns an interaction at a recruiting reception hosted by Greenberg Traurig for Columbia Law School students. One minority female student was so upset by the interaction that she wrote the firm the following day to complain about it and to inform them that she would […] -
Politics, Prisons
Scooter Freed! Open Thread
Well, that was fast. Smile, Scooter! President George W. Bush has just commuted your sentence! The President wiped away Libby’s prison term, but the $250,000 fine will stand. Here’s the grant of executive clemency and the President’s statement, which reads in part: I respect the jury’s verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence […]