Britney Spears
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Britney Spears, Celebrities, Music, Romance and Dating
Britney Spears Is Kind Of Dating A Lawyer... Okay, Not Really
Britney Spears has a new beau, and he works at a law firm. Who is he? -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, Britney Spears, Celebrities, Copyright, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Divorce Train Wrecks, General Counsel, john quinn, Morning Docket, Pornography, Sex Scandals, United Kingdom / Great Britain, William Burck
Morning Docket: 04.09.12
* The billable hour may be far from dead, but last year, 61% of general counsel worked out alternative fee arrangements with outside counsel, including counsel from elite (read: Biglaw) firms. [Wall Street Journal]
* Dewey need to take lessons on revenge from this firm? John Altorelli, the D&L defector who spilled all the beans to the Am Law Daily, was blasted on Page Six this weekend. More on this to come later today. [New York Post]
* CHECK YOU LATERALS: recent Quinn Emanuel hires William Burck, Paul Brinkman, and Andrew Schapiro, as well as name partner John Quinn, have entered appearances on behalf of Megaupload. [Am Law Daily]
* Copyright infringement suits over porn downloading involving some 3,500 defendants were dismissed because the plaintiffs’ attorney, Terik Hasmi, couldn’t get it in legally in Florida. [National Law Journal]
* In England, there’s no such thing as a no-fault divorce, but instead, you can get one for “unreasonable behavior” — behavior like malicious service of tuna casserole, and speaking only in Klingon. [New York Times]
* This gives “I’m a Slave 4 U” some new meaning. Britney Spears’s fiancé, Jason Trawick, is trying to start their impending rocky marriage off on the right foot. He’ll soon be her co-conservator. [New York Daily News]
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Britney Spears, Gay, Gay Marriage, Immigration, Job Searches, Law Schools, Mergers and Acquisitions, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.30.11
* Some people regret going to law school; Rachel Kramer Bussel regrets not finishing. But she wound up at the same delicious destination as so many JDs, namely, cupcakes. [The Gloss and Cupcakes Take the Cake] * Speaking of law school, Professor Dan Filler asks: Despite all the gloom and doom, is now actually an […]
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Britney Spears, Celebrities, Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Hotties
Britney Spears: No Panties, No Hair...
And now, no lawyers? From the AP: Britney Spears’ lawyers in her custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline are quitting. The law firm Trope and Trope asked a court Wednesday to be relieved as Spears’ attorneys. The firm says there’s been a “breakdown” in communication with the pop princess that makes representing her “impossible,” according […] -
Boalt Hall, Britney Spears, Clarence Thomas, Judge of the Day, Non-Sequiturs, Peter Lattman, Television
Non-Sequiturs: 10.12.07
* U.C. Berkeley has settled on a new name for its law school. Check it out, it’s quite brilliant. [Blogonaut] (But we’ll probably still conduct the reader poll mentioned here, just for the heck of it.) * Strained attorney-client relations between Britney Spears and Anne Kiley? Apparently Brit has “trust issues” (in addition to that […] -
Britney Spears, Celebrities, Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Kids
Leave... Britney... Alone!
You mean old judge! From the AP: Britney Spears was ordered Monday to surrender custody of her children to ex-husband Kevin Federline. Superior Court Judge Scott M. Gordon ruled that Federline will take custody of Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, beginning Wednesday “until further order of the court.” If Judge Gordon took Britney’s […] -
Britney Spears, Celebrities, Divorce Train Wrecks, Education / Schools, Guantanamo Bay, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 03.30.07
* SCOTUS considers whether to open new Gitmo appeals. [New York Times] * Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Gates calls for Gitmo closure. [CNN] * Spears and Federline have reached a divorce settlement, so no crazy litigation for now. [MSNBC] * Sorority that allegedly kicked out unattractive members sues University for totally being not cool about […]
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Britney Spears, Celebrities, Divorce Train Wrecks, Drugs, Hair, Kids
Britney Spears: Not Out of the Legal Woods Yet
Here’s an update on the Britney Spears-Kevin Federline legal drama. The emergency court hearing that was supposed to take today, requested by K-Fed to discuss custody of their two children, was canceled. The reason, according to various media and tabloid reports, is that Spears is back in rehab. She has reportedly checked back into Promises […] - Sponsored
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Britney Spears, Camille Paglia, Celebrities, Fashion, Lindsay Lohan, Pamela Ann Rymer
When Camille Paglia Calls You A Slut, You Know You've Gone Too Far
One of our favorite cultural critics, the super-opinionated and hilarious Camille Paglia, recently weighed in on the trend of female celebrities “flashing their goodies for the camera,” in the words of US Weekly. Despite her general “pro-sex” bent, Paglia disapproves of the practice: These girls are lowering themselves to the level of backstreet floozies. It […] -
Britney Spears, Celebrities, Gay, Gay Marriage, Money, Tax Law
The REAL Threat to the Institution of Marriage
Social conservatives are constantly carping about the threat that gay marriage allegedly poses to the institution of marriage. In response, proponents of gay marriage reflexively bring up the (rather tired) example of Britney Spears, and her joke of a marriage to Jason Alexander.* The debate gets pretty old, pretty fast. Here’s what we want to […] -
Britney Spears, Celebrities, Crime, Food, Intellectual Property, Interview Stories, Law Professors, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Sex
Non-Sequiturs: 11.29.06
* After being subjected to Prince Charles’s tampon metaphors, is there really anything more to know about the Royal Family? [The Guardian] * Pussy. Labia. Vagina. (Yeah, I too know way too much about Britney’s and, thanks to the above, Camilla’s.) Salary? Buzz! That word is taboo. [Feminist Law Professors] * But I think in […] -
Advertising, Books, Borat, Britney Spears, Celebrities, Edith Jones, Federalist Society, Movies, O.J. Simpson, Richard Posner, Sex, Tax Law, Vicious Infighting, Videos, Week in Review, Wesley Snipes
ATL Week in Review: November 20-24
* Another week, another Borat lawsuit. * Wow — it doesn’t take much to get lawyers all hot and bothered. But ATL readers were evidently untroubled. * Merry Christmas. There will be no O.J. Simpson book. * But no Britney sex tape, either. * Wesley Snipes has some harsh words for the IRS. And Judge […] -
Britney Spears, Celebrities, Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Sex, Videos
Sorry, Folks -- You'll Have To Settle for That Video of Britney Belching
After details of Britney Spears’s “airtight” prenuptial agreement were disclosed, revealing that her soon-to-be ex-husband, Kevin Federline, wouldn’t get much in the divorce, we began hearing this rumor: Fed-Ex will be a hero to stragglers everywhere, moreso even than Kato, in his leveraging: [Britney] made an air-tight prenup; he made a videotape of his adventures […]
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Announcements, Britney Spears, Celebrities, Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Laura Wasser
ATL Public Service Announcement: Better Get a Prenup
To any single celebrities out there who happen to frequent legal gossip blogs, we offer you this piece of friendly advice: Before getting hitched, make your future spouse sign a prenup. Sounds pretty obvious, right? But consider this, from Forbes’s Prenup Primer: Last week, Britney Spears filed for divorce from her two-year marriage to Kevin […] -
Biglaw, Borat, Britney Spears, Celebrities, Dewey Ballantine, Divorce Train Wrecks, John Paul Stevens, Money, Movies, Music, Politics, Robert Bork, SCOTUS, Senate Judiciary Committee, Shakira, Supreme Court, Wall Street, Week in Review
ATL Week in Review: November 6-10
* The Democrats are in the House — and Senate, too. Say hello to the new chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Judiciary Committee. (And goodbye to Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.) * It was a big week for politics — and celebrity divorces. Parting ways: Britney Spears and Kevin Federline. * Dewey Ballantine […] -
Britney Spears, Celebrities, Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Laura Wasser
Mark Vincent Kaplan: Lawyer to Layabout Lovers
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Britney Spears, Celebrities, Copyright, Deaths, Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Intellectual Property, Music, Non-Sequiturs, Perverts, Politics, Sex
Non-Sequiturs: 11.07.06
* It’s becoming a trend. Another member of the bar takes his own life after being accused of sexual misconduct. [New York Times] * Let’s keep it light, shall we? Yup, Britney has finally wised up. The bad news is that she lost her lawsuit against US Magazine; the court held that Britney asked for […] -
Britney Spears, Celebrities, Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Holy Crap, Laura Wasser, Litigatrix
Breaking: Britney Spears Files for Divorce!!!
Midterm elections, consider yourselves upstaged. Pop princess Britney Spiers is divorcing her wastrel husband, Kevin Federline. More details, from TMZ (which broke the story, and has a copy of the divorce petition (PDF)): [T]he legal papers, filed today in Los Angeles County Superior Court, [cite] “irreconcilable differences.” In her petition, Spears asks for both legal […]