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8th Circuit, Cars, Clerkships, Education / Schools, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Music, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Non-Sequiturs: 08.16.13
* Chris Brown might buy his lawyer Mark Geragos a Lamborghini. Brown is quite an automotive expert. The upswinging doors make it sooo much easier to throw a girlfriend out of. [TMZ] * Politics is all about figurative whoring, but a county board has dumped its lawyer for soliciting a crack whore. Actually, maybe politics is literal whoring. [Badger Pundit] * Gourmand’s Grater, the kitchen product created by a former lawyer we mentioned a couple weeks ago, has opened its crowdfunding campaign. [Indie GoGo] * Finnegan is ditching its Belgium office and moving to London. How can a firm turn its back on a city classy enough to have a urinating child as a symbol? [The Lawyer] *Access online today’s nude dancing decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. And you’re interested because this is the audience that went crazy for a post about a Playmate from 1994. [How Appealing] * Did you fall for the new U.S. News rankings? Silly readers. Paul Campos breaks down exactly how Rutgers-Newark gamed the system. [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * In a New York state case, “[a] calendar call in the courthouse would require the clerk to shout out ‘JesusIsLord ChristIsKing’ or ‘Rejoice ChristIsKing.’” See, now THAT is a name that’s sacrilegious — not having a baby named Messiah. [NY Times] * Yet another reason students should steer clear of law school: most of them have no critical thinking or argumentation skills. [Huffington Post] * We’ve mentioned NYU Law grad and former S.D.N.Y. clerk Eli Northrup and his band Pants Velour before. Now they have a new jingle for Dial 7 car service. Check it out after the jump…. -
Caption Contests, Cars, Contests, Pictures
Caption Contest Winner: Giving ‘Ambulance Chaser’ A New Meaning
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Caption Contests, Cars, Contests, Pictures, Reader Polls
Caption Contest Finalists: Giving ‘Ambulance Chaser’ A New Meaning
Because if you're going to chase ambulances, why not do it with decent gas mileage?
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Caption Contests, Cars, Contests, Pictures
Caption Contest: Giving 'Ambulance Chaser' A New Meaning
Because now you can chase ambulances in your car. Who knew? -
Bar Exams, Cars, Drinking, Texas
How To End The Bar Exam In Style
A few good ways to end the bar exam.... -
Canada, Cars, Disasters / Emergencies, Lawyer of the Day
Lawyer Abandons Ferrari to Get to Hearing on Time
Would you leave your luxury car to be filled with raw sewage to get to court on time? -
Abortion, American Bar Association / ABA, Antonin Scalia, Bar Exams, Biglaw, Cars, Celebrities, Election Law, Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Schools, Layoffs, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology, Texas, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 06.26.13
* “Screw all these other cases, man, we’re ready for the real stuff — you know… the gay stuff.” Damn, a satirical article that perfectly captures our thoughts. Don’t worry, it’s coming today. [The Onion]
* On a more serious note, this is obviously a really big day for gay marriage at the Supreme Court. Will the justices settle the score, or leave this movement’s supporters high and dry? [Wall Street Journal]
* Big Tech has always been a proponent of gay rights, and some of the most respected brands in America are hoping same-sex marriage doesn’t get the blue screen of death from SCOTUS. [Politico]
* Everyone else loses, but Scalia always wins. He couldn’t have asked for more after Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act was struck down. So long, “racial entitlements.” [L.A. Now / Los Angeles Times]
* “No, we’re not going to do layoffs. We’d never do layoffs. Everything is just fine. Seriously, we won’t do stealth layoffs either. Promise! Believe us, pretty please,” said the managing partner of every peer Biglaw firm after the Weil winnowing. [Am Law Daily]
* Law schools are freaking out about a new American Bar Association proposal to tighten their bar passage requirements, and they’re blaming all of their alarm on diversity issues. [National Law Journal]
* This state senator wins the award for most unique filibuster attempt ever. To block new abortion regulations in Texas, Sen. Wendy Davis spoke endlessly for 11 hours straight. You go girl! [CNN]
* Pop star Chris Brown was charged in a hit-and-run, and surprisingly, Rihanna had nothing to do with it. The new charges may affect his probation, and he might even go to jail. [Arts Beat / New York Times]
* Breaking news, Aaron Hernandez was just taken into custody at his home. Discuss. [USA Today]
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California, Cars, Rudeness
Attorney Tests MMA Skills On Other Drivers
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Cars, Constitutional Law, Crime, Free Speech, Rudeness
Fudge Your Crappy Town
Is there any free speech when you get a speeding ticket in Liberty? -
Cars, Crime, Drinking, DUI / DWI, State Judges, Violence
Court Upholds DWI Conviction of Woman Fleeing Domestic Abuse
Court decides it's better for woman to take her husband's blows than blow .08. -
Biglaw, Cars, Screw-Ups, Technology
Taxi-Hailing Apps Move Forward After Typo-Plagued Biglaw Clash
Perhaps this Biglaw partner should stop hating on Bloomberg and spend more time editing? -
Cars, Constitutional Law
Law License Plates: Constitutional Conundrums
Of course lawyers from the D.C. area are touting constitutional theories on their license plates. -
Cars, Law Professors, Paul Caron, Tax Law
Law License Plates: Models, Bottles, and Tax Studs
Do you love tax law? These lawyers do, and they've proclaimed it on their license plates.
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Cars, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Melvyn Weiss, Milberg Weiss, Plaintiffs Firms
Mel Weiss Learns You Can't Say Your ABCs Without D, U, and I
Mel Weiss may be heading back to prison after a night on the town back in December. -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Cars, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues
Can a Biglaw Partner Fix the Big Old Mess... of Detroit?
Who is the prominent Biglaw bankruptcy lawyer just named to take over the ailing city of Detroit? -
Attorney Misconduct, Cars, Crime, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Pictures, Quote of the Day, Screw-Ups
That Awkward Moment When Your DUI Mug Shot Appears Right Next to Your Law Firm's DUI Defense Ad
Oopsie! Things like this do happen to even the best of us... -
Caption Contests, Cars, Contests, Money, Pictures, Technology
Caption Contest: Because The Pay Is Better Than Doc Review
Why review documents when you can win money in the eDi$covery Cab? Check out our latest caption contest! -
Cars, Facebook, Football, Quote of the Day, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Texas
Quote of the Day: Johnny Football's Speeding Ticket Is Totally Real... Trust Us
A municipal judge knocks a Heisman trophy winner down a peg or two by outing him as the recipient of a speeding ticket. -
10th Circuit, Barack Obama, Cars, Confirmations, Federal Judges, Guns / Firearms, Health Care / Medicine, Kids, Masturbation, Morning Docket, Politics, Reader Polls, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Television, Travel / Vacation
Morning Docket: 12.27.12
* Justice Sonia Sotomayor just ruined Hobby Lobby’s new year by refusing to block the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptives mandate. All of the members of the company’s legal team will have to scrapbook and crochet for hours to get over this loss. [Reuters]
* Harvard Law graduate Barack Obama is being feted as CNN’s “Most Intriguing Person of 2012,” but he’s currently trailing in fourth place in the most important year-end poll of all: Above the Law’s Lawyer of the Year competition. Get out there and vote! [CNN]
* Federal district court judges aren’t being confirmed as quickly as they once were, and it’s partly because our president isn’t submitting nominees as quickly as those who came before him. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* But even if the president nominated judges more quickly, he’d continue to face harsh opposition from the NRA, which matters because the gun group has an entire party in its pocket. [Opinionator / New York Times]
* A legal problem and a journalism problem wrapped up in a little pretty bow: David Gregory of NBC’s “Meet the Press” is being investigated for displaying an alleged 30-round magazine on the air. [Washington Post]
* One of New York’s most prestigious private schools agreed to settle the sex abuse suit brought against it by former students. Simpson Thacher partner Phil Culhane must be doing a victory dance. [New York Daily News]
* You got a fast car, and now this case will pay all our bills. Toyota settled a class action suit over unintended acceleration, and it’s touted as one of the largest product-liability settlements in history. [New York Times]
* Ay dios mio! You know that you’re never going to enjoy another vacation when you catch a hotel employee spreading his seed all over your clothes. But what did you expect? It’s Mexico. [Courthouse News Service]
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Biglaw, Bonuses, California, Cars, Education / Schools, Federal Judges, Gender, Holidays and Seasons, Hotties, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Non-Sequiturs, Sexism, Women's Issues
Non-Sequiturs: 12.07.12
* “Biglaw Bonuses for Dummies: A Reference for the Rest of Us!” By Elie Mystal. [Businessweek] * Just how quickly will state-by-state legal education be able to respond to changing market conditions? Thus far, both New York and California have proven themselves to be pretty damn nimble. [Legal Ethics Forum] * Here’s a cute docket sheet entry from Judge Marcia Cooke in the Southern District of Florida. Thanks for not being a grinch this holiday season, Your Honor! [Southern District of Florida Blog] * A town in Germany has started using “female friendly” parking spaces, because parking a car is just so hard for we womenfolk to do when we’re supposed to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. :( [Telegraph] * Hiram Chodosh, once named as a law dean hottie, has been named the fifth president of Claremont McKenna College. Of course, the former title is cooler than the latter, don’t you think? [Sacramento Bee]