Cars
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Cars, Crime, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Police
Another Reason You Should Never Blow
Not that we’re in the business of giving free legal advice, but there are a few things every lawyer should know. Lawyers should know how to handle a traffic stop, for instance. They should know how to handle cops who shout slurs at you from across the street. And of course, lawyers should never snitch. […] -
Caption Contests, Cars, Contests, Pictures
ATL Caption Contest: Legal Lexus-Nexus Winner
There are two occasions that inspire people to scrawl messages on their cars’ windows: sporting events and graduations. With either one, white paint on the back windshield lets the world know you’re a winner. An ATL reader spotted a writing-festooned Lexus parked outside of the Boston Harbor Hotel and sent us the photo below, which […] - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Cars, Crime, Police
How Lawyers Should Handle Traffic Stops
I talk a lot about what legal education doesn’t prepare you for. You know what it does prepare you for? Any future interaction with police officers. By the time I finished 1L year, I knew the golden rule for dealing with officers of the law: keep your mouth shut. Knowing the law and knowing your […]
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Cars, Crime, Guns / Firearms, Law Schools, Temple University, James E. Beasley Law, Violence
An Update on Gerald UngPlus another Temple Law tragedy.
Today brings an update in the case of Gerald Ung. The Temple Law fourth-year got in trouble earlier this year for being the wrong kind of gunner. While other Temple students have recently appeared in these pages, sporting legal tees and trying to get undergrads out of their tees, it’s been a while since we’ve […] -
Cars, Lawsuit of the Day
Michigan Lawyer Sues State Over Vanity License Plate
As you know, we’re big fans of University of Michigan law students. From time to time, the students there commit acts of douchebaggery that are very funny. But who knew extreme toolishness extended to adults practicing in Michigan who didn’t even go to UM Law School? A Michigan area lawyer wanted to get a vanity […] -
Cars
'Why Chase Ambulances If You Can Bring Them To You?'
If you’re a terrible driver, you’re in the right profession. According to Insurance.com, “Judge / Attorney” is the most dangerous driver by profession. From the Columbus Dispatch: Legal eagles — both attorneys and judges — top the list of the most dangerous drivers, according to a study by Insurance.com, an online independent insurance agency in […] -
Banking Law, Biglaw, Cars, H. Rodgin Cohen, Mergers and Acquisitions, Money, Partner Issues
Breaking: Rodge Cohen Drives a Subaru!
That’s the most shocking revelation in an interesting New York Times profile of H. Rodgin Cohen, the nation’s top banking M&A lawyer and chairman of the venerable Sullivan & Cromwell. From the NYT: After [Cohen and his wife Barbara] had paid their [restaurant] check, they went to fetch the car, and Mr. Cohen, a Boston […] -
Cars, Deaths, Plaintiffs Firms, Texas
John O'Quinn Dies in Car Accident
We wanted to give people an opportunity to reminisce about John O’Quinn, the legendary personal injury attorney, who apparently died this morning in a car accident. The Houston Chronicle reports: Prominent Houston attorney John O’Quinn was one of two men who died this morning when their SUV slammed into a large tree on Allen Parkway […] - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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Bar Exams, Cars
Bar Exam Results in Massachusetts and Michigan:Open Thread
If you’ve been waiting for bar results in the “M” states of Massachusetts and Michigan, your wait is over. We’ve been inundated with emails like this one: Long time reader, first time caller. Just letting you know that letters for the MA Bar Exam went out today. (I passed!!!) Congratulations! You have established that you […] -
Biglaw, Cars, Crime, Violence
Another Reason Not to Work Late
Ed. note: This post has been updated. Please read below (updates in bold). Not all Biglaw types are luxuriating in 1600 hours for the year. Some are still working long hours and spending late nights at the office. There can be hazards to late night assignments: canceled dinner plans, sleep deprivation, and running across an […] -
Advertising, Cars, Lawyer Advertising, Weirdness
Mobile Law Office
Before the recession, this would have surprised me. Now, it seems relatively pedestrian. The Joplin Globe reports (via the ABA Journal): BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. — Lawyers Chris Meek and Nathan Coleman are taking it on the road. They have turned a 2002 Volkswagen Rialta into a mobile law office. “It’s a convenience factor for our […] -
Cars, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
SCOTUS Puts the Brakes on Chrysler Sale to Fiat
Read more and discuss over at Dealbreaker. U.S. high court grants stay delaying Chrysler sale to Fiat [Dealbreaker] -
Associate Advice, Cars, pls hndle thx, Summer Associates
Pls Hndle Thx: Pimp My Ride
Ed. note: Have a question for next week? Send it in to advice@abovethelaw.com. ATL- I’m a summer associate in Texas (3,500 sq. ft., wife, etc) and I drive to work where I park my car in the office’s parking lot. My car is a 2005 BMW. Should I be concerned about looking like a jackass? […]
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Bankruptcy, Cars, Reader Polls
Deferred and Looking for a Project? Go Save the American Auto Industry
The big news story for today, as noted in Morning Docket, is the bankruptcy filing of General Motors. Developments on the GM front are being closely covered over at our sister site, Dealbreaker (which also welcomes a new writer today). There are some legal angles to the GM story, of course. The bankruptcy will generate […] -
Cars, Kids, Lawyer of the Day
Mommy Lawyer of the Day: Kaye Scholer Partner Leaves Bickering Kids
Madlyn Primoff, a partner in the bankruptcy and business reorganization group at Kaye Scholer, left her two daughters by the side of the road in White Plains. According to the New York Daily News: A prominent Park Avenue lawyer was arrested after cops said she got so angry at her young daughters that she kicked […] -
Cars, White & Case
Good Exclusive Parking Lots Make Good Neighbors
Californians, as we understand it, really care about their cars — and their parking spots. So White & Case’s latest maneuver out in Palo Alto could mean war: White & Case’s Silicon Valley office is in a Palo Alto office complex shared with several other firms. Historically, all the parking, including a large parking garage, […] -
Bankruptcy, Cars, Dewey & LeBoeuf
GM Hires Weil (and Ex-Weil Partner) for Possible Bankruptcy Case
So should Weil Gotshal associates be rooting against a government bailout of GM and the other big automakers? GM bankruptcy –> more fees for Weil –> bigger bonuses (which WGM has not yet announced)? UPDATE (1:00 AM): As of now, it looks like the auto industry bailout talks have failed. This makes a GM bankruptcy […] -
Bankruptcy, Cars
Jones Day's Chrysler Bankruptcy Coup
The future of the Detroit’s Big Three is looking grim, as Congress has turned tight-fisted in response to the automakers’ request for $34 billion to stay alive. Chrysler is getting ready to throw in the towel, and has chosen Jones Day to do the throwing. From the Wall Street Journal (subscription): Chrysler LLC has hired […] -
Bad Ideas, Cars, Crime, Drinking, Summer Associates
Summer Associates of the Day: Grand Theft Auto
Labor Day is behind us. You know what that means: no wearing white, no gin and tonics, and no qualms about sending summer associate stories to ATL. If you have an SA story to share that we haven’t previously covered, please email us. This latest tale, posted below, puts the “MoFo” in Morrison & Foerster. […] -
Cars, Deaths, Lawsuit of the Day
Lawsuit of the Day: Hit-and-Run Bentley Driver Strikes Again
What a colossal d-bag. From the New York Daily News: A Coney Island businessman is suing the city for damaging the Bentley he was driving when he killed a Brooklyn dad in a hit-and-run accident. Harry Shasho, who pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, says the NYPD failed to safeguard the battered […]