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Airplanes / Aviation, Bankruptcy, Fast Food, Food, Hair, Howrey LLP, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.29.11
* I’m flying this weekend for the first time in over a year (it couldn’t be avoided). I’ll need to brush up on what rights I still retain during air travel. As long as I acknowledge TSA’s droit du seigneur to my wife, I’m allowed to carry an unopened water bottle on board, right? [Legal […] -
Biglaw, Celebrities, Fame Brief, Fast Food, Food, Reality TV, Television
Fame Brief: Former Paul Hastings Associate May Be America's Next Great Restaurateur
What do you get when you cross Top Chef with Mark Cuban’s The Benefactor (anybody remember that? HA), steal half the name of America’s Next Top Model, and throw in inexplicably famous “chef” Curtis Stone? Only the single greatest reality show on NBC during the 8 p.m. time slot on Sundays: America’s Next Great Restaurant. […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Crime, Fast Food, Gay, Gay Marriage, Insider Trading, Kids, Labor / Employment, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities and Exchange Commission, Securities Law, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Matt Kluger, Ex-Biglaw Associate Charged With Insider Trading, Is A Gay Dad -- and Once Sued Fried Frank Over It
“Aww, Matt, why do you have to go around giving us a bad name?” Ever since Matthew Kluger was charged in a massive insider trading case, involving an alleged conspiracy that spanned 17 years and generated more than $32 million in profit, the foregoing question could be asked by many groups: Cornell grads, NYU law […]
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Fast Food, Food, McDonald's, Morning Docket, New Jersey, Trademarks
Morning Docket: 03.28.11
* It would probably be good if I had heard of more than a handful of the 34 most influential lawyers in the United States. Now this is going to turn into a Pokémon-esque game for me. [National Law Journal] * Instead of fighting over App Stores, BigLaw, and SmallLaw, shouldn’t tech innovators be innovating […]
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Career Alternatives, Fast Food, Food, Job Searches, Law Schools
The Cupcake Stop... Stops
Today is a sad day for businesses established by lawyer-entrepreneurs. First we learned that David J. Stern, the South Texas Law grad who went on to become “Florida’s Foreclosure King,” will be relinquishing his crown and closing his once-thriving practice. And now we hear that Lev Ekster, the New York Law School alum who founded […] -
Fast Food, Gay Marriage, Guns / Firearms, Health Care / Medicine, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.01.11
* Apparently hearsay exceptions are still hard to grasp, even for justices on the Supreme Court. [CNN Justice] * Threaten judges over a ban on guns and your own guns get banned. Hal Turner gets pistol-whipped by karma. [Bloomberg] * Obama is giving states the “flexibility” to drop federal health care reform by 2014 — […]
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Fast Food, FDA, Food, Lawsuit of the Day, Nauseating Things
Taco Bell Launches Meaty Offensive Over Its Beef
Earlier this week, we told you about a class action lawsuit filed against Taco Bell over its taco fillings. The lawsuit alleges that Taco Bell inaccurately claims to be selling “seasoned beef” when in fact it is selling “taco meat filling.” We didn’t think Taco Bell would take these allegations lying down. The WSJ Law […] -
Fast Food, Food, Lawsuit of the Day, Nauseating Things
You Didn't Really Think You Were Eating 'Beef' at Taco Bell, Did You?
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Biglaw, Fast Food, Food
Burger Business Busted By Biglaw Will Keep On Truckin' Cookin'
As previously covered in these pages, earlier this week a D.C. Superior Court judge ordered Rogue States Burgers to cease grilling operations at its Dupont Circle location. This news was met with sadness by burger lovers in the nation’s capital, but by relief from the employees of Steptoe & Johnson. Steptoe had sued Rogue States, […] -
Biglaw, Fast Food, Food, Trials
Biglaw Beats Back Burgers: Steptoe Steps on Dupont Circle Burger Emporium
This afternoon brings some major news for hamburger lovers in the nation’s capital. In the lawsuit brought by Steptoe & Johnson against Rogue States Burgers, in an effort to stop Rogue States’ rogue smells from infiltrating law firm airspace, Big Law has triumped over big beef patties. Judge John M. Mott of D.C. Superior Court […] -
Alex Kozinski, Bar Exams, Fast Food, McKool Smith, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.29.10
* Hans Bader of CEI is fine with the bar exam — congrats to everyone who just finished, by the way — but wants to ditch the requirement of graduating from law school. After all, “[e]ven students who seldom studied, and reputedly were on drugs, managed to graduate from my alma mater, Harvard Law School.” […] -
Fast Food
Life for KFC and Pizza
Tremayne Durham has some serious food issues. In 2006, he decided he wanted to enter the ice cream business, so he ordered an $18,000 ice cream truck from a company in Oregon. When he changed his mind about selling popsicles, the company refused to give him a refund. Durham traveled from New York to Oregon […] -
Ave Maria School of Law, Fast Food, Food, Law Schools, Money, Religion
Does Domino's Dough Not Go Far Enough?
We thought the whole point of Ave Maria Law School, founded by Domino’s pizza founder Thomas Monaghan, was that with enough money, you can do whatever you want. E.g., establish a very conservative, Catholic law school, and not care if the liberal legal academy raises its eyebrows — ’cause you could buy and sell them, […]
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Andrew Speaker, Fast Food, Intellectual Property, Morning Docket, Music, Pakistan, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 11.28.07
* Oral argument in New Jersey v. Delaware. [U.S. Supreme Court (PDF) via How Appealing] * I’ll have a Joey Bag of Lawsuits. [AP via Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * TB Andy didn’t hurt anybody. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * Grandpa got screwed over by a lawsuit … [AP via Reno Gazette-Journal] * Pakistan lets (almost) everyone go, but […]
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Crime, Fast Food, Food, Lawsuit of the Day
Lawsuit of the Day: And Would You Like (Oversalted) Fries With That?
Words to the wise: be extra careful when preparing food for law enforcement officers. From the Associated Press: A McDonald’s employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer’s burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick. Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with […] -
7th Circuit, Fast Food, Fat People, Food, Frank Easterbrook, Richard Posner
The Seventh Circuit: The Fittest Court in the Country?
The rail-thin Judge Richard Posner (7th Cir.), who favors grapefruit for dessert, has this to say about fat people over at his blog: It makes sense, as the recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine finds, that friends’ fatness would have an influence distinct from that of the culture as a whole…. In […] -
Books, Fashion, Fast Food, Gay, Law Professors, Non-Sequiturs, Samuel Alito, Shopping, Wall Street, Willkie Farr
Non-Sequiturs: 08.10.07
* This may come as a surprise to some of you, but Chambermaid isn’t the only law-related book that has been published in the past six months. Check out Nicole Black’s enthusiastic review of Ivy Briefs, by Columbia Law School grad Martha Kimes. [Legal Antics] * Harvard Law School snags Bill Rubenstein, a prominent gay […] -
Bar Exams, Fast Food, Ridiculousness
The Bar Exam: You Know You've Been Studying Too Much When...
Last night, a tipster preparing for the New York bar exam sent us this message: I ordered a pizza and Diet Coke earlier…. Dominos called to say they’re out of Diet Coke. I immediately started running through the UCC Article 2 analysis of imperfect tender w/ notice… I decided then and there I deserve to […] -
Bad Ideas, Bankruptcy, Benchslaps, Fast Food, Practice Pointers, Rudeness
HappyMealGate Wrap-up: You Want Florida CLE With That?
We have a ruling in the HappyMealGate case (prior coverage here, here, and here of Wiliam P. Smith, the McDermott Will & Emery partner who told Judge Laurel Myerson Isicoff that she was “a few French Fries short of a Happy Meal”). And it’s surprisingly lenient. Judge Isicoff basically gave Smith a stern talking to: […] -
Bad Ideas, Bankruptcy, Benchslaps, Fast Food, Practice Pointers, Rudeness
HappyMealGate: Let's Just Have a Public Flogging, and Get This Over With
Surely you all recall William P. Smith — a partner at McDermott Will & Emery (Chicago), and head of its bankruptcy department — who recently told a Miami bankruptcy judge, in open court, that she was “a few French Fries short of a Happy Meal.” We broke the story here (with follow-up here). The “Happy […]