Hotties
-
Fabulosity, Hotties, Lawyer Advertising, Pictures, Solo Practitioners
Misadventures in Lawyer Advertising: Jane Clark Swaps Out Her Hubba-Hubba Photo
Last month, we linked to the Texas Bar profile for Jane Allen Clark. At right, it was racier than most of the bar association photos we come across. We wrote at the time: We called Jane Allen Clark to ask about the photo, and how she chose it. “I just liked it,” she told us. […] -
- Sponsored
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… -
Asians, Bad Ideas, Hotties, Lexis-Nexis, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Shopping
No More Asian Angels For Loyal Lexis Users
Last week, we reported on a questionable offering in the Lexis-Nexis Rewards Program store: an “Asian Angels” calendar. Shortly after our post went up, the calendar came down. It seems that legal research companies respond well to media coverage. But the calendar, despite being quickly withdrawn from the Lexis swag offerings, still incurred the ire […]
-
Asians, Bad Ideas, Hotties, Lexis-Nexis, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Shopping
Sexy LexisNexis Reward
LexisNexis has a rewards program that allows loyal users to accumulate points for certain research activities and then to use them to “shop from millions of items.” One of the items makes us want to give LexisNexis an “ex” rating. An ATL reader and loyal Lexis-Nexis user pointed the item out to us, writing: Search […] -
Fabulosity, Hotties, Lawyer Advertising, Pictures, Solo Practitioners
Adventures in Lawyer Advertising: State Bar Association of Hubba-Hubba
An ATL reader sent along a link to an attorney profile at the Texas State Bar website, with the following request: Please find out if this is for real. The photo on the State Bar of Texas website that prompted the reader’s plea to us, plus the backstory behind the picture — after the jump. -
Bad Ideas, Hotties, Lawyer of the Day, Nude Dancing, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants
Legal Secretary of the Day: For the Ladies
By day, Jarriette Richie was a legal secretary. By night, she was one of the small business entrepreneurs who are so important to the vitality of the American economy. Not only that, Richie’s business provided services to a critically underserved community. Richie was the proprietor of Show ‘N Tell Entertainment — which arranged erotic male […] -
Asians, Contests, Hotties, Law Schools, Reality TV, Survivor, Television
Survivor: The Lawyer and Law Student Edition
The cast for the latest season of Survivor, which premieres on September 17, has been announced. This season, the show’s nineteenth, takes place on the tropical island of Samoa. Four of the 20 contestants, or a fifth of the field, are either lawyers or law students. Is appearing on a reality television show the best […] -
Free Speech, Hotties, Lawsuit of the Day, Racism
Lawsuit of the Day: The Real Mothers-in-Law of NYC
My wife and I live four blocks away from my mother. I have a little bit of experience balancing one’s mother and one’s wife and not getting crushed by a domestic pincer attack of disastrous consequences. As any good husband-son will tell you, the best policy is to stay far, far away from any skirmishes […] - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Blogging, Daniel Solove, Free Speech, Hotties, Law Professors
Talking about Skanks With Daniel Solove(Or: How To Become the Legal Expert On Privacy in Less Than 10 Years)
We mentioned the ‘Skanks in NYC’ case in yesterday’s Morning Docket, and I’ve written about it extensively over at True/Slant. To summarize: a blogger started a website called ‘Skanks in NYC’ in order to say nasty things about model Liskula Cohen. Cohen discovered the site containing just five posts, in which the blogger called Cohen […] -
AutoAdmit / Xoxohth, Blogging, Defamation, Free Speech, Hotties, Lawsuit of the Day
Lawsuit of the Day: Sort of Like the AutoAdmit Case....
But with a hot blonde model as the plaintiff. From our sister site, Fashionista: Liskula Cohen’s modeled for Versace and Armani and landed international Vogue covers, but recently she’s made less fashionable headlines. Last year, a doorman smashed her over the head with a vodka bottle, and this year she’s sued Google to reveal the […] -
Hotties, Reality TV, Television, UVA Law
Gibson Dunn Associate Turned Reality TV Star Wants To Have Her Cake and Eat It Too
We’ve written about numerous lawyers turned reality TV stars here at ATL. When we’ve done so, we’ve identified them and/or their employers by name. E.g., Jeremy Anderson (Hunton & Williams / The Bachelorette), Charlie Herschel (Weil Gotshal / Survivor), Victor and Tammy Jih (O’Melveny / Quinn Emanuel / Amazing Race), Yul Kwon (McKinsey / Survivor), […] -
Hotties, Reality TV, Television, UVA Law
Biglaw Associate and Her Househusband Star in New Fox Reality TV Show
The Fox Reality Channel has launched a rip-off twist on Bravo’s very successful “Real Housewives” series: Househusbands of Hollywood. From the New York Daily News: The reality series, premiering Aug. 15 at 9 p.m., features five stay-at-home men who run the house while their wives head to work. It features former L.A. Dodger Billy Ashley; […] -
Attorney Misconduct, Bar Exams, Celebrities, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Hotties, Legal Ethics, Media and Journalism, Reader Polls
Elizabeth Wurtzel Calling Herself a 'Lawyer': A Reader Poll
Yesterday we heard from legal ethics experts about whether Elizabeth Wurtzel’s referring to herself as a “lawyer,” despite not having passed the bar yet, could get her in trouble. The two we consulted, Professors Steven Lubet and Stephen Gillers, did not see it as a big deal. There’s an interesting follow-up over at Gawker, which […]
Sponsored
Sponsored
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…
Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
Sponsored
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…
Sponsored
Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
-
Attorney Misconduct, Celebrities, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Hotties, Legal Ethics
Elizabeth Wurtzel: Can She Call Herself a 'Lawyer' Without Having Passed the Bar?
To those of you getting ready to take the bar exam this week, here’s some reassurance for you: even if you fail, life goes on. Consider this list of famous failures, people who didn’t pass the bar exam but went on to tremendous success anyway. And here’s another boldface name who failed the bar: Elizabeth […] -
Biglaw, Fabulosity, Hotties, Technology
Davis Polk's Website Makeover: Now With 100 Percent Way More Hotties!
Back in March, we reported on stealth layoffs at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Stealth layoffs are usually seen as an effort to maintain high attorney utilization rates — and high partner profits. But at genteel, WASPy DPW, long known for its passive-aggressive kinder and gentler firm culture, profits come second to pulchritude. Everything is beautiful […] -
Career Alternatives, Hotties, UNC Law
UNC Law School Disavows the Disavowal of Wannabe Bunny
For those just tuning in, earlier today, we wrote about Stephanie Haney, a 2L at UNC who hopes to be one of Playboy’s Girls of the ACC. (See Career Alternatives for Law Students: Playboy Bunny.) After our initial post went up, Maxine Eichner — a professor at UNC School of Law — emailed Above the […] -
Career Alternatives, Hotties, Law Schools, Pornography, UNC Law
Career Alternatives for Law Students: Playboy Bunny
Despite the rise in applications to law schools, many current law school students might be lamenting their decision to pursue a J.D. There’s more news about Biglaw firms firing than hiring these days. Summer associate programs are shrinking in size, being shortened, or being cut altogether. Start dates for 3Ls are being pushed back to […] -
Craigslist, Hotties, Job Searches, Law Schools, Prostitution
Umm ... So, There's This
So, you know how we at Above the Law love to bring you something a little bit later in the day for our west coast and late night readers? I bring this up lest you think I have masturbatory ulterior motives for the timing of this post. So, this lady is apparently a law student […] -
Alice Fisher, Biglaw, Department of Justice, Fashion, Hotties, Litigatrix, Musical Chairs, Shoes
Musical Chairs: Kathy Ruemmler from Latham Back to DOJ
Superstar litigatrix Kathryn Ruemmler, a litigation partner at Latham & Watkins and an Enron prosecutor before that, has been picked to serve as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Obama Justice Department. That title is a mouthful, but lawyers inside the Beltway know it’s a Big Deal. The revolving door between the DOJ and […] -
Crime, Dreier, Hotties, White-Collar Crime
L'Affaire Dreier: A linkwrap, and a tidbit
Apologies, readers. Although we broke the story of high-profile lawyer Marc Dreier’s arrest in Canada, we’ve fallen behind in covering the latest developments in the Dreier saga (of which there have been many). Fortunately, our friends over at Am Law Daily and the WSJ Law Blog have been following the story quite closely. We’ve collected […]