Movies
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Animal Law, Deaths, Jury Duty, Lunacy, Movies, Non-Sequiturs, Perverts, Sex, Trials, Violence
Non-Sequiturs: 11.30.06
* Jurors go wild… kind of. [AP via Yahoo! News] * This could be your fate if you have sexual relations with any animal, dead or alive, regardless of law: you could be the posthumous star of a Sundance documentary. [Editor and Publisher] * Do not think you can know go about suing the various […] -
Beyonce, Blogging, Celebrities, Movies, Music, Shameless Plugs, Supreme Court, Ted Frank, Television, Videos
A Trio of Shamless Plugs
* Former ATL guest blogger Ted Frank — of Overlawyered, Point of Law, and Table 42 fame — will be on C-SPAN today, at 2 PM (Eastern time). He’ll be discussing federal regulatory action and the Roberts Court. [C-SPAN] * If you haven’t done so already, add the excellent JD Bliss to your RSS reader […] - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
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 […]
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Borat, Movies, Plaintiffs Firms
Impoverished Romanian Village Gets Trial Lawyers Before Running Water, Electricity
The Borat litigation juggernaut rolls on. And Fox, the studio behind the hit movie, is fighting back: Fox attorneys filed a legal brief Monday slamming a request for a preliminary injunction against the hit comedy “Borat” as a “fatuous” attempt to thwart free speech, even as the studio’s legal battle spread to a second front. […] -
Celebrities, Movies, Rank Stupidity, Tax Law, Wesley Snipes, White-Collar Crime
Non-Sequiturs: 11.21.06
* Woo-hoo!!! Good news for online rumor-mongerers like ourselves. [Volokh Conspiracy; Instapundit] * And a bit of bad news, too. [Concurring Opinions] * We weren’t the only ones who had fun at Federalistapalooza. [Southern Appeal] * “Conservative civil war”: Not just at the Federalist Society. [Andrew Sullivan; Instapundit; Ryan Sager] * When the subject of […] -
Borat, Gloria Allred, Movies, Rudeness
A Rapidly-Growing Practice Area: Borat Law
Litigation surrounding Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial comedy, Borat, is turning into a cottage industry for the legal profession. Here’s the latest news: The owner of an etiquette business who was handed a plastic bag supposedly containing feces in the hit movie “Borat” says she was [falsely] told the filming would be used for a documentary […] -
Airplanes / Aviation, Breasts, Celebrities, Movies, Music, Non-Sequiturs, Silicon Valley, Tax Law
Non-Sequiturs: 11.15.06
* Since a dropped debt doesn’t exactly put a developing country in the black, Bono presumably is counting his pennies to continue to benefit the world’s poorest countries. Or maybe that memorabilia was all that they couldn’t leave behind. (More wordplay abounds. Why is it that even a non-fan like me can think of several […] -
9th Circuit, A. Wallace Tashima, Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Borat, Drinking, Movies, Pranks, Racism, Rank Stupidity, Reality TV, Sex, Television
Still More About Borat
On Friday night, we saw Borat at our local movie theater. We found it hilarious for the first fifteen minutes, before it turned repetitive. That said, there were some impressive set pieces in the second half of the film, such as the hotel room wrestling match. (We viewed Borat on the recommendation of one of […] - 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. -
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 […] -
Celebrities, Crime, Movies, Tax Law, Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes Still in Tax Trouble, Still a C-List Movie Star
That’ll teach us to rely upon the mainstream media. Last week we passed along the news, reported by Variety, that movie star Wesley Snipes had cut a deal with the Internal Revenue Service. Snipes stands accused of engaging in massive tax fraud. According to Variety, Snipes negotiated a deal under which he wouldn’t serve any […] -
Blogging, Borat, Election Law, Movies, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Sentencing Law, Sex Scandals
Non-Sequiturs: 11.06.06
* I didn’t realize that it has been at least four years since people have been writing for nothing but personal satisfaction. Well, Happy Birthday, Legal Reader! [Legal Reader] * I haven’t made up my mind regarding voter irrationality, but I know this is why I hate politics (and why those swayed to vote by […] -
Celebrities, Movies, Rank Stupidity, Tax Law, Wesley Snipes, White-Collar Crime
Wesley Snipes Cuts a Deal with the IRS
And aficionados of direct-to-video movies rejoice. UPI reports: Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes will avoid any time in jail on tax fraud charges as part of a recent settlement with the Internal Revenue Service. The 44-year-old star of the “Blade” film trilogy had been wanted in connection with his attempt to claim $12 million in tax […] -
Money, Movies, Nuns, Religion, Sentencing Law
Some Advice for Those Nuke-Hating Nuns
Our little throwaway post from yesterday afternoon — about three nuke-protesting nuns, who previously served prison terms for their protests, and who may be returning to prison for refusing to pay restitution to the military — prompted several reader comments. The discussion turned dangerously substantive. The law of restitution was discussed; actual statutes were cited. […]
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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.
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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…
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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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…
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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls.
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Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, Movies, Sentencing Law, White-Collar Crime
Jeff Skilling's Sentence: Like a Lord of the Rings Movie
Really, really long.* To wit, 292 months long. For the mathematically challenged among you, that’s 24 years and four months. Ouch. But given the size and scope of the Enron fraud, the lengthy sentence may be appropriate (even if it’s higher than many Wall Streeters expected). You can compare Jeffrey Skilling’s sentence to those of […] -
Craigslist, Movies, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Sex, Violence
Non-Sequiturs: 10.19.06
* I can’t wait for the RNC’s reaction. This cannot be for real. [New York Sun via Huffington Post] * What? No Legally Blonde? [Fordham Film Festival] * This is what happens when the creative spirit is suppressed by statutes and stuff. These judges need an outlet… maybe, I don’t know, a blog? [Sui Generis] […] -
Immigration, Movies
If It Walks Like Oscar Bait and Talks Like Oscar Bait
We never thought that immigration law — yes, immigration law, that form-dominated legal backwater in which underpaid attorneys struggle valiantly against the USCIS’s* mind-blowing incompetence — could spawn a feature film. But check this out: Two years ago, Reed Smith associate Jayne Fleming won a Ninth Circuit appeal on behalf of a woman who had […]