Hot for teacher.
* This is how bros roll in the U.K. There’s a Shearman & Sterling U.K. lawyer up in here. [Daily Mail]
* Being hot for teacher gets you suspended now. [Adjunct Law Prof Blog]
* It would have been fun to see well paid O’Melveny attorneys dumpster diving. [DNAinfo]
* An average American complains to the Ninth Circuit about its Proposition 8 ruling. [MetroWeekly]
* Nice to see a judge take domestic violence so seriously. [PrawfsBlawg]
* If anybody is going to get reparations, it should be American Indians. But… nobody is going to get reparations. [Washington Post]
* I’m going to be on Mike Huckabee’s show at 8:00 p.m. on Fox this Saturday. Andrew Breitbart will also be on the panel. What could possibly go wrong? [Breitbart]
* How would you describe the mainstream media’s recent reporting on Citizens United? Not true, not true — and Dan Abrams explains why. [Mediaite via The Corner / Ramesh Ponnuru]
* Whether the U.S. Constitution requires marriage equality can be debated as a matter of constitutional law. But as a policy matter, is this still an open question? Even Professor John Yoo, the bane of liberals’ existence, supports same-sex marriage as a policy matter. [Ricochet]
* I support marriage equality, but I do not support glitter bombing. It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye (and files a lawsuit over it). [Althouse]
* If you adopt your 42-year-old girlfriend, does that turn your sexual relationship with her into incest? Professor Terry Turnipseed — yes, that’s his real name — is on the case. [Slate]
* Professor Mark Fenster writes an interesting post in defense of boredom (triggered by Adminlawgate at Yale Law School). [PrawfsBlawg]
* Speaking of boredom and frustration, let’s talk about… e-discovery! [Inside Counsel]
* What’s a hot practice area for 2012? [Going Concern]
* Speaking of hot practice areas, are you an intellectual property or technology lawyer? If so, this development might interest you. [MarketWatch]
* The fact that this guy got so drunk off of beer pong means he’s probably the best pong competitor who has ever lived. [New York Post]
* This is the best document review job ever. I’m not joking. Does $85/hour sound like a joke? You might need to learn Japanese, though. [Constitutional Daily]
* I wonder how this will affect the inevitable occasions on which I accidentally post drunken political rants on Above the Law’s Twitter feed. [Corporate Counsel]
* New York Times reporter David Segal has made major waves for criticizing law schools. Can other people make waves for criticizing David Segal? [Blueprint LSAT Preparation]
* Lat was on Minnesota Public Radio today giving a measured defense of unpaid internships. Kids at my high school were unpaid interns all the time. It was no big deal. (By the way, ATL is seeking a paid intern.) [Minnesota Public Radio]
* Baker Botts just elected a new managing partner. Congratulations to Andrew M. Baker! [Tex Parte Blog]
* Earlier today, the internet temporarily exploded when the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion declaring Prop 8 unconstitutional. Here are comments from David Boies and Ted Olson, the lawyer heavyweights who argued the case. [Metro Weekly]
This is how I imagine the Cox firm Christmas card.
* If you ever encounter a one-eyed, dart-throwing lawyer, for the love of God, don’t misspell his name. [LA Weekly]
* WikiLeaks and Anonymous are still doing their thing. Right now, that thing is hacking into law firm websites and exposing sensitive personal information. CHECK YOU DATA SECURITY. [Gizmodo]
* Our own Staci Zaretsky will be on WBEZ Chicago radio Monday morning at 9:15 CST, talking about law schools getting sued over employment data. Call in at (312) 923-9239 with your questions. [WBEZ Eight Forty-Eight]
* Earlier today, we wrote about Rapesq.com. Now say hello to Anallp.com. How does this happen outside celebrity Jeopardy and Arrested Development? [Anderson & Anderson LLP]
* Lest we leave anyone out, Mr. Cox? Mr. Cox? Guys, I need Cox. I need to find Mr. Beaver and Mr. Cox. [Cox Law]
* At first I was skeptical about more law school “humor,” but then I realized the front page story is about boobs. Yaaaay. [Vandy Law Humor Magazine]
* Susan G. Komen for the Cure is not cutting funding for Planned Parenthood after all. So all you pagans and baby killers should just cool your jets already. [Wall Street Journal Health Blog]
* New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman begins his bid to be the next New York Attorney General to become Governor of New York. [Huffington Post]
* An interview with an executive producer and writer of the television rebirth of John Grisham‘s The Firm. The best part: they are actually lawyers. [Constitutional Daily]
* Lawyer who allegedly sued people for illegally downloading such classics as “Teen Anal Nightmare” and “Juicy White Anal Booty 4″ has been charged with a felony. Will he be the next star of “Federal Anal Penitentiary Penetration: 3 – 5.” [Ars Techina]
* Why read Google’s new privacy policy when Kash can do it for you? [Not So Private Parts / Forbes]
* This is a great post about why we need lawyers and judges to be dispassionate. In this tragedy the light punishment probably fits the questionable crime. [Simple Justice]
* SOPA was more than a bad law. It was a total failure to understand a new political reality. [The Volokh Conspiracy]
* Is that somebody criticizing David Boies’ work on AIG? Are people allowed to do that? I don’t know, I try not to look directly into the sun lest my eyes be burned out by its magnificence. [Dealbreaker]
* Ivy Gate wonders why the New York Times wedding section didn’t pick up the Bobbit wedding we reported about earlier today. It probably has nothing to do with the 175 year age difference. [Ivy Gate]
* Video at Lat talking at Michigan Law. Lat has now visited every “T-14″ law school. He’s completed that faster than I’ve been able to complete my own goal of owing money to every T-14 law school. [Michigan Law]
Not a proximate cause for violence.
* I feel like a lawyer blaming his client’s crime on violent video games should be the defense attorney equivalent of referencing Hitler in an internet argument. Once you do it, you should just automatically lose. [Overlawyered]
* One of the most encouraging things we can say about Citizens United is that campaign cash doesn’t prevent you from being an idiot that nobody in their right mind would vote for. Isn’t that right, Rick Perry? [Election Law Blog]
* Protip race-baiters: conversion to Chapter 11 is not “like slavery.” The phrase you are looking for is “indentured servitude.” [Forbes]
* Why can’t Facebook stop crime? Why can’t Facebook do everything? With $5 billion, I think Facebook should figure out how to cure cancer. [Legal Blog Watch]
* Should the ABA make things a little easier for military spouses who are also attorneys? [ABA Now]
* This has to be a some kind of record for a ignoring a court order. [Legal Juice]
* Squatters rights, FTW. As long as you are not on an oil field or a electric chair factory, they probably don’t even care about squatters in Texas. [Dallas Morning News]
* Cops can’t buy touristy gear with the NYPD logo on it? But I thought the Taser was a toy. [DNAInfo]
* Student loan forgiveness just got a little bit easier. [Heather Jarvis]
* You don’t have to work abroad to learn how to mix with different cultures. Just try working on the lower east side. [What About Clients?]
* Remember when we could f*** with them just by giving out some diseased blankets? Man, those were the days. [Washington Post]
* There is a job opening at the ACS for somebody with legal skills. I know the guy you’ll likely be sharing an office with, and I can vouch that he’s cool and won’t mind if you spend a lot of time reading ATL. [American Constitution Society]
* The Onion has a funny story about our criminal justice system…
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Professors Richard Epstein (left) and John Yoo
* Are you still trying to make sense of the conflicting opinions in United States v. Jones, the GPS tracking case recently decided by the Supreme Court? Professor Barry Friedman has this helpful round-up. [New York Times]
* Elsewhere in law professors opining on SCOTUS, what do Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo predict the Court will do regarding Obamacare? [National Review Online]
* A Spanish CFO, a Finnish tax lawyer, and a moody Hungarian CEO walk into an Amsterdam coffee shop…. [What About Clients?]
* Musical chairs: prosecutor Greg Andres is leaving DOJ for DPW. [DealBook]
* In case you missed this fun Friday story, it got picked up by MSNBC today. [Digital Life / MSNBC]
* Did your law firm give you an iPad? Are you wondering what to do with the darn thing? Here’s an idea, after the jump….
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Fight, you damn coward.
* Rutgers Law: where things just got real. Real worse. [Courier Post Online]
* I’d like to think that law schools are better at giving bad news to faculty than they are at giving bad news to students. The way they tell students, “Congratulations, you’ve been admitted,” is so unprofessional and cold. [Faculty Lounge]
* Floyd Mayweather is above the law. He’s a rank coward who is going to get beat down by Manny Pacquiao if he ever develops the stones to face him. But Mayweather has good lawyers. Maybe he can hide behind them instead of fighting Pacquiao. [The Legal Blitz]
* Facebook and Washington State team up to stop clickjacking. [Corporate Counsel]
* I thought that magic mushrooms came from bizzarro Care Bears. [Underdog]
* I oppose the religion of the Sith, but I would defend their right to practice it. [College Humor]
* The Patent and Trademark Office says, “Leave Blue Ivy alone, leave her alone!” [Government Executive]
* Our own Chris Danzig will be covering LegalTech New York next week. Email him if you want him to check something out. Maybe he can figure out why social media use is up among in-house counsel. [Inside Counsel]
Greg Kelly
* Greg Kelly stands accused of an alleged rape that supposedly took place at a “lower Manhattan law firm.” While we wait for the tips machine to fire up, who’s up for kegs and eggs and Good Day New York tomorrow morning? [Gothamist]
* Classes in space colony law coming in 3… 2… 1… [Buzzfeed]
* The Ninth Circuit isn’t paying too much attention to the drivel coming out of the Republican primaries. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Resources are available for lawyers with substance abuse problems who need help. For lawyers with substance abuse problems who don’t need any help, I’ll be at Professor Thom’s tonight. [ABA Journal]
* Megan McArdle wonders: How much does Warren Buffett pay his secretary? [Instapundit]
* Congratulations to Barney Frank. Welcome to a civil liberty you should have always had. [Huffington Post]
* Apparently New York Times writer David Segal started his jihad against law schools because of a lawyer friend he talked to at a cocktail party. Click on the jump so you can get a look at him being interviewed, just in case you see him on the subway and want to talk to someone about your troubles…
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* You wonder if the Supreme Court justices who went to the State of the Union even noticed Gabrielle Giffords last night, much less were humble enough to learn anything from her example. [Slate]
* Rapelisberger Roethlisberger settles his case. [NBC Sports]
* Let me get this straight, first conservative parents want the magical creation story taught in schools. Now they want “ex-gay therapy” to be taught as well. Here’s a thought: why don’t you teach your kids that in church, and let schools focus on things that are actually real. [Huffington Post]
* Pepperdine University won’t let students form an LGBT organization because it’s against God’s will. Also against God’s will, intelligent people going to Pepperdine. [The Advocate]
* Should companies help us recover our purchases if they are stolen? I’d settle for increased taxes so we can afford more police officers to do that job, but don’t mind me, I’m the guy who thinks government has a responsibility to its citizens. [Overlawyered]
* I didn’t know I could just buy a drone and fly it anywhere. [Not So Private Parts / Forbes]
* My dog ate my homework. Also, my dog killed my wife. [Legal Blog Watch]
* Everybody is having a pants party today over these five careers U.S. News thinks you can do with a law degree. But here’s the thing, for every one J.D. holder who fills one of these positions despite their law degree, I can name ten people who have the same job and DIDN’T have to waste three years of their lives and more than $100,000 to get the opportunity. Christ on an opportunity Cross, if I had gone to journalism school instead of law school maybe I’d still have this job and be able to use a comma. [WSJ Law Blog]
* If you don’t have a gavel, you can’t be a judge. No really. Not in Utah. I guess they need visual cues out there. [Salt Lake Tribune]
* Underwear gnomes, funny. Underwear Asians, significantly more disturbing. [Montgomery Media]
* I can’t even keep American kids from pursuing law degrees, there is no way I’m stopping foreign students. [Bar and Bench]
* If you are following us on Twitter during tonight’s stump speech State of the Union, here’s a fun drinking game. [Constitutional Daily]
* Judge Wesley Brown (D. Kansas), the longest-serving federal judge in history, just passed away (at the age of 104) — R.I.P. [Wichita Eagle]
Apparently you guys really like seeing “funny” videos about law students even after I’ve subtlety warned you to manage your expectations. Here’s what I was email bombed with today. Can tomorrow please be the day where we get flooded with naked women or something?
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Keep fighting, Ryan Braun.
* I am rooting for Ryan Braun to become the first baseball player to successfully appeal a positive steroid test. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinal]
* Barack Obama wanted to be a law school dean. Dean Obama would be as oblivious to the problem of rising law school tuition as he is President Obama, only Dean Obama would have a better economic incentive to not care about the issue. [The Faculty Lounge]
* It’s nice when the TSA is polite about inappropriately touching you in public. [Underdog]
* In Texas, they shoot first, and ask for permission later. [Election Law Blog]
* Justice Alito, are you still sticking to the “not true” rebuttal to concerns over Citizens United? [D.C. Circuit Review]
* Dear Americans, stop trying to legislate what other Americans can wear. Christ, we let children walk around with white hoods on their heads every Halloween, and do you see me complaining? [Lowering the Bar]
Based on my unscientific calculations, approximately 6 times 10^5.9052 people have sent us the video embedded below. Please look, at least so that you don’t also send the clip and have to endure the violently angry email I’ve saved as a draft….
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* If you don’t allow strip clubs in New Jersey would that leave the state with, you know, any businesses? [WSJ Law Blog]
* If Obamacare does nothing else, it just made birth control covered the same as Viagra. If that’s not enough to give Obama a three to one advantage among women, I don’t even know what’s happening in this country. [Think Progress]
* A picture is worth a 1,000 words, but Judge Posner only needs to remember two: fair use. [Legal Blog Watch]
* I know it’s hard to believe, but at one time we actually had to fight to keep Alabama from leaving. I’d be willing to let them leave now, but we still might need them in case we have to play college football against space aliens. [Going Concern]
* Honestly, why do so many people in this society think that taking a principled stand is something that can only be done if it’s easy and costs nothing? Taking a stand when it costs you personally is half of the damn point. [Simple Justice]
* Test your legal knowledge and win an iPad2. I killed it. [Practical Law Company]
I believe the defendant failed a saving throw against berserker, so when he killed those people he didn't know right from wrong.
* Dressing shrinks as wizards when they testify would be an AWESOME idea. I’m serious. Why can’t we have this? And titles, too. “Your Honor, I call Dr. Freud — Ph.D in weakness management and keeper of the sacred staffs of Ivory guard — to the stand.” [Overlawyered]
* iTextbooks! Could be awesome, could widen the gap between the rich and the iPoor. [Adjunct Law Prof Blog]
* Old lawyer accidentally smuggles a gun onto a plane, mainly because security — which noticed said gun — forgot to stop her. TSA doesn’t make us more safe, folks. It just makes us more molested. [Daily Mail]
* Apparently, LLMs go great with Brazilians. The people, not the grooming. Or maybe both — I don’t know, but I was only asked about people. [Live Mint]
* To be clear, putting slavery analogies into our math problems is bad… unless you are a college basketball or football star trying to work out how much you got paid in free tuition for last night’s game, versus how much the university made off of the performance of your team. Then the analogy is “apt.” [CBS Atlanta]
* White people problems, written by a former Cahill Gordon associate who quit to take a job in television. [Funny or Die]
* Additional impressive hires by an elite litigation boutique. How long before MoloLamken ends up on somebody’s hot list? [MoloLamken]
If SOPA wins.
* I’ll be more interested in this law firm merger if it turns out that McKenna Long partners have the right of prima nocta when Herbert Smith partners marry. [Am Law Daily]
* Anti-Affirmative Action activist, Ward Connerly, is under investigation for allegedly misappropriating funds. Connerly, who is black, is accused of taking the funds donated by conservatives for the cause and using them for himself. Sorry conservatives, you can have the Affirmative Action that I advocate or you can have Ward Connerly’s perverse version of Robin Hood, but I think it’s going to take a little more than a generation before you can wash your hands of 400 years of racial oppression. [New York Times]
* We are living in a time of Citizens United consequences. He’s a definitive piece on how Anthony Kennedy’s thoughts have affected American politics. [Election Law Blog]
* If we can stop “rogue” websites without SOPA, then there will be no reason to destroy the internet with that awful legislation. [Marketwatch]
* Doesn’t Rick Santorum know that they already tried enshrining a Catholic vision of marriage in a common law system? It led to a fat man murdering a number of attractive women and an entire nation making up a new religion. [The Volokh Conspiracy]
* It’d be great if the Government could hire some lawyers for FCPA enforcement. [Forbes]
* DLA Piper is shaking it up at the top. [Chicago Tribune]
If this guy wins the Republican nomination, we can agree that the Tea Party was totally overhyped, right?
* So, just so we’re all clear, Republicans running for President are no longer on board with the Voting Rights Act. Happy Martin Luther King Day. [Election Law Blog]
* It’s not like there are no more voting issues where we might want to have federal oversight of state laws that affect the electoral power of minorities in states that have been historically opposed to such things. For instance, where do your prisoners live for the purposes of redistricting? [New York Times]
* I’ll tell you what happens in a world where college kids can “major” in law and take the bar, yet law schools still exist: law schools will continue to operate as they have been, and “law majors” will be the new “must get” credentials for paralegals. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Every time I ask this question, I feel like a horrible person. But it’s a legitimate question: what are the legal ramifications when a race car driver dies while performing a sport that is only interesting because there’s a chance somebody will die? [Legal Blitz]
* Why won’t Mitt Romney show us his taxes? We just want to be envious, Mittens! Feed our envy. [Going Concern]
* I think I should be nominated for this public interest award. Nobody has done more to prevent lawyers from being taken advantage of than me. [American Constitution Society]
* Breaking down the Joe Paterno interview. [Atlantic]
* Now these are some guys that believe in the gold standard. [MyFoxDC]
* As Copyranter said when he emailed this link about the iPoo: “C&D coming in 3, 2, 1…” [Copyranter]
Can somebody remind me why this person is famous?
* If you can ignore the fact that Ben Stein is suing over being discriminated against by global warming believers, he’s still a pretty smart guy. [Gawker]
* How long until we just conduct the entire Presidential election via Facebook? [Not-So Private Parts / Forbes]
* Judge Posner gets wonderful cases. [How Appealing]
* Eric Holder is a Democrat? YOU LIE! [Simple Justice]
* Orrick is suing Jon Huntsman’s campaign for unpaid rent. Silly Orrick, if they want to get any money out of Huntsman they have to sue his father and hope and promise to give sonny a job. [Washington City Paper]
* This is a terrible story about a soldier committing suicide. Not terrible enough to change my mind on whether bullies are legally responsible for people who make the tragic decision to take their own lives, but it’s still tragic. [Daily Mail]
* The FBI file of the late Old Dirty Bastard. I hope you like it raw. [The Daily Beast]
