Pets
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Pets, Television
Judge Judy Allows Dog To Decide Animal Custody Case For Her
The defendant in this case was really barking up the wrong tree. -
Biglaw, Pets, Real Estate
Latham Partner And 'Dog Racism': Or, The Dumbest Thing You'll Hear Today
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Animal Law, Marijuana, Pets
Pot For Pets: Snake Oil Or The Real Deal?
You should probably think twice before giving pet store CBD to your beloved dog or cat...
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Pets, Richard Posner
Pixie For President: Why Judge Posner's Cat Deserves Your Vote
If you'd rather elect a cat than Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, then Pixie is the candidate for you! -
Federal Judges, Pets, Richard Posner, Weirdness
Principled Premises, Platitudes, Presuppositions, Palliatives, And Post-Mortems Of Posnerian Jurisprudence
"These tweets provide unique insight into the work of the American judicial mind -- Judge Posner’s mind is quite typical." -
Money, Pets, Trusts and Estates
Dog Caught In $100K Inheritance Fight Because America Is Ridiculous And Can't Have Nice Things
People make things way too complicated. -
Email Scandals, Pets, Reader Polls, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Prosecutor's Pooch Spawns Epic Email Bitchfest
A prosecutor brings his dog into the office on the weekend. An amusing email exchange ensues. -
Email Scandals, Litigatrix, Partner Issues, Pets, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Vicious Infighting
Law Firm Rocked By Allegations Of Affairs, Financial Problems... And A Missing Cat
Allegations of an affair between a senior partner and a junior attorney, crazy conduct by the senior partner's furious wife, and a mysteriously missing cat. - Sponsored
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Pets, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Television
You Must Watch Dogs Reenact Supreme Court Arguments Right Now
Come for the oral argument coverage, stay for the point where Justice Alito tries to hump Justice Kagan.... -
Asians, Gay, In-House Counsel, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Pets, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: An In-House Counsel's Housing Hunt
Where does this corporate counsel work, and how big was his budget? -
Advertising, American Bar Association / ABA, D.C. Circuit, Health Care / Medicine, Legal Ethics, Non-Sequiturs, Patents, Pets, Racism, Supreme Court
Non-Sequiturs: 07.25.14
* Proximate cause and the Incredible Hulk. Whatever, everyone knows Kirby was the real brains behind Palsgraf. [The Legal Geeks] * Someone is having fun with their RFAs: Admit… that we are going to whip the dog piss out of you. We were specifically chided: “please don’t say ‘only in Arkansas,’” so we won’t. You should feel free to say exactly that though. [Hawg Law Blog] * Not really surprising, but patent trolling is the worst it has ever been. I’ll sit here and wait for the New York Times to blame millennials. [io9] * The most important Supreme Court decision you’ve never heard of! Well, except I have heard of it. In fact, there was a year-long college debate topic about it. But it’s still important. [Washington Post] * What’s the appropriate sentence for having a dog off a leash? Confining the guy to a seven-county area? [LA Weekly] * Things to do in Denver when you’re a lawyer: allegedly scam a few million off a client. [Denver Post] * Meet the lawyer who came up with the quirky reading that got the D.C. Circuit to temporarily derail Obamacare. [Wall Street Journal] * Meanwhile, this title says it all about Halbig: “Well, Conjecture, Tendentious Misreadings, and Cherry Picking Are Kinds of Evidence.” Pour a little out for Lionel Hutz. [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * Everyday we (the ABA) hustlin’. [Law and More] -
Animal Law, California, Crime, Nauseating Things, Pets, Quote of the Day
Lawyer Keeps Documents In Fridge So Hundreds Of Cats Can't Pee On Them
This cat lady allowed her feline friends to take over her house -- crazy! -
Football, Gay, Labor / Employment, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Patents, Pets, Tax Law
Non-Sequiturs: 06.11.14
* The intellectual property history of dog leashes. How long is a patent in dog years? [Slate] * Trinity Western University, the new law school that bans gay people, just earned a thumbs down vote from thousands of area lawyers objecting to its accreditation. [CBC] * 10 real-life laws that regulate the supernatural world. [io9] * There’s a new bill of rights in this country and it comes from the IRS. The right to basically avoid taxes is only on the form for rich people. [TaxProf Blog] * Mass incarceration in this country degrades citizenship. Sadly, this statement needed to be made. [Boston Review] * After receiving an award, a young lawyer blasts legal aid cuts. [Legal Cheek] * The Daily Show examines the ongoing effort to unionize college football with commentary by Dee Dee Benkie. She’s wrong of course — college football unions would work like professional sports unions representing players who face exactly the same workplace hazards, instead of stereotypical longshoremen — but it’s good to see even an anti-union advocate agreeing that players deserve something more than what they currently get. Video below…. [The Daily Show]
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Ask the Experts, Associate Advice, Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers, Pets
From The Career Files: Want The Courage To Leave Biglaw? Get A Dog
Megan Grandinetti explains how her pet dog gave her the courage to leave Biglaw behind. -
Christopher Christie, Death Penalty, Divorce Train Wrecks, Eric Holder, Law Schools, Morning Docket, New Jersey, Pets, State Judges
Morning Docket: 01.30.14
* Attorney General Eric Holder has until tomorrow to decide whether the government will seek the death penalty in the case against Dzhokhar Tsaernaev. Screw his fan clubs, he deserves it. [Associated Press]
* “Those who know me know I don’t like to lose.” Good thing he didn’t. Leo Strine was unanimously confirmed as Chief Justice of Delaware’s Supreme Court. We can’t wait to see what he’ll bring to his new bench. [Reuters]
* “[N]ominal relief does not necessarily a nominal victory make.” Any day that a lawyer can secure a $1 award for his client and a $34,772 award of fees for himself is a very successful day as a lawyer. [New York Law Journal]
* The mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, was sued, and she’s blaming Chris Christie and his allies for the whole thing. When the governor found out, he had just finished bringing about world peace. [Star-Ledger]
* Kansas Law will offer in-state tuition to people near Kansas City, Missouri. It must be hurting to fill its seats to make such an offer just because the city name has Kansas in it. [Kansas City Business Journal]
* George Zimmerman’s estranged wife, Shellie, is well on her way to getting a default judgment of divorce. She may be down one dog in her life, but she still wants custody of their two pets. [Orlando Sentinel]
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Animal Law, Crime, Food, Pets, Quote of the Day
Lawyer Doesn't See What's So Bad About Eating Pets
Would you classify your pet as nothing more than meat, like this lawyer? -
Animal Law, Law Schools, Pets, United Kingdom / Great Britain
When Living With Law Students Goes Real Wrong
Law students fighting over rabbits like children. -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Pets, Real Estate, Shopping, Shopping For Others
10 Things You Can Buy With Your Associate Bonuses
How should you spend your bonus? Here are 10 really prudent ideas. -
Copyright, Health Care / Medicine, Law Schools, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Morning Docket, Murder, Music, Pets, Religion, SCOTUS, State Judges, Supreme Court, Trials
Morning Docket: 11.27.13
* Oh baby (or the lack thereof): the Supreme Court has decided to take on two of the cases asserting religious challenges to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate. [Blog of Legal Times]
* “[H]e has a Rolodex like a Ferris wheel.” Delaware’s Supreme Court Chief Justice is retiring from the bench to join Potter Anderson & Corroon, where that Rolodex will come in handy. [Wall Street Journal]
* Italian prosecutors think Amanda Knox should be convicted of murder (again) and given a 30-year sentence in a retrial she’s not even there for. This kind of sounds like it’d be a double-secret conviction. [CNN]
* With fall finals right around the corner, law students can take comfort in the fact that next week they’ll be soothed by therapy dogs — ones that’ll need therapy after dealing with law students. [WSJ Law Blog]
* If you’re considering applying to law school against all odds, you should determine when the right time to apply would be. Don’t listen to your parents, listen to your gut. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]
* If you haven’t heard, the Beastie Boys are having a copyright fight with toymaker GoldieBlox over a parody of the song “Girls” that’s been used in a commercial. Fair use? Decide after the jump. [NBC News]
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Animal Law, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Canada, Deaths, Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Pets, Pornography, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 11.21.13
* Justice Sonia Sotomayor thinks that the lack of diversity on the federal and state judiciaries poses a “huge danger,” one that might even be greater than her complete inability to dance. [Blog of Legal Times]
* Because “love [shouldn’t be] relegated to a second-class status for any citizen in our country,” Illinois is now the 16th state in the U.S. to have legalized same-sex marriage. Congratulations and welcome! [CNN]
* “His discrimination claim was not about discrimination.” After only 2.5 hours deliberating, the jury reached a verdict in John Ray III v. Ropes & Gray, and the Biglaw firm came out on top. [National Law Journal]
* One thing’s for sure: big city bankruptcies ain’t cheap. Detroit has paid about $11 million to Jones Day, emergency manager Kevyn Orr’s former firm, since this whole process kicked off. [Detroit Free Press]
* The entire judicial panel overseeing Judge Lori Douglas’s ethics inquiry just quit. Justice apparently wouldn’t be served by continuing to examine a middle-aged woman’s porn pictures. [Winnipeg Free Press]
* Baylor Law is being overrun by a colony of feral cats. Someone please tell the administration these kitties can’t be used as therapy animals before finals — students will have their faces clawed off. [Baylor Lariat]
* Guy Cellucci, managing partner of White & Williams who died unexpectedly, RIP. [Philadelphia Inquirer]