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Posted by Captain Obvious in "Biglaw to Associates: 'Surprise! Your salary is frozen'?" Saturday, January 10, 2009 11:44 PM

The 80s guy looks like a Simpson's character.

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Nationwide Pay Freeze Watch: Brrr! Things are getting chilly beneath the Mason-Dixon Line" Monday, January 12, 2009 11:28 PM

12: Partners are way too busy these days to have the time it takes to read this blog.

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Morning Docket 1.13.08" Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:58 PM

Why would a man want to work at Hooters anyway? Oh yeah, right...

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Funny Craigslist job listing makes us sad" Friday, January 16, 2009 12:52 AM

I hope there's not really a lobster stuck in Kash's ass. That sounds painful...

Posted by Captain Obvious in "John Grisham: The Associate
An ATL Exclusive Interview With John Grisham About His Latest Book
"
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:27 PM

"You want to know something funny? You actually made me think about the law. I managed to go through three years of law school without doing that."

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Morrison & Foerster Layoff Follow Up" Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:11 PM

106: Death threats? I think you're going a little too far...

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Non-Sequiturs: 02.02.09" Monday, February 2, 2009 6:24 PM

When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: A First for Seton Hall" Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:09 PM

What's a Seton Hall?

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Weil Gotshal Associate Shown the Door for Failure To Graduate From Law School" Thursday, February 5, 2009 6:42 PM

This would never happen at Columbia.

Posted by Captain Obvious in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to New York
Pillsbury Admits Gaffe -- and Looming Lawyer Layoffs"
Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:00 PM

First to say that this story isn't as big a deal as ATL is making it out to be...

Posted by Captain Obvious in "The National Law Journal: Hiring, Firing Steady" Friday, February 20, 2009 3:56 PM

Columbia has demonstrated that it still is, and will always be, the best law school...

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Impending Layoff Watch: Orrick Ax To Fall This Week" Sunday, March 1, 2009 1:53 PM

Please continue the weekend posts...

Posted by Captain Obvious in "2008 Revenue Numbers" Monday, March 2, 2009 11:05 AM

B&M to 190K!

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Firms Rescinding 3L Offers: A Follow Up" Monday, March 2, 2009 3:06 PM

37, I concur...

Posted by Captain Obvious in "More Groundwork From K&L Gates" Monday, March 2, 2009 6:18 PM

A Damoclean sword could arguably be said to be hanging over the heads of the partners, but not the employees. Epic fail as to use of this reference...

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Jon Stewart v. Jim Cramer" Friday, March 13, 2009 10:43 PM

3 years of Harvard Law School, and Cramer can't even amass one good counterargument against Stewart. You let me down Cramer...you let me down big time.

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Public Interest Jobs Won't Fall Into Your Lap" Monday, March 16, 2009 11:56 PM

What's better, YLS with no scholarship or Touro with a full scholarship?

Posted by Captain Obvious in "NALP Glitch Gives Early Preview of 2009 Summer Program Numbers" Monday, March 23, 2009 5:46 PM

102: Um, hi, what's up? (awkward)...

Posted by Captain Obvious in "A Tale of Two Commencement Speakers" Saturday, April 11, 2009 9:50 PM

There are two types of people in this world: winners and losers. Gray Davis has proven himself to be a loser. He does not deserve the right to give a commencement speech at CLS.

Posted by Captain Obvious in "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Ken Basin, Harvard Law '08, Sure Does." Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:58 PM

If he didn't know the answer, he should have just taken the money.