Quote of the Day
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Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Youth Be Served
We’re more aggressive than we used to be. This is not your grandfather’s Cravath. — James Woolery, a 41-year-old Cravath partner. -
John Yoo, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Brevity Is the Soul of Wit?
Choosing not to study a treatise on presidential administrative policies containing 527 footnotes is an understandable act of self-preservation. — John Yoo - Sponsored
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Kwame Kilpatrick, Politics, Quote of the Day, Sentencing Law
Quote of the Day: Oh what a tangled web we weave....
Your testimony in this court amounted to perjury. Most compelling is that you lied to this court, continued to lie, after you pleaded guilty to lying. — Judge David Groner, sentencing former Detroit Mayor (and Lawyer of the Day) Kwame Kilpatrick to 18 months to 5 years in prison for violating probation.
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Billable Hours, Floyd Abrams, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: You Can't Handle the Truth
I’d rather not get into it. You’d fall off your chair. — Leading First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, declining to discuss with the New York Times what he and Cahill Gordon are charging the ratings agency S.& P. -
Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Student Loans
Quote of the Day: And How About $150,000?
Spending $50,000 for an education you can’t use is really frustrating. — Jade Stier, a teacher who went to nursing school after spending three years trying to find a job teaching at an elementary school. -
Antonin Scalia, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Liberals Call You That Too...
I don’t even know what it is, to tell you the truth. I’ve heard it talked about. My wife calls me Mr. Clueless. — Justice Antonin Scalia, speaking about Twitter, in response to a question about whether he’s ever considering “tweeting or twitting.” -
Charles Fried, Elena Kagan, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Lady Kaga Drops Her Poker Face
She came steaming into my office and said, ‘Why have you done that? It’s a confusing situation and you’ve made it worse.’ She screamed and shouted at me and slammed the door and stormed out. Two minutes later, she came back and said, ‘I’m sorry I shouted.’ I said, ‘Elena, don’t apologize, you were right.’ […] -
Clerkships, Quote of the Day, Richard Posner
Quote of the Day
The bottom line here is that Judge Posner is one of the few appellate judges that writes his own opinions. Otherwise it would be like getting quotations from law clerks. — Robert Blomquist, editor of the new book The Quotable Judge Posner. - Sponsored
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Bad Ideas, Murder, Pro Se Litigants, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: You Just Suck. Don't Take It Personally.
You don’t know how to ask a question. You don’t know how to offer things into evidence. You keep making stupid speeches. You keep saying you are good at this. You are not. I do not say this to insult you. — Justice Carol Berkman to Robert Camarano, a pro se litigant representing himself in […] -
Alan Dershowitz, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Knowing Your Clients
I start out assuming all my clients are guilty and all my clients are lying to me. That’s my operating assumption as a good lawyer, just like any good doctor would start out believing that the chest pain is not indigestion but a coronary, or the patient who says he never smoked or used cocaine […] -
Law Professors, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Shameless Plugs
Update: ATL Not Required Reading at Michigan Law
The Washington Post has described ATL as a “must-read legal blog.” And it seemed that this was literally true for students in a course entitled “Law Firms and Legal Careers,” taught at the University of Michigan Law School by Karl Lutz, of counsel to Kirkland & Ellis. The course description on the Michigan Law website […] -
Law Professors, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Shameless Plugs
Quote of the Day: Required Reading
Students are expected to become completely familiar with and prepared to discuss in class the blog “Above the Law.” — From the description for “Law Firms and Legal Careers,” a University of Michigan Law course taught by Kirkland & Ellis of counsel Karl Lutz UPDATE / CORRECTION: According to Lutz, the course description on the […] -
Harvard, Law Schools, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Humility Is Overrated
Harvard and Yale are, by any standard, great educational institutions, but it is not one of their strengths to instill in their students a sense of humility. — Jerome Karabel, a sociology professor and author of The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, commenting on the high number […]
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Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Insane Hiring
[Firms] are still being forced to recruit a year and a half prior to an anticipate start date, what other industry tolerates such a crazy hiring model? — K&L Gates Chairman Peter Kalis -
Billable Hours, In-House Counsel, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Weekend: If Ashley Dupré Can Get That Kind of Money....
I wrote a letter for a client that saved the client $4 million. It took me about five hours. I thought $25,000 was a reasonable fee. The client’s response was: How many hours did it take? — A law firm partner posing a question to the speakers at a recent panel discussion on law firm/client […] -
Billable Hours, Quote of the Day, Sex
Quote of the Day: So What Does That Make the Billable Hour?
Alternative fees may be like teenage sex. There’s more talk than action. — Law firm consultant Bruce MacEwen, founder of Adam Smith, Esq., at a panel discussion on law firm/client relationships. -
Contempt, Fashion, Gender, Quote of the Day, Rudeness
Quote of the Day: It's better to have the gavel.
“I have the p*ssy, so I make the rules.” — A t-shirt that resulted in a contempt-of-court charge in Chicago. -
9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, Hotties, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: His Honor, or His Hotness?
The Supreme Court routinely relies on such express instructions. And some of our nation’s hottest jurists have called for their more frequent use. See, e.g., Alex Kozinski, Should Reading Legislative History Be an Impeachable Offense?, 31 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 807, 819 (1998). — Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, the #1 Male Superhottie of the Federal […] -
Media and Journalism, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Creative Fictions?
If any profession (apart from the novelist’s) is in the business of making things up, it is the profession of the trial lawyer. — Janet Malcolm of the New Yorker, in a riveting account of a murder trial in Queens Supreme Court. -
Colbert Report, Free Speech, Law Professors, Quote of the Day, Rudeness
Quote of the Day: Giving the Finger
If somebody is mildly angry, they might just give the middle finger. If they’re very angry, they might give it with some sort of words or facial expression that shows anger. And if they’re off-the-charts angry, they may give a double. — Professor Ira P. Robbins — author of Digitus Impudicus: The Middle Finger and […]