Reality TV
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Biglaw, Divorce Train Wrecks, FCC, Holidays and Seasons, Immigration, LSAT, Mergers and Acquisitions, Minority Issues, Morning Docket, Reality TV, United Kingdom / Great Britain, Violence
Morning Docket: 11.28.11
* With AT&T’s T-Mobile deal falling apart, in-house lawyer Wayne Watts could be heard singing, “it’s my merger and I’ll cry if I want to,” before more whining to the FCC. [DealBook / New York Times] * Build us a border fence, and then get the f**k over it. Arizona lawmakers are soliciting the public […]
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Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Reality TV
Vinny From Jersey Shore Now Lecturing Columbia Students
Giving a platform to an anti-semitic global strongman is less damaging to your reputation than allowing a cast member from Jersey Shore to address your students. Vinny Guadagnino, the "smart one" from the Jersey Shore who occasionally talks about going to law school, was actually a guest speaker in front of college students at a Columbia University class.... - Sponsored
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5th Circuit, Abortion, California, Clarence Thomas, Law Professors, Loyola Law School, Morning Docket, New Jersey, Pregnancy / Paternity, Reality TV, Supreme Court Clerks, Trendspotting
Morning Docket: 11.02.11
* “Rising tuition. Misleading employment statistics. Inadequate skills training.” So what are legal educators doing about it? Blogging, of course. [Law School Review] * Trendspotting: cute judges on the federal bench? The Senate has confirmed Loyola Law professor Stephen Higginson for a seat on the Fifth Circuit. [National Law Journal] * People in New Jersey […]
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Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Fashion Victims Unit, Guilty Pleasures, Law Schools, Reality TV, Shopping, Television
A Crime of Fashion: When Law Students Dress Like Hookers
One of our tipsters alerted us to an episode of TLC's What Not to Wear -- the world's greatest guilty pleasure television show -- that we seem to have missed when it aired last year. The show featured a 2L from a southern law school, but this girl dressed more like a prostitute facing arraignment (sorry, Reema) than the lawyer representing her. So who is she, was she hot, what law school did she attend, and were Stacy and Clinton able to change this girl from a hooker to a looker? -
California, Craigslist, Reality TV, Television
Who Uses An AOL Email To Cast A Lawyer Reality Show?
For the sake of Bravo, of reality television, of the legal profession in general, Elie hopes this Craigslist ad is fake. Because if it's not, that means that Bravo is putting together a pilot for some kind of Beverly Hills-based, female-lawyer reality show, and the network is casting it on Craigslist through somebody who so has his finger on the pulse of whatever that he's still using an AOL email address. Hey, calm down L.A. ladies, he'll give you the damn email address in two seconds.... -
Fame Brief, Reality TV
Fame Brief: Survivor of the Fittest at Harvard Law School
Hopefully the next edition of What Can You Do With a Law Degree? has not gone to press yet, because there is a thriving new category of jobs a JD gets you these days: reality show contestant. See? Law school is good for something. Joining the entire pantheon of lawyer-turned-reality luminaries is John Cochran, a 24-year-old Harvard Law School student who appears as a member of the "Savaii" tribe on this season's Survivor: South Pacific.... -
Courthouses, Reality TV, Television, Videos, YouTube
Best (Or Perhaps Worst) Courtroom Entrance In The World
We're about to take all take a poll, and how you answer this poll will once and for all determine whether or not you are a good person. Although this revolves around a common legal situation, you don't even have to be a lawyer to take and learn from this poll. Just watch this video.... -
Celebrities, Litigatrix, Media and Journalism, Nancy Grace, Reader Polls, Reality TV, Television
Nancy Grace's Next Chapter: You Won't Believe This
Ever since the acquittal of Casey Anthony, people have been wondering: What has Nancy Grace been up to? Yesterday, "Nancy Grace" started trending on Twitter. It was from Twitter that we learned of Nancy Grace's second act. You'll have a hard time believing this, but it seems to be true.... - Sponsored
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Jersey Shore, Law Schools, LSAT, Reality TV
Vinny From Jersey Shore In Re: The LSAT And Its Relevance In Building A Legal Career
We've reported before on Jersey Shore star Vinny Guadagnino's law school aspirations. Vinny is now talking about his LSAT score, and his take on things is not going to sound strange to anybody who has spent time around recent law school applicants.... -
Biglaw, Celebrities, Law Schools, Reality TV, Television
Celebrity Summer Associate: An 'Apprentice' in Law
A former star of Donald Trump's popular reality television show, The Apprentice, is now "apprenticing" at a major law firm, as a summer associate. Who is this ex-Apprentice, and where is this person working? -
Celebrities, Jersey Shore, Law Schools, New Jersey, Quote of the Day, Reality TV, Television
Quote of the Day: Jersey Shore Star Just Says No -- to Law School
Every season leads to more opportunity for me. I want a future too. I was going to go to school to get my law degree, but I really don’t want to do that work in the ant farm world. I’m seeing where it leads me, I want to be a performer. — Vinny Guadagnino of […] -
Minority Issues, Movies, Racism, Reality TV, Television
White Male Judges Are Being Discriminated Against (On Television)
It feels like I receive at least one email a week from a pissed-off white male. I feel like everywhere I look there is some white person whining, complaining, playing the “victim” card, and moaning about how difficult things are for a white person nowadays. I’m telling you, if white males have to live under […] -
Biglaw, Celebrities, Fame Brief, Fast Food, Food, Reality TV, Television
Fame Brief: Former Paul Hastings Associate May Be America's Next Great Restaurateur
What do you get when you cross Top Chef with Mark Cuban’s The Benefactor (anybody remember that? HA), steal half the name of America’s Next Top Model, and throw in inexplicably famous “chef” Curtis Stone? Only the single greatest reality show on NBC during the 8 p.m. time slot on Sundays: America’s Next Great Restaurant. […]
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Fame Brief, Reality TV, Television
Fame Brief: Identity of First Bachelorette Contestant Leaked -- A Lawyer!
In case you were too busy watching the End Times unfold in Japan last Monday, back in sunny L.A., music soared and angels cried as second-time-around Bachelor Brad Womack finally selected a fiancée from a cumulative pool of 60 desperate women. As ABC production assistants stood just off camera with guns, Brad and his fiancée […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2010, Biglaw, Bonuses, Law Schools, Reality TV, Television
Associate Bonus Watch: Sherman & Sterling(And... Jeopardy!)
We want to hear about your firm’s bonus news, even if it’s old. If we haven’t reported on it yet, we want to know about it. (Use our site search box in the upper-right-hand corner, or scroll through our Associate Bonus Watch archives, to see which announcements we’ve already covered.) Here’s some old bonus news […] -
Dewey & LeBoeuf, Donald Trump, Hotties, Layoffs, Liza Minnelli, Reality TV, Television
Congrats to Brandy Kuentzel, Laid-Off Kirkland Lawyer Turned Apprentice Winner
Apologies for this very belated coverage of the season finale of The Apprentice, which aired last week. Alas, no member of Team ATL — not even Marin, our resident reality TV addict — actually watched the show. The final episode was a bit like the proverbial tree falling in the forest without anyone around to […] -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Reality TV, Television
Depressing Statistic of the Day
This year The Apprentice, a television show in which contestants compete for the privilege of working for Donald Trump, features 16 who are down on their luck, having lost previous jobs or otherwise having to start anew. No fewer than five of them are lawyers. — from Trouble with the Law, an article about American […] -
Reality TV, Small Law Firms
Another Real 'House'wife - Welcome Phaedra Parks to the Neighborhood
Season 3 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta (RHOA) premiered this week on Bravo. Why, you might ask, are we covering a reality show that features more catfighting and hair pulling than a prize-off between Kenneth Kratz and Jack Camp? Because the new season brought with it a new cast member who is not only […] -
Layoffs, Reality TV, Television
The Apprentice Premiere: The Liveblog
We’ve already titillated you with an interview of one of the Apprentice contestants, former Clifford Chance associate James Weir. Now we’ll get our first look at the rest of the contestants on tonight’s premiere of The Apprentice, which this season is built around a recession theme (and stocked with a number of layoff victims, including […] -
Hotties, Layoffs, Reality TV, Television
Fame Brief: Interview with The Apprentice's James Weir, Laid Off Clifford Chance Attorney
The new season of The Apprentice: Recession Edition premieres tomorrow night on NBC, and if you weren’t planning on watching it because it’s the 87th season and nobody cares, you just might want to reverse course. No fewer than five unemployed lawyers — cupcake-wielding Brandy, ex-beauty queen Nicole, fashion-obsessed Mahsa, old person Clint, and Prince […]