Reality TV
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Bad Ideas, Biglaw, David Otunga, Law Schools, Old People, Reality TV, Romance and Dating, Television
Sidley Hates on Old People, Reality TV Stars
Law firms love free publicity. Especially law firms that have been in the news for having to pay $27.5 million to settle age discrimination claims by former partners. Or maybe not: David Otunga, a 2006 graduate of Harvard Law School and former associate at Sidley Austin, appeared in the first episode of I Love New […] -
Hotties, Law Schools, Reality TV, Romance and Dating, Summer Associates, Television, Weddings
Law Students Get No Love from the Bachelor
No wonder the producers of The Bachelor are so eager to have a lawyer as the Bachelor. With their impressive educational pedigrees and generally high incomes — even non-top-tier law grads earn more than the average American — lawyers are a desirable demographic. And relying upon the contestants to keep lawyers watching might not be […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Hotties, Reality TV, Television
Here's One Way To Escape from Biglaw
Lawyers have a pretty decent track record as reality show contestants. We went to law school with Yul Kwon, winner of Survivor: Cook Islands. So maybe this idea isn’t as dubious as it might seem: An alert reader sent us along his very own invitation to be on The Bachelor. ‘”Apparently they are randomly spamming […]
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Aaron Charney, Ann Althouse, Lolcats, Music, Pets, Reality TV, Ridiculousness, Weirdness
Brokeback Lawfirm: A Commemorative Lolcat!
Okay, this isn’t as amusing as the Alexandra Korry haikus that have been unleashed in the comments. But then again, few things are. Courtesy of ATL reader “Josef Stalin,” here’s a Lolcat graphic, in honor of Charney v. Sullivan & Cromwell: Lolcat [Wikipedia] P.S. Please vote for Jordin Sparks in American Idol!!! Call 1-866-IDOLS-02, or […] -
Celebrities, Crime, Drinking, Paris Hilton, Reality TV, Television
One Night in... Prison?
Or maybe 45 nights in prison, for the star of One Night in Paris. The Associated Press reports: Paris Hilton should be jailed for 45 days for violating terms of her probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving conviction, city prosecutors say. In documents filed April 30th in Superior Court, prosecutors said they also want Hilton […] -
Nude Dancing, Pictures, Pornography, Reality TV
The Apprentice, Lawyers, and Playboy
Time for another installment in ATL’s ongoing obsession with law students/lawyers posing nude for Playboy. This time it’s Kristine Lefebvre, a loser from The Apprentice: Los Angeles. From AP via CNN: Lefebvre will appear on the cover of the June issue of the magazine and is featured in nude photographs inside, her publicist, Howard Bragman, […] -
Asians, Harold Koh, Racism, Reality TV, Romance and Dating, Survivor, Yul Kwon
Surviving Stereotypes: Yul Kwon Returns To Yale Law School
“Survivor” champ and YLS grad Yul Kwon made a triumphant return to his law school alma mater last week. In a speech entitled “How I Survived Survivor and Other Professional Challenges,” Kwon, who was introduced by YLS Dean Harold Koh, spoke about breaking down negative stereotypes about Asian Americans. At this point in his speech, […] -
Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Nude Dancing, Racism, Reality TV, Television
Non-Sequiturs: 04.23.07
* Good news from the Tier 3 trenches: Southwestern University School of Law graduate Stefani is the winner of The Apprentice: Los Angeles, even though she is a trial lawyer and probably 10 years older than she says. Although I have yet to watch an episode, I’m annoyed that she spells her name with an […] - Sponsored
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3rd Circuit, Fashion, Federal Judges, Food, Hotties, Judicial Divas, Marjorie Rendell, Reality TV, Television
Advice for Clerkship Seekers: Bring Duck and Apple Wontons to Your Interview With Judge Rendell
Yes, we did catch Judge Marjorie O. Rendell on the Food Network earlier this week (see screenshot above). As we previously mentioned, she recently appeared on Dinner: Impossible, in her capacity as First Lady of Pennsylvania. Chef Robert Invine was given a challenging task. He was directed “to prepare a stately array of hors d’oeuvres,” […] -
Celebrities, Masturbation, Music, Reality TV, Television
Thankfully, No Allegations Have Been Leveled Against Paula Abdul
It can make you go blind — AND it can cause you to be named as the defendant in a civil lawsuit: (We love how “masturbation” appears in quotation marks. We realize it’s a quotation from the Complaint, but it reads as it were placed in scare-quotes — as if it were a less technical […] -
Crime, Reality TV, Survivor, Television, Violence
Oh Those Crazy Harvard Law School Kids
This has nothing to do with Sectiongate. It’s actually about something of greater significance, if that can be believed. Alex Angarita — a Harvard Law School graduate, former associate at O’Melveny & Myers, and star of the “Survivor: Fiji” reality TV show — has been arrested. From TMZ.com: “Survivor: Fiji” star Alex Angarita faced off […] -
Celebrities, Deaths, Drinking, Jeanine Pirro, Legal Ethics, Music, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Reality TV, Sex, Television
Non-Sequiturs: 01.10.07
* What the world really needs more than another lawyer is another talk-show host. Also, is it just me, or do you think Eva Longoria should play Jeanine Pirro in a Lifetime movie once she’s all washed up? [New York Post] * Ethics CLE credit is notoriously hard to come by, but the lucky attorneys […] -
Ann Althouse, Asians, Barrington Parker, Contests, Hotties, Money, Reality TV, Survivor, Television, Yul Kwon
Congratulations to Yul Kwon -- Who Says You Don't Learn Anything at Yale Law School?
Apparently you learn how to survive on a desert island. And how to beat out your fellow competitors for a $1 million cash prize, on one of America’s biggest reality television shows. Yul Kwon, the newly crowned winner of “Survivor: Race Wars” “Survivor: Cook Islands,” is a lawyer, former Second Circuit law clerk, and 2000 […]
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Bad Ideas, Cars, Police, Pranks, Racism, Rap, Reality TV, Traffic Accidents
Does a Traffic Stop Give an Officer Probable Case... To Make the Driver Rap?
Yet another sign that reality television has gone too, too far: City leaders have apologized after a program on Tempe’s cable channel showed a white police officer telling two black men they could get out of a littering ticket by performing a rap…. [After pulling the car over,] the officer then tells the men that […] -
9th Circuit, A. Wallace Tashima, Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Borat, Drinking, Movies, Pranks, Racism, Rank Stupidity, Reality TV, Sex, Television
Still More About Borat
On Friday night, we saw Borat at our local movie theater. We found it hilarious for the first fifteen minutes, before it turned repetitive. That said, there were some impressive set pieces in the second half of the film, such as the hotel room wrestling match. (We viewed Borat on the recommendation of one of […] -
Antonin Scalia, Contests, Depositions, ERISA, Hotties, Reality TV, Summer Associates, Supreme Court Clerks, Survivor, Viet Dinh, Week in Review
ATL Week in Review
* Our first annual ERISA Hotties Contest is over, and America’s hottest pension and employee benefit lawyers have been crowned. Some other great candidates were passed over; but hey, not everyone can win. * The new season of Survivor: an exotic Cook Islands setting, interracial conflict — and hot Asian lawyers. * Practice pointer: When […]