Ridiculousness
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Boutique Law Firms, Gallion & Spielvogel, Media and Journalism, New York Times, Ridiculousness
Gallion & Spielvogel Strike Again
The New York Times is a world-renowned news publication. It is exceedingly prestigious. Coverage in its pages is highly coveted. But the Gray Lady may be a bit easy. Why else would she go down on Gallion & Spielvogel, our favorite pair of S&C refugees turned eminently pedigreed barristers? From this morning’s NYT: Steven Spielvogel, […] -
James M. Brooks, Judge of the Day, Ridiculousness, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Judge of the Day: James M. Brooks
The Honorable James M. Brooks — a California trial judge and prior Judge of the Day honoree, with a history of getting himself into hot water — might want to leave comedy to James L. Brooks. Judge Brooks’s attempts at humor didn’t go over too well with the folks upstairs. From On Point News: A […] - Sponsored
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Email Scandals, Ridiculousness, Vicious Infighting, Wall Street
Watch I-Bankers Get Pissy With Each Over Email
Hey, guess what? Lawyers aren’t the only ones who suffer email meltdowns after too many nights of not enough sleep. Investment bankers do too. See here. (Of course, these tools probably get paid more than you do.) When Bankers Break Down! [DealBreaker]
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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 […] -
Education / Schools, Free Speech, Gay, Kids, Religion, Ridiculousness
Lawsuit of the Day: 'That's So Gay'
Earlier this week, a California judge tossed out a lawsuit brought by a high school student who was disciplined by her school, and teased by her classmates, for using the phrase “That’s so gay.” From the Associated Press: Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Elaine Rushing said she sympathized with 18-year-old Rebekah Rice for the ridicule […] -
Divorce Train Wrecks, Judge of the Day, Rank Stupidity, Ridiculousness, Roy Pearson, Tort Reform
'Judge' of the Day: Roy Pearson, Jr.
JEEZ. What a tool. An administrative law judge, Roy L. Pearson, is suing his dry cleaners. Over a missing pair of pants (subsequently found). For the insane sum of $65 million. We kid you not. More details here. Okay, we’re not completely shocked. Clownish antics from an ALJ? Heaven forfend. No, we don’t have the […] -
Celebrities, Crime, Media and Journalism, Pakistan, Ridiculousness, War on Terror
Sucks To Be This Guy
False arrests: they’re not just an American phenomenon. From ABC News (via Drudge, of course): An Afghan tribesman with an uncanny resemblance to Osama bin Laden has now been arrested twice, both times following reported sightings and massive manhunts for the al Qaeda leader, Pakistani intelligence officials tell ABC News. Over six feet tall and […] -
Lawsuit of the Day, Real Estate, Ridiculousness
Crashing on the Couch Provokes Lawsuit
Maybe that’s why they call it “crashing.” A roommate situation goes bad: Recently I moved out of an undocumented sublet. … [T]he three subletters, myself included, lived at the apartment. A friend of mine crashed on the couch while he established himself in NYC for about a month. He paid for professional cleaning, picked up […] - Sponsored
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Books, Celebrities, Clarence Thomas, Morning Docket, Politics, Ridiculousness, Tort Reform
Morning Docket: 04.27.07
* Texas legislature blocks mandatory HPV vaccine that fights cervical cancer. [MSNBC] * Indian court issues warrant for Richard Gere due to public kiss. [CNN] * Secretary Rice may assert executive privilege to avoid House subpoena. [MSNBC] * Review of new Justice Thomas biography. [Newsweek] * ALJ seeking $65 million in damages from his dry […]
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Bar Exams, Law Schools, Ridiculousness, Videos
More from the Virginia Law Libel Show: The BarBri Video
The dominant company in the bar exam test prep market, Bar/Bri, has been sued for alleged violations of federal antitrust laws. That class action lawsuit may be settling — and you might be a class member entitled to settlement proceeds. Click here for more info. Are Bar/Bri’s legal woes over? Not necessarily. Given how painful […] -
Contests, Music, Ridiculousness, Television, Videos
Coming Soon to a Courtroom Near You: Fox v. Vote for the Worst?
We don’t write much about American Idol. We leave that subject to the experts, like Ann Althouse. (You can read Professor Althouse’s take on last night’s show over here. Also, she shares our admiration for Sanjaya Malakar. Read her persuasive defense of Malakar over here.) Today, however, we have a legal angle for writing about […] -
Politics, Ridiculousness, Videos
Say Hello to 'MC Rove'
At this morning’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, one of the Democratic senators invoked the bugaboo of Karl Rove. In arguing that the U.S. Attorney firings HAD to be politically motivated, the senator cited the involvement of Rove, whom he referred to darkly as “the ultimate political insider.” Demonizing Karl Rove is a favorite political pastime […] -
Advertising, Asians, Law Schools, Ridiculousness, Vicious Infighting
Oh How We Love Those Harvard LLMs
Last week we wrote a little bit about internecine warfare going on within the Harvard LLM community. It’s a silly and trivial story — which is, of course, ATL’s stock in trade. So we intend to keep following it. Today we’re happy to bring you an update. This email went around over the weekend: From: […]
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Advertising, Asians, Law Schools, Parties, Ridiculousness, Vicious Infighting
The Harvard LLM Community: More Vicious Than the Cafeteria in 'Mean Girls'
Remember this flyer, for the recent “International Party” sponsored by LLM students at Harvard Law School? Some of you, in the comments to our post, made some disparaging remarks about the English-speaking abilities of Asian LLM students. But as it turns out, this flyer wasn’t written by the Asians. And many of them found it […] -
Bad Ideas, Law Schools, Ridiculousness
Sectiongate: HLSers Redeem Themselves
Thanks to the commenter who drew this to our attention. It’s a few days old, but it’s funny. We’re glad to see Harvard Law School students showing a sense of humor. The Record Suggests: 1L Section Names [Harvard Law Record] -
Bad Ideas, Law Schools, Ridiculousness
The 'Sectiongate' Scandal at HLS: It Gets Worse With Each 'Correction'
We have a second correction to run in the unfolding “Sectiongate” saga at Harvard Law School. Normally running corrections makes us unhappy. But Sectiongate gets better with each subsequent correction. Here’s the background. Last week we made fun of the dubious idea to use names rather than numbers to refer to the different 1L sections […] -
Bad Ideas, Elena Kagan, Exercise, Law Schools, Ridiculousness
HLSers Protest: Our Law School Is Not A Joke
Oh you Harvard Law School kids! We poke some fun at the (rather silly) proposal to rename the HLS sections, which are currently identified by numbers. And then we get grief for it in the comments, including a claim that we “have very little understanding of irony or satire” (even though the survey didn’t seem […] -
Bad Ideas, Celebrities, Feeder Judges, Law Schools, Ridiculousness
Wherein Harvard Law School Hits Itself Over the Head With a Silly Stick
We’ve always admired Harvard Law School. It struck us as a place of high seriousness. It didn’t succumb to the latest trends in legal education. It didn’t train philsopher-kings; it trained LAWYERS, dammit. So what if its students were kinda miserable? They got the best, most rigorous legal education money could buy. In short, HLS […] -
Anna Nicole Smith, Celebrities, Deaths, Larry Seidlin, Ridiculousness, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Television, Trusts and Estates, Videos
Judge Larry Seidlin: What a Clown
For all of the references in his introductory remarks to being “dignified,” Judge Larry Seidlin was anything but. We’re mortified. Words don’t do him justice. Just watch this video clip of his ruling in the Anna Nicole Smith matter: Some highlights (or lowlights, as the case may be): (1) Judge Seidlin’s theatrical sigh, around the […] -
Anna Nicole Smith, Celebrities, Deaths, Larry Seidlin, Ridiculousness, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Television
The Anna Nicole Smith Litigation: Every Case Gets the Judge That It Deserves
While we were in line at a coffee shop yesterday, footage from the Anna Nicole Smith case was playing on a television above the counter. The customer in front of us turned around and said: “That judge is CRAZY.” We agree. Judge Larry Seidlin, of Broward Circuit Court, has to be the most ridiculous judge […]