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Blackberry-Crackberry, Shopping, Technology
iPhone = The New Crackberry*?
Hi, Billy Merck here once again, hosting through the end of the week so that Lat can take another brief vacation. No intro post this time; check here or here if you don’t know who we are. But enough of that, let’s get right to it. The Wall Street Journal has this article about the […] -
Bad Ideas, Law Schools, Shopping
Worst Graduation Gifts: Submissions, Please
May and June are the peak months for law school graduations. And you know what that means: dreadful graduation gifts. So we’ve decided to embark upon a quest to find America’s most egregious graduation gift. If you have a nominee, please send it to us by email (subject line: “Worst Graduation Gift”). Please include a […] - Sponsored
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Lawsuit of the Day, Nauseating Things, Shopping, Tort Reform
Lawsuit of the Day: Wal-Mart Truly Is Vomitous
Today’s Lawsuit of the Day comes to us from Davenport, Iowa, courtesy of the Quad-City Times (via How Appealing): First came a puddle of vomit and a fall, then a classified advertisement and now a lawsuit against Wal-Mart. June and James Medema of Blue Grass, Iowa, filed the suit May 22 in Scott County District […]
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Deborah Tyner, Lawyer of the Day, Shoes, Shopping, You Go Girl
Lawyer of the Day: Cynthia D. Garris
Back in August, we named Judge Deborah Tyner our ATL Judge of the Day. The Honorable Debbie ditched her judicial duties to go shopping, which struck us as absolutely fabulous. Now Judge Tyner has a kindred spirit. Meet Cynthia Garris, a Virginia defense lawyer. From the Virginian Pilot: A local lawyer has been disciplined by […] -
Fashion, Shoes, Shopping, You Go Girl
Sole Sisters: Shoe Shopping with the Gals at Bryan Cave
If “attorney-client networking” conjures up images of bars and baseball games, prepare to give those expectations the boot. The shoe is on the other foot at Bryan Cave: For the 53 shoppers who attended a “shoe event” sponsored by law firm Bryan Cave LLP on a recent Tuesday evening — all of them female lawyers […] -
New York Times, Pictures, Shopping, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch, April 15: The Love Bug
As spring’s warm breezes waft away the winter chill, even stuffy legal-types are feeling the urge to merge. LEWW has been getting all kinds of STDs from lawyers lately (Save The Dates—sheesh, people!), and we’re exercising our clicking finger for the Great Place-Settings Mass Purchase of ’07. Speaking of that, now that registration with Williams-Sonoma […] -
Law Schools, Shopping
Law School In a Box
The guy who wrote this Craigslist post, who wants out of Biglaw after only six months, is probably kicking himself right now. Why did he blow six figures on an NYU legal education? Why didn’t he just buy this product instead? P.S. We assume the CL posting is real. Of course, since it’s anonymous, it […] -
Art, Blogging, Feminism, Free Speech, Kids, Media and Journalism, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Shopping
Non-Sequiturs: 02.02.07
* Blogs: Changing life as we know it — or just giving law students a respite from those pesky casebooks. [Balkinization] * Guess this is more than playful alteration by a bored junior associate, like dropping the “l” from “public offering,” or the “cl” from “Class A common stock” in a prospectus. [National Review via […] - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Allen & Overy, Bad Ideas, Biglaw, McKee Nelson, Money, Shopping, Skaddenfreude
Attention Boy Associates: Here's How To Piss Away Your Pay Raise
We’ve been providing salary news updates in the comments because, due to technical difficulties, it’s more reliable than trying to do so here on the main page. For your reference, here are links to the latest announcements: 1. Allen & Overy: Confirmed. Memo is here. 2. Debevoise & Plimpton: Confirmed. Memo is here. 3. McKee […] -
Enron, Media and Journalism, Money, Pictures, Romance and Dating, Shopping
"And You Say He's Just a Friend..."
Last year, Jesse Oxfeld — formerly of Gawker, now of New York Magazine — delivered this fun scoop: Bethany McLean, the Enron-busting Fortune reporter who co-wrote The Smartest Guys in the Room, is dating the man who put Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling away. The fetching, recently divorced McLean, who covered the trial, is now […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Shopping, Wall Street
Associate Bonus Watch: How Will You Spend Your Loot?
We swear we had the idea before reading this Greedy NY item. Truth be told, we didn’t steal it from the message boards. We stole it from DealBreaker: In business journalism, there are certain kind of articles that get written and rewritten every year. There’s the “How To Behave At An Office Party” article that […] -
Crime, Deaths, Intellectual Property, Kids, Murder, Music, Non-Sequiturs, Patents, Pets, Sex, Shopping, Violence, White-Collar Crime
Non-Sequiturs: 12.15.06
* It helps the People’s case when an alleged polygamist doesn’t look like Brad Pitt or, you know, anyone non-creepy. [AP via Yahoo! News] * “Low blood sugar” is to an opera singer what “exhaustion” is to an anorexic poppet du jour. [International Herald Tribune] * What would the holidays be without a child left […] -
Biglaw, Fashion, Glenn Reynolds, Non-Sequiturs, Office of Legal Policy, Shopping
Some Neckwear Non-Sequiturs
A recent meme of the legal blogosphere: neckties. We find this subject hard to resist, since it lies at the intersection of two of our favorite topics: fashion and law. Because of the staid fashion standards of the legal profession — dark suits, white or blue shirts, black shoes (or brown if you’re wild ‘n […]
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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John Paul Stevens, Milberg Weiss, Morning Docket, Prisons, Shopping, Supreme Court, Tobacco / Smoking
Morning Docket: 11.28.06
* Happy Anniversary, Justice Stevens. [Associated Press via How Appealing] * Our low low prices on handmade office furniture are cruel and unusual! [MSNBC] * The Court lights one up for Big Tobacco. [Law.com] * Milberg Weiss’s judgment day: January 2008. [New York Times]
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Admin, Food, Holidays and Seasons, Shopping
Welcome Back, Turkeys
To those of you who have just returned from the Thanksgiving holiday, hoping that a venti coffee with an extra shot of espresso will bring you out of your food coma: Welcome Back. We hope you had a delightful holiday. The sight (or mere thought) of turkey probably makes you nauseous at this point. But […] -
Colbert Report, Divorce Train Wrecks, Feminism, Jews, Merck, Non-Sequiturs, Oy, Parties, Ridiculousness, Sex, Shameless Plugs, Shopping, Ted Frank
Non Sequiturs: 09.29.06
* Bill Childs disses AEI’s parties. He just doesn’t appreciate a good formal gala. [TortsProf Blog] * FAA regulations: comply with weirded-out flight attendant at all times, no matter how irrational she is. [Prettier Than Napoleon] * Apple claims right to word “podcast”; next: all soundwaves between 4500 and 6000 MHz. [Overlawyered] * Blogs can […] -
Ann Althouse, Bill Clinton, Blog Wars, Blogging, Fashion, Feminism, Gender, HP, Non-Sequiturs, Shoes, Shopping
Non-Sequiturs: 09.20.06
* We’re several days late on this; but it’s just as well. We’re not touching this controversy (see photo below) with the proverbial 10-foot pole. [Althouse; Feministing; Althouse; Feministing] But just out of curiosity, ATL readers, what’s your first reaction to this photo of Bill Clinton and a group of bloggers? Please place your responses […] -
Bad Ideas, Deborah Tyner, Fabulosity, Judge of the Day, Judicial Divas, Shopping, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Above the Law Judge of the Day: Deborah Tyner
Over at the WSJ Law Blog, they have a “Judge of the Day” feature (see, e.g., here). We like the idea so much that we’re going to start up our own version. But as you’ll see from our choices, our “Judge of the Day” selection criteria are a bit different. Our inaugural ATL Judge of […]