Alcohol
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2nd Circuit, Drinking, Federal Judges
Billionaire Is SOL Because Of The SOL When It Comes to Thomas Jefferson's Wine
It must be every billionaire wine connoisseur’s dream to own a few bottles from the cellars of the man who drafted the Declaration of Independence -- except if the wine turns out to be fake. -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Career Alternatives, Drinking, In-House Counsel
D.C. Attorney Gives Up Law for Her True Passion: Booze
An attorney is putting her legal career aside to follow something she’s been passionate about since her college days: wine. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Constitutional Law, Drinking, Free Speech, Lawsuit of the Day, Religion
Idaho Bans Specific Vodka For Being Offensive Towards Mormons
I thought vodka was supposed to make people loosen up...
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6th Circuit, Drinking, Federal Judges, Intellectual Property
Wow, This Sixth Circuit Judge Knows A Lot About Bourbon
It's not every day that a federal appellate ruling doubles as an informative history lesson about bourbon whiskey. -
Drinking, Law Schools, Nauseating Things, Parties
Barrister's Ball Blowout: A Night of Booze, Barf, and Blood (and B*tching About the Budget)
Bleeding, barfing, and breaching contracts is no way to go through life... -
Biglaw, Celebrities, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Facebook, Fenwick & West, John Edwards, Money, Morning Docket, Politics, Prostitution, Student Loans
Morning Docket: 04.10.12
* With help from Fenwick & West, Facebook snatched up Instagram in a $1B deal that closed in just 54 hours. That’s a big accomplishment, but the bigger one was valuing a company that helps f**k up your photos at such a high price. [Am Law Daily]
* Senator Dick Durbin is trying to collect stories about soul-crushing law school debt in an effort to reform lending laws, but law students and new lawyers aren’t speaking up about the problem. Hey, Dick, it’s time to start reading Above the Law. [National Law Journal]
* Apparently sarcasm is lost upon mention of George Zimmerman, so let’s play this one straight. The man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin has set up a website to solicit money for his defense fund. Actually, that’s a pretty great punchline on it’s own. [MSNBC]
* A judge has refused to reduce accused “Millionaire Madam” Anna Gristina’s $2M bail. With her alleged clientele, you’d think she’d be able to afford it. Come on, John Edwards gets $400 haircuts. He’s probably willing to pay top dollar for his call girls. [Bloomberg]
* Amanda Bynes wasn’t drunk on alcohol, she was drunk on emotions, claims her daddy. That’s a defense that will totally stand up in court on a DUI charge. [New York Daily News]
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Advertising, Drinking, Lawsuit of the Day
Belvedere 'Date Rape' Model Won't Let Ad Go Down Smoothly
Belvedere Vodka is still suffering a hangover from the rapey ad it broadcast on its Twitter and Facebook feeds last month. -
Drinking, Facebook, Quote of the Day, Social Media, Social Networking Websites
Facebook Status Update of the Day: In Whine There Is Truth
This quote is funny because it's all too true.... - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Ave Maria School of Law, Crime, Drinking, Guns / Firearms, Law Schools, Murder, Violence
Will Robert Ringley Be Returning to Ave Maria School of Law?
Throughout our coverage of Robert Ringley, the Ave Maria School of Law student accused of attempted murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, many have offered up their comments about the alleged occurrence, and thoughts about law school in general. This comment was perhaps the most fitting of them all: Law school is a […] -
Ave Maria School of Law, Crime, Drinking, Guns / Firearms, Law Schools, Murder, Violence
Who is Robert Ringley? An Ave Maria Law Classmate Tells All
Earlier this week, we brought you news about Robert Christopher Ringley, the second-year student at Ave Maria School of Law who stands accused of shooting at and threatening to kill two of his classmates — Christopher Graves and Samantha Morris — during an alleged drunken bender. In case you missed our coverage, Ringley has been […] -
Ave Maria School of Law, Crime, Drinking, Guns / Firearms, Law Schools, Murder, Violence
Ave Maria School of Law Student Accused of Attempted Murder
Law school, copious amounts of alcohol, and unrequited love are the ingredients necessary for a very dangerous cocktail, the effects of which can lead to much more than just a bad hangover. Just ask Robert Ringley, a man whom we believe to be a second-year student at the Ave Maria School of Law. Ringley was charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly threatening to kill and shooting at two of his Ave Maria Law classmates. What caused Ringley's alleged of acts violence, and what's love got to do with it? Let's take a closer look at the allegations.... -
Asians, Crime, Drinking, Guns / Firearms, Jury Duty, Law Schools, Litigators, Plaintiffs Firms, Temple University, James E. Beasley Law, Trials, Violence
DiDonato v. Ung: The Temple Law Shooter Gets Hit -- With a Civil Suit
Eddie DiDonato Jr., a former lacrosse star at Villanova and the son of a prominent partner at the Fox Rothschild law firm, has filed a civil lawsuit against Gerald Ung, the Temple Law School student who shot DiDonato in January 2010 in the Old City section of Philadelphia. Ung isn't the only defendant. DiDonato is suing a half dozen other parties, relying on various theories of liability. Let's think of this as a Torts final exam: Who else might DiDonato be suing besides Ung? What causes of action can you see? -
Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Layoffs, Letter from London, Unemployment, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Letter from London: Jobless Lawyer Starts Occupy Movement
The Occupy movement has reached the legal profession, with an unemployed law graduate launching a campaign to occupy the Inns of Court (London’s legal quarter). “Through no fault of our own, a generation of [law school] graduates find ourselves with no jobs — or no jobs as lawyers anyway,” wrote the graduate under the alias […]
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Deaths, Drinking, FDA, Food, Guns / Firearms, Violence
Parents Try To Blame Four Loko For Son Getting Shot
If we try hard enough, I bet we can blame the entire collapse of the American economy on some Lehman Brothers dudes who had too much Four Loko. We’ve been following the successful crusade to get the original Four Loko banned because of its “dangerous” combination of caffeine and alcohol. Outlawing one specific mixture of […] -
Biglaw, Blackberry-Crackberry, Election 2012, Food, Insider Trading, iPhone, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Nauseating Things, Politics, Rape, Sentencing Law, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 10.14.11
* Members of the Occupy Wall Street brigade were allowed to continue to be dirty hippies living in a park without toilets this morning. So fresh and so clean! OMG, yippee! [Wall Street Journal] * French prosecutors have dropped another yet another rape charge lodged against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Seriously? It looks like nothing sticks to […]
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Antonin Scalia, Breasts, Crime, Drinking, Election 2012, Facebook, Morning Docket, Privacy, SCOTUS, Screw-Ups, Violence
Morning Docket: 10.03.11
* After Anwar al-Awlaki’s death, everyone wants to know if it’s legal to kill American citizens abroad. Well, if Ron Paul is wrong, then I don’t want to be right. [New York Daily News] * Sullivan & Cromwell and the Mailroom of Death: Harry Potter series reject or SCOTUS-bound appeal? If only there were a […]
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Biglaw, Drinking, Football, Kramer Levin, Morning Docket, Privacy, Sports, Technology
Morning Docket: 07.20.11
* News Corp. has hired Paul Weiss attorney Mark Mendelsohn, a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act expert, to advise them. In related news, Chuck Norris has hired Wendi Deng Murdoch to advise him. [WSJ Law Blog] * Utah’s goofy liquor laws are examined in this New York Times article. The restrictive laws clearly came out of […]
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Native Americans, Racism, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Judges Beware, Because Some Defendants Just 'Go Native'
Growing up, we had something called the “coffee filter” in my house. It was my mom’s cutesy way of telling us that we always needed to think before speaking, but it worked (most of the time). The world would probably be a much better place if everyone bothered to use their coffee filters, but the […] -
Drinking, Law Schools
Celebrating With Alcohol? Oh Noes!
I get that the legal profession has a drinking problem, if you will, but today we have an example of how a law school should not go about keeping young, would-be lawyers off the bottle. Imagine you are a 1L. You just finished your first set of finals of your first year of law school, […]