Cars
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Cars, Crime, Law Schools, Rudeness, UVA Law
Is Going To UVA Law School Like Using Cocaine?
Between the alleged criminal activity of current students, alleged tall tales told by former students, and all the popped collars, you gotta ask if a little humility might do UVA Law some good? The latest story of alleged misbehavior from UVA Law involves road rage. But what makes this story funny is that it involves a UVA Law student in a car allegedly menacing a UVA history professor on a bike.... -
Cars, Lawyer Advertising, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Weirdness
Captain Lawyer to the Rescue
Parents wield an unbelievable amount of power in the naming of their children. And as we all know, with great power comes great responsibility. Bizarre names can ensure that your child sits alone and friendless in the cafeteria for the better part of his formative years. Great names can spur children on to greatness. Naming […] - Sponsored
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Cars, Crime, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Guns / Firearms
Drinking, Driving, and Packing
Maybe we should look at this as a grand test of the “theory” of evolution via natural selection. Eventually, over the course of hundreds of thousands or millions of years, the gun nuts should really die out, while those who favor sensible gun regulation will live and procreate and prosper. But then again, maybe this […]
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Cars, Celebrities, Drugs, Federal Government, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Oral Sex / Blow Jobs, Politics, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 09.27.11
* How lucky for us that the Senate decided to avoid a government shutdown, but the third time is not the charm when it comes to the taxpayers’ money. [New York Times] * Did DSK get a blowie in his official capacity as Managing Director of the IMF? That might be what he has to […]
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9th Circuit, Antitrust, Biglaw, Cars, Celebrities, Crime, Deaths, Family Law, Federal Judges, Kellogg Huber, Law Schools, Lindsay Lohan, Litigators, Mergers and Acquisitions, Morning Docket, Pamela Ann Rymer, Violence
Morning Docket: 09.23.11
* Police suspect that a client may have been the one to plant a bomb in attorney Erik G. Chappell’s car. Stay far away from family law, folks. [New York Daily News] * “How come there’s not a school where people can go if they want to become trial lawyers?” How come you don’t know […]
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Andrew Cuomo, Antitrust, Cars, Death Penalty, Department of Justice, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Mergers and Acquisitions, Morning Docket, Pornography, SCOTUS, Trademarks, Violence
Morning Docket: 09.22.11
* It took SCOTUS more than four hours to write one sentence. But oh, to be a fly on the wall last night when they decided to deny a stay of execution for Troy Davis. [New York Times] * AT&T wants to take the DOJ’s antitrust case to trial. This must be some sort of […]
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Cars, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Law School Deans, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Buzzed Driving Is Still Legal
It’s not against the law to have a glass of wine or two with dinner and then drive home. — Michael Piccarreta, attorney for Lawrence Ponoroff, dean of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, discussing last week’s dismissal of a DUI charge against the dean. The legal blood-alcohol content limit in […] -
Cars, Privacy, Technology
Your Car Knows What You Did Last Summer
When someone sent contributor Christopher Danzig a video entitled "6 Ways Your Car Can Spy on You," he had little-to-no expectations. But it turned out the little slideshow actually had a few tasty morsels of knowledge. Keep reading to learn how simply paying bridge tolls keeps you on the grid, and how police can assign liability based on an unexpected similarity between airplanes and your Honda Civic.... - Sponsored
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California, Cars, Hotties, Romance and Dating, Rudeness
Law License Plates: Welcome to the Dating Game
Today, we are writing about lawyers who have announced their dating qualifications on their license plates. Maybe these folks are fans of our Courtship Connection series, but they're too afraid to go on blind dates. Let's help these people out, because they seem to be single and looking in California and New York. Let's check out our Dating Game contestants.... -
Alston & Bird, Animal Law, Benchslaps, Biglaw, Cars, Deaths, Federal Judges, Law Schools, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Musical Chairs, Non-Sequiturs, Sam Sparks, Texas
Non-Sequiturs: 09.01.11
* Remember the “kindergarten party” that Judge Sam Sparks (W.D. Tex.) was planning to hold? His Honor has canceled the festivities. [WSJ Law Blog] * John Althouse Cohen — yes, son of La Althouse — discusses one way in which Texas might be emulating… Europe? [Jaltcoh] * Professor Paul Campos opens up a can of […] -
Cars, Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: He's Buying a Stairway to Heaven?
You take my … money you better get a federal law agency like the F.B.I. on the case. You will hear about me and read about me. I promise that. — Roy Lee Conger Jr., complaining about a lien placed on one of his bank accounts after his divorce train wreck. Conger had been involved […] -
Biglaw, California, Cars, Kasowitz Benson, Pro Se Litigants, Ridiculousness
Remembrances of Gregory Berry
Since we first wrote about Gregory Berry, the former Kasowitz Benson associate who is suing the firm for $77 million, Above the Law readers have been sharing their opinions about working with him. Let's take a look at their opinions.... -
Abortion, Asians, Cars, Law Schools, LSAT, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Texas, Video games, Women's Issues
Non-Sequiturs: 08.18.11
* Maybe we need law school law firms in the first place because law school professors — the ones who drill law into our heads for 3 years — are “incapable of practicing law.” [Adjunct Law Prof Blog] * “Boss, I’m stuck in traffic. No, I’m literally stuck.” Driving your car into wet concrete is […]
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Cars, Rudeness, Stupid Lawyer Tricks
Law License Plates: Say It Loud, We're Lawyers and We're Proud
In this edition of the Law License Plates series, we are writing about legal professionals who are so proud of what they do that they've slapped their titles on their license plates. If this isn't an invitation to get rear-ended, then I don't know what is. These submissions come to us from New York, Ohio, and Tennessee, proving that stupid lawyer tricks know no bounds across state lines.... -
Cars, Crime, Deaths, Law Schools, Murder, Violence
More on Stephen McDaniel: A Missing Bar Prep Session, and Possible Fiber Evidence
The Macon Telegraph has reported that Stephen McDaniel might have missed a bar exam review class on the morning that Lauren Giddings's body was found. Where was he, and what do blue and gray fibers have to do with it? -
Cars, Crime, DUI / DWI, Rudeness, Texas
Law License Plates: Defenders Unite
In our last edition of the Law License Plates series, we wrote about Massholes. In this version, we're writing about a different kind of a-hole: criminal and DUI defense attorneys. It seems like defense attorneys are making straight cash, homey.... -
Cars, Cozen O'Connor, Deaths, Gay, Jersey Shore, Lindsay Lohan, Morning Docket, Sexual Harassment, Texas
Morning Docket: 08.03.11
* Cozen O’Connor is caught between the parents and lesbian partner of a deceased attorney in a death benefits war. Lawyers’ fees will eat through that profit-sharing plan in no time. [Philadelphia Inquirer] * Because everything’s bigger in Texas, they’ve got the seventh-largest lawyer surplus in the country. Wrangling a job at the employment rodeo […]
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Cars, Kids, Rudeness, Texas
Law License Plates: Back to the Future
It's been almost a month since our last post on law-related vanity license plates. The latest submissions came to us from Massachusetts. Looking at these plates is a bit like looking into a crystal ball. Are you ready to see your future? -
Cars, Lawsuit of the Day, Suicide
Lawsuit of the Day: Good Samaritans Sue Woman They Rescued
Before you've been through 1L Torts, this story is shocking. After you've been through 1Ls Torts, it's not that surprising. Two men saved a woman from the wreckage of a burning car, and now they're suing.... -
Cars, Constitutional Law, Free Speech, Jury Duty, Rudeness
Is A Ban on 'Truck Nuts' Unconstitutional?
Is a ban on "truck nuts" unconstitutional? Actually, do you even know what "truck nuts" are? Ignorance may be bliss, but it's time to enlighten yourself....