Deidre Dare

* Smart women, foolish choices? Alexandra Marchuk might regret turning down a $425,001 offer of judgment from the defendants in Marchuk v. Faruqi & Faruqi, in which she wound up getting a $140,000 verdict. [Law360 (sub. req.)]

* In other news from high-profile sexual harassment cases, the trial in Harvard Law grad Ellen Pao’s lawsuit against venture capital behemoth Kleiner Perkins got underway yesterday. [USA Today]

* A guilty verdict and a life sentence in the “American Sniper” trial. [New York Times]

* Embattled politico Sheldon Silver has turned to the talented Steven Molo in seeking to get the criminal charges against him dismissed. [New York Post]

* J.J. Nelson v. Adidas: coming to a 1L Contracts casebook near you? [ESPN]

* Law schools dropping the LSAT: a trend in the making? [BloombergBusiness]

* The latest in Deidre Clark v. Allen & Overy: is plaintiff Deidre Dare ready for her close-up psychological exam? [New York Law Journal]

* Is the job outlook for law school graduates brightening? Some thoughts from Jim Leipold of NALP. [National Law Journal via ABA Journal]

* As he runs for Congress, what does Staten Island district attorney Daniel M. Donovan Jr. have to say about the Eric Garner case? [New York Times]

Based on his videotaped deposition, this retired managing partner could have a second career as a reader of erotic audiobooks.

What's the latest news in sexy expat Deidre Dare's never-ending litigation against her former employer, Allen & Overy?

Remember former Allen & Overy associate Deidre Dare, and her effort to raise $25,000 online through Kickstarter, to publish her sex-soaked novel about expat escapades? Did she succeed?

Deidre Dare, the expat lawyer who was terminated from Allen & Overy after writing a "sexy" e-novel, is back, and this time she's suing the firm in the Big Apple. Her claims of unfair termination didn't work in London, so now she's asking the courts for $35 million over her supervising partner's alleged sexual advances. Maybe this will help her raise money to publish her new book...

Memorial Day weekend is almost here, and we all know what that means: the arrival of summer. And we all know what summer means: people taking their clothes off, at the beach or pool. People taking their clothes off got us thinking about one of our favorite personalities here at Above the Law: Deidre Dare, […]

We have another episode in the saga of Deidre Dare, one of our favorite laid-off lawyers. She was an attorney in Allen & Overy’s Russia office until she penned typed a salacious online novel about her expat adventures, which featured lots of drinking, sex, drugs, donkeys, and dwarves. After the firm let her go, she […]

Deidre Dare is one of our favorite laid-off lawyers. She was working in Russia for Allen & Overy, and decided to pen a salacious online novel about her expat adventures. The literary critics at A&O were not pleased with the novel, which featured lots of drinking, sex, drugs, donkeys, and dwarves. After she lost her […]

Deidre Dare was our Lawyer of the Day Weekend back in January. Judging from the traffic on that post, we assume most of you know her story. If not, here are the quick and dirty details: Dare, a Columbia Law grad, was a senior associate in Allen & Overy’s Moscow office. She was having fun […]

Deidre Dare is a senior lawyer in Allen & Overy’s Russia office. Like many an expat, she’s been maintaining a website, presumably to keep folks back home up to date on her life and to share the splendor of living abroad with random strangers on the Internet. On the website, Philosophy Can Be Sexy, she […]