Pregnancy / Paternity
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Biglaw, Feminism, Gender, Kids, Pregnancy / Paternity, Women's Issues
Biglaw Baby Making 101
There’s been so much talk of Biglaw women and baby making floating around the blogosphere this week that I think there must have been a “repopulate the species” action memo in US Weekly. Existentially, I blame the season. It’s January, and childless professional women just went through another holiday season getting bombarded with images of […] -
Feminism, Gender, In-House Counsel, Pregnancy / Paternity, Women's Issues
Work/Life Whatever and Ten Missing Minutes of Tape
Ed. note: This post is by Will Meyerhofer, a former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney turned psychotherapist. He holds degrees from Harvard, NYU Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work, and he blogs at The People’s Therapist. His new book, Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy, is available on Amazon. I did a […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Citigroup, David Boies, Jed Rakoff, Layoffs, Litigators, Litigatrix, Pregnancy / Paternity, Trials
The Boies Schiller Three: An Update
It’s time for a brief postscript on one of this month’s juicier (and well-trafficked) stories: the dismissal of three women associates from litigation powerhouse Boies Schiller. We have a few additional tidbits that we can share with you. But this is probably the last story we’ll be doing on this drama, since we don’t expect […]
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Biglaw, Citigroup, Layoffs, Peter Lattman, Pregnancy / Paternity
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Boies Schiller(But query whether these were really 'layoffs.')
This morning brought more lawyer layoff news. As reported by Peter Lattman over at DealBook, David Boies’s celebrated litigation firm, Boies Schiller, last week laid off three associates. (The DealBook piece refers to the dismissals as “layoffs,” and we’ve used that terminology in the title of this post and the first paragraph. But whether these […] -
Basketball, Pregnancy / Paternity, Sports
After the Way He Treated Cleveland, Why Would Anyone Want To Be LeBron James's Father?
LeBron James is taking his talents to Washington. Well, at least his lawyers are. Lawyers for King James have filed their motion to dismiss the suit filed by Leicester Bryce Stovell, a D.C.-based lawyer. Stovell claims that he is LeBron’s father and that LeBron’s mother, Gloria James, tampered with the paternity test that would have […] -
Pregnancy / Paternity, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Update: 'Baby Mama' Drama on Wisconsin Bench Reaches Resolution
Back in February 2009, we named the Honorable Joseph Wall a Judge of the Day. Joe Wall, at the time a Wisconsin trial court judge, used the term “baby mama” at the sentencing of an African-American defendant. He also made additional amusing quips — e.g., suggesting that “baby mamas” congregate at “a club” to find […] -
Celebrities, Contract Attorneys, Pregnancy / Paternity, Sports, Weirdness
An Interview with the Alleged Father of LeBron James(aka Gloria James's 'Baby Daddy')
In the aftermath of last week’s “LeBromination,” where we witnessed the Miami Heat become the basketball power equivalent of the SuperFriends, this was the response from a colleague of mine to a related story gaining steam in the media: “Yeah, and I’m Shaq’s uncle.” The last two weeks have been quite a whirlwind for Leicester […] -
Basketball, Lawyer of the Day, Pregnancy / Paternity, Sports
Lawyer of the Day: Leicester Bryce Stovell (aka LeBron's Daddy)
LeBron James, who’s your daddy? (Unfortunately, it’s not the Knicks, to Elie’s great dismay.) Could it be a Washington lawyer by the name of Leicester Bryce Stovell? Stovell came forward this week, claiming to have knocked up Gloria James when she was 15 and to have genetic proof that he’s the King’s father. Like all […] - Sponsored
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Feminism, Gender, Kids, Pregnancy / Paternity, Women's Issues
K&L Gates: Closed to Associate Mothers?
From time to time, we’ve tried to track whether or not the Biglaw layoffs have had a disparate impact on women or minorities. There hasn’t been a lot of hard evidence. We did a story last year on layoffs at Squire Sanders that seemed to disproportionately affect women. And this year we ran a report […] -
Crime, Pregnancy / Paternity, Rank Stupidity, Violence
Misadventures in Contract Law
Some of you apparently feel that your law degrees aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. But there’s no denying that what you learned in first-year contracts class comes in handy — and not just for understanding the gobbledygook in your apartment lease. Check out what happens when laypeople try to do contract law…. Charge: […] -
Abortion, Family Law, Jeffrey Toobin, Kids, Media and Journalism, Pregnancy / Paternity, Sex, Sex Scandals
The Jeffrey Toobin / Casey Greenfield Drama Rolls On
Over on the website of the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin has a nice post on how Elena Kagan deftly finessed the “gays in the military” / Solomon Amendment issue while serving as dean of Harvard Law School. It’s an interesting read; check it out here (via Dahlia Lithwick’s Twitter feed). Alas, these days Toobin is […] -
Jeffrey Toobin, Media and Journalism, Pregnancy / Paternity, Sex Scandals
Alleged Jeffrey Toobin Baby Mama Has a 'Back-Up Plan'
Over the weekend, Casey Greenfield — Yale Law School graduate, Gibson Dunn litigatrix, and daughter of political pundit Jeff Greenfield — made a foray into film criticism. Greenfield published a review of the new Jennifer Lopez movie, The Back-Up Plan, in the Daily Beast. Adrian Chen of Gawker breaks it down: The mother of CNN […] -
Family Law, Jeffrey Toobin, Media and Journalism, Pregnancy / Paternity, Sex, Sex Scandals
Legal Eagles Mate: But Who Will Take Care of the Eaglet? Jeffrey Toobin Taken to Family Court by Gibson Dunn Associate.
One blogger teed up a story about celebrated legal and political journalist Jeffrey Toobin being sued for paternity with this quip: “This Might be Scandalous If Anyone Watched CNN.” But people also read the New Yorker, where Toobin is a longtime legal correspondent, as well as Toobin’s bestselling books — including, most recently, The Nine: […]
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Biglaw, Email Scandals, Holy Crap, Pregnancy / Paternity
Breaking: A Dramatic Farewell Email
And proof of Paul Hastings layoffs.