Valentine’s Day
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Contests, Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Holidays and Seasons, Quote of the Day
Because Valentine's Day Is the Best Time to End Your Marriage
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California, Courtship Connection, Holidays and Seasons, Romance and Dating, Silicon Valley
Courtship Connection: Moving West
Happy Valentine’s Day to you if you have a date lined up tonight! For the rest of you, Happy Staying-In-To-Watch-A-Movie-And-Drink-With-Your-Single-Friends Day. Last year, two Washington lawyers actually let me set them up on a V-Day date. This year, with my pool of Chicago candidates, I didn’t bother. I wouldn’t wish the boring Chicago dating scene […] - Sponsored
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Holidays and Seasons, Labor / Employment, Quote of the Day, Romance and Dating, Sexual Harassment
Quote of the Day: That's What You Think...
There’s no Valentine’s Day exemption to the sexual harassment laws. — Labor and employment attorney Steven Palazzolo, commenting on what not to do in the workplace on Valentine’s Day.
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Holidays and Seasons, Romance and Dating
Be My Contractually Obligated Valentine
Yesterday was Valentine's Day. That means different things to different people. For a married man, it's a day when you can only get in trouble for underperformance. For a single woman over 30, it's a day to make you feel like you are going to die alone. For a single man with money, it's a day to shoot fish in a barrel. For a young woman, it's a day of presents. For Hallmark, florists, and chocolatiers, it's a day of straight cash, homey. For lawyers? Well, it's a day to enter into a non-binding contractual agreement for affection and fellatio, silly.... -
Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Holidays and Seasons, Romance and Dating, Solo Practitioners
This Valentine's Day, Give the Everlasting Gift of Love Divorce
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and for some people, it represents a time to serenade a sweetheart, pop bottles of champagne, and stare dreamily into the eyes of Mr. or Ms. Right (or Right Now, as the case may be). For others, Valentine’s Day is a time of loneliness and despair — angry, […] -
Biglaw, Celebrities, Crowell & Moring, Divorce Train Wrecks, Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Firm Names, Morning Docket, Murder, Partner Profits
Morning Docket: 02.09.12
* At least two firms probably won’t be handing out spring bonuses like candy this year. While gross revenue remained steady at Dickstein Shapiro and Crowell & Moring, PPP dropped at both firms. [Legal Times] * Not-so breaking news: the Thirteenth Amendment applies only to humans. It seems like the only people who didn’t already […]
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Courtship Connection, Gay, Holidays and Seasons, Romance and Dating
Courtship Connection: One Hit, Two Misses
Given the track record of Above the Law’s lawyer-matchmaking series, some may think we should change the name of the series to the Courtship Misconnection. In one of our first Washington, D.C. couplings, on Superbowl Sunday, a male lawyer fumbled his date with a “disarmingly feisty and unabashedly vivacious” female associate. (Beware the women who […] -
Romance and Dating, Small Law Firms
Size Matters: Love and the Small Law Firm
Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Size Matters, one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. Valentine’s Day was yesterday, and everywhere you turned, someone was trying to spread the message of love. Rachel Ray was on Good Morning America, showing us how to cook breakfast in bed. Every grocery store […] - Sponsored
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American Bar Association / ABA, Courtship Connection, Non-Sequiturs, Romance and Dating, Theater
Non-Sequiturs: 02.14.11
* The anatomy of Courtship Connections. Kash explains why it’s so difficult to set lawyers up with each other. [Forbes] * Alan Dershowitz and Julian Assange make a love connection. [Politico] * Does compassion really have any place in the law? [Underdog] * Many of the lonely among you will be drinking heavily tonight. That’s […] -
Biglaw, Holidays and Seasons, Money, Romance and Dating, Women's Issues
Advice for 'Sugar-Mama' Attorneys and Their Low-Income Male Life Partners
This is a very modern Valentine’s Day story, and one that is only possible in the prestige-obsessed world of Biglaw and a few other similar professions. A woman is an associate at a law firm. She’s probably an associate at a Biglaw firm, since she claims to earn a six-figure salary. She’s engaged to a […] -
Holidays and Seasons, Sex, Sexual Harassment, Shopping, Shopping For Others
Protip: Do Not Buy A Vibrator For Any Lady At Your Office
Valentine’s Day is coming up. Married men are looking forward to their annual opportunity to have oral sex (don’t act like I’m the only one). Single guys are wondering what kind of depressed and ovulating women will show up at their local bar, alone. And ladies are just hoping for something that will turn all […]
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