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Fashion, Fashion Victims Unit, Law Schools, Music, Videos, Weirdness, YouTube
America's Next Top Model: A University of Miami 1L?
We just finished watching America’s Next Top Model. So it’s quite appropriate for us to pass along this modeling montage video, which is amusingly bizarre. From a tipster: I hate to pile it on, but you have to check out this YouTube clip of a University of Miami 1L. It’s a seven-minute clip of various […] -
Adam Key, Free Speech, Law Schools, Monica Goodling, Regent University School of Law, Religion, Rudeness, YouTube
Regent Law School in the News Once Again
The most famous student or graduate of Regent University School of Law, the conservative law school founded by the American televangelist Pat Robertson, is probably the fabulous Monica Goodling. If you’re on Facebook, you can join her fan club here. But a husky, heavily tattooed freak-show 2L is giving La Goodling a run for her […] - Sponsored
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Intellectual Property, Music, Patents, Videos, YouTube
A Musical Shout-Out to the Patent Bar
A reader drew a legally-themed music video to our attention: It’s from a specialized patent blog, but some of your readers may find it funny — especially because is an actual partner from a large firm singing the song. Is this a new BigLaw marketing trend? Check out the video via Patently O. As you […]
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Books, Jeffrey Toobin, Non-Sequiturs, Real Estate, Social Networking Websites, YouTube
Non-Sequiturs: 09.11.07
* More lawyers — no, not Nixon Peabody — have a bone to pick with YouTube. [Michael Geist] * UK study: “Workers who spend time on sites such as Facebook could be costing firms over £130m a day.” [BBC via Dealbreaker] * Speaking of Facebook, here’s some advice that’s so obvious, yet so frequently ignored: […] -
Bad Ideas, Copyright, Music, New York Times, Peter Lattman, Videos, WSJ Law Blog, YouTube
Nixon Peabody ThemeSongGate: A Synopsis
Right now some of you are probably thinking: “Enough already about Alberto Gonzales and Michael Vick! Isn’t there anything else you can write about?” Of course. Let’s go back to the story of Nixon Peabody, and its ridiculous law firm theme song! (In preemptive response to those of you who are sick and tired of […] -
Copyright, Fabulosity, Free Speech, Intellectual Property, Music, Videos, YouTube
Nixon Peabody ThemeSongGate: This Story Has Legs
Please see the short parody video posted below. Is this a casebook-ready example of “fair use,” or what? To ChurchHatesTucker, who produced the video: You are a genius and a god. (Please note that we had no hand in making this video. ChurchHatesTucker acted sua sponte, after reading this Techdirt story.) Update: Blawg Review, quoting […] -
Bad Ideas, Blogging, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Music, Rank Stupidity, Ridiculousness, YouTube
Nixon Peabody ThemeSongGate: A Linkwrap
Sadly, the humorless crew over at Nixon Peabody has had their fabulous law firm song — which, mind you, is NOT a theme song — pulled from YouTube. See here. Even if it’s gone from YouTube, you can still access “Everyone’s A Winner” as a plain-vanilla MP3 file. Just click here. We incorporate by reference […] -
Bad Ideas, Music, Rank Stupidity, YouTube
Nixon Peabody ThemeSongGate: An Update
Our most recent post about Nixon Peabody — which has a song, but NOT a theme song — is about to scroll off the ATL front page. And we couldn’t allow that, now could we? So here’s an update. A few brief points: 1. Some of you have described a fabulous video that accompanied “Everyone’s […] - Sponsored
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Advertising, Bad Ideas, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Music, Rank Stupidity, YouTube
Nixon Peabody: This Is Not a Love Theme Song
We’ve been in touch with representatives of the Nixon Peabody law firm about the musical composition that we posted (mp3) and wrote about this morning. First they sent us a statement by email: “This song was put together in celebration of Nixon Peabody’s Fortune 100 ‘Best Places to Work’ recognition. Nixon Peabody aims to be […] -
Craigslist, Drugs, Non-Sequiturs, Racism, Violence, YouTube
Non-Sequiturs: 04.09.07
* Worst Craigslist prank we’ve seen in a while. [News Tribune] * Leaves homemade videos of karaoke sessions and musical burping in the dust. [MSN] * Whenever you fall into a funk and feel that you have nothing to show for your life thus far, think of this sad lawyer, who has only placed a […] -
Copyright, Cyberlaw, Intellectual Property, Videos, YouTube
Coming Attractions: Viacom - YouTube - Google Smackdown
This was widely predicted as a consequence of Google’s acquisition of YouTube. If you combine a website that allegedly engages in “massive intentional copyright infringement” with the deep pockets of one of America’s largest companies, you’re asking for lawsuits. From the AP: MTV owner Viacom Inc. sued the popular video-sharing site YouTube and its corporate […] -
Biglaw, Canada, Job Searches, Music, Sex, Tim Wu, Videos, YouTube
Canadians Really ARE Funnier Than Americans
According to the recent lawsuit filed by Aaron Charney, Sullivan & Cromwell thinks that Canadians are “irrelevant.” We have a different view of our neighbors to the north. We think Canucks are horny. And pretty damn funny. This music video, Promiscuous Firm, is from the 2007 University of Alberta Law Show. And it’s far more […] -
Copyright, Cyberlaw, Death Penalty, Enron, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Ken Lay, Morning Docket, Television, Trials, Wal-Mart, YouTube
Morning Docket: 01.26.07
* When you use YouTube to bootleg 24, the terrorists win. [WSJ Law Blog] * North Carolina doctors refuse to play executioner; executions temporarily blocked. [Jurist] * Wal-Mart agrees to cough up $33 million for overtime violations. [FindLaw] * This wasn’t the law already?. [AP via Yahoo!] * Seven defendants, including the estate of Kenneth […]
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Book Deals, Books, Football, Money, Morning Docket, O.J. Simpson, Politics, Religion, Sex Scandals, War on Terror, YouTube
Morning Docket: 01.15.07
* So apparently the feds knew about law firm bonuses before ATL. [MSNBC] * Guess which party just picked up two swing states. [CNN] * Shutting down YouTube: the ultimate jealous boyfriend move. [MSNBC] * OJ’s money is going nowhere for now. [AP] * Federal court allows suit against Vatican. [MSNBC]
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Cyberlaw, Lawsuit of the Day, YouTube
Lawsuit of the Day: A Tale of Two YouTubes
Move over, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer. There’s a new “Tube” case on the block. YouTube is being sued — but not by a company asserting a copyright claim. From the AP: A company that shut down its Web site because it was overwhelmed by millions of people looking for YouTube has sued […] -
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The Google-YouTube Deal
We like YouTube. A lot. It’s where we uploaded the infamous FU deposition clip — and where we’d like to upload more law-related video clips, if we can get our hands on them. We also go to YouTube to watch music videos, like ones starring Phil Alito look-alikes. So were delighted to learn about YouTube […] -
Depositions, Rudeness, Videos, YouTube
Another Atypical Deposition
One of our finest moments in private practice took place during a deposition. We had been up the entire night before, along with the paralegal on the case, pulling documents and preparing deposition outline material for the partner. It was a critical deposition: the deposition of the plaintiff, a billionaire businessman (on the Forbes 400 […]