Alberto Gonzales

* Alberto Gonzales the opera. No, that is not a joke. [Gonzales Cantata] * Have you ever wondered if your career would be going better if you were a lawyer in Korea? If so … you can stop worrying now. [The Chosun Ilbo] * A lot of you have emailed me asking whether I hate […]

Who is the publicist for Alberto Gonzales? Shouldn’t this person have warned the former attorney general about the perils of being interviewed by Deborah Solomon, the snarky, cranky, exceedingly direct interviewer for the New York Times Magazine? She’s not known for tossing softballs at her subjects. To his credit, Gonzales didn’t shy away from the […]

* Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales finally found a job! He’s going to terrorize the students at Texas Tech. [Houston Chronicle] * Dewey & LeBoeuf snags three top tech lawyers from Cooley Godward. The three dealmakers wanted to make a splash with their switch, giving the Times DealBook juicy quotes like, “[W]e’re M.&A. lawyers, and […]

Last year was the year of layoffs, and 2009 is not looking much better. Law firms are not the only ones hurting. From the Wall Street Journal [subscription] via the Daily Beast. A December survey of US-based employers found that 23 percent expect to lay off workers in the next year and more than 15 […]

Time is running out on this month’s ATL Lawyer of the Year and Second Favorite Blog After ATL polls, both sponsored by ATL and Lateral Link. So far, we’re up to just over 2,600 votes for Lawyer of the Year, and Wall Street Journal pick Loyola 2L is still going strong. Meanwhile, Barack Obama has […]

In last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we asked you to submit your nominations for Lawyer of the Year. Today, you get to vote! The nominees, and select comments explaining why, are below: Aaron Charney For both the attention focused, success of action, and for the visibility [he] brought to the secondary issue of […]

Part of a blogger’s job description is to shamelessly rip off stuff from the mainstream media. So we’re going to follow in the footsteps of the ABA Journal and the WSJ Law Blog, and name ATL’s first annual Lawyer of the Year. (Of course, it’s not that original an idea to begin with, insofar as […]

He just wants your money. From the ACS Blog: Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will receive $40,000 for a speech at the University of Florida, according to the Independent Florida Alligator, UF’s student newspaper. The November 19 speech will be paid for by student activity fees. (H/T The Blog of Legal Times) Being an ex-AG: […]

* Across the pond, Allen & Overy hopes to pick up recruits — quite literally. [Charon QC: The Blawg] * One path to a judgeship: marry a prominent political fundraiser. [Daily Business Review] * Alberto Gonzales and George Terwilliger should get along famously. [Washington Briefs] * The fame of the S&C bonsai trees spreads, as […]

On Tuesday, we reported on several sightings of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, in the vicinity of 13th and F Streets here in Washington, DC. Now we know what he was doing in that part of town: [F]ormer AGAG has retained George Terwilliger of White & Case to represent him in the investigation surrounding his […]

Here’s our latest legal celebrity sighting, for our occasional Eyes of the Law feature: I’ve seen Alberto Gonzales walking the streets near Metro Center three times in the last month. Today he was walking with a blonde woman who was keeping a comfortable distance and not saying much. She looked like someone I should recognize, […]

During his tenure as attorney general, Alberto Gonzales made it a policy priority to “keep our children safe” from creeps on the internets. As it turns out, at least one alleged creep worked for the DOJ: A U.S. Justice Department official has been arrested on suspicion of traveling to Detroit over the weekend to have […]

No official announcement has been made (despite the claim of Wikipedia that “[o]n September 16, 2007, President George W. Bush nominated Mukasey to serve as the 81st Attorney General of the United States”). But numerous news outlets are reporting that President Bush has selected Michael B. Mukasey — currently a partner at Patterson Belknap Webb […]

Are you a Department of Justice employee? If so, why are you at your desk? Shouldn’t you be at the festivities in honor of Alberto Gonzales’s last day? DOJ employees are invited to attend the Farewell Ceremony for Alberto R. Gonzales, 80th Attorney General of the United States. The ceremony will be held at 3:00 […]

Back on Tuesday, it was widely rumored that an attorney general nomination announcement was imminent — and that the nominee was going to be former Solicitor General Ted Olson (pictured at right, at his wedding last year). But we had our doubts. We opined that Olson, confirmed as SG by a narrow 51-47 margin, might […]

Yesterday we opined that Judge Laurence H. Silberman would get the Attorney General nomination. Now we take that back. After our post, a knowledgeable source informed us that Laurence Silberman isn’t interested in the job. A second source, who confirmed Judge Silberman’s lack of interest, added that he might be tougher to confirm that one […]

As noted in the Washington Post, President Bush is expected to name Alberto Gonzales’s replacement as attorney general in the next few days, after returning from Australia tomorrow. The WaPo seems to be predicting Ted Olson: [F]ormer solicitor general Theodore B. Olson has emerged as one of the leading contenders for the job, according to […]

The Associated Press (via the Washington Post) reported Tuesday that the short list to replace Alberto Gonzales as AG is the following five names: Ted Olson George J. Terwilliger, III Sen. Orrin Hatch Larry D. Thompson Paul D. Clement Ted Olson seems like a solid, non-controversial choice. Terwilliger would definitely be the most fun name […]

We linked to this interesting MSNBC article, about possible replacements for outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, in Morning Docket. We’d now like to link to it again, and draw your attention to the very end of the article. Doug Kmiec, a top Justice Department official in the Reagan and Bush I administrations, is quoted as […]

Time for a walk down ATL memory lane. On April 20, we opened a poll about how much longer Alberto Gonzales would serve as Attorney General. In light of yesterday’s announcement that Gonzales will be stepping down as AG effective September 17, the correct answer would have been five months. But it looks like almost […]