July was an awesome month for lawyers. June was great for scandalous lawyers, but July has been great for straight-up star power. We’ve got some great candidates from July. We’ve got some candidates who accomplished things in the law. But only one of our Lawyer of the Month contestants is also a new mother…
Earlier this year, we told you the strange tale of Thomas Walkley. A lawyer in Ohio, Walkley founded and runs Cafe 41:11, a coffeeshop for at-risk youth. Back in January, Walkley was accused of exposing himself to two teenage boys who applied to work at the cafe. Walkley admitted showing his junk to the teens, […]
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A prosecutor in Miami recently resigned from his job, amid controversy. What did he do to get himself in hot water?
A former colleague of Edward De Sear, the prominent law firm partner accused of child pornography distribution, reminisces about him.
A prominent capital-markets lawyer, and a former partner at several top law firms -- Allen & Overy, Bingham McCutchen, McKee Nelson, Orrick, Milbank Tweed -- has been accused by the feds of child pornography distribution.
So far, our Lawyers of the Month have been a motley crew. Dying helps. So does being incredibly stupid. But this month we have a lawyer who won our Lawyer of the Month competition just for his old-fashioned practice of the law. Yep, in a month where we had naked people and dead people, an […]
Legal and operational leaders are gathering May 6–7 in Fort Lauderdale to confront the questions the industry hasn't answered—with a keynote from Amanda Knox setting the tone.
Okay, we were really late with the May Lawyer of the Month reader poll. But that was in part because the May candidates were quite dull. There is nothing dull about the June Lawyer of the Month candidates. I count two candidates who would be runaway winners if they didn’t have to face each other, […]
Most lawyers don't expect to work 9-to-5 hours. But sometimes, a lawyer will Hulk-up if you force him to work the weekend. If you can't keep your composure because you have 60-hour work weeks, you might be in the wrong profession.
The nauseating story of Moshe Gerstein has come to an abrupt end. Gerstein, who had been accused of possessing violent child pornography, has been found dead. The allegations against Gerstein — who worked at Gibson Dunn and Skadden — were particularly disturbing. Gerstein was accused of stockpiling thousands of images of brutal child porn. But […]
It appears that we closed the poll but forgot to announce the Lawyer of the Month for May 2011. That’s our bad. We’ve been so busy trying to keep up with all the bats**t crazy lawyers sprouting up in June that May 2011 feels like it took place in 2008. But we don’t want to […]
Takeaways from a Legalweek panel on evolving malpractice risks.
What happens when mean girls gossip about a lawyer's teenage daughter at school? They get sued, of course! Good job, dad, you've probably ensured that your daughter will spend the next half-decade ostracized by her peers.
Allegations of criminal conduct can be made against attorneys from all walks of life. An innocent-looking solo practitioner in Illinois can be accused of prostitution. A partner in a well-regarded Minnesota law firm, the incoming president of the state bar association, can be accused of molesting a child (and convicted of criminal sexual conduct, after […]
Yes, I get that June 14th is a little bit late to be doing the May Lawyer of the Month poll. Yes, I also understand that the person who will almost undoubtedly be June’s Playmate Lawyer of the Month, Reema Bajaj, is ineligible for May — and that fact might leave some of our readers […]
Anyone who is a lawyer knows that sinking feeling. The feeling that comes when someone else finds out you’re a lawyer and starts telling you about whatever garden-variety awfulness has visited their lives. They prattle on about who knows what, because you’ve tuned out. But they keep going and the inevitable finally arrives at the […]
Today brings more news coverage of Reema Bajaj, the rather attractive 25-year-old lawyer accused of moonlighting as a prostitute. Her story was written up in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune, among other outlets. Both papers covered the newest development in the case, a court hearing yesterday. Bajaj pleaded not guilty to three counts […]