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News Roundup 10.1.09

October 2, 2009 by SHJ 

Are you the owner of one of our country’s best minds?  Are you passionate, energetic, brilliant, the works?  And are you thinking of becoming a lawyer?  Well, then, you’re basically an idiot according to Supreme Court Justice Nino Scalia.  [WSJ Law Blog]
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People, for the last time: Change. Your. Email. Password. After. She. Dumps.You.  Why?  Just ask former hot-shot L.A. prosecutor and newly minted Paul Hastings partner Thomas O’Brien—and the few thousand of his colleagues (and their colleagues…and their colleagues…) who just read the pages of “pillow talk” emails that his new girlfriend’s estranged husband just found and forwarded to every lawyer from California to Miami. [Above the Law]
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No.  We’re sorry, but we can’t agree with you.  In the wake of his latest legal efforts, we refuse to say that Jon Gosselin of Jon & Kate Plus Hate fame is an incredible douchebag.  Because that would be an insult to incredible douchebags the world over.  [Popsquire]

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And you thought convicted Ponzi schemer and ex-lawyer Marc Dreier was to blame for defrauding investors out of $380 million.  Oh, naive soul.  Turns out, the Hamptons were to blame all along.  [NY Post]

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Cristina Warthen, the former high-end hooker who worked her way through Stanford Law on her back and later pled guilty to tax evasion, has been sentenced to one year home detention and ordered to pay $243,000 in back taxes and fines.  In other words, she got laid in law school about seven thousand more times than you did, got paid for it, and has just been ordered to hang around her house for a while.  On an unrelated note, how’s that sweet big-firm associate gig working out for you so far?  [Valleywag]

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