News Roundup 11.12.09

Point one of the Practioner’s Guide to Getting Away With Sexual Harrassment:  Avoid cucumbers in close quarters.  Apparently, the geniuses over at Richmond-based law firm Williams Mullen skipped that one—and are facing a $950,000 discrimination and sexual harrassment suit by a former employee because of it.   And according to the complaint, cucumber incidents should be the least of their worries.  [Above the Law]

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We’re not sure what’s more troubling: That FantasyScotus.net, a new legal gambling site for law lovers, is up and running—or that “FantasyScotus.com” was already taken.  [WSJ Law Blog]

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The NYPD is reporting that Lionel McIntyre, a prominent (black) architecture professor at Columbia University, punched a female (white) university employee in the face at a Harlem bar yesterday during a “heated argument about race relations.”   Can’t wait to see how their argument on gender relations turns out.  [NY Post]

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Who knew that the name ”Lawyer of Love” was such a hot property?  Cori Fetman, the Chicago divorce lawyer who used to pen a “Lawyer of Love” advice column for Playboy Magazine and once posed half naked on a billboard in Chicago to promote her law practice (“Life’s Short.  Get a divorce.”) is now being sued by the magazine to stop her from using the Lawyer of Love name on her website.  Fetman claims in her own lawsuit against Playboy that she lost the column because she turned down sexual advances by one of the magazine’s execs.  I know, we can’t keep it all straight, either.    [ABA Journal]

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Something to make you feel a little better about your own sex life—well, or maybe worse:  Caroline Cartwright, a British woman who was banned from making loud noises during sex has lost an appeal against her conviction in a British court.  A neighbor described the lurve noises as sounding  like Cartwright and her partner were “both in considerable pain. I cannot describe the noise. I have never ever heard anything like it.”   See, you do feel better, don’t you?  Sort of?  [BBC News]

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Are you one of those lawyers beseiged by letters from self-proclaimed adoring fans?  In other words, are you exactly like Marc Randazza, the attorney who successfully represented the owner of satirical website called glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com against an attack by Glenn Beck?  Well, then, you’d do well to start taking notes from Mr. Randazza on how to respond to fans.  Because as far as we can tell, his approach has ‘em all beat.  Hats off.    [THResq]