News Roundup 3.11.10
March 11, 2010 · by SHJ
Eric Massa, the freshly resigned Congressman accused of groping and sexually harassing his male staffers, recently sparred with Larry King, bristling at King’s question as to whether Massa is gay. ”Here’s that answer: I’m not gonna answer that,” Massa replied, “In year 2010, why don’t you ask my wife? Ask my friends. Ask the 10,000 sailors that I served with in the navy.” Might want to run with a different tactic there, buddy. [HuffPost]
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Dating a lawyer? Be sure not to miss this new gem, then. Sorry. [Boing Boing]
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A few of Princeton’s bestest and brightest bankers-to-be have been interviewed in their college newspaper about the real reasons why 22-year-olds go into investment banking. Our favorite response, from Rebecca Yu ‘11: ”Money is an attractive factor, but it’s not the real reason people go into an investment bank,” she said, “[P]eople do it because they’re genuinely interested in [investment banking].” And then Yu unzipped her skin and asked for the nearest robot bus back to The Land Where Lying People Lie. And Are Crazy. [Daily Princetonian via Ivy Gate]
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“How to Justify a Frivolous Lawsuit” (or, “What to Do When Your Client Wants $100 Million to Prove She’s a Fictional Whore-Baby”). [THR, Esq.]
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You’re too late: While you were off dragging your heels, buying your little ones things like “formula” and “clothes” and “items that don’t require a visit from Social Services,” the Maryland company operating as Baby Beer Bottles, Inc., which sold 16-ounce baby bottles designed to look like Budweiser and Miller Lite bottles and marketed “for your little drinker,” has shut down their website after Anheuser-Busch filed a federal lawsuit this week claiming that the company infringes on its valuable trademarks. [The Smoking Gun]
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The seven 119 dirty words you can’t say in radio, at least according to shock-jock turned Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels. [Gawker]
News Roundup 3.2.10
March 2, 2010 · by SHJ
The apparent value of a Georgetown Law degree, in 2010 dollars: $222.50, plus an iPod Nano and a date with a war room full of sad lawyer ladies. Don’t believe us? Ask this guy. [Above the Law]
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If you were looking for another reason not to work at Skadden, try “Increases Chances of Actually Being Murdered in Your Sleep.” [Washington Post]
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Are lawyers “holding happiness hostage”? The WSJ Law Blog attempts to ferret out an answer: “Yes, lots of lawyers are miserable. But lots of lawyers —even lawyers at big firms— are happy. And we’d argue that for these folks, the happiness actually derives from the process, not the goal itself.” See, friends, that’s the feeling you couldn’t quite place the last time you were off deriving some process in your office at 3 a.m. on a Saturday. Happiness. [WSJ Law Blog]
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Before you read any further, we have to warn you: Please make sure you’re sitting down. Are you? For real? OK, don’t say we didn’t warn you: The ABA Journal is reporting that, “Despite having landed prestigious summer associate positions last year, a number [of Harvard law students] have been no-offered and forced to face up to an unpleasant fact, writes an anonymous 3L in the Harvard Law Record.” We know, we know, shut up already, Haiti. [ABA Journal]
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Former aspiring lawyer Alec Baldwin rubs some salt in the wounds of a group of law students at Fordham Law School. [NY Daily News]
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“Drunk mom allegedly runs through school with sword.” We could elaborate. But why? [My Way News]
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After proposing to his girlfriend of six weeks in a Diamond Cellar store in Columbus, Ohio with a $58,000 engagement ring, an ophthalmologist filed suit in a Manhattan court against his now ex-fiancee when the engagement broke up a couple of weeks later and she refused to return the ring. Sources have yet to confirm whether the ex-fiancee is refusing to return the ring as part of a serial-engagement scam, or if she’s merely traumatized from being proposed to in a place called “Diamond Cellar” in a mall in Ohio. [NY Post]
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