News Roundup 3.2.10
March 2, 2010
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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