News Roundup 10.28.09
October 28, 2009
How badly do you want to go to the World Series? Badly enough to post an ad on Craigslist offering sex for World Series tix—only to get arrested hours later when the cops “answer” your ad? Well, then you don’t want to go nearly as badly as this diehard Phillies fan. Slacker. [NBC Philadelphia]
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The New York Times offers new insight into the inner workings of law firm managers’ minds when they decide who gets laid off and who get to stay. According to a “Washington lawyer friend” of the op-ed columnist, ”[L]awyers who were used to just showing up and having work handed to them were the first to go because with the bursting of the credit bubble, that flow of work just isn’t there. But those who have the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and new ways to recruit work were being retained. They are the new untouchables.” Funny, that’s JUST how it went down in my firm. What’s the billing code for “imagining” again? [NYT]
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Fraud? By the Church of Scientology? The group that routinely pressures its members to fork over as much money as they can afford and believes that an intergalactic warlord named Xenu is responsible for infusing us all with soul pieces? I know, we didn’t believe it at first either. But rest assured, at least in the eyes of the Paris court who convicted the cult church of fraud on Tuesday and fined it more than half a million euros, Scientology’s got some ’splainin’ to do. [WSJ Law Blog]
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Not surprising: There’s been a rash of break-ins to celebrity homes in Los Angeles recently, including the lairs of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom. Surprising: Those responsible for the alleged robberies are a band of teenage girls obsessed with clothing and jewelry. According to police, the enterprising ladies “studied” celeb magazines, television shows, and websites to pick out what clothing they wanted, cased the homes and stole their chosen items. Ah, who says the American teens never study? [Fashionista]
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Lady lawyers: Bad at rainmaking or good at…realizing that the time you spend rainmaking could be spend making (more) money for yourself in a job that doesn’t expect you to work 3,000 hours a year? [Above the Law]
