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Bonus News From the Big Bagel

Here’s some very belated bonus news from the Big Apple, from AboveTheLaw. Earlier this month, the New York office of Linklaters announced bonuses that matched the Cravath scale. As usual at Linklaters, there was no hours requirement. The news was communicated via individual memo. A Cravath match, especially in a bonus season when some firms [...]

Dec 21 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

The Toilet Dispenser Bum Rap

It just gets worse – now AboveTheLaw reports on the ultimate bum rap, a Michigan woman who allegedly broke her hand while trying to get toilet paper out of a dispenser in a restaurant bathroom. And now the Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that her case can be presented to a jury and so . [...]

Dec 6 2010 | Posted in Screaming Stateside | Read More »

NY Law Firms Go Slow on Bonuses

It’s going to be a slower season on the bonus front for law firms in New York at least. The first firm to report, Cravath Swain & Moore, announced year-end bonuses Monday that matched last year’s levels, according to Crains NY. Payments will range from $7,500 for first-year associates to $35,000 for senior associates, according to [...]

Nov 24 2010 | Posted in Screaming Stateside,The Firm | Read More »

Jobless Lawyers Still Stand in Line Stateside

This report shows that the US law firms continue to shed lawyers like Autumn leaves. Results from the NLJ 250, The National Law Journal’s annual ranking of the 250 largest U.S.-based firms by headcount, showed that totals dropped 1.1%. Last year, the headcount fell by 4%. Taken together, this is the biggest two-year decline in [...]

Nov 7 2010 | Posted in Screaming Stateside | Read More »

The Law Life of “Dirty Law” – The Stuff They Don’t Want You To See

In the final version of Crude — the 2009 documentary on the epic environmental suit brought by Amazon tribespeople against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador — lead U.S. plaintiffs’ attorney Steven Donziger remarks: “This is something you would never do in the United States, but Ecuador, you know, this is how the game is played, it’s [...]

Nov 1 2010 | Posted in Law Life,Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Entering Hobbit Hell

As the Warners heavies lumbered into Premier House in our BMWs, The Hobbit fiasco was raising cain on the blogs with effervescent David Farrer blogging about “the most incompetent political or industrial action for some years” and recording comments from around the world, as well as Middle Earth over the deal that cost the taxpayer [...]

Oct 27 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Billionaire’s Government Lawyer Pay Offer

US Billionaire Mark Cuban’s a tough successful guy but if you are one of Cuban’s adversaries, it must be brutal AboveTheLaw reports. To paraphrase one observer, if the milk’s sour, Mark Cuban ain’t the kind of pussy to drink it. NBA referees know that. And SEC attorneys are about to learn the same lesson. They’re taking [...]

Oct 27 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Personal Injury Lawyers’ Big Day Out

Oh, what a day for the lawyers – Sting and Sheryl Crow will perform at two of the biggest holiday parties of the season hosted by Texas plaintiffs lawyers, reports Texas Lawyer. Sting will do his gig before The Lanier Law Firm’s annual holiday party on Dec. 5 in Houston, while Crow will take the stage [...]

Oct 26 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

How ‘The Hobbit’ Has Become ‘The Muppets’

Peter Jackson’s making ‘The Hobbit’, not ‘The Muppets’, but who would know it?

Oct 6 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Scandals,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Coke with that . . ?

The USA Today has published a book-sized article on prosecutorial misconduct by US prosecutors. Sample: “The jurors who helped put Nino Lyons in jail for three years had every reason to think that he was a drug trafficker, and, until July, no reason to doubt that justice had been done. For more than a week in 2001, [...]

Sep 27 2010 | Posted in Screaming Scandals,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Greedy Lawyers Chewing Big Apple Chefs

The WSJ has reported that some of the Big Apple’s biggest chefs are feeling the heat all the way from the kitchen to the courthouse. The lawyers are suing famous restaurants for violating wage laws for their small-time workers—not giving them their fair share of tip money, not paying them overtime properly, things like that. [...]

Sep 6 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Oops . . Oh, Sorry, That’s MY Coke!

Ditzy Paris is in trouble all over again as her coke fell out of her handbag when she was only reaching for her lippy. What does a girl have to do to have some innocent fun these days? All that and now she and boyfriend Cy Waits, whoever he is, are darn well arrested. Again. [...]

Aug 29 2010 | Posted in Photos,Screaming Scandals,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Mel Gibson Sees The *****N Lawyers

As the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department continues its domestic violence investigation of Mel Gibson, the Mad Mel’s lawyer is reportedly set to meet with police on the matter. According to RadarOnline.com, the site that premiered the actor’s ability to cuss like no other, the meeting is slated to happen next week. “The plan is [...]

Jul 16 2010 | Posted in Featured,Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

“Who Wants To Be An Entertainment Lawyer?”

John Bowie – On the entertainment law front, there was some ballyhoo last week about the successful lawsuit against Disney by the owners of the “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” television concept, which screened with great success on Disney’s ABC network. This was trumpeted as a homerun for the “creatives” against the studios, being [...]

Jul 15 2010 | Posted in Screaming Stateside | Read More »

The Spy Who . . Spied

She was beautiful. She was confident. She was fed up with her malfunctioning laptop. But otherwise, she insisted, everything was “cool”. Anna Chapman came from Russia not with love, the FBI believes, but with dastardly intent to schmooze. She claimed to have a master’s degree in economics, an English husband and an online property business. [...]

Jun 30 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Scandals,Screaming Stateside | Read More »