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The Daily Memo - 8/4/08

Posted on August 04, 2008
What, you're saying associates wouldn't love BigLaw if they weren't getting paid mad money? Naaaaah. (Law.com) So wait, this laptop detention thing is a bad thing, you say? (The Legal Satyricon) We got a whole bunch of propositions to vote...

Mini Me files lawsuit over folks getting to see his mini-mini-me

Posted on August 04, 2008
Just when we were getting the trauma of the Verne Troyer sex tape out of our collectively scarred minds, Mr. Troyer has to go and bring it back to the forefront by filing a lawsuit against his former gal pal...

Reviewing documents, pole dancing, blow jobs ... all in a day's work

Posted on August 04, 2008
Last Tuesday, a former legal assistant filed a lawsuit against the public defender she used to work for, claiming that she faced retaliation after complaining about the behavior of male lawyers in the office. Jessica A. Schwartz claims that some...

Oh the books I would read but that I only had the time...

Posted on August 04, 2008
A while back I was given this book for the site to review. It's called Your Witness: Lessons on Cross-Examination and Life from Great Chicago Trial Lawyers and it is, as the title might suggest, a bunch of stories and...

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"Our Mayor is here to protect our police from ... ah ... our police"

Posted on August 04, 2008
In Wellston, Missouri ... well, uhm ... yeah. Tempers flare, fists fly and a gun is drawn when a fight breaks out between the Wellston police chief and his assistant chief. The mayor got in the middle and an ambulance...

It's Friday. Let's Dance.

Posted on August 01, 2008
You can try, but you will never find a better music video: Three solid minutes of Walken doing the Friday dance. Because we need it. Now: Crank up the cowbell and drink to Walken, motherfuckers....

The Legend of Seth

Posted on August 01, 2008
I'm actually writing this Friday afternoon post late last night after getting home from a too-late night in the office night. Which means I'm a little punch-drunk, so I'm endlessly amused by this headline, sent in by reader Jennifer S.:...

Well, look -- everyone needs a hobby

Posted on August 01, 2008
So I was in a partner's office the other day when I got an e-mail from a reader (known to our Pajiba family as TWoP Fan) with the following headline as her subject line: Pastor Arrested for Stealing Sex Toy...

The Daily Memo - 8/1/08

Posted on August 01, 2008
Huh. I wonder if this program is why I'm getting to argue in front of the Ninth Circuit next week? Cause the case really doesn't have any particularly novel issues... That is, unless one of the judges on my panel...

My favorite charity...

Posted on August 01, 2008
At work recently, several of us were having a discussion about charitable donations and, specifically, bitching about those people in the office (if you work in an office, you know you have some) who come around collecting for some charity...

Woah! Is Dick Cheney Satan or Is Seymour Hersh Insane?

Posted on August 01, 2008
My money is on Dick the Devil. Seymour Hersh, who I believe was the New Yorker writer who blew open the doors on Abu Ghraib (right?), has dropped another bombshell, claiming that, in a recent meeting in the Vice President's...

Bar Exam Quote of the Day ...

Posted on July 31, 2008
I apologize to Lat, but I had to steal this from his comments section, which may be one of the most apt things I've ever read. I've gone to both harvard and yale, and i must say this to every...

You Be the Judge

Posted on July 31, 2008
Do the images above jibe with the Kerry camp's description of them? As Sen. Kerry and two friends left dinner at the Straight Warf restaurant on Nantucket and walked down the dock, a large group on a boat recognized Senator...

Who's got two thumbs and a mugshot?

Posted on July 31, 2008
This guy! (God bless you, The Smoking Gun, forever and ever.)...

The Daily Memo - 7/31/08

Posted on July 31, 2008
Suck it Rove. (TPMMuckracker) Aw man ... we were that close to some good Ninth Circuit shenanigans at Monday's Judicial Conference cocktail party. (Law.com) Big, fat, angry producer Harvey Weinstein testified that Tim Gun was a paid a big, fat,...

If Obama is Britney Spears, I Guess that Makes McCain Flo from "Alice"

Posted on July 31, 2008
In other words: An old, half-crazy, irrelevant little bitch who is grasping at straws. Classy McCain. Real fucking classy. Kiss my grits, Johnny Apeshit....

"Can I get a raise in my allowance?"

Posted on July 31, 2008
Things got interesting during a recent pizza restaurant heist down in Texas. See, a clerk struck the robber, "knocking him out and knocking off his wig and sunglasses." And that's when another clerk realized that the robber was her father....

Rappers or Republicans?

Posted on July 31, 2008
That game's hard, son....

Well who could've seen this coming?

Posted on July 31, 2008
Up in Northern California, these three guys met some gals in a park. The women told the men they were looking for some fun, so the group wandered over to a nearby motel, where the guys got a room. Once...

Lawyer Confuses Judge for Catholic Priest

Posted on July 31, 2008
I don't know what the hell is up this lawyer's ass, but it was enough to get him four months in the clink for contempt, after he called the judge a pedophile, among other things: An attorney's rude behavior has...

I Had No Idea Jon Voight Rode the Crazy Train!

Posted on July 30, 2008
Who knew? I'd always pegged Voight as a grumpier version of Christopher Walken, which is to say, harmlessly batty. Turns out, he's kind of evil. And paranoid, or so an op-ed piece he wrote for The Washington Times suggests. Here's...

Those Wily HMOs

Posted on July 30, 2008
Out in Oregon, the state-run health plan has figured out a novel way to help cut down on expenses. Kill the patient! It seems that, in some cases, the health plan won't cover expensive medical treatments, but it will cover...

Great News, Gay and Lesbian Texans!

Posted on July 30, 2008
Soon, you'll be able to travel outside of your queer-hating hometown and visit the gay-friendly state of Massachusetts, order yourself up one of them marriage licenses, and get legally hitched to your same-flavored partner. You can even visit a replica...

The Daily Memo - 7/30/08

Posted on July 30, 2008
Earthquake + "Judge Judy" = best episode of the show ever. (LA Metblogs) The value of an LLM degree? The paper it's written on. (Above the Law) One of the Supremes' last cases of the term is getting a little...

Well at least their babies won't be getting any diaper rash

Posted on July 30, 2008
Recently, Spanish police seized a shit load of cocaine in various drug busts -- well over 100 kilos of the white powder. As they were done with whatever they needed to use the evidence for, the cops were getting ready...

Shake shake shake ... shake shake shake ... shake your booty!

Posted on July 30, 2008
So as many of you likely know, we had ourselves a little ol' earthquake here in Southern California yesterday. I was at work at the time, and it actually felt a bit bigger than it was (not that a 5.4...

Next stop, crazy town

Posted on July 30, 2008
Eighteen-year-old James Harris is fucking weird. Apparently, he made friends with several transit employees because he is, as an assistant director for Miami bus operations describes him, "a real transit freak." He used this friendship to get an actual bus...

Suck it, cops!

Posted on July 29, 2008
Back in April, I wrote about a Portland cop who was being taken to traffic court by a private citizen because he parked in a "no parking" zone while picking up some take-out Chinese food. Reader Allison C. wrote in...

R U 4 Real?

Posted on July 29, 2008
Jimmy Baskets! What the hell kind of lobbyists are forcing this law to be pushed by state reps in Illinois? The Illinois General Assembly bill, also known as HB 4520, was introduced in January by Rep. Ken Dunkin (D- Chicago),...

I have two questions...

Posted on July 29, 2008
One, did the shirt work? Two, if he did get out, did he go to Park Place or Baltic Avenue? (From The Smoking Gun, of course.)...

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