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more about #lawyers more comments → raincoaster: You don't wanna mess with Big Pork. When the Pickton case hit the headlines (the pig farmer who was ... well, I'll spare you the details but it was a ... more » jimstoic: I'm pretty sure cat meat is dark. I don't know why I'm sure, but... I just think so. #ceaseanddesist more » cocodevaux: but what do the reps for the national kitten farmers of america have to say? on a loosely related note: did anyone else find scenes of ALF running ac... more » OMG! Ponies!: Time for me to do some pro bono work: Dear Ms. Collins: I am in receipt of your letter and, in response, request particularization of the charges co... more » jbwan: um... have they ever heard of parody? This is a parody use of the TM " the other white meat." The Alf shirt is meant to evoke the Pork slogan, but at... more » Swifter: Thanks, HamNo. I just ordered one of these shirts for a friend who doesn't like cats. Me, I love 'em. #ceaseanddesist more » Deric: Sorry pork, but Deric has been the other white meat since 1976. #ceaseanddesist more » OMG! Ponies!: That's it. I'm swearing off of bacon in protest! Aww... who am I kidding? I can't stay mad at bacon. #ceaseanddesist more » Guy Whitey Corngood: Can someone tell me what a "Blessating" is? more » bowel_and_the_obstructors: Her head looks like a pineapple. more » BaldwinPeriphetes: This is going to be fun. I can see Denton, metaphorically over your shoulder, saying "Hmm, making a mess out of people's lives, nah, still tame. Mar... more » jasonelias: Hopefully Finney can play Masry in the trial. more » MissNormaDesmond: Eat, Prey, Love, if not deliberate, is the best typo ever. more » WackoJacko: Fun fact: Erin B's daughter is in recovery! more » Trai_Dep: Debt alone is simply a datapoint, largely meaningless. Debt to GNP provides some context. For instance, Krugman points out: "It’s bad, but it’s n... more » -
#lolaw
The National Pork Board Does Not Endorse Eating Cats
The all-powerful National Pork Board has sicced its attorneys on make-your-own-clever-shirt site Neighborhoodies. The National Pork Board strongly disagrees with Alf's assertion that cats are "The Other White Meat." More » -
#lawsuits
Kate Gosselin Hires The Lawyer Suing Us For McSteamy Tape To Sue Jon Gosselin
What a small world! Who would've thought? Marty Singer—the lawyer laying into my boss for a cool mil over the McSteamy Tape—would be taking other big-money cases on behalf of sleazy celebrities? Well, he got to Kate Gosselin! More » -
#denouements
Erin Brockovitch Law Firm Sued Into Bankruptcy By Dead Partner's Estate
After winning $1B in settlements, as they claim, you'd assume the law firm that Erin Brockovitch was based on would be solvent. Wrong! Masry & Vititoe filed for bankruptcy after being sued by the estate of the dead namesake partner. More » -
#recessionomics
Is $9 Trillion a Lot of Debt?
The Way We Live Now: Gap-toothed. Too poor to get a falsie to complete our smile. Lawyers aren't making it! Kitschy yuppie bars on skid row are losing ambiance! Nine trillion dollars in debt is a lot. A lot. More » -
#thelaw
Real Lawyers Weigh in On Whether Elizabeth Wurtzel Can Claim to Be One of Them
Above the Law has asked some legal experts to weigh on on our post last week wondering whether non-lawyer Elizabeth Wurtzel can claim to be a lawyer before she passes the bar. More » -
#law
Is Elizabeth Wurtzel Breaking the Law By Calling Herself a Lawyer?
As we've noted before, Elizabeth Wurtzel, the Prozac Nation author who graduated from Yale Law School last year, hasn't passed the bar exam yet. But that hasn't stop her from pretending to be a lawyer! Which might be illegal.
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#goaway
Lanny Davis Now Hurting Two Countries
Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis has a new job: lobbying for the post-coup government of Honduras! More » -
#heroes
Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Outs Pseudonymous Blogger Who Was Mean to Him
Ed Whelan, former Scalia law clerk, Bush Justice Department appointee, and, most amusingly, "President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center," got soooo mad at some blogger who was criticizing him that he published the guy's real name and job. More » -
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#traderoundup
Finally, The World Is Spared Another Show About Lawyers
Hipster movies are made, as are ones about the depraved world of small town Texas. Which are sorta hipster in their own right. Bad news for David E. Kelley, which is good news for us. More » -
#recessionomics
Lawyers Paid Not to Work, Finally
Heather Eisenlord's law firm is paying her $80,000 to take the year off, travel around the world doing whatever, and wait for the economy to rebound. Fine, but who will save the chicken farmers? More » -
#shutuptwitter
Annoying Lawyer Invents Most Annoying Legal Specialty
Gregory Fayer, a 2004 Columbia Law graduate, has put out a press release touting his amazing legal skills: Getting Twitter to take down celebrity impostors' accounts. It's a tricky legal process which involves sending email. More » -
#politics
Norm Coleman's Lawyer In Truth-Telling Outrage
Soon-to-be-former Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman has some of the best lawyers dirty money can buy. And one of them just basically admitted that his current strategy is "tie this election up in court forever." More » -
#schadenfreude
Nation Weeps As Bush Admin Lawyers Can't Find Work
The Bush administration lawyers who formulated and justified the worst abuses and excesses of the administration's war on terror conduct are having trouble finding work! More » -
#etiquette
Doughy Pillsbury Lawyer Demonstrates Why You Should Shut Up on Your Cell Phone
It sucks to find out you're getting laid off. It sucks a lot worse to find out you're getting laid off because a lawyer yakked about it at high volume on a commuter train. More » -
#advertising
Black Professionals in Ad Industry: 5%
The ad industry doesn't have too many black people working in it, which has never been that much of a concern to the whites. Until now, because a fancy lawyer might start suing everybody: More » -
#videuhoh
Defending Blago is Just "Fun"!
Why did crooked governor ROD BLAGOJEVICH'S fancy lawyer Ed Genson take the case? Because "it's fun"! For him, at least. Click to watch this silver-tongued master of sophistry woo the press, stupidly.
