February 2010

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom as celebratory as an on-ice stogie with Canada’s hockey ladies: • Well, flip off a workout ball and slap me silly, beat this for lawyer news: “A Suffolk County Women’s Bar Association officer and Family Court attorney moonlights as an Internet dominatrix—turning her ex’s swanky pad into a pleasure dungeon [...]

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom as conflicting and sad and exciting as the end of Hummer: • Suicide scandal aside, Alec Baldwin inexplicably sat down for a “Conversation with Alex Baldwin” with Fordham Law School Wednesday night and dished on his upcoming Oscar gig, nuclear power and family law (which he published a book about).  [...]

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom as delusional as Plushenko’s platinum medal from Vancouver: • Stephen Colbert has a new rivalry with NBC this Olympic season.  And after sitting down with Bob Costas on his nemesis network and acting up by trying to throw himself into their fake fire, he had so ask himself: Could I [...]

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom as retry-able as an Alaskan ex-stripper-turned-soccer mom: • According to BL1Y, Reason Not to Go to Law School #34: “You will never retire.” 10% of the NY lawyer population is over 65—compared to 12.8% of the overall US population.  And at least four lawyers have a “work-until-death” ethic.  So where [...]

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom that say “potato/pahtahto” and “public interest work/law firm life”: • When life gives you orange spray tans, make Jersey Shore-ade.  Unless you’re one of the dudes that tussled with a cast member on camera.  “An attorney for Stephen Izzo Jr. will ask a judge to ban distribution of a DVD [...]