May 2010

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Business casual, explained to lawyers and other professionals

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom that are the eighth commandment of Memorial Day BBQ style: • Hulk Hogan will do a lot to entertain you.  But he won’t wrestle Bedrock cartoons with cankles in the name of selling surgery cereals.  He’s pissed—ala Lindsay Lohan v. E*Trade—about the use of his apparent likeness in the commercial [...]

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom as transformative as Willie Nelson sans braids: • “A sexy matchmaker fired back today at the lonelyheart lawyer who sued her after paying $10,000 to be paired up with dreamgirls he says were duds.  ‘There’s only so much I can do,’” Amy Laurent, the head of high-end dating service Amy [...]

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We took a few minutes to chat with actor Josh Stamberg, who plays managing partner “Parker” in one half of the fictitious law firm Harrison Parker

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom that can’t keep up with our son’s two-pack-a-day habit: • Funny how the English are stereotypically known for awful dental care but there was a possibility that breasts could have been ruled a human right.  “A 58-year-old British transsexual Tuesday lost her court battle over the state-funded health service’s refusal [...]

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Ed. note: If you haven’t heard of the Lifetime television series Drop Dead Diva, you probably assume it’s like every epic Lifetime movie you’ve ever (accidentally) seen: Rambling, sappy and a showcase of predatory men. Until last week, we thought the same thing—then we actually watched the show’s first season. Credited as one of 2009’s [...]

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom that did NOT mutilate and kill your cat, but our pit bull did: • One of our favorite blogs is Ugliest Tattoos (see example below).  And you can’t be featured on that site if you don’t get genius inked art needled onto your body.  And you can’t get genius inked [...]

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom as androgynous-ly erogenous as Venus Williams’ naughty nighty: • A woman who was told she was a big Hooter has decided to be a legal shooter.  Cassandra Marie Smith sued restaurant chain Hooters for weight discrimination—which is, evidently, a cause of action in Michigan—because she was allegedly placed on a [...]

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Yes, I would rather brainstorm about rainmaking opportunities with a bunch of Elena Kagan lookalikes than subject myself to 146 insufferable minutes of oral sex double entendres delivered by a menopausal glamazon.

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom that have spent most the day playing Google Pac-Man: • Are words like ”furburger,” ”schmeckle” and “blowjob” appropriate terms to be using in a sex-ed classroom?  A Brooklyn federal judge says they are.  He supported a teacher who sued after she was ironically thrown into the “rubber room” when parents [...]