Pet legacies, teenage slumber party legal rights, and law schools. Plus,it’s now legal to kill a beaver with a silencer. All in this week’s legal news.
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Here are your headlines from the Bitter Newsroom, where we pay attention to signs. Made of Only the Finest Felons: Frederick James is selling an exclusive selection of iPad covers made from the pants of Bernie Madoff, sourced from an auction held by the US Marshals Service last fall. We feel these modern day scalps would make the [...]
Here are your headlines from the Bitter Newsroom, where we bounce back! Why Lawyer Pay Will Shrink: Reverse auctions are driving Biglaw rates down as large firms anonymously submit quotes for a jobs posted by major companies. With the increased number of lawyers being dumped into the market graduating each year, it seems like this may be a trend [...]
Here are your headlines from the Bitter Newsroom, where we review the news like a bus! The Force is Strong With This One: The British prop designer who crafted the original Stormtrooper costumes for Star Wars, based on George Lucas’ own sketches, managed to defeat Lucasfilm in the UK Supreme Court and win the right produce replica [...]
Here are your headlines from the Bitter Newsroom, where we paint reality. One Man’s Squatter is Another’s Possessor: In honor of bar exam week, we kick off with this delightful attempt at textbook adverse possession happening in Texas. The man learned that the Lone Star State requires only three years and, finding an abandoned home in [...]
Here are your headlines from the Bitter Newsroom, where we quit our jobs with style! 212® or 213™? Anheuser-Busch InBev wants to trademark over a dozen major U.S. area codes. The Belgian beer-maker, seeing the local marketing success of 312 Urban Wheat Ale by Goose Island (a company it acquired earlier this year), decided to do what any [...]
Here are your headlines from the Bitter Newsroom, where we look forward to seeing the new Harry Potter flick in the rad 3D glasses they’ll be providing. We kick off with some delightful economic numbers: According to NALP, the starting pay of the law school class of 2010 fell 20% from 2009. But that was [...]
Here are your headlines from the Bitter Newsroom, where we don’t leave our $100m ATM receipts lying around: The Supreme Court cut through the crap and stated, unequivocally, that video games are art and subject to full First Amendment protection. We in the Newsroom applaud this decision for a number of reasons: Now a violent [...]
