Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom as good as watching Steve Wozniak dance like a Teletubby:
Law firms are beginning to trim back the starting salaries of newly minted lawyers. The general number seems to be 10%, which would force some 25-year-olds to live on as little as $125,000. Dare to complain, 3Ls? [Chicago Tribune]
90,000 lawyers are licensed to practice in DC. So it would make sense that there needs to be some way to sort the lions from the lambs/ducks from the geese/picks of the litter. But directories and rankings like Avvo.com’s aren’t sitting well with the DC Bar, who thinks they violate copyright and privacy laws. And since the world-information-virtual-interweb is basically full of a bunch of haters, professionals in general are worried about the effects of (mostly unfounded) nasty rankings of their business. Now scroll down, comment and say something nice. [Washington Post]
This economy has created a rich-on-rich civil war. Gucci is now armor. Hedge funds, the new conflict diamonds. The DOW, a daily senseless act of violence. And the new sheriffs are lawyers/court-appointed receivers (who are in unprecedented demand) to make sense of financial swindlers and protect the public. [Reuters via the International Herald Tribune]
Want to file a suit to evict Obama for not being a natural-born citizen? Washington Federal Judge James Robertson will treat it like a visit to your therapist: He’ll call you a “nut job” and charge you for his time. [New York Daily News]
I think a law school gunner is called a Dorm Mole in undergrad. [PhilaLawyer]
Seven bad habits of highly ineffective mock trial-ers. Not taking it seriously? Nooooooo. [LegalGeekery.com]
