Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom that are the perfect distraction for legal burnouts:
Go in peace and serve the public. Amen. Firms are offering up to $75,000 for associates who go out and do some form of public-interest law for a year. Or how about getting a dream offer to explore “personal or professional interests” for a year with partial salary and benefits? Makes actually having to work in BigLaw seems like the penalty and not the reward. Doc review or Thai sex tourism? Yeah. I asked it. Now what? [WSJ.com]
Jurors are having the worst week ever. After potentially f-ing up trial decisions with their incessant Tweeting, Facebooking and Googling, a New Jersey jury foreman, who’s a Seaton Hall law professor, got busted for explaining legal concepts and trials tidbits to the rest of the jury. [DailyRecord.com]
Mario Ancic, the world’s 29th-ranked men’s tennis player, went to law school because he got mononucleosis. Let me repeat that: Because he got mono. What else was he supposed to do while laid up and not ATP touring? Sleep? Bleh. [ESPN]
Madoff didn’t flee before, so is he a flight risk now? Something tells me a few weeks in a florescent-lit 8×8 cell might make him rethink sitting tight. But his bail might be reinstated as soon as today. [New York Daily News]
And mini-Madoff Marc Dreier will likely follow in the big Kahoka’s footsteps and go “Guilty” too. [NYT’s DealBook]
AIG bonus could have been legally skirted. It’s all about the interpretation of state wage laws, baby. [Courant.com]
Too. Weak. For sex. Bad eyes. Slight body. Couldn’t. Have screwed. Young teens. [The Washington Post]
Obama, now billed as the first sitting president on a late-night talk show after appearing on Jay Leno last night, may have made us laugh (minus, I guess, that snafu Special Olympics joke thing), but some argue the new prez needs an image make over. More of the hope and believe of pre-election, and less of the decision making and problem solving of the current dude. [Big Hollywood]
Big Firm refugees are lucky to land doc review jobs these days. “$33/hr plus OT?” Cherry. But when BigLaw’s cut associate are condescended on with offers of half-wit jobs at cut-rate pay (even Bitter Temp Guy scoffs), “aristocratic arrogance” becomes evident. Which, obviously means the end of an empire. Like the French with their angry beheadings. Discuss. [Gabe’s Guide]
