What Bitter Lawyers have learned this week (Aug. 25-29): Some in-laws can strain a relationship—others just strain your intimate apparel Method acting can lead you down a slippery slope Don’t claim to be well endowed unless you’re willing to back it up A penny might buy you her thoughts—but not her body Fun is serious [...]
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Oh irony, you’re too cruel. And kind of gross: David Duchovny has checked into rehab for sex addiction. In a statement released yesterday by his lawyer, Stanton “Larry” Stein, the actor, who plays a sex-obsessed character on the Showtime series, Californication, said he went in voluntarily, adding: “I ask for respect and privacy for my [...]
A 26-year-old Arizona man was arrested this week on suspicion of criminal damage after he tore up his wife’s new bra during an argument involving his visiting in-laws. According to police reports, Salazar called the police to his home to settle a verbal dispute with his wife’s family about the fact that he wanted them [...]
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom: Should junior associates pay law firms for “training”? The Legal Blog Watch is reporting that this guy seems to think so. As he argues, “If associates get all the benefits of training at my law firm in the first three years, and can’t really add much value anyway, why [...]
The founder of male sexual enhancement product Enzyte, which reportedly used ads featuring “Smiling Bob,” the world’s happiest and most confident man, has led to a whopping jail sentence for the founder of Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals. A judge sentenced the defendant, Steve Warshak, to 25 years in prison after he was convicted in February on [...]
Negotiation skills come less readily to some, as reports out of Florida are confirming. Police in Bonita Springs have reported that a man, Fausino Diaz Hernandez, 46, was arrested last week after offering a female undercover cop who was posing as a prostitute two pennies for sex. Lest you think Hernandez wasn’t willing to let [...]
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom: Germans can’t get enough of Tom Cruise—just ask the 12 movie extras suing him and his production company after allegedly getting banged up when the side of a period German army truck burst open during the filming of “Valkyrie” last year. [Reuters] Thanks to BigLaw, it looks like Facebook [...]
This just in. According to Portfolio.com, summer associates are actually being judged at the various cocktail parties, swanky dinners and goofy “out of the box” events they attend. Or, as the writer of the piece says, “Call it young lawyers gone wild—but the fun is serious business.” Is it that serious, or is everyone just looking for [...]
The legal blogosphere is buzzing about the front-page story in today’s Wall Street Journal that U.S. News & World Report is “seriously” considering reworking its famous law school ranking system to crack down on top law schools’ infamous practice of “gaming” the rankings. As the WSJ Law Blog reports, “it’s no secret that top law [...]
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom: Ever wonder what Harry Potter would be like if it was made into a porn flick? But without the porn? And set in India? Just ask Time Warner, who’s suing a Mumbai-based producer for copyright infringement involving the title of the upcoming “Hari Puttar—A Comedy of Terrors.” [WSJ Law [...]
