Say it ain’t so! Despite our initial skepticism, reports have confirmed the truly unimaginable: Britney Spears has stiffed her lawyers. Court documents have shown that the fallen pop star recently racked up almost half a million dollars’ worth of legal bills in her custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline—in addition to the quarter mil she’s [...]
Internet fame isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. Just ask Seattle attorney Shakespear Feyissa, whose college paper’s online edition published allegations of his suspension for alleged attempted sexual assault back when he was a student at Seattle Pacific University in 1998. Now, as reports tearing through the legal blogosphere are explaining, the online [...]
Oh, actors and their sort-of-bands—can they ever really do any harm? Turns out, if you’re Virgin Records/EMI and the band in question is headed by doll-face actor Jared Leto, then, yes. Leto’s vanity-project-cum-band, 30 Seconds to Mars, apparently signed a five-record deal with Virgin/EMI back in 1999—but funnily enough, the band has only come out [...]
It’s that time of year again—the legal community is abuzz with news that the Vault 2009 law firm rankings are out. In a testament to the thriving, ever-evolving nature of Big Firm life, the list of the top five “most prestigious” firms hasn’t changed one hair over last year’s rankings: 1. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & [...]
In an interview with Rev. Rick Warren on Saturday, Barack Obama stated that had he been president at the time, he would not have nominated Clarence Thomas. “I don’t think that he, I don’t that he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation.” Careful, Barack. Don’t start throwing [...]
Craig Robinson, 36, who plays Darryl the warehouse foreman on The Office, is facing felony drug charges, stemming from an arrest during a June traffic stop. According to the criminal complaint, the actor was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance. The “substance” allegedly was amphetamines, cocaine and marijuana. Though Robinson’s rep [...]
In case you haven’t already heard the latest legal nail-biter to hit the dockets in Los Angeles, look no further: Sprinkles Cupcakes, the California cupcake retailer catering to Hollywood’s elite, has filed a federal lawsuit against its competitor, Famous Cupcakes, for “stealing its trademarked ‘Modern Dot’ cupcake design to lure away clientele.” Sprinkles is claiming [...]
Local media is reporting that a woman in Poulsbo, Washington has been jailed after allegedly “beating up her fiancé at their prenuptial party.” Without elucidating what exactly a prenup party is, officials from the county sheriff’s department explained that the woman’s 12-year-old son told her “he saw her fiancé kissing one of her women friends [...]
What Bitter Lawyers have learned this week (August 11-15): If the house is a rockin’, don’t bother knockin’–just get an injunction The curse of The Dark Knight is broken—except for that whole Heath Ledger thing “Dislikes: Jury Duty” might not be bad to add to your Facebook profile Some dogs don’t hunt, some dogs don’t [...]
A man in Britain has officially been banned from visiting his girlfriend’s apartment after her neighbors “complained about noisy sex.” A city council spokesperson has reported that, after two years of neighbors’ complaints about “thumping music, banging headboards and screamed obscenities,” a court finally issued an injunction barring the man, Adam Hinton, from being within [...]
