We do hope you’re sitting down. Results of American Lawyer‘s annual Associates Survey are in and the news is as grim as it is shocking: Midlevels at firms coast-to-coast are “eyeing the door.” In fact, a “close parsing” of 7,259 midlevel associates from 180 firms has revealed that “although most associates think they could make [...]
What Bitter Lawyers have learned this week: You’re probably more likely to get a visit from the Prize Patrol than you are to collect from Ed McMahon. The new Los Angeles: Thanks to the gays, it’s sort of like Mayberry. Forget Kyra Sedgewick, Lou Pearlman is the real Closer. Side effects of pedophilia may include [...]
Just when your feelings about Ed McMahon couldn’t get any more confusing, the media is reporting that two New York law firms have brought suit against the former late-night sidekick for over a quarter of a million bucks he allegedly owes them for handling his daughter’s divorce. This news rounds out a generally unpleasant quarter [...]
Yesterday, members of the Los Angeles glitterati, along with a few politicians, descended upon City Hall for a hearing to discuss a proposed “anti-paparazzi” ordinance that would protect celebrities and the public by creating a “personal safety zone” between aggressive photographers and their subjects. Notably absent from the hearing was the Los Angeles Police Department—not [...]
Attempting to beat his own personal bottom-feeding record, former boy-band promoter and current federal inmate Lou Pearlman is now trying his hand at being a police informant. Pearlman, who founded promotional machines the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync, is currently serving a 25-month sentence in a federal penitentiary for scamming elderly investors out of $300 [...]
One of our readers has just tipped us off to the story of Alan Hesketh, a British patent attorney and certified perv living in Connecticut who, until recently, served as Pfizer’s global patent director—and who pleaded guilty earlier this week to possessing and distributing more than 1,000 images of child porn. An investigation by federal [...]
Sources are reporting that one year after an unprecedented federal lawsuit targeting comment trolls on the college-admissions website AutoAdmit.com was filed, a whole lot of nothing has happened. The AutoAdmit controversy began in 2005 when two female law students were the target of bilious and harassing threads on the site which sported messages such as [...]
Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled that a convicted pedophile, Joseph Edward Duncan III, who kidnapped and murdered an Idaho child in 2005, will be allowed to represent himself at his death penalty sentencing hearing. Earlier this year, Duncan dumped his legal team in favor of representing himself because he said “his attorneys couldn’t [...]
The legal biz is abuzz with reports that Angela Robinson, a former paralegal for heavy-hitting Texas plaintiffs’ lawyer Richard Laminack, is accusing him of not only being a “sexual predator,” but also of dabbling in federal mail fraud. Robinson alleges that that Laminack once offered her $15,000 to “stay with him in a hotel room [...]
Warning to Big Firm lawyers across America: the hours you spend at work trolling around the Internet for gossip and catching up with friends may be in danger. That is, at least, if your firms decide to follow the lead of Poland’s national police headquarters, which, international media sources report, has just banned officers from [...]
