Not only is Thanksgiving shot, but so is close to every minute of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, including those traditionally spent sleeping.
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom: Hardball Los Angeles litigator Terry Christensen was sentenced Monday to three years in federal prison, fined $250,000, and ordered to three years of post-prison supervision for conspiring with Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano to wiretap billionaire Kirk Kerkorian’s former wife. The judge said “deterring other lawyers from illegal conduct [...]
The thrill is gone. Last Friday, I found out that I passed the New York bar. How I was able to find that out after five-plus hours of fruitlessly trying to load a page on their website, which crashed approximately 14 minutes after results became available, is another story. I immediately had that “whoosh” feeling, like [...]
What in the Bitter Lawyer is going on in this picture? Put your lawyerly wit to the test and post a comment with a hilarious caption about this cat and mouse game. And keep it clean. (Ish.) The editors’ favorite entry will be announced the next day. Editors’ Pick 11-24-08 Anonymous: “Want to play mad [...]
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom: Every lawyer is anxiously trying to avoid being an economic casualty right now, which has inspired a new trend of Big Firm-ers heading off to foreign law offices, mainly in the Middle East, to keep profits up in other markets. But if China is your new attorney home, you [...]
What in the Bitter Lawyer is going on in this picture? Put your lawyerly wit to the test and post a comment with a hilarious caption about this high-powered meeting. And keep it clean. (Ish.) The editors’ favorite entry will be announced the next day. Editors’ Pick 11-22-08 FT: “OK OK, I’ll give you the [...]
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom: Louisa C. Tuck, a.k.a. ‘Crystal Gunns’ (you can Google her on your own), is a porn star-cum-elementary school recess monitor in New Jersey. Parents (presumably mothers) are dialing up pressure to have her fired, but lawyers are advising the district that they have no grounds to do so, which [...]
What in the Bitter Lawyer is going on in this picture? Put your lawyerly wit to the test and post a comment with a hilarious caption about this turkey’s gut check at gunpoint. And keep it clean. (Ish.) The editors’ favorite entry will be announced the next day. Editors’ Pick 11-21-08 Scotious: “It was only [...]
