I’m sorry, but I can’t take it anymore. This is the fifth time in three weeks I’ve received (and—yes, fine, I’ll admit it, deleted without opening) the “Urgent Pro Bono Staffing: Please read!” email from Mr. Of Counsel, who is tasked with harassing everyone in the firm about taking on pro bono work. Call me [...]
As a law student who interned for ten months only to find out that I suck at it in one ten minute conversation with the supervisor, I have some thoughts on lawyers and apologies. So, the following will be a primer for any attorney who is attempting to mend fences. I’ll write the treatise later. 1) Stick [...]
Current title and employer? Supervising Producer, Private Practice Sounds fancy, but what do you really do? I’m a television writer. Basically, I sit around with the other members of our show’s staff (on Private Practice, there are 8 of us) and try to come up with stories that will keep you from switching over to [...]
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 [...]
I know the initial answer will be “whatever you want” or “whatever you’re good at” or “whatever your personality traits fit, etc.” But overall, what’s better for a person’s career/career options, big firm transactional or big firm litigation? And what type of transactional, etc. is better to go into? Thank you. Great question. And my [...]
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 [...]
Weeks after being accused by his sister and 61-year-old mother, a former circus clown, of roughing them up in a London hotel on the eve of the “Dark Knight“‘s European premiere, British police are reporting that Christian Bale will not be charged with any crime. This is after police had originally “delayed questioning Bale for [...]
If the National Law Journal has anything to say about it, your psycho ex and that kid you sorta knew in second grade aren’t the only people stalking you on Facebook these days. According to a recent article, attorneys and jury consultants have increasingly been turning to social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace [...]
QI’ve heard the only journal experience in law school that has any resume value is Law Review. Is this true? Do firms really care either way or does it just depend on who’s interviewing you? AFirst off, this conversation is only relevant for those students looking to land jobs at swanky, big city law firms. Everyone [...]
Hollywood was shaken to its core yesterday when, after two years of protracted litigation, a judge finally ruled that “Hollywood Paws,” an animal training academy and agency that “provides the tools and knowledge necessary to help animal actors and studio trainers become working professionals in the animal acting industry,” wasn’t to blame for the fact [...]
