In reports that have surely sent a ripple of anticipation through the halls of law libraries nationwide, it has just been announced that Alec Baldwin’s new authoritative text on family law, “A Promise to Ourselves,” is set to hit the shelves September 23. Billed as a practical text on the topic of “family relationships,” Baldwin’s [...]
I just arrived in Majorca, Spain, dreams of paella, sangria and long overdue sex on my mind. I’d been working round the clock on some stupid merger for three months. I’d barely seen my fiancée for weeks—and she was seconds away from returning the expensive ring I’d just bought for her. So I planned a [...]
Just when you thought it was safe to wallow safely in your time-honored right to be miserable at work, some over-earnest hick lawyer goes and screws it up again. This time, the thanks is owed to the recent clueless ramblings of Stephen Ellis, a partner at Tucker, Ellis & West, a Cleveland law firm with [...]
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 [...]
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