A poor little Harvard law student poured out his angst for the Harvard Law Record on the basis that, despite his or her Harvard-ness, a BigLaw offer was not forthcoming…
The fall of Lehman has been quite a boon to Weil Gotshal’s business.
Number 9 in the Bitter Lawyer: Living the Dream series. A funny if slightly bitter taste of the trials and tribulations of BigLaw… Number 8 is in our video strip on the right…
Earlier episodes can be checked out each prior Wednesday through our archives or visit the Bitter Lawyer site by clicking http://www.bitterlawyer.com/index.php
Series 4 straight out goes Nicholas de Lacy-Brown; series 5 another lawyer out the door first. Some of you have commented that the sweet tongued one might have it in for lawyers, well here’s Kirkland & Ellis keeping the side up…
…and teaching those spivvy apprentices a thing or two about negotiation. Yeah!
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Odd Todd is a website owned and operated by Todd Rosenberg, an unemployed "dotcommer", who created a series of humourous cartoons depicting the world of unemployment after entering that world himself.
These animated shorts encapsulate the trials and tribulations many people felt after the dot com crash around 2001and probably how a whole load more are feeling right now (esp. in our beloved legal profession)…
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Number 7 in the Bitter Lawyer: Living the Dream series, might give you stage fright. A funny if slightly bitter taste of the trials and tribulations of BigLaw… Number 6 is in our video strip on the right…
Earlier episodes can be checked out each prior Wednesday through our archives or visit the Bitter Lawyer site by clicking http://www.bitterlawyer.com/index.php
Laugh don’t cry – redundancy is miserable but see the funny side of unemployment with Odd Todd:
If you missed the first ones you might want to check out previous Friday posts in our archives to get a feel…
No, despite the hopes of some soon-to-be-ex-Linklaters employees, we are not talking about Linklaters’ Senior Partner, David Cheyne.
Ali Bongo, whose real name was William Wallace, was one of Britain’s most popular stage magicians. He acted as adviser to other magicians and was often consulted for television shows about magic, including the Paul Daniels Magic Show on the BBC.
He was also the inspiration for the character of Jonathan Creek in the BBC television detective series of the same name starring …
Redundancy: topical, not normally funny but…
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25. It is illegal for a cab in the City of London to carry rabid dogs or corpses.
24. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.
23. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down.
22. In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon.
21. Under the UK’s Tax Avoidance Schemes Regulations 2006, it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you don’t want …
There is a funny side to everything… Even redundancy.
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The downturn is causing headaches for senior partners across the country as firms are forced to take drastic action to deal with the nosediving economy. Most firms have limited their ’safety’ measures to the usual weapons in their armoury such as laying off employees, closing offices and freezing salaries. However, after being singled out for some critical attention in Legal Business Halliwells are understood to have gone a step further and done a bit of ritual magazine burning…
So a …
David Ross, Co-Founder of Carphone Warehouse this week has been caught in a vicious cycle of assets and debts. The fate of David Ross remained in the hands of JPMorgan’s private banking unit last night after it emerged that the mobile phone tycoon had pledged his plunging wealth to service huge loans from the investment bank.
On Monday David appointed Osborne Clarke, the law firm, to help with the expected legal ramifications of a Financial Services Authority investigation into the …
IN CINCINNATI Jessica Cohen is accused a of stealing a cell phone from a public defender’s office employee “just after requesting a lawyer to defend her on a previous theft charge”.
Hamilton County sheriff’s officials in Cincinnati tracked down 20-year-old Jessica Cohen from personal information she left at the public defender’s office the day the phone was stolen.
You have one phone call:
She was arrested Monday and pleaded not guilty to a theft charge on Tuesday.
The office still agreed to represent Cohen, …
London media firm Davenport Lyons is ‘strengthening’ its client list with [ahem] adult entertainment companies aka porn, as part of a push into copyright litigation.
Dispute resolution partners David Gore and Roger Billins, along with IP partner Brian Miller, are advising copyright owners on internet IP breaches. They have already begun distributing cease-and-desist letters to people suspected of illegally downloading pornography – one elderly couple received a letter demanding £500, accusing them of illegally downloading gay porn film Army …
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