Lawyer’s Fame-Claim: Model Client

A 23-year-old model who filed suit yesterday against her 54-year-old billionaire ex-boyfriend, over “bizarre and unnatural sex acts” allegedly performed at his 51,000-square-foot New York City mansion when she was 16, is in capable legal hands. “Literally!” exclaims New York magazine in a gossipy rundown on Maximilia Cordero’s legal representation…

Oct 18, 2007 6:47 PM CDT

Judge Is Bad-Guy Film Role for Floyd Abrams

First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams has a role as a judge who sends a journalist to jail for refusing to reveal her sources in an upcoming film called Nothing But the Truth. Abrams might consider himself to be playing the bad guy. In real life he represented New York Times…

Oct 18, 2007 6:03 PM CDT

Panel: Convictions Disqualify Temp Judge

Unless it is over 10 years old, a criminal record disqualifies a lawyer from serving as a judge, even on a temporary basis, in Seattle. This decision by the King County District Court’s executive committee—as well as a new policy of conducting criminal background checks on all applicants for temporary…

Oct 17, 2007 7:33 PM CDT

Lawyers Less Depressed Than Many?

Despite all the complaints about how difficult it can be to practice law today, can it be that attorneys aren’t as depressed as a lot of other folks? A recent study suggests the answer to that question could be yes. Doctors, teachers and janitors may have a higher incidence of…

Oct 16, 2007 8:29 PM CDT

Beloved U of Chicago Law Prof Dies

David Currie, a longtime law professor at the University of Chicago known both for his constitutional law scholarship and his gifts as an inspiring teacher, has died. He was in his early 70s. Currie had been ill and suddenly took a turn for the worse, Dean Saul Levmore said today…

Oct 15, 2007 11:17 PM CDT

After Murders, Judge Seeks ‘Resurrections’

With the third anniversary of a tragic day in her life several months away, U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow has granted an interview to a national television show, her first since the event that changed her life. On Feb. 28, 2005, Lefkow’s mother and husband were murdered at her Chicago…

Oct 15, 2007 10:40 PM CDT

Al Gore Left Law, Won Nobel Peace Prize

Al Gore seems to have made the right career choice when he opted to leave Vanderbilt University Law School and pursue a life in politics in the 1970s. The former presidential candidate has now won the Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental work, along with a United Nations climate change…

Oct 12, 2007 6:07 PM CDT

Back in Style: The Necktie

Men of a certain age, brace yourselves. Those who cheerfully accepted the new business-casual era that now prevails in a number of law offices may yet see the day when neckties once again are a required part of the professional uniform. No less a fashion authority than the New York…

Oct 11, 2007 10:59 PM CDT

GA Suspends Lawyer for Drug Conviction

A divided Georgia Supreme Court decided yesterday to suspend a 20-year practitioner for two years because of his guilty plea earlier this year to a charge of cocaine possession. Two justices wanted attorney John M.B. Lewis IV disbarred, reports the Augusta Chronicle (reg. req.). One of them, Justice Carol Hunstein,…

Oct 10, 2007 3:18 PM CDT

Lawyer Chases BB Gun Assailants

Burton, Mich., lawyer Michael Breczinski chased down two teens who shot him with BB guns in a mall parking lot Tuesday, even as they fired additional shots at him. The first pellet hit Breczinski in the neck below his ear. By the time he tackled one of the teens, he…

Oct 4, 2007 1:07 PM CDT

Top India Law Salary: $7K + Stock Options

The starting annual salary for a graduate of one of India’s top law schools working in an outsourced position for a major U.S. law firm is less than an American counterpart earns in a single month if employed by the firm directly. But the job has some nice benefits, at…

Oct 1, 2007 9:51 PM CDT

Pssst! Wanna Buy a Law Practice?

Oct 1, 2007 9:27 PM CDT

Practicing Lawyer Also Sells Luxe Goods

Like a number of others who market luxury goods to upscale clients, Maryann Mihalopoulos isn’t ready to give up her day gig. A lawyer who runs a business litigation and divorce firm in Dallas, the 47-year-old mother of three also manufactures and sells Xela Aromasticks reports the International Herald Tribune.…

Sep 28, 2007 10:51 PM CDT

Many Lawyers Mismanage Own Money

Many young lawyers don’t want to believe this, as they contemplate seemingly fat salaries after years of student budgets. But their funds are limited. And they don’t necessarily manage their money all that well. “What I’m fighting is houses and cars,” Thomas Haunty, the author of a book for young…

Sep 28, 2007 10:22 PM CDT

Survey Says: Career Satisfaction a Struggle

Lawyers are ruder. Litigation costs more. And many attorneys struggle for career satisfaction. But nonetheless, most lawyers are still proud of their profession. That’s the gist of an American Bar Association survey of 800 attorneys that is discussed in next month’s ABA Journal cover story. One troubling statistic is the…

Sep 28, 2007 3:02 PM CDT