Above the Law Hotties: Law Librarians!
When it comes to legal hotties contests, Above the Law is a market leader -- and everybone else has yet to match.
We're previously held beauty contests for America'shottest ERISA lawyers, law school deans, and 3L students at NYU Law. And we have tons of ideas for future contests.
We asked for your help in picking our next contest. Here's how you voted:
That's right, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to ATL's latest hotties contest: LAW LIBRARIANS!!!
It's not as strange as it might seem. Librarians get a bad rap; they're regarded as frumpy and, well, bookish. But we know there are lots of hot legal librarians out there just waiting to be discovered.
To name just one, there's the fun and fabulous Martha-Ann Alito, the wife of Justice Samuel A. Alito. They met when he was an assistant U.S. attorney in Newark, New Jersey, and she was the USAO's law librarian. Some people find their angels in the centerfold; Sam Alito found his in the center stacks!
Okay, time for contest logistics. Do you know a hot law librarian -- whether at a law school, a law firm, a courthouse, or elsewhere -- who deserves to be considered?
Please check out the nomination rules and guidelines, which appear after the jump. Thanks!
First, a few rules:
1. The nominee must be a CURRENT law librarian. No former librarians.2. The nominee must be an actual, bona fide law librarian -- as opposed to, say, someone who just works in a library. Hot undergraduates who check IDs at the law library desk are NOT eligible.
Second, the submission guidelines. To nominate a hot legal librarian, here's what you must email us (subject line: Law Librarian Hotties):
(1) the nominee's name, title, and workplace;(2) a decent-sized, reasonably high-quality, digital photograph of the nominee (ideally a face pic); and
(3) a testimonial, in which you explain why this law librarian deserves to be named America's hottest law librarian.
Please note that incomplete submissions will be DISREGARDED. Nominations without a picture will be ignored, no matter how emphatically you rave about the candidate's hotness. We realize that law librarian headshots aren't as easy to find as, say, law firm partner headshots. But that's your problem, not ours.
Of course, we encourage you to do whatever it takes to get these photos (within the bounds of the law). If you need to hide behind the stacks and take stalker-esque, paparazzi-style photos of your favorite law librarian, go for it. If you need to tell a white lie -- "Martha, I'm testing out my brand-new digital camera -- can I take a picture of you?" -- we will understand.
We'll accept nominations until -- eh, whenever we have enough. As always, tipsters and nominators will remain anonymous (unless you give away your identity in your testimonial, e.g., "My wife Martha is the hottest law librarian ever!").
We look forward to hearing from you!
(17) Comments
boring. these contests should stick to lawyers
2:01 PM: Couldn't disagree more. Bring on the hot paralegals!
Or, better yet, hottest recruiting coordinators. Firms always hire hotties for those jobs (whom the partners end up marrying).
October 7, 2006 -- A Manhattan lawyer says he was taunted by colleagues at his former firm because he was too nice.
When Steven Behar "fraternized with the legal assistants and the other staff" at the law firm of Wollmuth, Maher and Deutsch, the other attorneys told him not to "be so friendly" and that he "needed to act like us" - like a 'big swinging d-,' " court papers say.
They also told him he was "fat" and his "breath smells" - and he needed to "dress like us" so he could "f- better women," Behar's $7 million wrongful-termination and discrimination suit says.
David Wollmuth, whose firm has offices in New Jersey, Illinois and on Fifth Avenue, said he hadn't seen the suit, but said Behar's allegations "are without merit" and that "we will defend them vigorously."
In his lawsuit, Behar says he went to work at the firm as a partner in June 2003 and started having physical problems soon after.
"In or about late July of 2003, [Behar] began to experience terrible headaches. In addition to excruciating pain, he had extreme sensitivity to light and sound," the suit says. The pain, which struck two or three times a week and would last about an hour per attack, was so bad he'd have to pop Advil, "close his office door, turn the light off and put his head on the desk," the suit says.
The suit says the attacks didn't affect Behar's workload because he routinely worked until about midnight, but fellow partners Wollmuth and Rory Deutsch started to "treat him in a new and peculiar manner." They engaged in "personal verbal attacks" on Behar on an "almost daily basis."
That included mocking how friendly he was and the way he dressed, the suit says. They also "unjustifiably criticized" his work, and made him toil through the night typing documents while stiffing him on secretarial help.
The suit says Behar's headaches got worse, and in September, he "learned that his blood pressure was at a dangerously high level." He was then advised to stop working and ordered to check into the hospital. Wollmuth accused him of "lying about his condition in order to attend a New York Yankees game," the suit says.
Behar spent three days in a cardiac intensive care unit, the suit says.
When he returned to work, Behar found "he was excluded from ordinary social interaction" - and two weeks later, he was told he was being let go.
The suit says the firm ignored his earlier requests for disability leave, and treated him differently "because of his medical problems."
Behar, who now has his own firm on Wall Street, declined comment.
dareh.gregorian@nypost.com
Or hot tier 2 students. We excel there!
maybe a nitpick, but I didn't think that ATL "held" the 3L contest, just covered it. No?
We voted for the ten hottest men and ten hottest women in the third-year class, but then our contest stopped. We didn't rank the ten hottest in any order.
ATL came along and had a contest among the ten men and ten women, ranking them by votes received, and crowning the #1 man and the #1 woman.
David,
Please do a "hottest unemployed tier 2/3/4 student" contest. It would help raise awareness of our plight.
Loyola 2L
This is a great contest. Many of these lawyers-to-be have obviously not yet realized that they will be seeing a lot of their firm's librarians and they no longer are all white-haired ladies...
Please clarify the rules. Must nominees be current, bona fide, and hot librarians only, or must they also be law school librarians?
By my reading, you don't have to be a law SCHOOL librarian. According to the post:
"Do you know a hot law librarian -- whether at a law school, a law firm, a courthouse, or elsewhere -- who deserves to be considered?"
Where does it say you have to be a law school librarian (rather than just a "law librarian")?
@ Anonymous | February 13, 2007 01:54 PM
Where does it say you have to be a law school librarian (rather than just a "law librarian")?
"(3) a testimonial, in which you explain why this law school librarian deserves to be named America's hottest law school librarian."
It looks like that text has been changed. So librarians of all stripes must be welcome!
what! no Canadians allowed?
My name is Tottie, that is Hottie with a T!
I specialized in law librarianship as my specialty while doing my MSLS at the Catholic University of America, worked for the Law Library of Congress, currently at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. Can I enter the contest?
Here is a post by Robyn Rebollo in her blog available at:
http://accidentalaussie.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_accidentalaussie_archive.html
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
The Washington Post's Express Daily Spotlights Information Superheroes
Today's Washington Post Express, a free daily that is distributed just about everwhere in the DC metropolitan area, features a cover article today in their Getting Ahead section called Get a Shelf Life: Library classes create information superheroes. (see page 37). It features Catholic University of America's SLIS Alumna, M.J. Oboroceanu (2003), who works at the Library of Congress. She is described as a superior and explicitly fit and hip . . . [and a] rebel librarian. The article does a good job of informing the general public on the importance of a master's degree in the field of library and information science. It also highlights how our profession has changed and embraced technologies that compliment library services.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/express/pdfs/EXPRESS_08092006.pdf
This is awesome! I know my nomination is coming ;)
Way cool!