Best Reason for a Law Firm Name Change Ever
A fantastic and hilarious email, announcing a name change for a Montana law firm, has been making the rounds. We’d like to reprint it here, but we’ll refrain for now. Instead, read the email and commentary on it here and here.
We have no reason to question the authenticity of the email (which apparently went out to the entire membership of the Montana Trial Lawyers Association). But we haven’t verified it definitively either. And we’d like to give William Managhan and Santana Kortum-Managhan the chance to comment, given the salacious nature of the material. How do they fill about all the roomers?
Accordingly, we have phone calls and emails in to the Managhan Law Firm (whose typo-laden website still identifies it as the “Managhan & Kortum-Managhan Law Firm”). We will let you know if and when we hear back from them.
Update (7 PM): We have been communicating with Bobbi Bonnington via email. We hope to have more information for you soon.
A comedic tidbit…courtesy of Montana [The Amateur Law Professor]
Firm Name Change [The Legal Scoop]




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NO. 1
"no longer fill comfortable" and "roomer mill"
"Roomer mill"?
nice spelling in the emails.
The "roomer" mill? Nice.
I wonder if she also had sex in Butte?
"Santana Kortum-Managhan" sounds hot. Anyone have a pic?
There's a pic of her on the firm website.
I bet he can spell ambulance, though.
http://www.managhanlawfirm.com/profiles.htm
wow there is actually a pic of an ambulance on their website
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/1464601_1
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/1464601_1
Having kids at the age of 19 (or right around there) - that always leads to good results. I wonder if it was a shotgun wedding.
""Santana Kortum-Managhan" sounds hot."
WRONG, SIR! WRONG!
Santana also attended the "Univeristy of Montana."
4:59, that is the comment of the day
5:03 - actually she adopted his kids it looks like.
Though she actually is quite old for a chipmunk
The typos in the email are a dead giveaway that this is legit. Check out the web site. Without even looking a found several typos. For example, in Santana Kortum-Managhan's profile:
"Univeristy of Montana School of Law"
lol. They spell the firm name wrong on the homepage:
"Managhan & Kortum-Manghan[notice the a is missing] Law Firm PLLC is committed to providing quality legal representation in cases involving injury"
http://www.managhanlawfirm.com/index.htm
Check out Bobbi Bonnington's profile - someone even try to tell me she is not a who from whoville. Watch out Bobbi, the Grinch is coming!!!
Was she having sex with someone from a town called Anaconda, or was that a description of him? If it's the second, I feel bad for the husband but what are you going to do?
Lomax - You spent about as much time proofreading your comment as Managhan did proofing his web page
5:05 - you should abide by the rule that those who live in glass houses should not throw rocks - "without even looking a found several typos" or do you mean "I found several typos"?
Celeste is mind kinda woman.
Lomax-
plus, you reposted what i had already pointed out. get your own material.
"Bad Spellers of the World, Untie!"
I also like:
"Whether you are were in injured"
Someone at the firm should be proofing it.
Also, the profile link on the main page doesn't work right now.
Kalispell to $160!!!
The "Montana Bar Assoiation"?
William Managhan clerked for the Montana Supreme Court-- quick, someone do a Westlaw search for "roomer."
plus you can all bite me.
Anaconda is a town and a mining company... could be either from the context, but as Tim McKeon is a member of the Anaconda Chamber of Commerce, I'm guessing the town.
MMLP, I'm betting, is the Montana Medical Legal Panel.
I heart the google.
Roomer has it a big NYC firm is raising to $190k!!!
Oh yeah, I like this idea.
I was going to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and speculate that he might not have been sober when he composed his message (and decided to send it), or he typed it in the heat of passion, so he's got a kind of manslaughter thing going on. But the diligent research of the other commenters persuades me that I'm wrong and he is in fact a moron who can't spell "rumor."
And there should be a LEWW dark-side post: most awful (and awesome) legal eagle (or not) marriage meltdowns. Mmmmm, LEMM.
McKeon is a fellow attorney, who apparently practices in Anaconda. He is also apparently a defense lawyer.
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/1464601_1
The "other" man -- Tim McKeon http://www.localattorneydir.com/local/303889.html
no pic of Timmy. how can ATL vote on whether Santana made a good decision?
(you know, devastated kids notwithstanding)
Lat-
You need to ask for tips for hilarious lawyer websites like this. While I can only hope for someone to uncover something as good as Gallion & Spielvogel, there could be hundreds of undiscovered gems like this.
5:31, this anaconda-hunting woman was only their stepmom. they may be far from devastated.
What's the deal with Santana listing the three kids as "adopted" when Will does not? Did they both adopt three kids after getting married? Will doesn't look like the type of guy who got someone pregnant in high school and then graduated from Montana law school (as Semester early!). Or does Will have twin 13 year old boys and a 2 year old girl from a prior relationship(s) that Santana adopted after marrying him? We need answers Lat.
5:26,
I've typed while drunk many times. Being drunk may make it hard to hit the correct keys, but it does not make you forget the correct way to spell words. "Rumor" might come out as "ruimort" while drunk, but it does not become "roomer" no matter how much you've had.
I would love to join their firm so I could be in the "wrecks" practice area.
L2L -- looks like this guy might be hiring !!!!!!!
I would really enjoy if he dictated this email to Celeste, who sent it out on his behalf. Or voice-recognition software! That would explain why the spelling errors at least sound like the words they were intended to be.
"Celeste, take a memo..."
her name can be anagrammed into
An Man Hag, A Santorum Tank
From the firm website:
Santana was born and raised in Anaconda, Montana.
I've driven through Montana several times going between Washington and the midwest. The first time through I was confused by a sign on the highway that read something like:
Next Exit
Anaconda
Opportunity
I thought, "What! They must have a big-snake farm here or something!" It turns out that Anaconda and Opportunity are just towns located near each other.
Before I read the email, I assumed that the "fill" and "roomer" in the post were just errors/typos by Merek ghost-writing for Lat.
OK, you gotta love the local attorney info site (website: http://www.localattorneydir.com/local/303889.html
-credit to 5:27 above), which poses the following question which is particularly pertinent to this discussion:
"Have you been satisfied with Timothy W McKeon P C Attorney at Law? Share your thoughts with our community, so people will know what to expect."
"How do they fill about all the roomers?"
Lat, you're a Harvard and Yale Law grad. Don't you know how to spell?
Congratulations, 6:44. You just won the moron award of the day. Way to ignore the email and the 50 posts making fun of the spelling errors above.
5:43...So true...you made my laugh to the point of crying.
6:27...ditto.
Could be that I'm just at the punch-drunk point where I should call it a day...and go get actually drunk.
Wonder what poor ol' Jeffrey M. Doud is doing tonight?
6:44
Also, remember that so is George W.
Bobbi Bonnington attended law school for two years? Was the third year too hard? She decided, eh, screw it, I'll be support staff? What the hell is going on in Montana?
"I alvays wanted to see....Montana."
Gallion OUT!!!
Someone do a comparison of
the eminently prestigious law firm of Gallion & Spielvogel website v. Managhan law firm website.
A Santorum Tank
Here's the pic of Ms. Kortum-Managhan. They have taken down the web page but the image is still on their server and cached in Google images.
http://www.managhanlawfirm.com/Santana.jpg
6:44 to douche.
Surely Santorm Tank will see this post and the comments.
I smell a few lawsuits....
Lat, you weenie, I fully expect you to delete this post once you receive a nasty letter from the Santorm Tank.
This is truly the No-Fun Zone.
If Lat didn't back down in the face of an Am Law 100 firm (Nixon Peabody), why would he cave before the Managhan Law Firm?
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:GELLPoYGMQEJ:www.managhanlawfirm.com/profiles.htm+Santana+Kortum-Managhan&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
WTF are you people talking about. The site isn't down. http://www.managhanlawfirm.com/index.htm
WTF are you people talking about. The site isn't down. http://www.managhanlawfirm.com/index.htm
WTF are you people talking about. The site is still up and running.
Brutal in so many ways.
I can only hope that at some point after I leave my $1500 a month job here in LA I can marry, adopt a few Loylets of my own, and later divorce my fugly wife for cheating on me with a Tier 4 law grad.
"After obtaining his law degree, Mr. Gallion was selected for the extremely prestigious clerkship with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Miner, J.); the Court's jurisdiction includes, among other states, New York and Connecticut. Following his clerkship, Mr. Gallion joined one of the most prominent Wall Street law firms -- Sullivan & Cromwell -- where he represented many of the world's largest corporations, such as Exxon Corporation, Philips Electronics, American Insurance Group (AIG) and Goldman, Sachs & Co. His areas of expertise include defending complex corporate and civil litigation matters, white-collar criminal defense representation, contract disputes and securities litigation and regulation."
Bitch got powned!
Personally, I blame the parents WHO NAMED THEIR DAUGHTER SANTANA.
"We'd like to reprint it here, but we'll refrain for now."
Something is going on with Lat. He "refrains" from posting a lot of unconfirmed material. I think that he has run into some legal problems. If you look back at posts over the last couple of months he has become much more conservative (not politically, he's already there) in what he will and will not post.
Can someone scoop Lat?
mmmm, Santana. I'd hit it in a heartbeat.
Can anyone say "Katie Daly" legal marketing whore. That missive was along the same lines, except the jilted hubby committed suicide after announcing his wife (said Katie Daly) had slept around with clients. If there was still a link up, I'd post, but they removed it out of "respect." Sad, but true. Gotta love the Rocky Mountain legal scene! Katie Daly (and hubby) were from Denver.
"Personally, I blame the parents WHO NAMED THEIR DAUGHTER SANTANA." - 10:37
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Yeah, that's almost as bad as naming one of your twin boys "Madison".
11:13 -- I really think you're on to something there. Now that you point it out, there definitely has been a new trend that's emerged over the last couple of months.
I've been thinking a little bit about it myself though, and have come to a slightly different conclusion. I think Lat's starting to become dissatisfied with his blog. I'm betting that his day-to-day grind isn't nearly so sexy now as he thought it was going to be a year ago when he jumped into this boat. But, he obviously can't go back to a real job now. To me, it feels like he's trying to ditch the blog all together and start writing opinion pieces full time and is just trying to not get himself in too much trouble before he ditches this place all together.
Hey, it's slim pickings out here in the Mountain West. You've go to take what you can get.
Take a letter, Celeste...
Address it to my wife...
"Whether you were in injured in Kalispell, Missoula, Libby, Helena, Bozeman, Great Falls, Havre, Billings, or any other location in Montana"
"I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook."
You know whats coming, so wait for it...
wait for it...
I bet he doesn't have a theme song!
It's so obvious what happened here. Santana was never really into the marriage at all (note the hyphenated name, and the emphasis on how the children were adopted). This was strictly a part-time gig for Santana, who merely rode William's prestigious coat tails to the dizzying heights of Montana's most elite legal community. Once she had what she wanted - name partnership in a major Montana law firm, an unquestionable legal pedigree, and even talk of Montana AG someday - she was finally "total package" enough to achieve her dream of seducing Tim McKeon, ass-kicking defense attorney from Anaconda. It's co clear.
"Everyone's a cuckold at Man-a-ghan Law Firm!"
I would like to set the record straight. I did not stray due to any lack of prowess in the bedroom on Managhan's part (to the contrary, his anaconda routinely gave me multiple orgasms).
Rather, it was his woefully inadequate writing skills -- who could be faithful to a guy who spells like that?
So, what to Bobbi have to say?
Enquiring minds...
I can see it in your eyes. You don't have a single fucking offer.
ditto 11:22. What's the good (or preferably, bad) word, Lat?
After quickly reading the email the first time through, I almost thought that poor old Will was trying to be funny with his use of "fill" and "roomer." After all, it makes sense that he no longer "fills" Santana comfortably, now that she's been tainted by Tim's Anaconda. Or something like that. (The reference to "roomer" is admittedly more difficult to justify as intentional witticism; I doubt, for example, that it was a purposeful pun on the likely location of Santana and Tim's alleged encounters.)
Needless to say, having seen Managhan's budget web site, I've been fully disabused of any notion that Will Managhan is even capable of coming up with a word play, much less spelling one correctly.
update us!
To 2:53 AM: Lat seems perfectly happy at ATL:
"I love my job, which is ridiculously fun - sometimes I can't believe I get paid to do this - and which pays the bills (even if I'm making less than I was at Wachtell)."
"I have no immediate plans of career change. Every now and then, I get approached about other opportunities, typically in the mainstream media - and I'm certainly open to them. But I enjoy my current gig too much to leave for something that isn't a great fit."
"As for a book deal, I have an agent, and we've been tossing around ideas."
http://media.www.hlrecord.org/media/storage/paper609/news/2007/09/13/News/Above.The.Law.Gets.Down.With.The.Record-2967442.shtml
Tim McKeon is a scum. I know the man. He is cheap, his wife is hideous (so I'm sure Santana was an upgrade) and he is illiberal. His wife is also a bitch and his 3 kids, ranging from 13-24 years old, are arrogant little shits. He looks like an umpa loomp, for all who were curious.
It frightens me to think that you might all be practicing attorneys. I'm not sure it's fair to ridicule when you're entirely classless yourself.
It's also sad to see how gleefully some of you revel in others' misfortunes.
I'm not an attorney and never have been. You do not need to worry about my morals. I KNOW McKeon. He is disliked, he lies and his wife is very rude. I'm not happy that this happened. I think about how anyone would feel if they were outted like this on the internet. However, as the saying goes, It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
I'm not an attorney and never have been. You do not need to worry about my morals. I KNOW McKeon. He is disliked, he lies and his wife is very rude. I'm not happy that this happened. I think about how anyone would feel if they were outted like this on the internet. However, as the saying goes, It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
You KNOW McKeon and is wife is very rude? His children are "arrogant little shits?" What kind of name is "Madison" for a boy? Look it up, Einstein. Personally, you blame the parents for naming her Santana? I am guessing your name is something like Bob or Jennifer? We would not know that though because most of you posted anonymously or with made up names. Failure to use spell check before sending out a mass email during a mental break-down? Bobbi Bonnington went to law school for two years and became administrative staff?
I know Mr. Managhan. I know his law partner. She did not ride his prestigious coat tails. In fact, when she met him he was on public assistance. After realizing years ago he has mental health issues, she tried to get him help. He obviously had a melt down and failed to run spell check (who knew you were supposed to run spell check during a nervous break down?). I also know Mr. McKeon. The man is not a defense attorney nor is he a liar. His children are not "arrogant little shits." All of the individuals involved are decent people.
Now, we all realize your posts make your boring lives a bit more interesting - especially in the happening town of Anaconda or Butte. But honestly, who cares about your opinions of their names, their children, whether it "couldn't have happened to a nicer guy" and whether Mr. Managhan was drunk when he posted? Move onto someone else's tragedy.
McKeon is a liar and a piece of shit and it's highly doubtful that anyone would have sex with him, including his own wife, let alone Mr. Managhan's wife. I bet the entire rumor aka roomer was started by McKeon himself. He's such a shitty attorney he probably has no caseload and has plenty of time to fantasize about other people's wives because his own can't stand him. This rumor is the best thing that's ever happened to him. Not only is he among the worst attorneys in MT, but he also suffers from short man syndrome coupled with bald guy with a fat gut complex and more than likely limp dick-osis.
McKeon is a liar and a piece of shit and it's highly doubtful that anyone would have sex with him, including his own wife, let alone Mr. Managhan's wife. I bet the entire rumor aka roomer was started by McKeon himself. He's such a shitty attorney he probably has no caseload and has plenty of time to fantasize about other people's wives because his own can't stand him. This rumor is the best thing that's ever happened to him. Not only is he among the worst attorneys in MT, but he also suffers from short man syndrome coupled with bald guy with a fat gut complex and more than likely limp dick-osis.
McKeon is a liar and a piece of shit and it's highly doubtful that anyone would have sex with him, including his own wife, let alone Mr. Managhan's wife. I bet the entire rumor aka roomer was started by McKeon himself. He's such a shitty attorney he probably has no caseload and has plenty of time to fantasize about other people's wives because his own can't stand him. This rumor is the best thing that's ever happened to him. Not only is he among the worst attorneys in MT, but he also suffers from short man syndrome coupled with bald guy with a fat gut complex and more than likely limp dick-osis.
McKeon is a liar and a piece of shit and it's highly doubtful that anyone would have sex with him, including his own wife, let alone Mr. Managhan's wife. I bet the entire rumor aka roomer was started by McKeon himself. He's such a shitty attorney he probably has no caseload and has plenty of time to fantasize about other people's wives because his own can't stand him. This rumor is the best thing that's ever happened to him. Not only is he among the worst attorneys in MT, but he also suffers from short man syndrome coupled with bald guy with a fat gut complex and more than likely limp dick-osis.
I guess Tim (tim, tim, timmy!) should have kept his dick in his pants!
As a former client of Mr. McKeon, I've been correcting his blatant errors and ineptness for 6 years now, I get advice from inmates at MSP, so far much, much better legal advice than anything from Tim McKeon.
I was wondering what happened to Santanna Kortum, her and her sister were like....porn star hot! bitches! -
I'll bet when Santanna and Mr. Managhan were going at it all hot and heavy one night ....when Satanna (nice ass chicky !) screamed ....Tim, Tim, Timmy! - Timmy! and pulled a 'timmy' - went into a seizure...! -
Pure and simple elegance!
Inmates at MSP view McKeon law offices as a joke, after all, they should know!....if you want to get 'extra time' - hire Timmy!
I am sorry, but yes his kids are arrogant brats, Tim paid for his son to attend Butte Central - why? - cause nobody in Anaconda could stomach the little fuck. I know, I was there.....
What goes around, comes around Timmy, Quid Pro Quo you piece of shit!
yea, you sound like a real winner seeing as how you're from a shit-fuck place like anaconda and hanging out with other prisoners. what are you in for? raping a goat or doing meth?