Non-Sequiturs: 01.07.08
* Wow, this is wild. Mark Lanier (at right), the prominent plaintiffs' lawyer leading the Vioxx charge against Merck, gets down and dirty in blog comments (at Overlawyered and elsewhere). [Overlawyered; WSJ Law Blog]
* Lawyer of the Day? Chicago attorney charged with keying a Marine's car says he merely "rub[bed] past it." [Snopes.com]
* Upset about your bonus? You're not alone. Goldman Sachs bankers employees are, too. [DealBreaker]
* For current and aspiring legal academics, here's a quick wrap-up of last week's AALS conference in New York. [PrawfsBlawg]
* Michael Saltzman, tax partner at White & Case and author of a well-known treatise, R.I.P. [TaxProf Blog]
Comments
Thank you Jay Grodner for bringing disgrace to our profession. Tool.
Posted by: anon | January 7, 2008 05:28 PM
Overlawyered and AEI are such tools it's not funny.
Posted by: Mark Lanier | January 7, 2008 05:32 PM
I suck.
Posted by: Jay Grodner | January 7, 2008 05:33 PM
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Posted by: Time for a new server, Lat | January 7, 2008 05:35 PM
Jay Grodner sucks.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 7, 2008 05:45 PM
People at my high school commented on blogs and keyed cars all the time. It was no big deal.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 7, 2008 05:52 PM
I wonder what bonuses the Goldman lawyers received. Far lower than last year, like the employees, or higher like the business folks?
Posted by: Anon | January 7, 2008 05:59 PM
By the way, Lat, re-read the Dealbreaker post, it is not the Goldman bankers who are disappointed but the employees in operations, IT, secretaries, etc.
Posted by: Anon | January 7, 2008 06:01 PM
I agree with the Dealbreaker commenter that the prose in that site's post is near incomprehensible. I'd expect nothing more from bankers.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 7, 2008 06:04 PM
I have occasionally thought that keying a car should be the ONLY death penalty offense in the US.
Its such a nakedly malicious and jealous move.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 7, 2008 06:14 PM
Texas lawyers rock.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 7, 2008 06:47 PM
Mike should stick an M-16 up Grodner's ass. I know I would.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 7, 2008 08:44 PM
Attorney Jay R. Grodner is worthless.
But for a good time, just Google him.
Posted by: Jay Grodner really is worthless. | January 7, 2008 10:06 PM
Vioxx plaintiffs attorneys to $2 billion!
Posted by: Anon | January 8, 2008 07:58 AM
This comes from like the #6 Google post on Grodner's name. I can't provide the link since Lat apparently has set the blog to withhold all comments containing URLs. Anyway, here it is:
"He's a hot guy, this Jay R. Grodner. Here's his dating profile, with a giant hat tip to uncorrellated dot com for their posting, Jay R. Grodner Update.
"I love sex. I'm wild about so many ways that sex makes life worth living. I joined this site because the women I'm seeing are both beautiful and adventurous. I have plenty of work a [sic] free time to talk. somtimes [sic] one needs to act."
Posted by: Anonymous | January 8, 2008 09:43 AM
Rather than pressing charges against Jay Grodner, the State should just give him a helmet and an M-16 and ship HIM off to Iraq. I would love to see what happens to Mr. Grodner when he keys an insurgent's moped...
Posted by: IDEA | January 8, 2008 09:48 AM
Solid idea, 9:48.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 8, 2008 11:17 AM