Laughing at the top law schools makes me sad. It reminds me how hopeless the whole system is. But laughing at the T4s is good, clean fun.
Do’s and Don’ts on Valentine’s Day Gifts for Lawyers
What to buy and what not to buy for that lawyer you love
Bitter Lawyer Without Pity: The Deep End
[Ed. Note: The following is a Television Without Pity-like recap of the first two episodes of the legal dramedy The Deep End, which was written by Law Firm 10 while she watched and sunk into her new professional depression. Episode 3 of The Deep End airs tonight at 8/7:00 Central on ABC.] EPISODE 1: PILOT…
The Best of the Bitter: 2009
You don’t know where you’re bitterly going until you know where you’ve been. So, in honor of an eventful year in the universe of all things legal, we’ve decided to re-feature our most popular content pieces from 2009. What best entertained Bitter Lawyers while the walls of BigLaw, law schools and law firms crumbled around…
Bitter Review: William Kunstler: Radical Lawyer Disturbing the Universe
[Ed. Note: Weekends are for movies. So we turned to our film critic friend, Todd Gilchrist, for a review from the court of critical opinion.] William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a documentary about William Kunstler, a lawyer as confounding as he is inspiring. After decades of service as a civil rights attorney and activist,…
Bitter Lawyer Baseball Fans: Yankees/Phillies
A pair of record-book home runs by The Phillies’ Chase Utley (son of attorney David Utley) last night closed the gap to 3-2, and now the World Series heads back to a cracked-up Yankee Stadium for game six this Wednesday. That means whether you’re a diehard baseball fanatic, a casual admirer or a total hater…
Bitter Review: Amelia
[Ed. Note: Weekends are for movies. So we turned to our film critic friend, Todd Gilchrist, for a review from the court of critical opinion.] Watching Amelia, it’s hard to know what’s more generic—the rise, fall, and redemption story structure that director Mira Nair adopts in order to examine the life of Amelia Earhart, or…
The Bitter Five: 10-23-09
Welcome to the first episode of the new Bitter Lawyer series, The Bitter Five, where we break down the week’s top-five bitterest stories in the legal media. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2009 Links to all the stories from this week’s The Bitter Five episode are listed below. No. 5 Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell…
Bruce Wasserstein: Deal King Lawyer?
Name any mega-deal in the last three decades, and there’s a good chance Bruce Wasserstein had a heavy hand in it. Wasserstein, who died last Wednesday at the age of 61, served as Chairman and CEO of the financial firm Lazard since 2005 and was a lawyer at Cravath, Swaine and Moore in New York…
Bitter Review: Law Abiding Citizen
[Ed. Note: Weekends are for movies. And if Jamie Foxx is acting the part of an impassioned lawyer opposite real-life lawyer Gerard Butler (he was fired as a first-year in Scotland and picked up acting), we need to talk about it. So we turned to our film critic friend, Todd Gilchrist, for a review from…