Meh.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'm sure Big New York Law Firm has a nice disclaimer on the bulliten that says something like "this bulletin is not intended, nor should it be used, as a substitute for specific legal advice regarding particular factual situations" that the first year can point to.

NY firms sound nicer than Detroit firms.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
As far as reality show pitches go, I've been saying for years that someone should do a "Real World" type show about a handful of D.C. Interns living together. Might be a logistical nightmare to film, but you get crazy idealistic work-hard/play-hard gunner-types, and show them going out to D.C. happy hour every night, should make for some good TV.

No it would not.

God, no wonder tv sucks.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Volume.

Bank Representative: A lot of people don't realize that change is a two-way street. You can come in with sixteen quarters, eight dimes, and four nickels - we can give you a five-dollar bill. Or we can give you five singles. Or two singles, eight quarters, and ten dimes. You'd be amazed at the variety of the options you have.

Customer #3: I was driving through Pennsylvania on the tollway, and to save time I was using the exact-change lanes. I had just run out of quarters, and I was getting a bit nervous when I spotted a sign for a Citiwide branch at the next exit. Let me tell you, it was a pretty good feeling.

Bank Representative: I have had people come in with wrinkled ten-dollar bills to exchange for new crisp bills to put in birthday cards. We can handle special requests like that, usually in the same day.

Customer #4: I'd just returned from a business trip to London, and all the cash I had was a five-pound note. Citiwide wasn't able to convert it to dollars, but they did give me four guineas, two crowns, four shillings, and ten pence.

Bank Representative: All the time, our customers ask us, "How do you make money doing this?" The answer is simple: Volume. That's what we do.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by sgtclub
No Fucking Way. Do you think they'd call you up to advise you of the correction?

This is why I like practicing in a very small niche area where everyone across the country knows each other. We are actually quite nice to each other. We have to be because we face each other on every single fucking deal. So of course we would advise of a mistake.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I've been sort of careful about not buying CDsfrom Sony BMG since the summer, which meant no Foo Fighters for me.

Looks like Sony BMG has relented.

This was easily circumvented by taking a black marker and lightly circling the outside of the disc once.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'm sure Big New York Law Firm has a nice disclaimer on the bulliten that says something like "this bulletin is not intended, nor should it be used, as a substitute for specific legal advice regarding particular factual situations" that the first year can point to.

I bet they let said first year keep all those disclaimer pages so he has something to sleep under this winter.

TM

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You don't call them out on it publicly or call the New York firm privately.

TM

How about posting it, anonymously, on an internet style chatting board for lawyers and see what type of hilarity ensues?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
As far as reality show pitches go, I've been saying for years that someone should do a "Real World" type show about a handful of D.C. Interns living together. Might be a logistical nightmare to film, but you get crazy idealistic work-hard/play-hard gunner-types, and show them going out to D.C. happy hour every night, should make for some good TV.

[outable][true story]I did the pilot for the sitcom version of this back in 1992. It was Friends set in DC, before there was Friends. Dinged. [/outable][/true story]

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
[outable][true story]I did the pilot for the sitcom version of this back in 1992. It was Friends set in DC, before there was Friends. Dinged. [/outable][/true story]

Were you Joey or Chandler?

Or the monkey?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Were you Joey or Chandler?

Or the monkey?

Gunther.

[NotFromHere]

NEW YORK - A woman who claims to be a former girlfriend of KISS rocker Gene Simmons can proceed with a defamation lawsuit in which she says he made her sound like a “sex-addicted nymphomaniac” during a VH1 television show, a judge has ruled.

State Supreme Court Justice Rosalyn Richter denied Simmons’ motion to dismiss two of three claims by Georgeann Walsh Ward, 53, who says in court papers made public Friday that Simmons slandered her during a “rockumentary” about KISS.

Ward said in her lawsuit, filed in January, that photos of her appeared 11 times during the report on KISS, which was shown on the network several times in July and August. In it, Simmons claimed to have had sexual encounters with 4,600 women. (Do the math people.)

Simmons says during the show, “There wasn’t a girl that was off limits, and I enjoyed every one of them,” Ward’s court papers say.

At another point Simmons says, “I was a 24-hour whore. All I ever thought about was sex.” This, court papers say, was shown and followed by a photo of Ward with Simmons.

Ward’s papers say that because a photo of her with Simmons — though her name is never mentioned — was shown during remarks about his sexual adventures, she was in effect portrayed as “wild” and “unchaste.”

Richter let stand Ward’s two claims that she was depicted as unchaste or promiscuous during the documentary, even though Ward admitted she was in a “romantic” relationship with Simmons.

Social mores regarding sex between unmarried persons have changed, the judge said, but the law still says that calling a woman unchaste is defamation.

Sorry Burger, no pics. That I could find.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Question: Anyway some 1st year doesn't get fired over this? The only question is really whether the senior associate who oversees content goes down alos, isn't it?

They should be fired over this.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
This is why I like practicing in a very small niche area where everyone across the country knows each other. We are actually quite nice to each other. We have to be because we face each other on every single fucking deal. So of course we would advise of a mistake.

Even the New Yorkers?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

I recently heard that many people believe Truman Capote actually wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. Of course it is common knowledge that Dill was based on Capote. But supposedly Capote wrote it and gave it to Harper Lee, who never published anything again because she couldn't possibly match it. I guess studies have been done comparing his writing style in his other work with that of Mockingbird that backs this theory up.

Has anyone else heard this? Anyone have a site debunking, supporting or further exploring?

TM

[Mr. Man]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Social mores regarding sex between unmarried persons have changed, the judge said, but the law still says that calling a woman unchaste is defamation.

I knew that from my California BarBri class in January this year. The instructor laughed and said this provision never comes up. Surprised I passed with his apparent lack of market knowledge of chastity. I'm so proud of my knowledge I could cry.

Has the Fringester mentioned anything here about whether she is buying me drinks for my birthday bash tonight?