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If you’re a fan of Saturday Night Live, there’s a good chance you’ve already seen the new Legal Shark Tank skit. The premise is simple, like the real Shark Tank TV show, the skit has high-profile, “celebrity” lawyers offering to represent high-profile defendants. And if you’re just a little bit sick of all the high-profile real-life legal-drama lately, the skit will surely give you a chuckle. In case you missed it (or want to watch it again), you can check it out below, and get a little history lesson about the pair of “jingle-based” lawyers....

College student Aubrey Ireland has won a restraining order against her parents. The 21-year-old music theater major at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati was basically being stalked by her own parents and described herself as a dog with a collar on, reports The Huffington Post. Her parents were clearly not comfortable that their daughter was not in Kansas anymore (literally, as they would drive 600 miles from Kansas to Cincinnati to check up on her)....

Uber’s former CEO, Travis Kalanick, has found himself in the media limelight once again. But this time, it’s not for any one thing in particular, but rather for all of it. One of Uber’s largest investors, the venture capital firm Benchmark, has filed suit against the former CEO for fraud, and in order to rescind a 2016 vote adding more seats to Uber’s board of directors. In the lawsuit, the investment firm cites the gross mismanagement, culture of gender discrimination and sexual harassment, and even the company’s deception of law enforcement using “greyball....

Those of us in the criminal defense community were outraged yesterday at the news that San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson was arrested for preventing police from questioning or photographing her client at the San Francisco Hall of Justice. “If you continue with this, I’ll arrest you for resisting arrest,” Police Sgt. Brian Stansbury paradoxically told Tillotson, who was, in fact, arrested. (After her arrest, Stansbury took photos of her client anyway, so take that!...

California’s controversial Waterfix project, estimated to cost over $16 billion, is facing a new legal challenge from a few cities and counties as well a environmental groups. The Waterfix project will basically reroute water from the Sacramento river delta all the way down to the Bay Area and even to Southern California. The project involves diverting water and constructing two massive aqueducts, each 30 miles long and 40 feet in diameter....

What’s the best city to practice law? When making this calculation for your own career, a range of factors may come into play, including the affordability of cities for young lawyers. The daily commute is also an important factor. There’s no point in holding a great job if you can’t get there. According to an American Community Survey from 2013, New Yorkers have the longest commutes (40 minutes on average) while residents of Oklahoma City have the shortest (21 minutes on average)....

Most Californians carry some form of tracking device, like a smartphone or a tablet, but California law currently does not address whether police need a warrant to track a suspect through electronic devices. That could soon change. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has announced that the California Location Privacy Act (SB 1434), written by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), is currently awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature. The bill passed both the California Assembly and Senate earlier this summer....

Los Angeles Representative Xavier Becerra is one step closer to becoming the state’s next attorney general, having earned the endorsement of a special Assembly panel yesterday. Becerra won the panel’s approval after a two-hour hearing on Tuesday, during which he pledged to defend state policies that clashed with the incoming presidential administration and declared that “Everyone – and I mean everyone – who plays by California’s rules deserves to know: ‘We’ve got your back....

An obituary is one of the last chances to get any confessions off your chest and Val Patterson took advantage of it. The 59-year-old Utah man passed away July 10 but he wrote his own obituary last fall. In it he details his love for his wife, his regret that smoking cut his life short, and also comes clean about questionable activities. He had some important advice for others, such as this gem: “If you want to live forever, then don’t stop breathing, like I did....

It was a case of attempted murder by soup and the attorney knew all along. That’s the gist of a new lawsuit against Bowling Green, Kentucky, lawyer John Deeb. According to Dewayne Reid, his wife tried to poison him with her minestrone soup. It wasn’t just her poor cooking skills that would have done him in, either. The minestrone was also flavored with a few handfuls of Lorcet and Xanax....

David Anziska, the lawyer leading the charge against faulty law school employment data, has big plans. Earlier this month, he announced 12 new law school lawsuits, bringing the total number of suits to 15. But he’s not done. He and his cohorts at law firms in California, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., plan to sue twenty more law schools in the next few months. And it probably won’t end there....

In plaintiff’s suit against his insurance company for disposing of evidence that was to be used against a tire manufacturer in a product liability suit, trial court’s grant of defendant’s motion for nonsuit is reversed where: 1) plaintiff set forth a prima facie case that he relied to his detriment on State Farm’s promise to preserve the tire; 2) plaintiff’s opening statement referred to sufficient prima facie evidence to create a strong inference that the tire was defective and had it not been destroyed, plaintiff would have been able to prove his case against the tire manufacturer; 3) under the present facts, plaintiff’s damages are reasonably ascertainable; and 4) plaintiff’s pleadings, in conjunction with his opening statement, encompass the legal concepts of promissory estoppel and/or a voluntary undertaking by State Farm....

In a petition for review of the National Transportation Safety Board’s (Board) order upholding the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) emergency revocation of petitioner’s airman and medical certificates, the petition is granted where: 1) the Board departed from its precedent when it reversed the ALJ’s decision without addressing the ALJ’s credibility determination in petitioner’s favor; and 2) the Board diverged from its precedent by refusing, without adequate explanation, to accept petitioner’s testimony that he subjectively thought a questionnaire did not require him to report his felony bribery conviction....

What are we in, high school? Seriously, when grown lawyers start posting unflattering Facebook photos and snarky comments about people in court – really? Yet that’s exactly what happened when some New York lawyers posted this: “Bra tops n butt cheeks! Somebody come look at this!!” the caption read above a photo of a young woman in family court. Um, can you say, “disciplinary hearing”? Woman on Woman It’s bad enough when sophomoric frat boys make sexist comments....

Apple and Samsung spent a lot of time and money arguing about patent infringement in this summer’s intellectual property battle royale, so it’s easy to think that the two tech giants disagree about everything. That’s simply not true. For example, Apple agrees to buy component parts for several of its products from Samsung, and Samsung agrees with Apple that certain records from the recent Apple-Samsung trial should remain sealed. This week, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with both companies....

You didn’t get a dog in law school because you knew you’d be moving, studying, and interviewing all over the country (or not). You didn’t get one during bar study or during that brief stint of unemployment that followed. 1. Chihuahua. Tiny. Super, super tiny. Plus, after that Taco Bell commercial, and Reese Witherspoon’s baby Bruiser, (c’mon lawyers, you know “Legally Blonde”) the Chihuahua’s popularity exploded. And then it apparently imploded, as it seems every single dog at the local shelter is a Chihuahua....

If any state should know skier and ski resort liability law, it’s Colorado. Home to Vail, Aspen, and a couple dozen other world class ski destinations, the Mile High State has been a Mecca for skiers and snowboarders for decades. So when the Colorado Supreme Court tells you avalanches are one of the “inherent dangers and risks of skiing,” it’s hard to argue. The ruling further shrinks liability for ski resorts, which were already immune from lawsuits stemming from injuries due to weather, snow, or terrain conditions....

In plaintiff’s pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against a city for being fired as a city bus-driver, trial court’s judgment in favor of plaintiff is reversed and remanded where: 1) instructional error with respect to a mixed-motive defense entitled defendant-city to retrial; and 2) the instructional error did not entitle the city to judgment notwithstanding the verdict because there was substantial evidence to support the jury’s verdict for plaintiff. Read Harris v. City of Santa Monica, No....

Kevin Durant is being sued by a 1980s rocker over the nickname “Durantula.” The NBA superstar is finally fighting back by asking a court to dismiss the lawsuit. He claims fans gave him the nickname, and he never uses it himself. Mark Durante, a guitarist who once played with Public Enemy, says that he trademarked “Durantula” years ago, according to Examiner.com. Durante says that he trademarked the name for his stage persona and to sell his music and other wares....

Attorney discipline is not usually creative. For the most part, it’s the same old stuff over and over again: suspensions, reprimands, wrist slaps, fines, and disbarments. However, for one Wisconsin lawyer, his criminal punishment was actually a mitigating factor for his attorney discipline. But that’s likely due to the fact that part of his sentence for his criminal conviction involves telling every client he works for the following: What’d He Do?...