Is Jim Tressel leaving Ohio State? It’s not apparent what will happen yet, but Ohio State has fined football coach Jim Tressel $250,000 and recommended he be suspended for the first two games of the 2011 season, Yahoo! Sports reports. The university said Tressel failed to notify the school of NCAA violations involving Ohio State football players and a financial arrangement with a local tattoo parlor, the school announced Tuesday....
David Katz, a white, 24-year-old allegedly angry after a loss during a “Madden NFL 19” competition in Jacksonville, Florida on Sunday, left the GLHF Game Bar, retrieved two guns from his car, and shot 13 people at the event, killing two and eventually killing himself. Katz was visiting from Baltimore for the e-sports event, and, according to the Associated Press, had previously been hospitalized for mental illness. USA Today is also reporting that survivors of the shooting have filed a “negligent security” lawsuit, although the law firm that announced the suit has declined to name its clients or the proposed targets of the litigation....
Soon enough, you may see Manny Pacquiao don his finest legal boxing gloves in an ugly fight with the IRS over unpaid taxes – a staggering $18 million in unpaid taxes. If you’re smart, you’ll place your bets on Uncle Sam. IRS claims Manny stiffed the government out of federal income taxes from 2006 to 2010, placing him with a grand total of $18,313,668.79 in unpaid taxes, reports TMZ. This time period includes three of Manny’s major fights, including his 2008 fight against Oscar De La Hoya that earned him between $15 and $30 million in cash and 2009 match against Ricky Hatton that yielded a $12 million payday....
According to Facebook accounts, Britney Bella is either a young Asian, Hispanic, or Black woman — or she is a White prosecutor using a fake account. The prosecutor’s real name is Stacy Parks Miller, district attorney for Centre County, Pennsylvania. She created the fictitious identity to gather information surreptitiously about defendants, according to an ethics complaint against her. “Britney Bella” will be found “legally ethical and necessary for law enforcement,” she says....
A “Grand Theft Auto” enthusiast allegedly stole a truck, kidnapped a woman and hit several parked cars – but it wasn’t a game. Zachary Burgess, a 20-year-old Auburn University lacrosse player and apparent “Grand Theft Auto” Superfan, reportedly told arresting officers he wanted to play the video game “in real life.” Welcome to the 3-D generation of n00bs. Burgess, who was in Louisiana to see Auburn take on LSU, ditched the football game plans to play a game of his own....
Before Rick Tallini went to law school in the 1990s, there was a film in driver’s education class called “Death on the Highway.” It was an auto-accident documentary with color footage of accident victims to scare future drivers into safe driving. If it didn’t traumatize them psychologically, at least it made them think twice before getting a driver’s license. Tallini, who is shouldering a student debt of more than $300,000, could have learned a thing or two from a class like that in law school....
Right in time with the release of a book (coincidence, for sure) on Roger Clemens entitled “American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime”, the Rocket himself has re-surfaced to deny any and all mud being slung his way. The book, which was written by four New York Daily News reporters, reportedly ends up concluding that “Clemens had lied last year in a deposition and at [a Congressional] hearing....
Do law students need business cards? The short answer is “yes.” The long answer is is “no-with-a-but.” Even though it’s not exactly a necessity to get business cards while in law school, there are some compelling reasons to consider getting some. First, Do Lawyers Need Business Cards Anymore? I mean c’mon. We’re steeped in the world of the IoT and everyone has a virtual office in his pocket right now. A quick text and all of your contact information is exchanged lickity-split....
Are iPhones and iPads worth a kidney? One Chinese teen used to think so. Authorities have charged 5 individuals with “intentional injury,” accusing them of illegally harvesting a 17-year-old’s kidney. A surgeon, a hospital contractor and the organ brokers shared in approximately $32,000. The boy, who sold his kidney to buy an iPad and an iPhone, was only paid about $3,500. The iProducts probably weren’t worth the kidney. The boy is now suffering from deteriorating renal deficiency, according to Reuters....
If you want to thrive as a lawyer, you need to find a niche, an area of the law where you can hone your expertise and corner a tiny fraction of the market. Most lawyers end up specializing naturally. You take one medical malpractice case and then, suddenly, you’re the attorney in charge of all the cochlear implant litigation. But you don’t have to leave it up to fate. With a little foresight, you can drive your career into the niche you want....
It may come as a surprise, but the Law School Admission Test is not the best predictor of success on the bar exam. People in the know – like law school educators – know that. Your law school GPA is a much better indicator of bar pass success. Still, it is a common misperception that the LSAT is the golden ticket to bar passage. Educators sometimes correct that misunderstanding because people do get confused....
Attempts to block the EPA’s Clean Power Plan through the use of a judicial stay have failed and state utilities have been greenlit to begin implementing the CPP. A coalition of various coal and fossil fuel interests failed to convince a panel of judges that they met the “stringent requirements for a pending court review.” This means that the Plan, which seeks to put severe limitations on carbon pollution by existing plants, will be in effect until June....
California’s three strikes law can lead to some complicated baseball. In general, the law is supposed to be fairly straightforward. Your second felony, or “strike,” results in twice the term it would get if you didn’t have a prior felony. If that second strike is for a serious felony, then five more years are added on. Thus, for second strikers, the court determines the base sentence, doubles it and adds on five more years....
Some of How to Get Away With Murder’s least interesting characters moved from the margins to the center last night – and at least one of them ended up coming out more interesting. Thursday’s episode of HTGAWM was full of douche-face Asher and “Bon Bon” Bonnie, a bit of day drinking, a lot of scheming, and an unfortunate amount of child porn. As is usually the case, they got much of the law wrong....
Forget ‘Serial,’ forget ‘The Jinx,’ forget even the best T.V. show of our time – ‘How to Get Away With Murder.’ The newest, greatest true law, true crime drama is Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer.’ It’s a documentary of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who wrongly served 18 years for sexual assault, only to be charged with murder soon after his release – a crime the documentary suggests he was framed for....
The bar exam is just about a month away. One month. If you aren’t starting to feel the pressure now, you should be. But you don’t need to start pulling your hair out just yet. You’ve got plenty of time to shore up your strengths and deal with your weaknesses. Here’s some milestones you should be encountering in your bar study, just a month before the exam: The weekend is at least as old as Moses....
In a patent case involving claim methods for quantifying HIV in human blood samples, district court’s judgment is affirmed in part and vacated and remanded in part where: 1) district court correctly found that Roche’s counterclaim for a judgment on its ownership claim was subject to California statutes of limitation; and 2) district court’s judgment of invalidity is vacated and remanded with instructions to dismiss Stanford’s action as the district court incorrectly declined to consider Roche’s affirmative defense based on ownership and as a matter of law Roche possesses an ownership interest in the patents-in-suit that deprives Stanford of standing....
It’s a rite of passage for thousands of lawyers: pulling 10- to 12-hour days slaving away as an associate attorney, being woken up at 2 a.m. with questions about some urgent matter, going weeks without taking a day off. But the BigLaw life isn’t the same up top, where plenty of partners can still pull in hefty sums while fitting in plenty of time on the golf course. Indeed, apparently the partner life has gotten so relaxed over at DLA Piper, the world’s third biggest firm, that partners are now required to submit daily time sheets, proving that they’ve worked at least seven-and-a-half hours a day....
There are varying opinions on whether contract attorney jobs can further an esquire’s legal career or hinder it. There are a number of advantages of doing contract attorney work such as gaining experience or enabling pursuit of other career interests. In short, if you are vying for a contract attorney gig, be ready for a range of tasks. Depending on whether at a large firm, small firm, in-house counsel at a corporation, with the government, or with a non-profit you stand to gain broad-ranging experience–while hopefully not hindering marketability to your target job....
It turns out the cheerleaders employed by pro football teams aren’t big fans of their teams’ employment agreements. And perhaps for good reason. A new class action lawsuit claims 26 of its 32 teams agreed “to eliminate competition for female athletes with the intent and effect of suppressing the compensation and mobility of female athletes.” Filed by a former San Francisco 49ers cheerleader just days before the Super Bowl, the lawsuit also says the NFL itself “conspired with the Defendant NFL Member Teams to coordinate, encourage, facilitate, and implement the agreement in order to pay female athletes below fair market value....
