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For some reason, fashion advice is often geared to the ladies while the gents are expected to know the right from wrong because of their limited options. Well, a summer associate is a summer associate, and man or woman, both could use some guidance. We’re going to break it down for you. Don’t ever wear the following to work: sneakers, yoga pants or any other workout wear, sweats (whether they are Juicy or not), Uggs/Crocs/Other horrendous footwear, t-shirts, jeans, sundresses, shorts, or anything too revealing (no cleavage, midriffs or upper thighs please)....

Justice Elena Kagan had a lot to say in a presentation at the University of Tennessee on Friday, but the part everyone paid attention to was when she mentioned going hunting with Scalia. During the talk on her life both in and out of the courtroom, Kagan mentioned that she has gone hunting with fellow Justice Antonin Scalia. She also admitted to plans to go hunting in Wyoming for big game with the hopes of bagging an antelope, much to the chagrin of some liberals....

Oh, the dreaded butt dial! There’s nothing quite like gossiping about your arch nemesis and suddenly realizing it was all recorded on voicemail because you accidentally pocket dialed their best friend. Or something similar to that dramatic scenario. A butt dial is often innocuous – your mom gets to listen to 4 minutes of you walking to your car. But every now and then it’s disastrous. A Georgia man experienced the latter when he accidentally called his boss while talking about his boss....

A medieval sword-fighting duo called 911 to report being robbed in a Taco Bell parking lot. They conveniently forgot to mention that the item robbed from them was pot – which they allegedly were trying to sell to their robbers. Just another day in the neighborhood! As expected, the police didn’t take too kindly on the knights in skunky armor. Sebastian Wozniak and Anthony Klier reportedly met a group of teenagers in the parking lot of a Taco Bell in Westlake, Ohio, to practice medieval sword-fighting, reports United Press International....

A New York mom has been arrested for allegedly plotting to have her daughter’s ex killed and fed to alligators. Melisa Schonfield, 57, was arrested Friday after meeting with an undercover detective who she believed was her murder-for-hire contact. According to ABC News, Schonfield allegedly tried to hire Det. Dave Pustizzi to kill Ernesto Negrillo, the Florida baby daddy of her 2-year-old granddaughter. In addition to allegedly wanting Negrillo killed, Schonfield thought it best that her contract killer dispose of Negrillo’s body by feeding it to alligators....

The Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation’s largest gay civil rights organizations, has released its 2017 Corporate Equality Index, ranking major employers on their policies regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer employee rights. Hundreds of companies participated, including 156 major law firms, and this year saw the highest ever amount of businesses earning a perfect score. The law was the best of the best when it came to industry-wide performance, with the highest number of top scores....

Eve L. Howe is not your typical law student. The Harvard law student is a military veteran and expert in nuclear submarines. As a Navy engineer, she worked on fluid systems that cool the nuclear reactors powering submarines. After completing her service, she felt inspired to go to law school. It was part of a bigger life change, however, because until then she was a man. An Awakening Howe was born a male, but realized she was transgender....

Judgment in favor of the People forfeiting bail after a motion to set aside the forfeiture was denied is reversed as the trial court lost jurisdiction to forfeit bail when the case was not called on the date set for arraignment by the jailer, and there was no jurisdiction on a later arraignment date set by the district attorney. Read People v. Am. Surety Ins. Co., No. G040720 [HTML] Read People v....

Trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to vacate a 1988 conviction for marijuana related crimes, resulting in his deportation from the US in 1995 where he returned two years later illegally, is affirmed where: 1) defendant entered his guilty pleas with advisement by the court of the possible immigration consequences; and 2) since the court gave a proper alien status advisement, defendant’s remaining claims are not wrongs encompassed by the scope of Penal Code section 1016....

Einstein showed us that time is relative. For example, an astronaut on a rocketship will age slower than a pedestrian standing on Earth. Don’t bother trying to figure it out, it’s in the math. Attorneys show us that time also expands. For example, a lawyer takes more time without a deadline to accomplish a task. Check your bill; that’s in the math also. As in-house counsel, it’s important to make sure time is not so relative or expansive when it comes to outside counsel....

Last year, we explored the brilliant, yet work-in-progress student loan management tool, Tuition.io. (Tuition I owe - get it?) We saw it as a useful tool, though we had some reservations about handing over our sensitive data (SSN, specifically). I went ahead and gave it a shot, because, well, if someone steals my identity, they become the proud owner of six-figure debt and $0.38 in a bank account. I’ll adopt a pseudonym, become a bartender, and move to Dublin....

The romance of the “real-life Bonnie and Clyde” (or the latest couple given this moniker) – reached what might be called its inevitable end yesterday. Blake Fitzgerald was killed in a shootout with police in Florida, according to ABC News, after a wild week-long crime spree with his partner Brittany Harper. Fitzgerald and Harper fought officers to the end. Now she is in a hospital and will face numerous criminal charges and he is gone forever....

Supreme Court justices are expected to be slaves to the law and to ignore the political issues when making their rulings. Most of the time, they accomplish this goal, sometimes to the dismay of the losing side. But in the Court’s decision on the Arizona immigration law, Justice Antonin Scalia is being criticized for his perceived focus on Obama’s immigration policies over the case itself. Critics are blasting Scalia’s dissent, which he read in open court, and calling him all kinds of names: ‘Intolerable blowhard’ in Salon, ‘Splenetic hyperbol[ist]’ by The New Yorker....

No, silly, not that second best law school in the country. No, we’re talking about the school that once ranked itself as the second-best in the entire country, in part due to the number of chairs in its library (1,058 as of 2011). And finally, we’re talking about a law school that just cut its entire 1L class from one of its five campuses. If you guessed we are discussing the prestigious Thomas M....

Well, it’s “Snowmageddon” on the East Coast as a nor’easter batters much of the region with high winds and heavy snowfall. Though blizzard warnings have now been lifted for New York and New Jersey, according to CNN, many schools and offices throughout New England are closed. For many people, it’s looking more and more like a “snow day.” What are you expected to do on this rare occasion, a “day off”?...

An acupuncture patient who was abandoned on a table found herself “stuck” in more ways than one. The Texas woman was getting an acupuncture treatment at a clinic in Arlington, near Dallas, earlier this month when she helplessly realized her acupuncturist had closed shop and forgotten about her. She managed to pull the needles out herself and called 911, Dallas’ WFAA-TV reports. But can she sue the acupuncturist for leaving her “pinned”?...

Economists say data is the new oil. It suggests that data is the world’s most valuable resource. And if your company has it, then you may be sitting on an untapped source of money. Like an oil rig, it could be a gusher. Or it could blow up in your face. Here are some precautions to consider before you start drilling. Old Data If your company has accumulated data over time, it has inherent historical value....

In a breach of contract action brought pursuant to the Tucker Act, Court of Federal Claims judgment is reversed and remanded where the court erred in dismissing plaintiff’s complaint for failure to state a claim, as the effective date of a surety bond is not necessarily the date of agreement or acquiescence within the meaning of 13 C.F.R. sec. 115.19(e). Read Am. Contractors Indem. Co. v. US, No. 08-5188 Appellate InformationAppeal from the United States Court of Federal Claims....

An April Fool’s Day bank heist was no joke when a gunman stole thousands of dollars in cash, locked employees in a vault and left behind a package with flashing lights. The armed bank robber stole between $10,000 and $100,000 on April Fool’s Day, locked three bank tellers of the National Exchange Bank and Trust in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin in a vault and left behind suspicious package with flashing lights, according to the Associated Press....

What would you do if you had money to burn? Chances are good that you would pay off bills, splurge on something special, and possibly save a bit. But if you are artist Micah Spear, you literally blowtorch stacks of cash to make a point … and a dollar. Spear’s collection of destroyed works is called #SealedContents and most notably contains stacks of blasted currencies, which are vacuum sealed in plastic and displayed in frames in his apartment and on his website....