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The song of the ice cream truck is no longer just a beacon for little kids. In fact, “Pop! Goes the Weasel” has a new meaning, and it reaches way beyond monkeys and mulberry bushes. Yep it isn’t a noise, or a strange animal’s attempt at jumping out of a hole. And it’s not about a popsicle either. It’s about popping pills. Well, at least if you’re a client of Louis Scala, a New York man who has been arrested for selling pills out of his ice cream truck....

Nicolette Sheridan’s Desperate Housewives lawsuit is in the jury’s hands now. Sheridan, who was one of the stars of the ABC hit from 2004 through 2009, has been embroiled in a trial with Housewives Creator Mark Cherry and ABC over battery and wrongful termination claims. She claims that Cherry struck her across the head with his open hand during a September 2008 rehearsal after an argument about the script. Sheridan allegedly complained to ABC execs about the altercation....

Congrats to the 3L’s, 4L’s and LLM’s set to graduate this spring. You’re finally ready to start learning about the law – the actual, nitty-gritty laws of where you expect to practice. It’s time for the bar exam. Complaints over the bar exam are nothing new – it’s too high stakes, it’s not an accurate measure of knowledge, it harms diversity, etc. These arguments are getting more attention recently, according to The New York Times, after the 2014 summer bar exams produced the worst results in over a decade....

What could be cooler than riding the Hyperloop, the pneumatic tube transit system promising to zip us around at airline speeds? Doing so with a Frosty and a side of fries. Or maybe working for the NBA. We’ll let you decide. We’ve got a motley crew of listings for this week’s top coolest jobs, presented as part of our affiliate relationship with Indeed, but they share one thing in common: they are all pretty dang cool....

One of my friends, years into his legal career, is still doing doc review in New York. Another one is working for a small firm in Southern California and hates his debt-ridden life. You see, in the major legal markets, there are still very few jobs, even for those of us with a couple of years’ worth of experience. And for recent grads? Forget it – there’s nothing entry-level in the major markets....

In what is shaping up to be one of the most important software copyright cases of 2018, the Bikram Yoga case, decided by the Ninth Circuit in 2015, may prove to be pivotal in the battle between Cisco and Arista. The fight between Cisco and Arista is over code that Cisco alleges to have created and thus believes deserves copyright protection. However, Arista and several amici contend that the sections of code Cisco seeks to protect are not creative or unique enough to merit copyright protection....

Heidi Lynn Knowles is an interesting person. The 36-year-old woman from Vancouver, Washington was arrested on Thursday night after she tried to sell her 3-day-old son. Inside a Taco Bell. For $500. A woman called 911 to report that Knowles had handed her the newborn and then offered to sell him for $500, reports The Columbian. Though she denies these allegations, another witness and a Taco Bell employee corroborated the baby-selling story....

Britain’s Kielder Marathon may have been Rob Sloan’s last race. The 31-year-old runner took third place on Sunday, much to the dismay of his fellow runners. They didn’t remember seeing him, and they certainly couldn’t figure out how he beat his best time by 21 minutes. Turns out Sloan spent the last 6 miles of the marathon on a bus. Now there’s talk of banning him from marathons forever. After several complaints and an investigation into his run, the following story emerged:...

As family law practitioners know, dividing property during a separation is rarely a straightforward matter. Things become significantly more complicated when there are pensions and retirement benefits involved. The prolonged process of splitting up retirement assets requires a complex kind of calculus, one that can frustrate even the most seasoned practitioners. Thankfully, you don’t have to handle these tricky issues alone. The Rutter Group’s upcoming Dividing Pension and Retirement Benefits program is there to help you navigate these complex issues....

White-linen luncheons catered in the conference room. A bottle of 2012 Chateauneuf du Pape tucked away next to the photocopier. Poker night and NFL viewings. Forget Pimp My Ride, real hustlers looking to impress are tricking out their law firms. The Wall Street Journal reports that BigLaw firms are increasingly adopting opulent perks in an attempt to grab the attention (and dollars) of deep-pocketed clients. But will clients be impressed?...

Mavrix Photo, the Florida-based paparazzi machine that never shies away from a lawsuit, is once again suing in a California federal court over misappropriated celebrity snaps. Last week, Mavrix launched a $3 million copyright infringement lawsuit against another celebrity gossip website. Mavrix claims that Idontlikeyouinthatway.com “reproduced, publicly distributed and publicly displayed copyright-protected [Katy Perry] photographs belonging to Mavrix on numerous occasions” in or around August 2011. According to the complaint, (brief thanks to Courthouse News Service), celebrity gossip and photos are among “the most valued Internet commodities” to generate web traffic, and Idontlikeyouinthatway....

So all those folds might serve your basic BBW in some unexpected ways. Florida arrestee Gloria Perez, 28, may have shown law enforcement a new reason to weigh in on search techniques for heavyset individuals. Perez was arrested recently in Florida, after police broke up a brawl between Perez and another woman on a Fort Myers street. Investigating officer John Poole noticed Perez “putting her hands into her pockets and near her private area,” reports weirdnews....

A Florida man known as “Biggie” allegedly went through the trouble of stashing 23 grams of marijuana under his stomach fat, which is certainly a good hiding place when you weigh 450 pounds. Unfortunately, he forgot to put on his seat belt. Seems like something you’d want to do if you were a convicted felon allegedly transporting drugs. But Biggie had what probably seemed to him like a surefire excuse for not buckling up....

An Alabama man’s embittered fight to bury his deceased wife in his front yard finally ended Friday, as her body was exhumed and set for cremation. According to The Associated Press, James Davis, 74, had buried his wife of 48 years in 2009, as her dying wish was to “remain at their house” in Stevenson, Alabama. What followed was a series of court cases with Davis fighting the city and eventually losing....

Temptation pulls at our heartstrings, and it can be at the very core of a divorce. But if you are tempted to lurk on social media to find out what your future ex is up to, even if it’s just for legal discovery, make sure you don’t blur the line between investigation and cyberstalking. Cyberstalking is a crime, and can really disadvantage your position in divorce hearings. During the course of a divorce, it may be helpful to gather information found on social media....

A Delaware man who underwent a colonoscopy procedure claims that he woke up from the anesthesia to find himself wearing a pair of pink women’s underwear. The man, 32-year-old Andrew Walls, was an employee of the Delaware Surgery Center in Dover at the time he underwent the colonoscopy exam in 2012, reports The News Journal. According to the lawsuit, when Walls “recovered from the effects of the anesthesia administered by defendants, he awoke to realize that while he was unconscious pink women’s underwear had been placed on his body....

Lawyers at a lucrative Washington, D.C., law firm have a new reason to celebrate this New Year’s Day. That’s when a new policy kicks in for their practice group, bidding bye-bye to the billable hour. And it’s not just billables. Members of Holland & Knight’s public policy and regulation group – i.e., lobbyists – will no longer have to keep track of their time at all, The Washington Post reports....

California’s Court of Appeal for the First District issued a ruling reversing a family court judgment terminating support to an immigrant spouse. Specifically, the court was forced to decide whether the I-864 affidavit of a spouse to their immigrating spouse creates an agreement that can impact a subsequent spousal support order. The Court of Appeals found that the I-864 affidavit promising support was enforceable in a proceeding over spousal support, and created a separate obligation apart from spousal support....

Domestic violence is like a thick fog. You can see it when it’s far away, but as you get near, you aren’t sure you’ve entered it until you can barely see ahead. You don’t know when it will end, and sometimes your only strategy is hope. If you feel that you may be forced to flee your home, due to safety concerns, put all of your important data in the cloud....

Drinking and driving is never cool, but bragging on Facebook about drinking and passing a Breathalyzer test could lead to a DUI probation violation. Colleen Cudney, 22, from Westland, Michigan, was already on probation for a 2012 drunk driving conviction. After she passed a random Breathalyzer test, Cudney bragged on Facebook that she had been drinking the day before but her “dumba@@” passed, according to Detroit’s WDIV-TV. Depending on the terms of the DUI probation, getting caught with alcohol in your system could be considered a probation violation....