Quick Shucks – 7/29/10

by law shucks on July 29, 2010

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Olufemi Nicol (Right)

We’re going to have to set up a separate department for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.

The same bar authorities that brought us such wonders as Loren Elliotte Friedman (flunked out of med school, lied on law school and BigLaw applications, went to B school), Mark Maciasz (moonlighting H&K lawyer), and most-recently Christian Kline (contract lawyer who overbilled the hell out of Mayer Brown), now brings us a new tale of lawyerly woe.

Today’s (alleged) miscreant is Olufemi F. Nicol (HT: Legal Profession Blog).

His tale of woe, after the jump.
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Vault Antitrust Rankings Show Little Change

by law shucks July 29, 2010 Business of Law

Vault has begun rolling out its rankings of firms by practice areas. No real surprises in Antitrust. The top four remain the same. The big mover was Boies Schiler, which plummeted from T-4 to #13. That’s a bit of a headscratcher. If a firm was going to drop, we’d think Howrey would be more likely, [...]

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More BigLaw in Another Domain Dispute

by law shucks July 28, 2010 Suits

Completely coincidentally, we came across Greenberg Traurig’s unfortunate result in a dispute between two piracy* websites on the same day we ran into another, much higher-profile and better-represented domain dispute. * As caveated in that post This one features Paul Weiss and Gibson Dunn. Details after the jump (including a good example you can use [...]

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GT Loses To No-Show Pirate Defendant

by law shucks July 28, 2010 Suits

Greenberg Traurig represented a plaintiff in a domain dispute and lost, despite the respondent’s complete lack of participation.  [HT: Randazza] To add irony to the embarrassment, plaintiff RapidShare.com is one of the biggest facilitators of software piracy on the internet.  (Although to be fair, a German court recently ruled that RapidShare itself was not responsible [...]

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Wall Street 2 Bad Review Taken Down

by law shucks July 27, 2010 Off Topic

We’ve had extremely low expectations for Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps for a long time. Basically, from the time we heard Shia (“No Relation to Dewey &”) LeBoeuf was going to play the spiritual successor to Charlie Sheen’s Bud Fox, we’ve been expecting a train wreck. Looks like it’s going to slide under even [...]

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IBM Under Investigation Again – But What About Cravath?

by law shucks July 27, 2010 Suits

Ashby Jones at the WSJ Law Blog has a nice summary of the two big investigations into IBM’s alleged anticompetitive practices announced by the European Union. As is being batted around a lot today, IBM is no stranger to antitrust investigations.  The company went through a 13-year fight, from 1969-1982 that set all sorts of [...]

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Yet Another BigLaw Drama in the Works

by law shucks July 26, 2010 Off Topic

The steaming pile of suck that was The Deep End has not deterred producers from trying to bring our little slice of heaven to television. Per Deadline Hollywood: Gabriel Macht has closed a deal to star opposite Patrick J. Adams in USA Network’s pilot A Legal Mind. The pilot centers on Mike Ross (Adams), a brilliant [...]

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Quick Shucks – 7/26/10

by law shucks July 26, 2010 News

Trader’s Cocoa Binge Wraps Up Chocolate Market – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com – No BigLaw angle (yet), but they've started calling trader Anthony Ward "Chocolate Finger," after the Bond villain "Goldfinger." There's probably a Butterfinger joke in there, too. Facebook: Contract Giving Up Ownership Was ‘Forged’ – ABC News – Maybe we're reading too much [...]

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This Week in BigLaw – 7/23/10

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As August approaches, the recruiting process shifts from the summer programs which are in full (relatively speaking) swing to on-campus interviewing. Summer-program sizes were down 44% this year, compared to the classes of 2009. That goes to show just how awkward the law-firm hiring process is. Last year’s summers were given offers in Fall 2008 [...]

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