* Ken Adams accepted our challenge and did a bit of analysis on David Johnson’s “I signed in the wrong place on purpose so the contract doesn’t count” defense. Ken’s conclusion: that won’t fly, but there are some other irregularities that might.
Four more Quick Shucks after the jump.
* Disgraced attorney Mark Dreier’s houses in Quogue sold for $10.4 million at auction. That’s below the $12.5 million the receiver expected to get, but who isn’t being hit by the housing downturn? Up next, Dreier’s 5-bedroom townhouse on East 58th (just a hop-skip-and-a-jump from Weil’s office!).
* No correlation between lawyers and gambling skills: law student wins $600k and bracelet at WSOP, lawyer disbarred for pissing away $4 million of client money in Atlantic City. Anyone else wonder how he had $4 million in client money for a firm run out of his basement? Wolpert (the law student) is hardly the first or most-interesting lawyer to do well in poker, by the way. Just off the top of my head, there’s Greg Raymer, the patent lawyer from Connecticut who won the main event and $5 million in 2004; Vanessa Rousso a Miami Law student (not sure if she ever finished) who has over $2.3 million in lifetime winnings; and Mark Seif a former LA DA who has two bracelets and $2.4 million in lifetime winnings.
* Kirkland & Ellis has an interesting pro bono matter. IP litigation partners Christine Willgoos and William Vuk and associates Shane Cortesi and Alexander Greenberg are suing “illusionist” Criss Angel on behalf of a client who claims he’s owed a 25% royalty on the “Mindfreak”’s net profits.
* Expeditors International would rather eat frogs than pay one cent more than necessary on legal bills.
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From the "what not to name your JV" files:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8118721.stm
Wasn't Mark Seif implicated in the Absolute Poker cheating scandal? (A scandal that resulted in a 60 minutes piece featuring another attorney poker player, Serge Ravitch).