November 2007

UPDATED: Lawyer Songs Reasonably Likely to Rock

Berkeley Law School student Josh Keesan got some attention recently for his album, "The Law of Rock, Vol. 1."  "Put down your commercial outlines and treatises," says Josh’s website; "here, for the first time, you can learn complex legal doctrines…


Laptop Miraculously Disappears During Prayer Session

Authorities in Fort Smith, Arkansas, said yesterday that they had arrested Carl Hagy and were charging him with misdemeanor theft after an incident at a local church.  According to the report, Pastor Fidelis Obidike of Destiny Global Ministries was familiar…


Accused Stapler Bandit Escapes With $175; Is Later Arrested

Police in Ashland, Kentucky, said they believed that Gerald Rocchi was the Stapler Bandit who robbed a local ice cream shop on Tuesday, armed only with a stapler. Employees at the ice cream shop, which in a complete surrender on…


Government Matches O’Melveny’s 239-Page Tome

About a month ago I mocked Jeff Skilling’s appellate team, not for the quality of what they said to the court but because it took them 239 pages to say it.  (I enjoyed the fact that the word count made…





NYC Councilman Proposes Legislative Ban on Pigeon Feeding

Fed up with the government’s failure to act against the pigeon menace, New York City Councilman Simcha Felder said yesterday that he would introduce legislation that would ban pigeon feeding in the city and impose fines of up to $1,000….


L.A. Firm Now Employs Attorney Concierge

A concierge for its attorneys, that is, not an attorney who used to be a concierge. Most of us will be familiar with the role of a concierge because of that Michael J. Fox movie where he plays one, which…