By: Danny Jacobs
Washington lawyer Edward McNally grew up with the late movie director John Hughes in the Chicago suburbs — and had 27 days off his final semester of high school — but says he is not the real-life Ferris Bueller.
At the same time, McNally admits the “Ferris-ian high jinks were the everyday stuff of our boyhood lives” in an essay from Wednesday’s Washington Post. And McNally also says he’s drawn on the “Tao of Ferris” throughout his legal career:
In my service as a federal prosecutor and as a defense attorney, one key lesson from Ferris is his repeated message to his despondent buddy Cameron. Your current situation doesn’t have to be your fate. There’s always another way.
My favorite part of McNally’s touching tribute is his final anecdote. Let’s just say Ferris would have been proud - and Abe Froman might have had reason to complain.
By: Christina Doran
I’ll admit, what made me click on the link in this blog post was the line:”This reminds me of the brilliant Scooner [sic] Tuna solution at the end of Mr. Mom.”
My love of Mr. Mom aside, I was intrigued when I was directed to LexisNexis’s “Lend a Hand” program Web site. Recently laid-off attorneys — from firms with 50 or more lawyers — can sign up for the program and receive free six-month profiles on Lawyers.com and martindale.com along with six months of free access to Martindale-Hubbell Connected and the Martindale-Hubbell Career Center.
That’s almost as good a deal as receiving fifty cents off your can of tuna.
Hat tip: Above the Law.
By: Robbie Whelan
OK, this post may get a tad convoluted, so please bear with me.
Yesterday I got an email from the listserv at Ram’s Head Live, the downtown Baltimore concert venue where I’ve seen two concerts in the last month, advertising a newly-announced show by indie-pop star Santigold. Now, the reason this caught my eye — I’m not a huge fan of her brand of punk-meets-reggae-meets-hip-hop-remix style — is because until a few months ago, the singer was known as Santogold with an “O.” This is important because 2008 was a break-out year for Santogold. She toured in support of British supergroup Coldplay, her album made influential music website Pitchfork.com’s Top 50 “best of” list, and her songs were remixed by big-name DJs.
So I did some googling in search of an explanation, and ended up lost in a weird world of infomercials, space aliens, fake rock stars, and ’80s pro wrestling movies shot inside the Baltimore Civic Center (now 1st Mariner Arena).
Let me explain. Read the rest of this entry »
By: jackie.sauter
Above the Law reports that Entertainment Weekly has put out a list of 15 TV and movie attorneys they would hire. Really now, there’s got to be more than one lone female on-screen attorney (and the one they do have on there is the clueless Ally McBeal, whom EW.com admits is a “neurotic mess” — argh) who could make the list.
Or maybe not. In this review of the 2002 movie High Crimes, the author writes that female lawyers in the movies have been “a complete disaster. They have been unethical, incompetent, over-emotional, messed up people with horrible judgment and no personal life.”
Anyone out there have a favorite on-screen lawyer, or one who makes your blood boil?
CARYN TAMBER, Legal Affairs Writer
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