Editor’s note: Twenty years ago, the film My Cousin Vinny—a film in the ABA Journal’s 25 Greatest Legal Movies—premiered in theaters. Abnormal Use, a blog authored by lawyers at South Carolina’s Gallivan, White & Boyd, is devoting posts this week to this anniversary. Below is an excerpt from GWB...
read moreWhen Marc Dreier’s 250-attorney law firm collapsed at the end of 2008, as news began to come out that the powerful partner had been running a $400 million Ponzi scheme, his downfall was a personal tragedy for Marc H. Simon. Simon had worked at the firm, on Park Avenue in New York City, for six years, and Dreier, a 1975...
read moreSaying that upcoming U.S. Supreme Court arguments can be a bit of a puzzle, National Public Radio is offering readers a crossword in honor of the occasion. With clues ranging from “Sonia _________ ” to “many a robber’s undoing,” the game should be a quick one for a number of legal eagles.
read moreNelle Harper Lee, the famous and reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has rarely, if ever, given interviews since a few years after the book was published in 1960. But her older sister, “Miss Alice,” is still sharp as a tack at age 100, working as the oldest practicing lawyer in the state of Alabama and fielding...
read moreIt’s that special time of year, the time when we all gather round to judge Peeps dioramas with all due seriousness. We had quite a showing this year. Rob Gancitano of Foodage.com produced a series of eight dioramas to illustrate the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution. The prolific commenter “B. McLeod” wrote and...
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