Broken Penises and the Law
By Marc J. Randazza As office workers, few attorneys have the opportunity to contemplate what workplace injuries can mean to their clients. Honestly, what’s the worst injury you can get on the job in a...
View ArticleBig pot joints big labor
By J. DeVoy Despite the decline of organized labor in the United States with sagging manufacturing, construction and transportation sectors – areas long associated with unionized workforces – the...
View ArticleAdvice to Law Students looking for a job — don’t be a goddamned crybaby
Popehat has a bad-ass post on an “incident” at Syracuse University School of Law. The short version is this: Syracuse Law student Len Audaer published a blog satirizing his class, the administration,...
View ArticleStripper lacks class (status, that is)
She take my money, well I’m in need Yeah she’s a triflin’ friend indeed Oh she’s a gold digger way over time That digs on me An exotic dancer by the stage name “Ms. Behaved” sought to be a class...
View ArticleDominatrix Lawyer Spanks Former Boss
Former New York state prosecutor Alisha Smith, who helped secure a $5 billion settlement from Bank of America, was unceremoniously suspended from her job because she spent her spare time as a...
View ArticleCum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum
By Jay Wolman As the newest Satyriconista, with a practice of civil litigation and employment law in Boston, I thought I’d begin my first post with something high-brow. Everything sounds better in...
View ArticleThe Mark of Cain
Looks like Herman Cain is having a three way and not in the awesome sense. A third woman has reportedly come forward with an allegation that Mr. Cain acted inappropriately toward her. While I’m sure...
View ArticleFirst Amendment trumps Equal Opportunity Employment
Today, the Supreme Court in Hosanna-Tabor Church v. EEOC issued a unanimous ruling on the First Amendment. While this blog regularly celebrates the Freedom of Speech clause, the decision focuses...
View ArticleWhen Disabilities Compete
Gentlemen, start your engines. The city of Indianapolis is facing a lawsuit arising from competing disability claims. In one corner, a person using a service dog to help them with their disability...
View ArticleThe Future of Restrictive Covenants in Settlements and Severance
by Jay Wolman The law is ever changing and what is common may, at some point, become unlawful (or already is without folks realizing it). Recent developments in statutory law and enforcement actions...
View ArticleThe Expansion of Regarded-As Discrimination
by Jay Wolman The Americans with Disabilities Act protects three categories of individuals: those presently disabled, those previously disabled, and those perceived to be disabled. The latter is...
View ArticleSpics Not Welcome
by Jay Marshall Wolman By now, you have probably heard that Simon Tam won his case before the Federal Circuit regarding his attempt to register a trademark for his band “The Slants”. (Disclosure:...
View ArticleWhy Are You Giving Fired Employees 21 Days to Consider Severance?
by Jay Marshall Wolman Plenty of employers let go of an employee and give them some prefabricated separation/severance agreement, hoping to pay the now disgruntled former employee to go gentle into...
View ArticleThat’s It! You’re Fired! And no, this isn’t retaliation. Is it?
by Jay Marshall Wolman The law and business are never as neat and clean as you might hope. One of the toughest problems is when two things are happening around the same time and they start to...
View ArticlePirate Apprenticeships
by Jay Marshall Wolman How quaint the ways of Paradox! At common sense she gaily mocks! Though counting in the usual way, Years twenty-one I’ve been alive. Yet, reckoning by my natal day, Yet,...
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