Lawmakers and lawyers are calling it a “constitutional crisis.”
Jobs listings for D.C. attorneys are a plenty on Indeed.com, with lawyers making about $99,000 a year.
Employees at D.C. law firms make about $166,000 a year.
Just as former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno reached down to our region for a lawyer and media consultant after the child sex abuse scandal exploded into the news in November, the university that formerly employed him has also handpicked a local legal heavyweight to steer it through the tough times.
This morning, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced this year’s crop of Fellows — you know, the people that are commonly referred to as recipients of the “Genius Award”. The list includes plenty of deserving winners, including a local lawyer, Marie-Therese Connolly.
A lawsuit filed in Fairfax County alleges that a Woodbridge man, driving back from his 21st birthday party in Baltimore, was drunkenly having sex with a woman — “partially or totally in the backseat of the car,” no less — while going 85 miles per hour on the Beltway.
As promised, Dan Snyder refiled his lawsuit against the Washington City Paper inside the District yesterday. In an op-ed published Monday night, Snyder claimed that the suit would be “essentially the same.” Apparently, dropping the hedge fund which owns City Paper’s parent company and including City Paper columnist Dave McKenna as a defendant while burying previous claims that the paper was anti-Semitic and attacked his wife falls under Snyder’s definition of “the same.”
The saga of the 2002 Pershing Park mass arrests goes on! Former D.C. police chief Charles Ramsey had little to say about the incident when he took the stand last week. (“I didn’t order anybody to destroy anything,” testified Ramsey last Thursday. Oh, really?) But Ron Harris, an attorney for the police during an investigation by the D.C. Council into the arrests, did have something interesting to confess: according to Fox 5, Harris admitted on…
Tim Carman, who has been doing a bang-up job covering the “burgers vs. lawyers” lawsuit, tweeted from the proceedings that D.C. Superior Court Judge John M. Mott has ruled in favor of law firm Steptoe and Johnson — and that Rogue States will have to cease grilling operations by the close of business today.
When I accepted the offer to become DCist’s new editor a couple of months ago, I was really only dreading one thing: cleaning out the desk at my old office job, which I had worked at for nearly four years. I had no idea what I’d pull out of those dark, cavernous cells which usually served as a place for me to shove things when I was in a rush. The task didn’t disappoint. Some old socks, long-expired cough syrup and prescription medications and several pieces of food in unmentionable condition were but some of the discoveries. (I probably should have been wearing gloves, now that I reflect on it.) But as disgusting as it may have been, I was reasonably sure that I wouldn’t end up finding anything illegal inside the guts of my trusty desk.
