It’s still a stretch though to say that he had a financial interest in Sony winning this particular case. First of all, the case wasn’t a big enough deal financially to Sony that losing it would probably effect their decision to hire Proskauer for unrelated legal work. Second of all, Proskauer’s revenue is probably…

That’s only if Sony is a big client of theirs. While Sony is a big company, they might only use Proskauer for a few matters that are a drop in the bucket compared to their overall revenue. For example, at my old firm (of a similar size and scale to Proskauer) my friend in the tax department did some tax work for…

If she had to recuse herself everytime a former client of Proskauer (not currently represented by Proskauer in the matter in front of her) came before her, she would have to recuse herself more often than she would actually be able to preside over the case. These firms represent/have represented hundreds and hundreds…

Who knows how big of a client Sony actually is for Proskauer? Both firms I have worked for have done work for Sony at one point or another, but in both cases it was clearly a small one-off thing, that was a drop in the bucket compared to some of our more core clients. No corporation the size of Sony is going to use…

Because its not a big deal and the only reason its a thing now is because tabloids who have no idea what they are talking about are making an issue out of it.

Proskauer didn’t represent Sony in this particular case, all we know is that at one point in time they performed legal work for Sony. Given that a lot of big corporations use multiple outside law firms for legal work (for example, I have worked for 2 big law firms, and both of them have worked for Sony at some time or…

Yeah, but its really a stretch to say that this creates even the appearance of impartiality. His firm has over 700 attorneys and offices all over the world and he works for the Health Care group so he has nothing to do with their representation of Sony, and likely didn’t even realize they were a client (big…

Not really, I mean yes to an extent his salary is sort of tied to the overall profits of the firm, but the firm is so large and the benefit to him is so diffuse (Proskauer wasn’t representing Sony on this matter, so it’s hard to see how the firm could really benefit from a Sony victory in this case, especially when…

Not necessarily sure. Her husband works for Proskauer Rose, which is a massive global big law firm with more than 700+ attorneys. If Sony was a direct client of his, that would be a problem, but the mere fact that an attorney at Proskauer represents Sony probably isn’t enough to be unethical. He seems to focus on…

Interesting point on the men with wedding rings thing. While the plight of single men is definitely less of a burden than the plight of being a woman in the business world, I will say that as a single gay dude who works in Big Law, I notice that married men (even gay married men) get A LOT more leeway and acceptance…

Seriously, the only person the engagement ring says something clearly about is the woman’s fiance. But what people (including many women in powerful enough positions to make hiring decisions) are really afraid of when they see a wedding/engagement ring is that the candidate is going to leave, which is such horseshit.…

It depends. From what I’ve read about buying in NYC, you typically need to stay in the same apartment for around 5 years or so before buying becomes cheaper than renting.

She wasn’t using Section 8 for herself since Section 8 is a program to help low-income renters, she bought a 2 family apartment with the intention of leasing the other unit to a Section 8 family. So yeah, she as the landlord gets a subsidy from the government to cover the difference between what her low income tenant…

Last week’s was an extreme exception to the typical version of The Hunt...

While 99.9999999% of the time you are absolutely correct in your assessment of The Hunt, I have to say that the one before this broke the mold: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/rea….

Because he’s probably not a strong enough player for the Bears to pull rank and get out of training camp for the time that he would need to see her in Rio. He could get kicked off the team if he skipped training camp. It’s a shitty situation, but I would blame the shittiness on the Bears, not on the husband. I work at…

WHY IS THERE SO MUCH SWIMMING! I JUST WANT MY GYMNASTICS! WHO EVEN GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE SEMI-FINALS FOR THE BACKSTROKE! Sorry about the all-caps, I am kind of losing my mind here...

You do you and support Jill Stein (unless you live in a purple state, because, no) but I just didn’t want you to die on the hill of defending this shit, because its not worth it. As a Hillary supporter, I understand that at a certain point there are some things just not worth defending anymore, and I don’t support…

Ugh, I fucking hate the anti-nuclear power movement. We have had access to zero-emissions (not renewable, however) power for decades now and yet we are still so completely reliant on fossil fuels because a bunch of uninformed NIMBY baby boomer assholes decided they would rather burn the Earth up, than be associated…

I’m sorry dude/dudette, but if you have even spent a hot second reading anti-vaxxer nonsense, Jill Stein’s statement hit a lot of their crazy buzzwords. She very cleverly avoided looking like Jenny McCarthy, while still sending out tons of dog whistles to the anti-vax crowd. I imagine you are probably just a Jill…