Pretty excited about this!: "Sources say that Maya Rudolph will return to SNL this weekend to play Michelle Obama!"On that note: "I'd like to think I'm one part practiced folksy, one part sassy and a little dash of high school bitchy."
"Pre-tirement" in the WSJ. Also, Corporette's poll results re: professional women and tattoos.
And, finally, the Chemerinksy v. Jacobs pro-bono debate (for us law nerds), which began with these comments made by Judge Dennis Jacobs at a meeting of the Federalist Society recently:
. . . In honor of this occasion, I am going to make some remarks that are perhaps more than usually provocative. . . I will touch on some of the anti-social effects of some pro bono activity; I will try to explain why such observations are virtually never made by judges; and I will encourage the kind of pro bono activity that is an aspect of traditional American volunteerism. My point, in a nutshell, is that much of what we call legal work for the public interest is essentially self-serving: Lawyers use public interest litigation to promote their own agendas, social and political. . . Lawyers and firms use pro bono litigation for training and experience. Big law firms use public interest litigation to assist their recruiting–to confer glamor on their work, and to give solace to overworked law associates . . . There are citizens in every profession, craft and walk of life who are active in promoting their own political views and agendas. When they do this, it is understood that they are advancing their own views and interests. But when lawyers do it, through litigation, it is said to be work for the public interest. Well, sometimes yes, and sometimes no.
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