Open Thread

Ruh Roh, Sister Mary Montrose Morris is pissed.

“Gibson Dunn??? Sounds like they’d at least be working over the Jewish holidays, unlike most other firms. :)”

Yeah, I could tell which firms retained a bit of the old country club exclusive mentality by whether they would seek TROs and make other types of demands due on the eve of Jewish holidays (which, of course start in the evening).

“An actuary is someone who found accounting too exciting.”

And if the actuarial sciences make your blood boil, you could always process patent applications.

Re: “It’s crazy. Gibson Dunn is the law firm that represented George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore in 2000. Now they’re working to get rid of a bike lane. Think about that.”

benson et al., I don’t read it as a Bush-deranged conspiracy theory. I read it as a comment on just how much firepower is being brought to bear on a bike lane. Agree or not, I think that was the point of the comment.

I believe they are, donatella.

And if memory serves I think it was Phil Beck of the Chicago firm Bartlitt Beck and a guy from the New York based firm of White & Case that did the most critical work for Bush.