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* If you ever dreamed of Justice Scalia looking at the Constitution and screaming “it’s alive, it’s alive,” hang in there. [Washington Examiner]

* Do you want your law firm to be more like Wal-Mart? Actually, answer this question first: do you like money? [Law and More]

* Black Barbie dolls are priced cheaper than white Barbie dolls. Since we no longer have a Supreme Court that delves into doll-based judicial analysis, we probably don’t have to worry about these price points overturning legal precedent. [BT1Y]

* Do you pad your bills? Is there anything that can be done to stop you? [TechnoLawyer]

* Worst. Judicial writing. In the world … Naw, I can’t tap into Olbermann-esque outrage for this. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog]

* Did somebody nominate Goodwin Liu for a number one seed in the tournament? No? Then why all the controversy? [WSJ Law Blog]

* It might be that being a sports agent is the single best job a lawyer can have. [Bitter Lawyer]

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* Best Oscar related lawsuits ever. [THR, Esq]

* Woman sues Netflix for DVD delay. I swear, “overly litigious” doesn’t even begin to describe this country. [Gothamist]

* Former Foley Hoag tax partner suspended for — wait for it — not filing his taxes…. [Tax Prof Blog]

* Minority- and women-owned law firms, there’s going to be some business coming your way. [WSJ Law Blog]

* USC Gould School of Law delays their tax LLM program. Word on the street is that the school realized it couldn’t place its graduates in good jobs. [Legal Blog Watch]

* Gaming the legal education system. [Blackbook Legal]

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By Michael J.W. StickingsI don’t have much to add to Carl’s post below, nor to Tom Watson’s and Skippy’s lovely remembrances. As we learned from his mother, commenting at his blog, Al Weisel, known in the blogosphere as Jon Swift, died suddenly the oth…

Now that the Winter Olympics are behind us, baseball fans (and especially fantasy baseball fans) will soon begin checking in on their favorite Major League…

In a continuing series of guest posts by my fellow bloggers on the Island, today I am bringing you this article from the blog Sin…

* Nice to see that the owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers paid less in state taxes than I did. Hey, maybe it’s part of some sweet loophole California included when they decided to steal baseball from New York City because they couldn’t make their own. [Tax Prof Blog]

* Miranda now offers 14-day interrogation protection. [The Volokh Conspiracy]

* Does your firm ever work with forensic accountants? Beware. [Going Concern]

* Ambulance chasing can now be done with laptop. [Althouse]

* I don’t think the Playstation 3 is a useful tool for picking up chicks. But if you’re a cougar who is into little boys, apparently it’s the way to go. [Legal Blog Watch]

* This isn’t strictly legally related. At least not yet. But one day, vajazzle lawsuits are going to be loads of fun. [Gawker]

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Guest post by Jeffrey ShallittJeffrey O. Shallitt is Professor of Mathematics in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario). He is the vice president and treasurer of Electronic Frontier Canada and the author of th…

It’s hard to fit the gym into your schedule. Sometimes, it’s harder, though, to fit it into your budget. Especially if you live in New York, where monthly gym membership fees could fetch you a studio apartment somewhere in flyover country. Of course, there are more hard bodies to ogle at Equinox than in Phoenix.

That’s why we spend the long hours at the office, sitting motionless at desks, staring hard at a computer: to make the big bucks so we can afford to go to the gym. It would suck to have a low-paying blue-collar job where you spend all day lifting heavy stuff, manipulating machinery, and running around, because then you couldn’t afford to go to the gym to…

…Hmmm…. Well, it’s easy to afford a New York gym membership when you’ve got a Biglaw salary, but it’s not so easy if you’re a New York law student paying for it with your student loans. Is a hard body really worth it with an 8.5% interest rate?

Columbia 2L Julia Neyman, 24, has found a way around this dilemma. As reported by the New York Daily News this week, she’s spending a year taking advantage of free gym promotions across the five burroughs and chronicling it on her blog, Buns of Steal. (Gawker felt the need to point out the double meaning in that title, but we assume you all get it.)

From the Daily News:

Neyman will do whatever it takes to score no-cost gym sessions: lie, finagle, beg and even flirt.

Well, not exactly, says Neyman. We caught up with her yesterday about her pro bono gym program….

Buns of Steal makes for an enjoyable read, likely because Northwestern journalism grad Julia Neyman honed her writing skills at the South Florida Business Journal in Miami for two years before heading to law school.

We interviewed her yesterday about her mission to be frugally fit.

KASH: What inspired this?

NEYMAN: I’ve always been an athlete and I love to find new, fun ways to stay in shape. I’m also a former journalist and really miss creative writing. I guess somewhere between running the millionth loop around central park and seeing the millionth free gym pass advertisement online, I realized that I could combine my three favorite activities: writing, working out and exploring the city. I started this blog strictly for my own amusement and maybe to provide some helpful gym reviews for fitness buffs. I never thought it would take off like this.

KASH: Are you hoping for a book deal as Ryan Tate at Gawker assumes? If you got one, would you take that over a Biglaw offer?

NEYMAN: Depends on how nice of a gym the firm has. Just kidding.

No, I have no idea where Gawker got the book deal idea. I’d love to parlay this into some freelancing opportunities, but I have no interest in a book deal, nor do I think a year-long free workout quest would make a good book. That was just Gawker getting overly creative.

KASH: How did the New York Daily News find out about the blog?

NEYMAN: They found out over facebook. Kevin Deutsch (the NYDN writer) and I actually used to work together at the Miami Herald, and I guess he saw a facebook post about my blog and thought it would make a good story.

KASH: You said the NYDN article wasn’t entirely fair. What were the most annoying parts about it?

NEYMAN: The NYDN article was really misleading. I don’t lie or flirt to get free passes – 99% of my free passes are just printed from gym websites, or from TimeOut NY or other magazines. This is the whole reason I was inspired to start this blog: if you are enterprising and keep your eyes open, there is an endless amount of freebies you can take advantage of.

KASH: NYU has a gym — The Palladium — that rivals Equinox. It also has Coles, which doesn’t. My Columbia friends tell me that you uptown kids have a “free” — if you discount the mandatory student activities fee — gym as well. One friend did describe it as “awful,” but said he didn’t think it was so bad as to make going to another borough worthwhile. Why not work out there?

NEYMAN: Aside from the terror of running into professors wearing short shorts? The gym is dark and dank, there’s always a huge wait for the machines, and the classes (which you have to pay extra for) aren’t very good.

KASH: You told me that, after the stories came out on NYDN and Gawker, a lot of people took issue with the fact that you were taking advantage of free day passes without committing to a gym. And an Equinox employee called you a “gym grifter” in the NYDN piece. Give me the law student spiel on why there isn’t anything wrong with what you’re doing.

I’m just taking advantage of the marketing that the gyms put out there themselves. Sure, I don’t intend to commit to a gym membership just yet, but once my year is up I fully intend to pick the gym I like best (and can afford) and get a membership there. Think of it as a REALLY thorough gym search, which I blog about partly for my own amusement and partly to provide ongoing reviews of the staggering array of fitness options around the city.

There is actually a really successful company called American Health and Fitness Alliance that aggregates like 600 free passes to gyms around the city and charges people $75 to buy this pack of passes. Gyms honor the passes and promote through the website, so they’re obviously willing participants in all this… So I’m basically doing for free what this company charges people $75 to do…

Neyman has a BigLaw job lined up for the summer, and plans to continue her “gym grifting” as a summer associate. At the end of the year, one lucky gym will get her membership. Though, apparently, it won’t be Equinox.

Buns of Steal [Julia Neyman's Blog]
Columbia Law School student, Julia Neyman, to flirt way into free gym sessions for a year [New York Daily News]
The ‘Gym Grifter’ Is Wisely Mooching Her Way Toward a Book Deal [Gawker]

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Realignment.

* System for bail = EPIC FAIL. [Beacon Broadside]

* A review of the new blog: The Life of a Law School Wife. Enjoy the blog now. When it becomes The Life of a Biglaw Wife, it will be more depressing. [Legal Blog Watch]

* Do not mess with old white dudes — and we’re not just talking about Biglaw partners. [The Legal Satyricon]

* New White House counsel Bob Bauer made less than one million last year as a partner at Perkins Coie, though more than the average partner at the firm. [BLT]

* In Boxing vs. Mintz Levin member Jonathan Ballan and his son’s bar mitzvah, Yankee Stadium rules in favor of boxing. [Deadspin]

* Glenn Reynolds likes pirates. [Instapundit]

* Tiger Woods apologizes for being entitled and addicted to sex… [CNN]

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