Thursday links

• The ‘

astonishing rise’ of Sir Nigel Knowles from  son of a grocer from a South Yorkshire steel town to the head of the world’s largest law firm, DLA Piper.

• Soldier deployed in Iraq

sworn in as a lawyer via video.

• Marc Dreier, the Bernie Madoff of lawyers, begs the judge for a “

rationale and proportionate sentence.” In his letter to judge, Dreier admits to "losing my mind.”

• Enron, Lehman Bros, GM, Chrysler….Nails??!!

• Rosie Perez

wants to portray Sonia Sotomayor in biopic.

                                                             -posted by brian