Trump's lawyer is lawyering up, which is hilariously perfect. https://t.co/UuRgmkCPRP
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) June 16, 2017
Exclusive: Trump personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has hired his own counsel: Stephen Ryan, of McDermott, Will & Emery.- source w knowledge
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) June 16, 2017
Cohen will testify in front of House Intel on Sept 5. House intel source says the delay is due to scheduling and logistics.
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) June 16, 2017
and certainly get a better lawyer than Michael Cohen.
— Salacious Materiel (@ZeddRebel) June 16, 2017
I think basically if you ever rode the golden elevator, you probably should lawyer up now. pic.twitter.com/Nl4jQrH5iF
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 16, 2017
When, just last weekend…
Trump's private lawyer telling people his client may have to throw over that they don't need lawyers of their own. https://t.co/VXAOjDwO0n pic.twitter.com/9zgODSFY4T
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 11, 2017
This reminds me of Enron's CEO telling employees not to pull their retirement savings out of the company stock.
— ladbroke (@ladbroke) June 11, 2017
that would potentially be a problem under the NYS disciplinary rules: 1. he's giving advice to non-clients; 2. it's conflicted, bad advice.
— Benjamin Adams (@BenAdamsO_O) June 11, 2017
When a lawyer tells you that you don't need a lawyer, you have never needed a lawyer more.
— Christophe Pettus (@Xof) June 11, 2017
This is like taking the advice of your lawyered-up, soon to be -ex, spouse that the divorce will be amicable and you don't need counsel.
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) June 11, 2017
He's trying to prevent the underlings from lawyering up, which would complicate throwing them under the bus. https://t.co/lkTVMSx4hp
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 11, 2017
To my friends working in the White House or NSC: please go talk to a lawyer. https://t.co/aUgD6lPGvK
— Andrew Exum (@ExumAM) June 11, 2017
Bostonian
Big lawyers have little lawyers
upon their backs to quiet ’em
And little lawyers have lesser lawyers
and so on ad infinitum.
FlyingToaster
It’s like The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, but with lawyers.
At this point, I’d really like to just skip to the Voom!
Adam L Silverman
Lawyerception!
efgoldman
Apparently, unlike his longtime friend and client, Cohen actually pays the people he hires.
I don’t know what kind of retainer an attorney like that gets, but I’ll bet it’s more than I ever made in a year.
? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?
@Bostonian: Its lawyers all the way down
? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?
@efgoldman: Who Lawyers the Lawyers?
m.j.
In answer to the question, I’m going with, “shit-load.”
Raoul
Just saw that Cohen may face two disciplinary charges (bar assn?) for his bad, rather obviously conflicted advice to non-clients. Not the biggest of his problems, but just another example of the shit tornado that surrounds Rump.
Bailey
A “Laggle” of Lawyers.
jl
A council of counsel?
FlyingToaster
@m.j.: I think that’s insufficient. How about a “fuck-ton”. Or better, mass murders..
Adam L Silverman
@Raoul: That was Kasowitz, not Cohen.
Raoul
@Adam L Silverman: Well, maybe I’ll get sued for slander, then. Or libel. Whatevs.
eta: but I will try (slightly) harder to keep these shysters organized in my overloaded mind
West of the Rockies (been a while)
An objection of lawyers? A frenzy of lawyers?
dmsilev
Wonder which ones will be the first to flip and rat out Trump in exchange for a plea deal…
jl
I went to trusty wikipedia to peruse the page on the terms of venery for ideas. I am not sure what that phrase means, but that’s what the page says it contains.
So, the name for a bunch of lapwings (crested plovers) is a deceit. I like that.
A deceit of lawyers.
Edit: and a herd of horses is a haras, harrase, which is pretty close to harass.
A harass of lawyers.
Major Major Major Major
Very apt.
Steeplejack
A case of lawyers.
Mike in DC
A motion of lawyers. suit might also work.
Adam L Silverman
@Raoul: It’s confusing because they’re both referred to as the President’s personal lawyer. However, in reality, it does not appear that Cohen does legal work for the President’s businesses. Rather he is a senior executive at the Trump Organization.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
a bluster of lawyers? a bobloblaw of attorneys?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: So he’s the Trump Organization’s General Counsel?
jl
A drone of lawyers. A pettifog of lawyers. A drab of lawyers.
An madhouse OF lawyers. A gasbag of lawyers.
Just so many terms will work. Hard to decide.
Adam L Silverman
@West of the Rockies (been a while): A sidebar of lawyers.
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Cohen? Not that I’m aware of. He’s an Executive VP of something or other. Kasowitz and his firm handle all of the President’s corporate and personal litigation. This includes suing others because the President wants to. Defending the President from lawsuits in his private capacity. Handling the President’s corporate bankruptcies. And handling his divorces.
jl
Probably we’ll be fighting about it forever. Maybe we should narrow it down by having a different term for different types of lawyers.
A theft of corporate attorneys.
An extortion of patent attorneys.
A codicil of conveyance attorneys
There must be a type of lawyer specializing in working for Trump, and we can call them a sump of attorneys.
meander
Some good news from the natural world: A few decades ago, it looked like peregrine falcons could become extinct in the U.S. Fortunately, populations have rebounded. This year, for the first time ever, a pair of peregrine falcons are nesting on the campanile clock tower (a.k.a. Sather Tower) on the University of California, Berkeley campus. The pair built a next on a platform near the top of the tower, and it seems that the chicks have hatched — observers are noticing the adults making quite a few daily flights in with prey. Campus staff and local bird experts don’t want to disturb the birds, so no nest camera will be installed (maybe next year?).
Bird watchers have set up a viewing station on a nearby plaza. The nest is not visible, but you can watch the birds’ infrequent comings and goings (the Earth Sciences plaza with the saber tooth cat statue). I stopped by last Sunday and had the great timing to see one of the birds land on the tower, fly around a bit, and make some calls to the mate (or to scare off potential intruders). Quite amazing!
Here’s a piece from the campus news team about the happenings: http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/06/07/peregrine-falcons-nesting-on-campanile/
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: Generally corporations will have an in house legal department and hire outside counsel for most litigation. The General Counsel would be an Executive VP or a Senior VP. Being that the Trump Organization is a private company that arrangement could be different.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
He sounds like a very busy shit shovel operator.
When I was discharged from the navy, the XO told me that I’d be back, that my kind always comes back. I told him that I had a friend whose dad owned a dairy and that dairy had a lot of cows and those cows shit several tons a day and that I’d rather shovel cow shit the rest of my life than to work for people like him. He was speechless as I walked out the door. Thankfully.
mouse tolliver
Last weekend, while streaming Orange Is the New Black, Crazy Eyes taught me that a group of rats is called a mischief. Google confirmed this. So I’d got with mischief. A mischief of lawyers.
RealityBites
Lawyers for lawyers for lawyers. It’s lawyers all the way down. Matryoshka lawyers.
jl
@mouse tolliver: I think we have a winner.
Edit: and, not be uncivil, but for many lawyers, the animal is appropriate too.
normal liberal
@jl:
I like the of terms for legal specialties (a geek of intellectual property lawyers, for example -the extortion is more the clients), but for an overall term we should just cut to the chase – a malpractice of lawyers.
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Tracking. My understanding, from the reporting, is that Cohen doesn’t do any legal work for the Trump Organization. In fact it is unclear just what he does for the Trump Organization. He also has a number of his own, separate companies covering everything from his own real estate properties to owning a significant number of hack licenses in Manhattan to things like trying to set up companies in Ukraine, offshore cruise ship gambling in Florida, etc.
Mnemosyne
@meander:
I was super excited the other morning because, as I was walking to work, I finally spotted some of the famous wild parrots that spend their days migrating between Glendale and Pasadena. There were three of them flying together in a tight formation.
I knew they were the parrots because nothing else around here has those iridescent green feathers.
Adam L Silverman
@Ruckus: It is what it is.
Calouste
A good start of lawyers.
(as in, what do you call 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?)
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
We have many of those types at the Giant Evil. My boss wisely buddies up with the ones who work for our division.
eyelessgame
Google claims any of “Disputation, Eloquence, Escheat, Greed, Huddle, Quarrel” for a ____ of lawyers. But I think a mass murder of lawyers has them all beat.
jl
@eyelessgame:
Another winner. I think a ‘____ of lawyers’ works too. We can fill in the blanks ourselves.
frosty
@meander: Peregrines nested in Baltimore in the 70s. The first one, Scarlett, became a famous Baltimorean. My mother worked in the building they settled in (USF&G at the time). They’d have their lunch in the 26th floor cafeteria and watch as the remains of Scarlett’s pigeon lunch fell down from the roof.
Good times.
John Revolta
I’d go with an objection of lawyers.
frosty
And here’s more about Scarlett:
http://chesapeakeconservancy.org/explore/wildlife-webcams/peregrine-falcon/
The comeback of peregrine falcons is one of our environmental success stories.
Timurid
@frosty:
They didn’t name him Rhett? Were they even trying?
TenguPhule
A murder of lawyers?
Gretchen
Trumpworld thinks that a pit bull is the ultimate fighting machine. They’re putting their little pit bull against an entire team of Navy Seals backed up by another entire team of Harvard-trained lawyers. Their little pit bull is going to have some quiet time.
frosty
@Timurid: Oh, they did. The first one to join with Scarlett was named Rhett.
https://chesapeakeconservancy.org/images/Chrono_Peregrines_at_USFG.pdf
My mother was a USF&G programmer, so I’m sure she worked with John Barber the ornithologist in Data Processing.
Jack the Second
Trump is going to single-handedly solve the law school / underemployment crisis.
Aleta
amk
next, they should open their own court.
Shalimar
An ambulance of lawyers. It’s similar to a clown car, no matter how many lawyers get in, there is always room for more.
Original Lee
How about a yertle of lawyers (as in Yertle the Turtle). Or an argument of lawyers, since I have observed that’s what the tend to do, both amongst themselves and with others.
Origuy
@meander: Very cool. I’ll have to look for them the next time I’m on campus. There have been peregrines nesting at San Jose City Hall since 2007. They’ve fledged a lot of chicks. Falcon cam
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
EMPATHY MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT
? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): I wouldn’t cry over it. But I don’t want to see even Conwoman killed
trollhattan
I’m going with a scrotum of lawyers.
TenguPhule
@Gretchen:
Harvard is overrated.
TenguPhule
@Original Lee:
No need to defile a good argument.
Aleta
Simple questions to Repub Senators about how their health bill will work, answered with intentionally looping quackery.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/16/15810524/senate-ahca-explain-please
Aleta
A quackery of lawmakers
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@TenguPhule: You’d think they’d have published this shit as-is if the writer wasn’t the school mag’s editor the previous year? (Although I don’t think this pass for blatant intellectual dishonesty is unique to the Ivy Leagues. Here’s the subject piece, just to make clear how much Wells was talking out of his ass/making shit up).
craigie
@Mnemosyne:
There’s a flock of those (way more than three) in Hollywood too.
Aleta
Keith P.
Wake me when Trump’s personal physician lawyers up.
Aleta
@Mnemosyne: Once I saw some of the Golden Gate Park parrots up in trees.
sukabi
@Adam L Silverman: I’d suggest that he’s Drumpf go between for $$laundering schemes.
sukabi
@Aleta: I’m beginning to believe the number of Drumpf acquaintances without ties to Russia is 0.
Amir Khalid
@Aleta:
More appropriate for physicians, methinx.
Karmus
Some great suggestions. How about a sh!tpile of lawyers? Sorry if someone beat me to it. I scanned, but I sleepy.
Aleta
@Amir Khalid: lawmakers who pretend they are providing health care are quacks imo
Aleta
Cartoon from The Nib
My Parkinson’s Can’t Take Cartooning Away From Me
by Peter Dunlap-Shohl
sukabi
How about a cell block of lawyers? Any way Bannon needs one as well…
Fred Fnord
@Adam L Silverman: I think, for lawyers, it’s just called ‘deception’.
fuckwit
@sukabi: It asymptotically approaches zero.
raven
I am here to report that Slo-Mag does not prevent foot cramps.
sukabi
@raven: you might be low on either calcium or potassium. Either can cause muscle cramping…
Lavocat
It’s called a rape of lawyers.
low-tech cyclist
On Twitter, Zeynep Tufekci asks:
It’s a lawtryoshka!
Groucho48
I’d say a retainer of lawyers captures the essence.
low-tech cyclist
A bit of doggerel:
If you went to work for Trump
it’s time to quit and lawyer up!
Groucho48
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sm*t cl*de
@Keith P.:
Physicianing up, shirley. Dr Benway to the white courtesy phone!
Tom
Lawyernado!
Aleta
A pox of lawyers
Vhh
@jl: A passel of lawyers.
Albatrossity
Obviously the collective noun is “lather”. A lather of lawyers. It just rolls off the tongue, like a spoonful of cod liver oil.
Karen
since this is open thread, how does a US destroyer manage to collide with container ship? http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/seven-sailors-missing-after-us-navy-destroyer-collides-with-container-ship-in-japan/ar-BBCMzfn?ocid=sf
allium
@jl: The term “venery” comes from the European Middle Ages and refers to things associated with hunting (the nobility prided themselves on knowing the collective terms for every kind of beast they intended to slaughter). It evolved from the Latin verb venor, “I hunt” or “I puruse”, which also shares origins with the name of the goddess Venus (i.e. “The Pursuer”).
James Lipton (yup, the Inside the Actor’s Studio host) wrote a book on the subject.
Gelfling 545
@? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?: The absolute best lawyers they know.
Kenneth Kohl
@Adam L Silverman: then, he’s a very busy person…