Brushes With Fame
Federal Judge John H. Wood, who questioned Alan Alop’s contention that his client was eight months pregnant and suggested she might just have a stomach tumor, was assassinated by this Hollywood star’s father.
Who is Woody Harrelson?
After a security guard in LAF’s downtown office warned Michelle Weinberg not to exit through a side door after hours, she was caught on tape exiting through the door late at night, getting the belt of her coat stuck in the door when it closed and locked behind her, kicking and cracking the door’s safety glass, and then doing this.
What is detaching her belt and running away?
A property manager claimed our client's daughter had not only kicked a wall but tried to commit this crime.
What is murder?
When a police officer pulled over Lawrence Wood for making an illegal U-Turn, Lawrence had to give the officer this in lieu of his license.
What is a copy of the ticket he’d recently received for making an illegal U-Turn?
A client faced eviction for nonpayment of rent that accrued while he was in the hospital recovering from burns caused by this.
What is a bottle of rubbing alcohol that slipped out of his right hand before he caught it with his left hand and squeezed, causing a stream of alcohol to shoot out of the bottle and into a lighted candle, where the flame ignited the alcohol, allowing the fire to travel back to the open bottle in our client’s hand, causing the bottle to explode?
After shaking hands with George Clooney, who was filming a scene for Ocean’s Twelve in the building where LAF’s Westside Office was located, receptionist Paula Hampton said that Clooney’s hand felt like this.
What is butter?
While meeting in his office with one of his female staff attorneys, Tim Huizenga removed this because he needed to get ready for a softball game.
What was his shirt?
Sarah Song’s client faced eviction for turning her building’s stairwell into “a blood-soaked crime scene” after this exploded.
What was her dead and decomposing dog, which she was dragging down the stairs?
An elderly Russian émigré tried to dissuade LAF from rejecting her case by saying she was an Auschwitz survivor and could not endure this.
What is another disappointment?
A client complained that people were breaking into her apartment to do this.
What was her laundry?
John Whitcomb said this LAF attorney looked just like Richard Gere.
Who is John Whitcomb?
In LAF’s lunchroom, Julie Harcum Brennan used her cell phone to record Tim Hufman doing this.
What is pulling from the trash and eating a piece of birthday cake?
Because he was 77 and had disabilities and was unable to afford market rent, we reluctantly agreed to defend a racist tenant who was facing eviction from subsidized housing for demanding this.
What is “a white property manager who shares my values”?
Disgusted with this bankruptcy expert’s tie, Pat Connell used a scissors to cut the tie in half while it was still around the expert’s neck.
Who is David Yen?
Notoriously belligerent lawyer David Boyle, who was profiled in Alex Kotlowitz’s “Never A City So Real,” responded to our settlement offer in an eviction case by writing this.
What is, “You make me want to throw up”?
The police discovered a fugitive in our client’s public housing unit after receiving a tip from an anonymous source who recognized the fugitive from this.
What is the “Fifteen Seconds of Shame” segment on America’s Most Wanted?
After Reenie Terjak’s client died, Andy Cohen made her send the client this.
What is a “no contact” letter giving him ten days to call or come into the office?
After our client used a knife to defend herself against an unprovoked physical attack, the property manager billed her $5,150.64 for the cost of removing this.
What is “all the blood from the elevator keys, walls, railings, community room floor, and vending machine”?
While running to third base during a CBA-sponsored softball game, LAF attorney Lawrence Wagner knocked a woman down and then, as she was getting back on her feet, somehow managed to do this.
What is hit her in the face?
The butcher shop a block north of LAF’s West Side Office advertised this.
What was “The Best Beef in Jew Town”?
A Comedy Central Network executive described this as the "ideal nondescript, dead-end, and uninspired setting for a show about disgruntled employees."
What was LAF’s downtown office?
Cynthia Sadkin was upset by news that Judge Sheldon Garber had said this about her colleague Lizzie Rosenthal.
What is, “Ms. Rosenthal is the most attractive lawyer I’ve ever seen in my courtroom?”
A property manager alleged that our client had wrapped his hands around her neck, shaken her, and growled at her without this.
What is permission?
Judge Sheldon Garber referred to this LAF attorney as Ms. Kamahatra, Ms. Kamasuka, Ms. Kalahari, and Ms. Kamawawa.
Who is Jessica Kalmewicki?
After declaring that he hated our Hispanic client and “all those people,” opposing counsel said he wanted to avoid saying this.
What was “something inappropriate”?