There’s also a healthy dollop of family law snark:

• ATL noted that some top Washington DC divorce lawyers actually put a provision in their contracts allowing their clients to give them a tipat the end of the case (no word on whether 15% was expected).  ATL then quotes the Washingtonian as saying that:

Divorce law rarely attracts the best and brightest from America’s law schools. Many top schools ignore the specialty.

Ouch!

• This past New Year’s, ATL quoted the TimesOnline‘s statistic that only 29% of men were happier after divorce compared to 49% of women, then offered the not-quite obligatory Gloria Gaynor reference:

I should have changed my stupid lock.  I should have made you leave your key.

• There’s also the magazine ad “Getting divorced means never having to talk to your mother-in-law again.”

• Perhaps funniest of all,  the ATL archives have an article on divorce lawyer to the almost-stars, Mark Kaplan. Kaplan apparently represented not only Kevin Federline (Britney Spears’ ex), but also Cris Judd (J.Lo’s ex).  ATL wryly notes:

Family law practitioners in Hollywood tend to develop specialty niches. Some represent wealthy husbands, seeking to divorce their first wives with minimal financial pain. Some represent the jilted spouses, seeking to take their husbands for all they’re worth. Some defend paternity suits brought against promiscuous celebrities.

And some Tinseltown divorce lawyers, like Mark Kaplan, represent future Trivial Pursuit answers.

ATL also has useful information onlaw firm layoffs and lawyer jobs in Asia. But we read it for the snark.