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Wal-Mart's fired gal fires back
Posted by Fired Fred on May 25, 2007 4:44 PM
The marketing pro who was going to turn staid old Wal-Mart into the hippest thing since the hula hoop has returned with a vengeance. Julie Roehm is accusing the top Wal-Martian of doing to the company what she's been accused of doing with her subordinate assistant.

Oh yeah, you can bet your Crocs there's a lawsuit happening...
In the latest salvo aimed at her employer, fired Wal-Mart marketing executive Julie Roehm claimed in a court filing that CEO Lee Scott misused the company's ethics policy and accepted trips and received preferential prices on yachts and jewelry from Jacobs.

In the documents filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Detroit, Roehm - who is challenging Wal-Mart's charges of improprieties like accepting gifts from vendors and having an affair with a subordinate - also attacked other senior executives for accepting trips, concert tickets and other gifts from vendors.
She got fired in December of last year, as did her alleged paramour, Sean Womack. Three months later, they were sharing a stage in Hollywood. That's because they're such great friends, don't you know?
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Wal-Mart Julie has to go to Arkansas
Posted by Fired Fred on August 22, 2007 4:30 PM
Julie Roehm has been my favorite fired person to follow over the past year. She's the marketing executive who got canned by Wal-Mart, accused of doing the Akon in Trinidad Grind with her assistant while taking favors from an ad agency in exchange for possibly throwing some of Sam Walton's company cash their way and going for rides in some ad guy's expensive car and then her and Sean Womack, that's her assistant, they show up on stage together three months after she got fired, so there's no way these two haven't sampled each other's nectar, I mean come on.

Anyway...
A state judge in Michigan has sided with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and dismissed a lawsuit by former marketing executive Julie Roehm over her firing, saying the case should be filed in Arkansas.

In a ruling filed Monday, Oakland County Circuit Judge Denise Langford Morris said almost all aspects of the case took place in Arkansas and that Roehm's contract with Wal-Mart stipulated that any disputes should be litigated in courts there.
She's probably as thrilled as anyone else that she has to go to Arkansas for any length of time. I mean what's there to do in Arkansas, besides take a tour of all the motels where Bill Clinton used to allegedly take Little Slick to visit who knows how many women not named Hillary Rodham?
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Lawyer hunter fired for hunting protected lawyers
Posted by Fired Fred on November 2, 2007 4:48 PM
Christine Anderson used to track down lawyers in New York as part of the state's court system's disciplinary procedures. When she found lots of evidence of misconduct, she would turn those lawyers in for punishment.

I know you'll be shocked by this, but not all of those lawyers got punished. Some of them got off thanks to Christine's bosses stepping in and taking care of their pals. Then they fired Christine.

She's pissed, she's got a lawyer, and she wants money...
Fred K. Brewington, the Long Island lawyer representing Ms. Anderson, said she had been harassed on the job continuously, beginning in 2005, after she raised questions about Ms. Cohen’s relationship with a lawyer representing another lawyer who was under review. Despite strong evidence of misconduct by the lawyer in that case, he said, the complaint was dismissed and a file containing Ms. Anderson’s investigation disappeared.

Ms. Anderson is seeking $10 million in damages, as well as punitive damages and lawyer’s fees for what her suit described as the “irreparable injury,� “mental anguish and humiliation� of being fired without cause.
Normally I'd suggest the way lawyers should settle their disputes would be in a locked room, filled with razor wire and sharp knives, on pay per view, but this one seems to have a case. Darn it.
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He's fired for being a stereotypical lawyer
Posted by Fired Fred on December 12, 2007 5:00 PM
Lawyers don't need anything else helping the lousy perception a lot of people have about them. Naturally that makes this tale much more appealing.

John Duncan got fired in October from a big law firm in Maine. Judging by this report, it sounds like he did everything but tie damsels in distress to the train tracks while twiddling his mustache...
Duncan, a 29-year veteran of Verrill Dana, was fired Oct. 28, about five months after his legal secretary first raised questions about $77,500 in checks Duncan had written to himself from a client, Gregg Ginn, a partner at Verrill Dana, told the paper. Duncan has repaid the money, according to the paper, but there could be more. Ginn said over the years Duncan overbilled clients, stole money from private accounts, and directed money meant for the firm to himself.
It's not just Johnny facing the music. The state bar might put the firm's nuts in a vise and spin the handle a few times for them not talking about this sooner.
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Librarian fired for turning in kiddie porn viewer
Posted on March 13, 2008 4:54 PM
I like to think of myself as a socially moderate person, and I think most people see themselves that way as well.

Kiddie porn kinks are another story. I'm so far to the right that neocons step aside. I wasn't real happy to read that a library fired a librarian who called 911 when she spotted a freak checking out kiddie porn on a computer...
Brenda Biesterfeld says by calling the police, she disobeyed the direction of a supervisor. The supervisor told her to make a note on the man’s library account and tell him to stop looking at the pictures. Biesterfeld felt that the authorities needed to be alerted, so she called the police anyway. When police did get involved, they found thousands of images of child pornography. 39-year-old Donnie Chrisler was arrested, and a day and a half later; Biesterfeld was out of a job.
Write a note and tell him "bad boy, don't do that again." No. I don't think so. California's not this insane yet, is it?

Whoever made the firing decision needs to be out looking for a job on the grounds of astonishing stupidity. The perp, if found guilty, ought to be given some quality time with the parents of the kids whose pictures were on view, preferably with lots of sharp objects for the moms and dads, and no witnesses present.

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