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Since this blogger’s post yesterday about Alberto Gonzales finally having gotten a job as an assistant to the Special Master in a patent prosecution case in Texas’ Eastern District, it seemed only right to share documents filed in the case.

You can take a gander at some of the Datatreasury Corp. v. Wells Fargo & Co., et al. legal filings on Docstoc, a nifty document sharing community that’s a lot like Scribd.

On June 6, 2008, Judge David Folsom ordered that:

The Special Master will request the assistance in this case of former Texas Supreme Court Justice and former Attorney General of The United States, Alberto R Gonzales. Judge David Folsom has informed the Special Master that he has no objection to Mr. Gonzales’ assistance in this case, and believes he can provide valuable assistance to the Special Master in carrying out his duties. If any party objects to Mr. Gonzales providing assistance to the Special Master, they are to file and serve any objection within 10 days of this order. Signed by Lay[ne] R Phillips, Special Master on 6/6/08. (mpv, )

Nine months after his nasty departure from the Justice Department, sprinting like a Texas jackrabbit from Capitol Hill back to Texas, disgraced former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales finally found a job.

According to Bloomberg, Gonzales landed a job as a special master in a Texas patent case: DataTreasury Corp. v. Wells Fargo & Co., 05cv291, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas (Marshall).

Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales needs to pound the pavement a little more: he still doesn’t have a job.

“He has, through friends, put out inquiries,” the New York Times reports, but “has not found any takers. What makes Mr. Gonzales’s case extraordinary is that former attorneys general, the government’s chief lawyer, are typically highly sought.”

So what kind of professional help has he enlisted in his job search? Try saying “Bork, bork, bork!” as fast as you can, and you’ll have the answer.

Gonzales retained Capitol Hill spinmaster Robert H. Bork Jr. to deal with inquiries for the . “He is considering his opportunities in law and business,” Bork told the Wall Street Journal.

The American Bar Association bestowed Alberto Gonzales with one its biggest honors: it named him Lawyer of the Year for 2007.

What was the rationale of America’s most-respected organization for lawyers? Gonzales was “[t]he most talked-about attorney this past year by a mile…[he] rose from being the grandson of illegal immigrants to the first Hispan­ic attorney general of the United States.”

According to Edward Adams, the ABA’s Journal’s editor and publisher, choosing Gonzales wasn’t about a popularity contest. “It’s about who has had the most effect in the world of lawyers this year.”

Only in America! Gonzales’s convenient memory lapses of what led to his politically-charged firings of career U.S. Attorneys — telling Congress “I don’t recall” roughly 70 times in one hearing — is unlikely to ever be forgotten.

Nor will Gonzales’s role as White House Counsel in when he wrote a January 25, 2002 memo to Pres. Bush decrying the Geneva Convention as “quaint”, rendering “many of its provisions obsolete.”

Very strange, indeed.