Morning Docket 1.29.09

* Cha-ching. Harvard Law gets an anonymous $10 million gift to endow a Laurence Tribe chair. [Associated Press]

* Gov. Rod Blagojevich has decided to swing by his impeachment trial in time to deliver the closing argument. [Chicago Tribune]

* Martin T. Manton would have been a Judge of the Day back in 1939, had ATL existed then. The Second Circuit judge, who was nearly appointed to the Supreme Court, was found guilty of taking bribes, resigned, and spent 19 months in prison. Now, what to do with his portrait? [New York Times]

* This story is going to hurt the lawyerly reputation. Not only did this attorney steal from his clients, he stole from physically and mentally impaired clients. New York lawyer Steven Rondos stole $4 million from his clients’ medical malpractice settlements to pay his mortgage and buy a home theater system. [New York Daily News]

* President Obama brings Biglaw hours and a less formal dress code to the White House. [New York Times]

* Restless rainmakers. [Legal Times]

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