Morning Docket 02.19.09
* U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gets fierce during a speech for Black History month at the Department of Justice. “Nation of cowards” kind of rubs people the wrong way. [CNN]
* Want to be Facebook’s James Madison? After its defensive contract writing debacle, Facebook is asking users to help it write a Bill of Rights. [Washington Post]
* A whole article on bonus rollbacks but no mention of the half-Skadden. [New York Times]
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
* UBS cries uncle in its match with the DOJ. The Swiss bank will pay $780 million and reveal the names of a few hundred of its many tax-evading clients. [Bloomberg]
* Lawyers for Minnesota Senator-wannabe Norm Coleman are growing desperate. They accused the judges of creating a “legal quagmire.” “It’s kind of like criticizing the official … during the middle of a game,” said Guy-Uriel Charles, a constitutional law professor at Duke University. [The Star Tribune]
* Nationwide Law School Dean Hiring Watch: University of Iowa. [The University of Iowa News Services]