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Morning Docket 04.29.09

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* From pirate-fighting hero to litigant in under a month. One of the crew members of the Maersk Alabama has filed a $75,000 lawsuit for his disabling injuries because the ship company knowingly sent him into “pirate-infested waters.” [Courthouse News Service]

* Nationwide Layoff Watch: Atlanta-based firm Kilpatrick Stockton lays off 24 lawyers and pushes back start dates for new associates to April 2010. Look out for a new start date round-up later today. [Fulton County Daily Report]

* Former Lawyer of the Day Loren Friedman, who doctored his University of Chicago Law grades to land a Sidley Austin SA gig, has had his law license suspended for three years. Some want his head, or at least his disbarment. But Friedman may not even care. Having a knack for the fine art of doctoring the truth, he’s now enrolled in business school. [Chicago Tribune]

* The Astor trial is in full swing in New York. The big question in the trial is where Brooke Astor wanted her millions to go. To charity? To her son? To her estate lawyer? Probably not the last. [New York Times]

* Federal prosecutors acting badly in an asbestos case got a verbal beat-down from Montana Judge Donald Molloy and may cause the case against a chemical company to be thrown out. [United Press International]

* The DOJ searches for the term “antitrust law violations” in the Google book-search settlements with authors and publishers. [Wall Street Journal (subscription)]

* If you take a sick day, don’t fall for the old “Facebook friend request from the managing partner” trick. [Maximum PC]

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