Morning Docket

Morning Docket 08.17.09

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* Retired judges in Iowa are helping the state cope with its budget woes. [Chicago Tribune]
* Programmers from Princeton, Harvard and the Internet Archive have created a Firefox plug-in for hacking Pacer. In the words of Wired, “it’s still just a stop-gap measure until the federal courts figure out that in the age of the internet, charging citizens to search and read public documents should be a federal crime.” [Threat Level/Wired]
* New trend: unscrupulous attorneys preying on immigrants? [New York Times]
* Landlords are feeling law firms’ pain: “Boston Properties Inc in February was forced to stop construction of a 1 million square-foot building on the west side of Midtown Manhattan after law firm Proskauer Rose backed out from a tentative agreement for about half the space.” [Bloomberg]
* New York AG Andrew Cuomo is going after online brokerage Charles Schwab. [Reuters]
* Texas billionaire fraudster, Allen Stanford, got new lawyers. Now he wants a new judge. [Houston Chronicle]
* Former ATL ‘Lawyer’ of the Day Howard O. Kieffer sentenced to four years. And he has to pay his clients back. [Associated Press]
* Baker & McKenzie derailed from its profit track. [AmLaw Daily]

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