Morning Docket 10.18.09

* On Friday, the SEC charged hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam with running a $20 million insider trading ring along with executives from Intel, McKinsey & Co., and Bear Stearns. [Bloomberg]
* Rajaratnam and company wasted no time lawyering up, reports Brian Baxter. Gibson Dunn and Kelley Drye to the rescue. [American Lawyer]
* Georgia lawyer Tom Dunn used to spend his time trying to help those on death row. But now he’s spending his days with middle school students as a teacher for Teach For America. [New York Times]
* Elie Mystal speaks out against a publicly-funded competitor for Harvard Law School. [Boston Globe]
* Jim Woolery of Cravath’s New York office credits his M&A success in Dallas to being able to “talk Texan.” [Dallas Morning News via ABA Journal]

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