Morning Docket 03.01.10

* Alec Baldwin can’t act tactfully. He tells Fordham Law students that he once wanted to be a lawyer, but “didn’t know if [he] wanted to join a field that was becoming as crowded and choked as law was.” [New York Daily News]
* Minorities are even more in the minority at law firms. [American Lawyer]
* A journalist friend of William Rehnquist pens a remembrance about the “Bill Rehnquist You Didn’t Know.” We didn’t know he was the type who would go see a Gwyneth Paltrow-Ben Affleck flick. [ABA Journal]
* A Michigan lawyer is going to jail for six months for offering a 21-year-old female defendant a cop-a-feel plea deal. [Holland Sentinel via ABA Journal]
* After the Google trial in Italy, being sued in a European court is much scarier, no matter how ridiculous the claims. [Opinio Juris]
* Enron’s Jeff Skilling is hoping SCOTUS will grant him a new trial, because he messed with Texas. [Houston Chronicle]
* If the lawyer is a nitwit, you must grant a writ (of cert)? [New York Times]

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