Crime
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Cars, Crime, Law Schools, Rudeness, UVA Law
Is Going To UVA Law School Like Using Cocaine?
Between the alleged criminal activity of current students, alleged tall tales told by former students, and all the popped collars, you gotta ask if a little humility might do UVA Law some good? The latest story of alleged misbehavior from UVA Law involves road rage. But what makes this story funny is that it involves a UVA Law student in a car allegedly menacing a UVA history professor on a bike.... -
Crime, Law Schools
Law School: A Den of Thieves
It's exam time. Kids are living in the library and generally oblivious. This is high season for thieves! But we've got an email from a law student who is determined to take action. He had his textbooks stolen, and he's mad as hell. He wants to do away with his law school's honor code and go with more medieval punishments should they apprehend the thief.... - Sponsored
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Crime, Death Penalty, Deaths, King & Spalding, Law Schools, Murder, Violence
King & Spalding Lawyer Received Key Email As Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty Against Stephen McDaniel
As we mentioned in Morning Docket on Friday, prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty against Stephen McDaniel if he is convicted of the murder of Lauren Giddings. The Macon Telegraph conducted a long interview with Lauren Giddings's boyfriend, David Vandiver. The King & Spalding lawyer wonders if Giddings's final email to him was entirely hers....
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Crime, Hate Crimes, Law Professors, Law Schools, Violence
Hate Crime Suspected In Stabbing of Law Professor
Members of the University of Illinois College of Law community received sad and disturbing news yesterday when they learned that a faculty member at the law school was the victim of an apparent hate crime. The law professor (who remains anonymous at the request of the University) was found on the second floor of the […] -
Crime, Law Schools, UVA Law
UVA Law Student Arrested: Charged With Breaking and Entering
Man, you guys sure like making fun of UVA Law students. Based on our overflowing inbox, many of you know that a UVA law student was arrested today. He's been charged with breaking and entering -- but not into a dorm room, or into the house of a millionaire. The student was charged with breaking into the University's Registrar's office.... -
American Bar Association / ABA, Crime, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Sentencing Law, United Kingdom / Great Britain, Violence
Morning Docket: 12.06.11
* Close, but no cigar? The ABA has updated the way that it will collect graduate employment and salary data from law schools, but the new method could still use a few tweaks. [National Law Journal] * Kilpatrick Townsend is expanding into Saudi Arabia. I don’t really have anything witty to say about this, but […]
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Bad Ideas, Contracts, Crime, Lawsuit of the Day, Pro Se Litigants
Lawsuit of the Day: Kidnapper Sues Hostages for Breach of Contract
Oh, you fell through a skylight while you were attempting to burglarize a home and cut your arm? File a lawsuit! You tried to steal a television set from your neighbor and got bitten by his dog in the process? Time to litigate! So, what happens when you're on the run and you decide to break into a couple's home and hold them hostage? Our latest pro se litigant decided to up the ante. He's suing his former kidnapping victims for breach of contract.... -
Crime, Law Schools
Former Hofstra 1L Accused of Impersonating a Psychiatrist
Maybe Amora Rachelle missed the day they talked about fraud statutes at Hofstra Law? There is a crazy story coming out of Long Island, my homeland, about Rachelle, a woman who was arrested for fraud for posing as a psychiatrist and billing insurance companies despite not having a medical license. Rachelle already made the news […] - Sponsored
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Crime, Deaths, Kids, Law Schools, Murder, Police, Pornography, Prisons, Violence
Stephen McDaniel Indicted for Murder of Lauren Giddings
This should not come as a great shock, since he’s been in jail since July, but Stephen Mark McDaniel has been indicted by a grand jury for the murder of Lauren Giddings. McDaniel and Giddings graduated earlier this year from Mercer Law School, where they were classmates, and they were also neighbors in the Barristers […] -
Billable Hours, Crime, Hotties, Prostitution, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Trials
Reema Bajaj Is Going All the Way
Next week, Reema Bajaj, the comely Illinois attorney who has been accused of prostitution, will celebrate her 26th birthday. (You can look up her date of birth on the DeKalb County criminal docket.) But how happy will that birthday be? There's a cloud looming over this lovely lawyer.... -
Crime, Police, Taser, Violence
Chicago Police Turn the Tasing Up to Eleven
Andrew Meyer — the University of Florida student who coined the phrase “don’t tase me, bro” — was only tased one time, but his screams were heard around the world thanks to YouTube. And as far as we know, he didn’t sue over the incident. But how many times do you think the average person […] -
Crime, Drugs, Privacy, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
SCOTUS Not Psyched About Idea Of Government Secretly Putting GPS Trackers On Their Cars
The Supreme Court justices were decked out in their usual black robes today for U.S. vs Jones [pdf], a case involving the question of whether police need a warrant to attach a GPS tracker to someone’s car. But given their paranoia about possible technology-enabled government intrusions on privacy, it might not have been surprising if […] -
Crime, Kids, Pornography, Quote of the Day, Sentencing Law
Quotes of the Day: Way Harsh
To me, a failure to distinguish between people who look at these dirty pictures and people who commit contact offenses lacks the nuance and proportionality I think our law demands. — Professor Douglas Berman, commenting on the case of Daniel Enrique Guevara Vilca, a 26-year-old who was just sentenced to life in prison without the […]
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Bad Ideas, Crime, Pro Se Litigants, Trials, Violence
It's Like Having Hannibal Lecter as a Client
It’s been a week of violence here at Above the Law. Between the murder-suicide guy and the judge who beat his disabled daughter, there’s been too much disturbing sadness. Here at Above the Law, we prefer violence that is maybe, just a little, funny. For those who appreciate the lighter side of crime, we’ve got […] -
Biglaw, California, Crime, Health Care / Medicine, Kids, Partner Issues, Sexual Harassment, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, White-Collar Crime
Bad News for Former Biglaw Partners on the West Coast
Many former partners at major law firms spend their post-Biglaw years living large -- as well they should. After all, they worked very hard, for many years, to amass seven-figure, eight-figure, or even nine-figure fortunes. After leaving behind the life of billing 2000+ hours a year, they finally have time to enjoy the fruits of their labor. But not all ex-partners find themselves on Easy Street. Take, for example, these two ex-partners in California -- one whose civil suit against her former firm isn't going so well, and one who might be going from Biglaw, to a small firm, to the Big House.... -
Bad Ideas, Crime, Facebook, Rank Stupidity, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Wannabe Rapper Convicted of Making Criminal Threats on Facebook
I am constantly amazed at how dimwitted some criminals can be. We have covered them in these pages before, from the guy who left evidence of his violent plans open on his desktop, to the robber who reached out to his victim via Facebook. On Thursday in Pennsylvania, a federal jury convicted Anthony D. Elonis […] -
Cars, Crime, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Guns / Firearms
Drinking, Driving, and Packing
Maybe we should look at this as a grand test of the “theory” of evolution via natural selection. Eventually, over the course of hundreds of thousands or millions of years, the gun nuts should really die out, while those who favor sensible gun regulation will live and procreate and prosper. But then again, maybe this […] -
Crime, Insider Trading, Sentencing Law, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Raj Rajaratnam Gets Sentenced
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Crime, Drinking, Litigators, Litigatrix, Partner Issues, UVA Law
DLA Piper Partner Picks A Penalty For Public Intoxication
It's been a while since Elie went out on an epic bender. It's hard for him. Maybe not so much for Laura L. Flippin. She's a lawyer, a partner at DLA Piper. Last month she got charged with public intoxication. The police report states that Laura Flippin's blood alcohol level was .253, which is flippin' epic... -
Books, Crime, Election 2012, John Paul Stevens, Morning Docket, New Jersey, Paul Bergrin, Politics, Trials, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 10.10.11
Ed. note: In honor of Columbus Day (and Canadian Thanksgiving), we’ll be on a reduced publication schedule today. We’ll be back in full force tomorrow. * If you are curious about that legal memo justifying the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, Charlie Savage describes its contents in this very interesting NYT piece. [New York Times] * […]