Enron
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2nd Circuit, Biglaw, Department of Justice, Education / Schools, Enron, Football, H. Rodgin Cohen, John Roberts, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Money, Morning Docket, Police, State Judges
Morning Docket: 08.20.13
* Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Second Circuit Judge José A. Cabranes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. Roberts must be happy; few will criticize a moderate. [Washington Post]
* The Department of Justice plans to hire Leslie Caldwell, Morgan Lewis partner and ex-Enron prosecutor, to fill Lanny Breuer’s shoes. Way to leak the news while she’s on vacation. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Tell us again how sequestration isn’t having an impact on the judiciary. Private federal indigent defense attorneys are going to see their already modest rates slashed due to budget cuts. [National Law Journal]
* Sixteen lawyers will receive the New York Law Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and a list like this obviously wouldn’t be complete without the names of some of Biglaw’s best and brightest. Congrats, Rodge! [New York Law Journal]
* Thomas D. Raffaele, the judge who was karate chopped in the throat by a police officer last summer, is now suing over his crushed larynx and similarly squashed constitutional rights. [Courthouse News Service]
* Future gunners, unite! If you’re set on becoming a lawyer, there are things you can do to prepare your law school application, even as a college freshman. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
* Here’s something to aspire to for the ongoing law school lawsuits: Career Education Corp., a system of for-profit colleges, will pay $10 million to settle a dispute over its inflated job statistics. [Wall Street Journal]
* Penn State University is starting to issue settlement offers to young men who claim they were sexually abused at the hands of Jerry Sandusky, the school’s former assistant football coach. [Legal Intelligencer]
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2nd Circuit, American Bar Association / ABA, Bail, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Copyright, Department of Justice, Enron, Google / Search Engines, Jeffrey Skilling, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.09.13
* Right about now, the Second Circuit is wondering why authors are suing Google and crying infringement over the Internet company’s e-book project, especially since digitization could benefit so many of them. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* This is the end of an era of legal battles: Jeffrey Skilling, Enron’s former chief executive officer, is getting a little shaved off the top of his 24-year prison sentence thanks to a deal with the Department of Justice. He’ll be out in 2017. [CNBC]
* Biglaw expected to have a slow start in 2013, but no one expected it to be this slow. The latest Citi report wasn’t exactly encouraging; on average, firms saw a 0.2% increase in revenue during the first quarter. [Am Law Daily]
* In the past decade, the American Bar Association has created six task forces to explore changing the face of legal education as we know it. Funny… nothing’s really changed. [National Law Journal]
* Bail for Ariel Castro, the accused Cleveland kidnapper, has been set at $8 million. “Just think of how many ribs and salsa albums could be bought with that, bro,” said Charles Ramsey. [Chicago Tribune]
* Casey Anthony had a bankruptcy hearing yesterday, but that news was overshadowed because everyone cared more about the girl who wasn’t going to get away with murder. [Orlando Sentinel]
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Enron, Law Professors, Music, Rap, Sarbanes-Oxley / Sarbox / SOX
Because Sometimes You Just Need to Rap About the Law
It’s the end of October, and you know what that means: law school finals are lurking. As law students begin to hunker down and make sweet, sweet love to their outlines and flashcards, others are busy thinking up more clever ways to study the same materials. Visual learners think that drawing pictures will help them […]
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Deaths, Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, Suicide
John Taylor Skilling Found Dead
John Taylor Skilling, the son of former Enron executive Jeff Skilling, was found dead in his apartment in California. The Associated Press says that a bottle of medication was found next to John Skilling, and they report that he had been distraught over a recent breakup with his girlfriend. His father, Jeffrey Skilling, served as […] -
5th Circuit, Bernie Madoff, Enron, Morning Docket, Securities and Exchange Commission
Morning Docket 1.21.09
* Lawyers are winning in the long rivalry between lawyers and bankers. Endless financial fraud cases make lawyers look ethical. There is another fraud charge in Philadelphia against money manager Joseph Forte. [The Philadelphia Inquirer] * The SEC is investigating Apple’s disclosures about CEO Steve Jobs’ health, to make sure the company did not mislead […]
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Anderson Kill, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Celebrities, Enron, Hillary Clinton, Jose Padilla, Morning Docket, Politics, Pornography, Ted Frank
Morning Docket: 01.23.08
* Jose Padilla gets 17 years. [New York Times; Washington Post] * A merger between Anderson Kill and Reed Smith? Maybe not. But 55 of Anderson Kill’s 126 lawyers have decamped for Reed Smith. [WSJ Law Blog; WSJ Law Blog] * Ted Frank on yesterday’s Enron cert denial: Extortion, interrupted? [New York Sun] * China […]
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5th Circuit, Barack Obama, Enron, Food, Hillary Clinton, Morning Docket, Politics, Prisons, Supreme Court, Wall Street
Morning Docket: 01.22.08
* Fed cuts fed funds rate by 0.75%, but stocks are still lower. [AP; New York Times; Washington Post] * Clinton and Obama get snippy with each other in debate, raising questions about each other’s legal work. [Washington Post; New York Times; WSJ Law Blog] * SCOTUS denies review in gigantic Enron-related investors’ lawsuit. [SCOTUSblog […]
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5th Circuit, Death Penalty, Enron, Fabulosity, Federal Judges, Judicial Divas, Vanessa Gilmore, You Go Girl
The Honorable Vanessa Gilmore: A Delicious Judicial Diva
If you’re getting tired of our stories about the DOJ’s Shanetta Cutlar and S&C’s Alexandra Korry, we have a new name to add to our rotation of delightfully high-powered, imperious females. Meet Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore (at right), of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Whisper her name out loud: “Vanessa […] - Sponsored
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Copyright, Cyberlaw, Death Penalty, Enron, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Ken Lay, Morning Docket, Television, Trials, Wal-Mart, YouTube
Morning Docket: 01.26.07
* When you use YouTube to bootleg 24, the terrorists win. [WSJ Law Blog] * North Carolina doctors refuse to play executioner; executions temporarily blocked. [Jurist] * Wal-Mart agrees to cough up $33 million for overtime violations. [FindLaw] * This wasn’t the law already?. [AP via Yahoo!] * Seven defendants, including the estate of Kenneth […]
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Enron, Media and Journalism, Money, Pictures, Romance and Dating, Shopping
"And You Say He's Just a Friend..."
Last year, Jesse Oxfeld — formerly of Gawker, now of New York Magazine — delivered this fun scoop: Bethany McLean, the Enron-busting Fortune reporter who co-wrote The Smartest Guys in the Room, is dating the man who put Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling away. The fetching, recently divorced McLean, who covered the trial, is now […] -
5th Circuit, Alice Fisher, Contests, Department of Justice, Enron, Eugene Scalia, Fabulosity, Gregory Coleman, Gregory Garre, Jeffrey Fisher, Kevin Newsom, Kids, Litigators, Neal Katyal, Paul Clement, R. Ted Cruz
Congratulations to the Fab Fifty: A Constellation of Young Legal Superstars
We love lists: the Forbes 400, the U.S. News college and law school rankings, or Washingtonian magazine’s list of 40 top lawyers under 40. We love lawyers — which is good, since we spend all day writing about them. And we love fabulous things. So you can imagine our delight upon seeing this feature from […] -
Ann Althouse, Blogging, Donald Trump, Enron, Holidays and Seasons, Jeffrey Skilling, Maryanne Trump Barry, New Yorker, Non-Sequiturs, Parties
Non-Sequiturs: 01.02.07
* Donald Trump gives on-the-record comments to a blawg (albeit an MSM-affiliated one). The man is a total media whore. But he’s the little brother of a certain fabulous Third Circuit judge, so we forgive him. [WSJ Law Blog] (Check out the photos at right. We see a definite family resemblance. Which may or may […] -
9th Circuit, Crime, Drinking, Enron, Football, Holidays and Seasons, Jeffrey Skilling, Jews, Morning Docket, Politics, Religion, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 12.12.06
* A unanimous Supreme Court overturns a Ninth Circuit ruling in a criminal (habeas) case. In other news, this morning the sun rose from the east. [New York Times; Washington Post] * Enron’s Jeff Skilling may get to pass “Go” on his way to jail after all. [WSJ Law Blog] * BCS vs. the Electoral […]
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Andrew Fastow, Depositions, Enron, Murder
Now That Would Have Been the Most Exciting Depo Ever
Depositions can be pretty boring affairs. Back when we were in private practice, we once fell asleep during one. But the deposition of Andrew Fastow, former chief financial officer of Enron, appears to have kept people awake. The Times offers an interesting and detailed account of Fastow’s “moment in the sun.” This was our favorite […] -
Email Scandals, Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Ridiculousness, Sentencing Law, Sex Scandals, White-Collar Crime
Supplemental Non-Sequiturs: 10.27.06
Delightful links, hand-picked with loving care by Stella Q, will appear later today. For now, here a few other quick links that caught our eye recently: * Curious about how many Americans share your full name? Now you can find out. [TaxProf Blog] * “Zagat’s for prisons.” Good stuff. [WSJ Law Blog] * Professor Dimino […] -
Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, Movies, Sentencing Law, White-Collar Crime
Jeff Skilling's Sentence: Like a Lord of the Rings Movie
Really, really long.* To wit, 292 months long. For the mathematically challenged among you, that’s 24 years and four months. Ouch. But given the size and scope of the Enron fraud, the lengthy sentence may be appropriate (even if it’s higher than many Wall Streeters expected). You can compare Jeffrey Skilling’s sentence to those of […] -
Books, Celebrities, Enron, Ken Lay, Laurence Tribe, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.18.06
* None of this really sounds all that bad, but “Christmas bonuses” makes a good headline. [CNN] * When this goes to court, will “Vaughnifer” be an official legal entity? [MSNBC] * Can’t argue with a 99-page decision. Or read one. [New York Times] * Wait, so he DIDN’T defraud investors out of millions of […]
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2nd Circuit, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, John Roberts, Morning Docket, Samuel Alito, Sandra Day O'Connor, State Judges, Supreme Court, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 10.12.06
* Buttons — isn’t that the new song by the Pussycat Dolls? Yes; but it’s also the issue in a case argued before the Supreme Court yesterday. Question Presented: Was a murder defendant’s right to a fair trial violated when the judge allowed relatives of the victim to sit behind the prosecutor, sporting buttons with […]
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Andrew Fastow, Deaths, Drinking, Enron, Eugene Volokh, Jeffrey Skilling, Morning Docket, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 09.21.06
(Yeah, we know, today’s “Morning Docket” is coming in just in time for lunch. Sorry, we overslept…) * Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling is facing 20 to 30 years in prison when he’s sentenced next month — but he can still get himself into even more trouble. Impressive. [Houston Chronicle via WSJ Law Blog] * […]