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Morning Docket: 09.25.18
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.25.18

* Amid reports (from Fox News no less) that Mitch McConnell does not presently have the votes to confirm Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court took the precaution of removing several contentious matters from their long conference agenda lest. They're hunkering down for another couple months at 4-4. [National Law Journal]

* Speaking of that Fox News report, let's be honest about what's happening here: Kavanaugh is refusing to withdraw and McConnell is covertly asking the network to convince Trump to withdraw the nomination. [Fox News]

* Almost half of the top 15 firms in the Global 100 are the product of a transatlantic merger. Should your firm follow suit? Probably not. [American Lawyer]

* Linda Burrow leaves Boies Schiller to Netflix and chill and then litigate. [Corporate Counsel]

* Judge seems to think Stormy Daniels doesn't have a defamation claim against Trump over one of his Tweets. [Law360]

* PwC makes a deal with Fragomen. The Big 4 invasion of the legal sector continues unchecked. [LegalCheek]

* Lost in the shuffle of everything happening yesterday, Bill Cosby's sentencing hearings kicked off. [Courthouse News Service]

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