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Law Student Worries That Roy Moore Vote Will 'Haunt' Him. Guess I'm The Ghost Of Christmas Present.
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Morning Docket: 12.29.17
* Both Quinn Emanuel and Kirkland & Ellis are moving into Boston. Is this going to be a trend? Is there enough extra work laying around up there for this to be a trend? [American Lawyer]
* Look forward to hearing more about machine learning in 2018! It's good to know it won't all be vague conversations about blockchain next year. [Legaltech News]
* Jeff Sessions opens door to debtor's prisons, because of course he does. [New York Times]
* And... here come the lawsuits over Apple's newly uncovered practice of slowing down old phones. There's a lot of ill will about these types of suits, but this is a pretty good example of how out of hand things can get without the threat of litigation. [Daily Business Review]
* Texas Lawyer put together a top 10 list of the troubled lawyers and judges of 2017. [Texas Lawyer]
* Steptoe's John Nolan Jr., who negotiated the Bay of Pigs prisoner releases, has passed. [National Law Journal]
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Roy Moore's Last Play. It is completely ineffectual, but it reveals a deeper issue.
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