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Morning Docket: 09.11.17
* "Legal aid is critical after a natural disaster," so the Florida Bar has raised the income cap for its online legal clinic so Floridians affected by Hurricane Irma can get legal assistance, and the Florida Bar Foundation has set aside $500,000 to support legal aid organizations. How generous! [Law.com]
* Sixteen years have passed since the September 11 attacks, but we've yet to try or convict any of the five men who are said to have planned the day that changed America, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged "architect of 9/11." Some lawyers wonder why this "isn't a cause for more outrage." [Al Jazeera]
* In case you missed it, Irell & Manella has elected Ellisen Turner as its first African-American managing partner. Among the many accolades he's earned over the course of his illustrious legal career, Above the Law once referred to him as a "hottie." Congratulations on all accounts! [Big Law Business]
* Lawmakers from both parties are interested in holding hearings on the massive Equifax hack, and after outcry from state attorneys general about an arbitration clause that would have prevented those affected by the data breach from suing, the credit reporting agency has changed its terms of service. [The Hill]
* In the wake of Justice Scalia's death, Justice Kagan says the remaining justices did everything they could to avoid 4-4 split decisions: "[W]e all made a very serious effort to try to find common ground even where we thought we couldn’t. It sort of forced us to keep talking to each other." [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
* Which Biglaw firm is about to get a lot bigger? It's Cozen O'Connor, apparently. According to CEO Michael Heller, he'd like to increase the firm's head count to somewhere between 700 and 1,000 lawyers in the next five years. About 600 attorneys are currently working at Cozen. [Am Law Daily]
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* Northwestern Dean Dan Rodriguez perfectly sums up the California bar’s decision to punt on the cut score question. [PrawfsBlawg]
* The Equifax hack leaves 143 million people vulnerable. But the Equifax executives may end up the most vulnerable after they reacted to the breach by selling shares... fast. Oh, who are we kidding? This DOJ isn’t going to prosecute that! [Huffington Post]
* The Empire's stormtrooper armor is really terrible. [The Legal Geeks]
* Professor Douglas Litowitz is on the law school job market, and he's rejecting all rejection letters. "I wish them great success in placing their rejection letters with other candidates. I have simply received a sufficient number of excellent rejection letters already." [Faculty Lounge]
* The University of Colorado faces a lawsuit over allegedly protecting a football coach over an a domestic abuse survivor. No one ever lost money betting against schools changing their cultures on a dime, but honestly we're not far removed from the last round of lawsuits about the school's hostile environment. [Rewire]
* How much do you know about "The Reid Method"? Wyatt Kozinski (Judge Kozinski's son) calls for a new "Wickersham Commission" to investigate the method's role in a spate of false confessions undermining the credibility of the criminal justice system. That said, the President's first foray into politics was calling for executions based on false confessions, so maybe we shouldn't hold our breaths for this commission. [The Crime Report]
* Irma threatens lives... and the return of an overused metaphor. [Law and More]
* Speaking of hurricanes, Harvey has spawned its first lawsuit. [The Atlantic]
* Another edition of “bad places to hide.” [Lowering the Bar]
* Congratulations to lawyer Anthony Franze, author of The Outsider (affiliate link), on the thriller getting picked up for possible television development! [Deadline]