Above the Law

Law School Professor Slapped Over Unauthorized Practice Of Law, Improper Referral Fee

He says he's appealing the judgment.

Martin Shkreli Is In More Hot Water According To The FTC

Martin Shkreli, former company thwarted generic competition against toxoplasmosis drug, FTC says.

The Real Bad Habits Of Law Students

It’s too easy to lose yourself in law school.

High-Stakes Litigator Hangs It All Up To Spend Time With His Kids

Retired at 50. #Goals

Kobe Bryant’s Tragic Death Is A Wake-up Call For All

Disaster is the (im)perfect impetus to take care of one’s estate plan.

Ken Starr ‘Punch[ed] Himself In The Face’

Irony is dead.

Ex-Perry Capital Exec. Really Needed Julian Robertson’s People Keeping An Eye On Him

New York’s impenetrable tax code claims another victim.

The Legal Encroachments By The Federal Government Upon State Domain We Should All Care About

The principle of states' rights has of course been utilized as a pretext for ignoble purposes. That doesn’t make every intrusion by the federal government a noble endeavor though.

Lawyer’s Boilerplate Reminds You That They’re Probably Making All This Up As They Go

Not every one-off problem requires more boilerplate.

The Decade In Trademark Litigation

There is still a lot we can learn from looking at the decade past at a macro level.

Morning Docket 01.28.20

* “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli has been sued by the New York Attorney General. Wonder how he was served in prison. [New York Daily News]

* A lawyer who was indicted for allegedly billing West Virginia for more than 24 hours in a day has been caught after a life on the lam. [ABA Journal]

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Everyone Makes Mistakes — See Also

Law Professor Avoids Becoming Jailhouse Lawyer — But he still got more punishment than the government sought.

How convenient! — John Bolton has a book coming out and we learned a little about it right before pre-orders launched! Breaking down the legal ramifications of writing about potentially classified material.

Test Your Memory — Did you blow off the facts section on this seminal case?

More Firms Making Associates Happy — Latham joins the bonus season.

Taking Care Of The Customer — Bob Ambrogi reviews Clio CEO Jack Newton’s book The Client-Centered Law Firm: How to Succeed in an Experience-Driven World

On Becoming A Footnote To Legal History

How many of you remember the facts?

GOP Senators Invite John Bolton To Set Fire To His Own Mustache

Bolton Laughs Maniacally And Flicks His Zippo On The Capitol Steps

Alan Dershowitz Assures Us He Is Hip To All That New Fangled Technology

This is how the impeachment testimony sausage is made.