Airplanes / Aviation
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Law Professors, Law Students
United Airlines: A Great Law Student Hypothetical About Corporate Responsibility Life
Advising a client may lead them to the legal path, but not necessarily without ramifications. -
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Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: Your Captain Speaking
What pilots can teach lawyers about shepherding clients through a particular unfamiliar legal experience.
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Boutique Law Firms, Money, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: Bundles Of Fees
Columnist Gaston Kroub shares some thoughts on pricing, inspired by "fee bundling" in the travel industry. -
Airplanes / Aviation, ATL Redline, Justice, Technology
At Least My New Wireless Headphones Won't Blow Up On A Plane
As long as my iPhone doesn't blow up in my hand or cause an in-air emergency, I guess I'm down with Apple for another round. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.10.16
* Lawsuits matter: in the wake of the $140 million verdict against it in the Hulk Hogan sex tape case, Gawker Media is filing for bankruptcy and putting itself up for sale. [Gawker]
* Declaratory judgment: according to Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Judging Statutes (affiliate link), by fellow feeder judge Robert Katzmann, is “a pleasure to read,” “succinct,” and “educational.” [Harvard Law Review]
* SCOTUS sez: a judge shouldn’t hear an appeal in a death penalty case that he worked on as a prosecutor. [How Appealing]
* Speaking of the Supreme Court, Gabe Roth of Fix the Court makes the case in favor of mandatory retirement for the justices. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
* Worst fellow airplane passenger ever (yes, even worse than the drunken law firm partner). [U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit]
* 9 “Musts” for Privacy & Data Security Risk Management and Compliance. [Legaltech News]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.12.16
* Even at a conference, Judge Easterbrook can be intimidating. [Business Law Prof Blog]
* Boeing filed a patent to make air travel slight less hellish. Good luck with that. [Travel and Leisure]
* Judge plans to stick Ammon Bundy’s merry band of militia men playing terrorist out in the woods with the bill for their security… to the tune of $70,000 a day. [Raw Story]
* Josh Duggar is such a loser he is even losing discovery battles like a pro. [Radar]
* Lawyer Eric Macleish played a role in the legal battles over child abuse by Catholic priests in Boston (as recounted in the movie Spotlight). Whether he was a villain or victim in the saga is still up for debate. [Guile is Good]
* Is it possibly true that you can really discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy? [My Bank Tracker]
* If you’re goofing off by pretending to work from home, don’t give yourself away. [Daily Lawyer Tips]
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Airplanes / Aviation, Crime, Drinking
Former Biglaw Partner Who Got Wasted On Plane And Caused Flight Diversion Charged With Airplane Assault
She lost her Biglaw partnership, and now she may lose her freedom. - Sponsored
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Admin, Blogging, Media and Journalism, Rankings
Above The Law's Top 10 Most Popular Posts Of 2015
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Racism
Lawyer Booted From Flight Over 'Misunderstanding.' His Clearly Iranian Name Obviously Has Nothing To Do With It.
The airline claims it had nothing to do with racism. That's probably not true. -
Airplanes / Aviation, Holidays and Seasons, Travel / Vacation
5 Tips If You Get Stuck At The Airport
The holiday season is upon us, and travel is a nightmare. -
Airplanes / Aviation, Disasters / Emergencies
Well-Known Lawyer Killed In Fiery Plane Crash
A witness who saw the plane crash believes the passengers' last moments must have been truly horrid. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.26.15
* Melvin Feliz, husband of Keila Ravelo, the partner who allegedly bilked Hunton & Williams and Willkie Farr out of millions to lead a life of luxury, pleaded guilty in the fraud case brought against him. Is she a prospective Real Housewife of Cellblock D? [Bergen Record]
* Sorry, Southwest passengers, but the Seventh Circuit says you’re stuck with your free drink vouchers, and the lawyers who represented you in this class-action suit are stuck with their $1.65 million. No one is happy up in the unfriendly skies. [Associated Press]
* China’s economy may be on the brink, but that doesn’t matter to Dentons. The firm is as happy as ever about its proposed merger with Dacheng because it really wants a horde of lawyers, so it’s gonna get one. It’s “almost absurd” to think otherwise. [Am Law Daily]
* As we mentioned yesterday, lawyers work too damn much — so much, in fact, that they’re quitting their Biglaw jobs, starting competitor practices, and poaching talent from top firms by offering them a sense of work-life balance. [Harvard Business Review]
* Kevin Fagan, perhaps better known as Juror 83 in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial, is speaking to the media about his experience, and says he might’ve changed his death penalty vote if he had known the youngest victim’s parents opposed it. [WSJ Law Blog]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.29.15
* Judge uses hearing to take out lost luggage irritation on airline appearing before him. [Legal Cheek]
* Law schools should teach entrepreneurship, because students should be learning something they can apply when the job market turns up empty. [Tax Prof Blog]
* Meet Dylann Roof’s defense counsel, David Bruck. [The Marshall Project]
* Lawyer quits law and opens a brewery. Good idea. [Click on Detroit]
* Making “patently offensive racial, ethnic, homophobic, sexist, and other derogatory remarks to attorneys” nets a three-month suspension in New York. [Legal Profession Blog]
* A new white paper on law enforcement and electronic communications, co-authored by Viet Dinh, the keynote speaker at our recent Technology & Law event. [Bancroft PLLC]
* After Bruce MacEwen expressed doubts over the usefulness of the Am Law 200 as “a conceptual category,” Kimberly Kleman, editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer, responds to the criticism. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
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Airplanes / Aviation, Partner Issues
Biglaw Partner Whose Mid-Air Meltdown Caused Plane Diversion Is Sorry
The Biglaw partner who committed several party fouls on a plane is on an apology tour. -
Airplanes / Aviation, Drinking, Partner Issues
Biglaw Partner Gets Wasted On Plane, Causes Mid-Atlantic Flight Diversion
Yikes! This partner sounds like she'd be an aggressive litigant. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.10.15
* “The reality is, the university has done a lot to be a part of the solution. This undoes a lot of that work.” Students and professors at St. Louis University School of Law are up in arms because Bob McCulloch, the prosecutor in the Ferguson case, is coming to speak at an event on police practices. [ABC News]
* “Travel by coach will make it impossible for the attorneys to work and or sleep effectively upon our arrival.” Defense lawyers for three suspected terrorists motioned for a judge to give them business-class seats on a plane while federal prosecutors bum it back in coach. [New York Daily News]
* SCOTUSblog has been denied a Supreme Court press pass, yet again. Lyle Denniston, the site’s main reporter, had to go to great lengths in an attempt to circumvent the high court’s new journalist credentialing process. [Associated Press]
* “I would really think long and hard before defying a federal court order.” SCOTUS declined to issue a stay that would keep gay marriage at bay in Alabama, but some judges are still refusing to marry gay couples. Thanks Roy Moore. [Los Angeles Times]
* Paul Weiss: lookin’ nice! In a look at some of the early numbers from the latest Am Law 100 rankings, the firm increased its gross revenue year over year by 10.9 percent, allowing Paul Weiss to finally break the billion-dollar mark in revenue. [Am Law Daily]
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Airplanes / Aviation, New Jersey, Privacy
Can You Shoot Down Drones?
Hide your kids, hide your wife, these drones are getting everybody. -
Airplanes / Aviation, Biglaw, Deaths, Disasters / Emergencies, Quote of the Day
Biglaw Firm Mourns Partner Killed In MH17 Crash
Was he the only lawyer aboard the doomed flight? -
Airplanes / Aviation, Federal Circuit, Federal Judges, Free Speech, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Police
Morning Docket: 06.06.14
* Federal judges frequently fly across the globe on other people’s dime for conferences and symposia, but 2012′s most frequent flyer is a judge who was recently embroiled in an ethics scandal: Randall Rader of the Federal Circuit. [National Law Journal]
* Even though she claims nothing is “fundamentally broken,” Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman Mary Jo White proposed “sweeping” new stock market regulations in an attempt to get with the times. [DealBook / New York Times]
* U. of Maine wants to combine its business and law schools, but professors are concerned about pressing questions like, “What will the diploma say?” rather than, “Do I get to keep my job?” [Portland Press Herald]
* Law schools are seen as cash cows for their affiliated undergraduate universities, but this law school is hurting so bad for cash due to low enrollment the university is infusing it with millions. [Minnesota Daily]
* A Pennsylvania man is suing his local police department for First Amendment violations after he was arrested for cursing in front of officers. N.W.A has a song this guy would like. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]