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Biglaw Firm Offers Special Bonuses On Top Of Regular Bonuses As Reward For Increased Partner Profits
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Biglaw Partner Arrested After Deadly Hit-And-Run Crash
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.18.18
* President Trump seems to be addicted to lawyers, and maybe someday he’ll be able to find another one like Michael Cohen who is “willing to sacrifice reputation, sanity, and perhaps a paycheck” to defend him. [Politico]
* Proskauer Rose and Jane Doe, the partner who sued the firm in a $50 million gender bias lawsuit, will be entering mediation to see if they can reach a settlement. At the same time, limited discovery will take place as to whether Doe is an “employee” under the anti-discrimination laws cited in the suit. [American Lawyer]
* Anthony Borges, a student who was shot five times while blocking a doorway to save other students during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has filed suit against Nikolas Cruz for for assault and battery. Perhaps we should be expecting more of these lawsuits in the future. [Sun Sentinel]
* Parents whose children were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 have filed a defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones of Infowars. Jones responded to the lawsuit going on a 10-minute rant on his show about how his lawyers thought the suit was frivlous. [New York Times]
* Bonus season isn’t over yet — for staff members, that is. Mintz Levin recently awarded hundreds of its staff members with special bonuses to celebrate an increase in equity partner profits. [Big Law Business]
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Law Schools
Law School Marks Down Grades For Single-Breasted Jackets Or If 'Bra Shows'
There's just something creepy about the way the law school talks about women's fashion. -
Biglaw
The Biglaw Firms Potentially Caught In The Cohen Raid
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.17.18
* The Incredible Shrinking Biglaw Partnership: Who’d have thought the idea of making more money by sharing it with fewer people would be so popular? [Law360]
* Mayer Brown has a new managing partner. [American Lawyer]
* In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the president just fired 256 judges for, by and large, not having law degrees. That’s so weird, over here our judging problem are all the unfit hacks with law degrees. [Al Jazeera]
* How do you expeditiously sort through millions of pages of documents in a wide-ranging criminal investigation? That’s a question Robert Mueller’s team has, and one that legal technology can actually answer. [Legaltech News]
* Merely threatening frivolous defamation claims can be big business. Charles Harder made $93,000 off Trump’s fear of Fire and Fury. [CNBC]
* Neil Gorsuch seems to understand diversity in practice better than his colleagues. [Slate]
* Sheppard Mullin sets up a new lateral-fueled Dallas office. [Texas Lawyer]
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Biglaw
Checking In On 'Allen & O'Melvery,' Biglaw's Most Hilarious 'Will They Or Won't They' RomCom
The Allen & Overy and O'Melveny deal appears star-crossed at the moment, but we've got hope. - Sponsored
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In Defense Of Working In Biglaw
Look, Biglaw isn’t for everyone. But there are also some great things about Biglaw that are often forgotten that make Biglaw firms cool places to work. -
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Here Are The Law Firms Donald Trump Is Paying With His Campaign Donations
Jones Day has debased itself. Will McDermott Will & Emery be next? -
Biglaw
Newt Gingrich Leaves Biglaw Capping Wild Week For Republican Speakers Of The House
Lobbying is a tough business when your party's about to lose. -
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The Largest Law Firm In The United States
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.16.18
* Michael Cohen has until 2 p.m. this afternoon to produce the names of his clients with proof of their relationship, lest his attorneys’ temporary restraining order over the alleged privilege of the “thousands, if not millions of documents” that were taken in the FBI raid upon his office get tossed. [New York Law Journal]
* In other news, President Trump wants to review all of the material that was seized by the FBI from his lawyer Michael Cohen before federal investigators are able to take a look at it — after all, as the president says, attorney-client privilege “is dead.” [Washington Post]
* Many partners at Allen & Overy are “dead against” the firm’s reportedly proposed merger with O’Melveny & Myers, which is probably just fine, considering the fact that O’Melveny “[has] no plans to merge [with A&O] and never [has].” [Legal Week]
* Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is supposed to make his debut at the Supreme Court later this month on April 23 to argue a case regarding sentencing guildelines on behalf of the United States government. We’ll see how things go if he’s already been fired by President Trump by the time oral arguments roll around. [CNN]
* According to Senate Republican Cory Gardner of Colorado, now that he’s struck a deal with President Trump that will undercut Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s recission of the Cole memo, he’ll be happy to puff-puff-pass votes on all of the Department of Justice nominees he’s been holding up. [Washington Post]
* “[T]op tier firms [must] take a more ‘people-centric’ approach, and break the tyranny of the billable unit as the overriding priority.” This managing partner says that work/life balance and mental health for lawyers will never improve unless the legal profession addresses “onerous billable hour targets.” [Lawyers Weekly]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.13.18
* Hooooo boy, this just got even better! President Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen plan to file a motion to stay the Stormy Daniels suit on the grounds that in the wake of the FBI raid on Cohen’s office and the ensuing criminal investigation, continuing the Daniels litigation could violate Cohen’s right not to incriminate himself under the Fifth Amendment. [THR, Esq. / Hollywood Reporter]
* In other news, President Trump is set to pardon Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney‘s former chief of staff, who was convicted in 2007 of lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice in the investigation into the leak of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity. [ABC News
* When the AP was investigating a $30K payout that American Media Inc. made to a doorman to keep quiet about a rumor involving President Trump’s love child with a former employee, reporters had some trouble with a Biglaw firm that was recently involved in another sexual misconduct case — Boies Schiller. [American Lawyer]
* HoLove learning to show love? The firm is ditching its “broken” associate performance review system for its new “Pathways” program, which will provide them with “flash feedback” from partners about how they’re doing on a year-round basis. [National Law Journal]
* Your tuition dollars actually at work: Georgia State Law is using predictive modeling and data analytics to identify students who may be at risk for failing the bar exam after their first year of studying law. Administrators at the school want to be able to help students before it’s too late. [Daily Report Online]
* Savannah Law School may not be closing after all? It seems that talks are underway to donate the law school’s charter to another college or university, like Savannah State and Georgia Southern. Savannah Law’s new owner would get everything but the law school building itself. [Fox 28 Media]
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Biglaw
Biglaw Giant Got Its Start With A Former First Lady As A Client
Not a bad way to get your firm off the ground. -
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Above the Law 'Power 100' Law Firm Rankings Are Out
Looks like we can actually measure how little people respect Jones Day now. -
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Lawyers Send Awesome 'Merger Agreement' To Wedding Guests Instead Of Boring Invitations
Somebody spent quite a few billable hours drafting this document! -
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alt.legal: Spit In The Cup . . . Now Drink It (The Amazing Dr. Richard)
An interview with a lawyer turned doctor who knows the ins and outs of the lawyer brain.