Books
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Holidays and Seasons, Shopping
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Biglaw
Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Teaching Neal Katyal To Rap As Impeachment Enters Its Broadway Phase
The burgeoning career of MC Former SG. - Sponsored
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Government, Politics
Impeach -- The Case Against Donald Trump: An Interview With Neal Katyal
Neal Katyal, former Acting Solicitor General of the United States, lays out the case against President Trump -- and makes some predictions.
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Biglaw
The Billable Hour Cookbook: Recipes For Every Hungry Lawyer
A celebrity chef has already ordered a copy. What are you waiting for? -
Biglaw
Best Practices In Law Firm Business Development And Marketing: An Interview With Deborah Farone
Deborah Farone, former chief marketing officer at Cravath and Debevoise, offers insight into Biglaw business development. -
Intellectual Property
3 Questions For Co-Authors Of A Must-Own IP Book (Part II)
The book proves that showing, as well as telling, brings with it both pedagogical and aesthetic value in a way that makes thinking about IP’s role in our lives a rewarding experience. -
Intellectual Property
3 Questions For Co-Authors Of A Must-Own IP Book (Part I)
The book promises to make an outsized contribution to one of the pressing challenges of our time: increasing IP literacy. -
Courts
Neil Gorsuch's New Book Gets Dragged
New piece goes ham on Neil Gorsuch's antiquated notions of civility. - Sponsored
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Courts
Neil Gorsuch Is Fine With History Forgetting Him, Unfortunately We Aren't That Lucky
There are thing worse than being forgotten. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.26.19
* 3M is asking Biglaw to care for attorney mental health in its new procurement process. The fourth “M” is for “Mindfulness.” [Corporate Counsel]
* In today’s installment of “intellectual property law is broken,” publishers are suing over audiobooks that offer captions. [New York Law Journal]
* A guy who legally changed his name to Atticus Finch when he was 8 is now in law school. If you think you hated Go Set A Watchman… [Texas Lawyer]
* Second Circuit doing all sorts of fact-finding because adhering to the record and precedent is out of fashion apparently. [Law360]
* Anti-gay blogger Judge John Bush calling out Kim Davis for “antihomosexual bias” is peak 2019. [National Law Journal]
* Famous football players who became lawyers. [Law.com]
* Convict seeks sheriff job. [HuffPo]
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Law Schools, Technology
Haben Girma: A Zealous Advocate For Disability Rights
She's accomplished in the span of just a few years what many of us can only hope to tackle in a lifetime. -
Law Schools
Cass Sunstein's New Book Generates One Of The Most Brutal Book Reviews Ever
This is a call for Sunstein to get to answer some tough questions. -
In-House Counsel
On Updating A Book For The Passage Of Time And Political Correctness
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Law Schools
The Antitrust Paradigm Shift (Without A Clutch)
If half of Professor Jonathon B. Baker’s policies were adopted, life would be improved in the antitrust world. -
Law Schools
This Could Be Us
A book on changing the nature of democracy is actually a compelling read. -
Justice
Doing Justice: An Evening With Preet Bharara At Cleary Gottlieb
Humor and insight from the U.S. attorney turned bestselling author. -
Technology
The Latest Beach Reads: Position Your Small Firm For Success In 2019
A great list of books that will provide you with all you need to know to run a successful small law firm in 2019. -
Legal Marketing
My Book -- If You Want to Get Rich, Build a Power Niche -- Has Finally Been Published!
Every single thing Bruce Stachenfeld has learned along the way about marketing is in this book. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs: 04.14.19
* “How Tough-on-Crime Prosecutors Contribute to Mass Incarceration.” My review of Emily Bazelon’s new book, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (affiliate link). [New York Times Book Review]
* When it comes to prosecutors, as former prosecutor Joel Cohen explains, it’s all about discretion. [New York Law Journal]
* Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.) defends Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins’s exercise of her prosecutorial discretion — and argues that Thomas Turco’s criticisms of Rollins are unfair. [Boston Globe]
* Another ex-prosecutor, Quinn Emanuel partner Alex Spiro, is representing tennis star Naomi Osaka in the “repugnant” lawsuit filed against her by her former coach. [Tennis365]
* Former federal prosecutors, many of them now partners at Biglaw firms, represent more than half of the defense lawyers in Operation Varsity Blues, aka the college admissions scandal. [Big Law Business]
* High-stakes litigation is just one of many factors contributing to Biglaw’s robust profit margin these days — hovering around 40 percent, its highest value in almost 30 years, according to Madhav Srinivasan of Hunton Andrews Kurth. [Law.com]
* Ronald Collins interviews Joan Biskupic about her latest judicial biography, The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts (affiliate link). [SCOTUSblog]
* And speaking of SCOTUS, Will Baude believes that the death penalty “is justifiable and constitutional” — but argues that the Court has not acquitted itself well in its recent handling of capital cases. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
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Courts
Neil Gorsuch's New Book Sounds Very Familiar
I guess coming up with an original book title is harder than it sounds.