Charitable Donations
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Law Schools
Law School May Receive Name Change After 'Historic' Charitable Donation
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Biglaw
Biglaw Firms Should Give Associates Bonuses On This 'Giving Tuesday' So They Can Give Back
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Law Schools
School Sued For Allegedly Skimming Money From Deceased Donor Endowments To Law School
St. Mary's University allegedly taking law school endowments and diverting them to cover undergrad expenses.
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Biglaw
How Will You Be Spending Your Biglaw Bonus This Giving Tuesday?
Will you be purchasing lavish luxuries or doing something far more noble? -
Technology
Clio Unveils Major Overhaul Of Its Platform And New Focus On Moving Practice To The Cloud
Huge news from the Clio Cloud Conference, which kicked off in New Orleans earlier today. -
Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Test Case: Playing Santa On A Deadline—My Office 'Adopts A Family' For The Holiday On A Time Crunch
No matter what holiday you celebrate, take some time to make someone else's life better this season. -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Public Interest
How Will You Be Spending Your Biglaw Bonus?
Will you be purchasing lavish luxuries or doing something far more noble? -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.30.16
* In honor of the upcoming Labor Day holiday, FLSA compliance and the American worker. [ADP]
* What lawyers can learn from Judge Richard Posner, according to William Domnarski’s new biography (affiliate link). [ABA Journal]
* Should law reviews be worried? [Chronicle of Higher Education]
* One law school’s enrollment is down 26%. [TaxProf Blog]
* Transparency report from the most recent Supreme Court Term. [Fix the Court]
* A look at FCPA enforcement actions concerning charitable foundations. [FCPA Professors]
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Pro Bono, Public Interest
Spend Your Pay Raise... To Support A Good Cause!
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.21.16
* Criminal defense attorneys have been painted so poorly by Hollywood for such a long time that Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, the defense attorneys at the heart of Making a Murderer, “never expected to be viewed as hero[es] for just doing our job.” [WSJ Law Blog]
* All in a day’s work: When Ted Cruz wasn’t busy “[making] a lot of people really angry” during his Supreme Court clerkship, he was watching porn with Chief Justice William Rennquist and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. [New York Times]
* It seems like Ted Cruz has made prospective Biglaw donors angry as well. Although Sullivan & Cromwell hosted an event in his honor, his campaign contribution amounts from other firms are “humdrum,” with only one Texas firm on his side. [The Careerist]
* Thanks to a $25 million dollar donation from an alumnus, Villanova Law will now be known as the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. Hopefully a new name will make people forget about the school’s scandal-plagued past. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* In light of last week’s sexism sanction from a federal judge, the editors of the ABA Journal want to know if you’ve ever heard sexist remarks while working as a lawyer. We’d like to know too. Email us for inclusion in our series on the subject. [ABA Journal]
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Education / Schools, Minority Issues, Money, Politics, Public Interest
A High-Dollar Koch Habit: Should Defense Lawyers Accept Money From The Koch Brothers?
Why can't more organizations place the needs of the people they serve over partisan stubbornness? -
Biglaw, Law Schools, Partner Issues, Public Interest
The Ice Bucket Challenge Takes The Legal World By Storm
A round-up of "Ice Bucket Challenge" news from around the legal world.
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Abortion, Bankruptcy, Gay, Gay Marriage, Morning Docket, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Texas, Tim Wu, Trials
Morning Docket: 09.02.14
* Could Columbia law professor Tim Wu become New York’s next lieutenant governor? He has a shot, according to the Times. [New York Times]
* Which same-sex-marriage case is the best vehicle for Supreme Court review? [BuzzFeed]
* A federal judge takes the wheel in steering Detroit into the future. [American Lawyer]
* Is it “shameful” of the ALS Association to attempt to trademark the phrase “ice bucket challenge”? [ABA Journal]
* Jury deliberations are expected to begin today in the corruption trial of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell. [Washington Post]
* Voter ID laws are back on trial, this time in Texas. [New York Times]
* Speaking of Texas, the state seeks to stay a recent ruling that struck down the requirement that abortion clinics comply with standards for ambulatory surgical centers. [ABA Journal]
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Law Schools, Public Interest
The Career Services Ice Bucket Challenge Is On
It's not news, it's the ice bucket challenge. -
Contracts, Sports
On Remand: Museums Will Take The Shirt Off Your Back, But Will They Return It?
An Olympic legal tale of hockey jerseys and contracts. -
Akin Gump, Biglaw, Disasters / Emergencies, Money, Public Interest, Small Law Firms
More Law Firms Support Typhoon Haiyan Relief Efforts
Which law firms -- large and small, domestic and international -- are supporting Philippine typhoon relief efforts? -
Biglaw, Disasters / Emergencies, Money, Public Interest
A Biglaw Firm Gives Big Support To Typhoon Haiyan Relief
Which Biglaw behemoth just cut a big check for Philippine typhoon relief? -
Fabulosity, Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Law Schools, Money
An Eight-Figure Gift For A Top Law School
A private-equity billionaire gives back to his alma mater. -
Law Schools, Money, Ridiculousness
The Credited Response To Your Law School Asking For Money
If McKayla Maroney graduated from law school in 2010, and then the law school asked her for money...