Child Porn
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Courts
Alex Jones Unveils Strategy Of Calling Plaintiffs' Counsel A 'Little White Jewboy Jerkoff Son Of A Bitch'
Yeah, how do you think it went? -
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Biglaw
Former Paul Weiss Attorney Gets 5 Years On Child Pornography Charges
He'll see five years in prison and 10 years of supervised release.
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Attorney Misconduct, Biglaw
Biglaw Staff Attorney Pleads Guilty To Child Pornography Charges
'I'm so f**king hard thinking about that right now,' he wrote from his Biglaw office. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.15.17
* Yes, it’s true: Jeff Sessions came thisclose to resigning as attorney general, after Donald Trump berated him following the appointment of special counsel Bob Mueller in the Russia probe. [New York Times]
* Bye-bye to blue slips? It wouldn’t exactly be “nuclear,” since their treatment has varied greatly over the years. [BuzzFeed]
* The State Bar of California tries to cut down the arguments in favor of a lower cut score on the bar exam. [ABA Journal]
* Technology platforms are driving an increase in transparency that’s having profound consequences for the employer/employee relationship (as I recently discussed on the podcast of Akerman employment-law partner Matt Steinberg). [Akerman]
* Embattled Equifax has turned to Phyllis Sumner and King & Spalding for much-needed legal help in the wake of its massive data breach. [Law.com]
* Statutory interpretation question: can you be both the victim and the perpetrator in a child pornography case? [How Appealing]
* The ranks of nonequity partners continue to grow; has this trend gone too far? [Big Law Business]
* Prosecution of individuals in cases of corporate wrongdoing (aka the Yates Memo), and Justice Department policy on enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states where it has been decriminalized — both are “under review” at the DOJ, according to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. [Law.com]
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Law Professors, Pornography
Former Law Professor Pleads Guilty To Possessing Kiddie Porn
The moral of the story here is pretty obvious: Stay away from child porn on the internet. -
White-Collar Crime
A Child Pornography Puzzle
When lawyers find child pornography in a document review, the law doesn't provide any easy answers. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.19.15
* This is a footlong you definitely don’t want (but it’s probably much more like a six-incher if he’s lucky). Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle is expected to plead guilty to child-pornography charges. We can’t wait to see what his plea deal with authorities actually entails. [CNN]
* Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers filed a brief in favor of their client getting a new trial because his attack on the Boston Marathon apparently wasn’t a “crime of violence” within the meaning of the law he was sentenced under at trial. [WSJ Law Blog]
* “To achieve those solutions, wouldn’t it help if you had a free press?” Justice Ginsburg’s travels recently took her to Vietnam, where she spoke to a packed house about the country’s need for greater freedom of press to promote social justice. [Voice of America]
* Here’s a little-known fact about Biglaw: many of its most well-known partners were “White House rejects.” For example, Willkie Farr, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Bracewell & Giuliani, and Davis Polk are all named after failed presidential candidates. [Am Law Daily]
* A New Mexico criminal defense attorney charged with a slew of criminal offenses is representing himself in a trial having to do with his shooting of a man outside his office. His best defense thus far? The man was a “methed-out lunatic.” [Albuquerque Journal]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.07.15
* Police raided the home of Subway’s Jared Fogle. The media presumes the raid is linked to the ongoing investigation into a colleague of Fogle’s who may have aspired to introduce kids to his $5 footlong. [CNN]
* Sex addiction is not a defense at your disciplinary hearing. [Legal Profession Blog]
* Donald Trump sued Scotland. Apparently Prima Nocta hasn’t existed since Braveheart. [Lowering the Bar]
* An ode to Partner Emeritus. [What About Clients?]
* A legal secretary is suing Winston & Strawn pro se for discrimination. That should work well. [Cook County Record]
* If you’re attending the ABA Annual Meeting in a few weeks, swing by and see Lat, Judge Posner, Laura Caldwell, William Landay, and Talmage Boston talk about writing and the law. [American Bar Association]
* Defendant farts in open court. You’ll entirely believe what happens next. [The Lad Bible]
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Attorney Misconduct, Kids, Pornography
Lawyer Allegedly Kept Kiddie Porn Treasure Trove In His Home
This attorney is currently being held on $100,000 bond. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.27.15
* You down with R.B.G.? Yeah, you know me! Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore wants SCOTUS Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan to be impeached for having performed same-sex marriage ceremonies. Haters gonna hate. [Huffington Post]
* Here’s a jury duty chart of those you’ll be forced to sit next to, from the “idiot who treats the Jury Foreman selection like a presidential campaign” to the “elderly woman who compares everything to an episode of ‘Matlock’ she once saw.” [Mandatory]
* It turns out that the state trooper who failed to do anything about Josh Duggar’s criminal sexual activity with a minor and allowed the statute of limitations to run had a penchant for child porn. According to court records, this guy is… pretty damn disgusting. [Jezebel]
* “May I please have some of that money you’ve got under the counter there, miss?” Are you really robbing a bank if you acted like a Boy Scout, asked nicely for money, and then received it — to the tune of $28,000? Kevin Underhill doesn’t think so. [Lowering the Bar]
* If you’ve never seen a Dealbreaker dramatic reading before, then here’s your sneak peek. Watch “the greatest intern Wall Street has ever seen” invite everyone and their mother to a party via company email, and then fail in the most epic sense of the word. [Dealbreaker]
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Attorney Misconduct, Bar Exams, Kids, Legal Ethics, Pornography
Heaven Forfend Kentucky Allow A Porn-Addicted Attorney
Kentucky won't let a registered sex offender with a kiddie porn conviction take the bar exam. What's up with that? -
6th Circuit, Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Jury Duty, Pornography, Quote of the Day, Trials
Benchslap Of The Day: District Judge, You Better Work
This whole "district judge" thing sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it?
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Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Crime, Kids, Nauseating Things, New Jersey, Partner Issues, Pornography, Sex
Ex-Biglaw Partner Who Possessed Kiddie Porn Pleads Guilty To Child Sex Trafficking
What sentence did this former partner receive? -
Constitutional Law, Pornography, Privacy
FBI Dad Finds Handy Fourth Amendment Workaround to Bust School Principal for Child Porn
Thanks to this spyware program, an FBI dad got a gift-wrapped child porn case from his son's principal... -
Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Crime, Kids, Nauseating Things, New Jersey, Partner Issues, Pornography
Former Allen & Overy Partner Indicted on Additional Kiddie Porn Purveyance Charges
Let’s learn more about the allegations against Edward De Sear, including details on where he supposedly viewed and trafficked child pornography…. -
Crime, Law Schools, Perverts, Pornography
Should This Child Porn Aficionado Be Readmitted to Law School?
A former top law student convicted of a sex crime wants back in to the school to complete his last semester... -
Antitrust, Biglaw, Canada, Crime, Facebook, Federal Judges, FTC, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Perverts, Romance and Dating, Ursula Ungaro, Violence
Morning Docket: 08.23.12
* Little known fact of the day: the late comedienne Phyllis Diller apparently had a storybook romance with Paul Hastings name partner, Robert Hastings. She once said that her longtime Biglaw beau was the “love of [her] life.” [Am Law Daily]
* The Federal Trade Commission has closed its antitrust review of Facebook’s proposed Instagram purchase, clearing the way for the social networking site’s users to post grainy pictures to their hearts’ content. [Bloomberg]
* A former Vancouver lawyer serving a 15-year sentence for money laundering claims that one of the Mounties who investigated his case played a game of “hide the Canadian bacon” with Judge Ursula Ungaro. [Province]
* A judge who resigned in April has been retroactively removed from office for admitting to having sexual contact with his five-year-old niece. He presided over family court matters. Figures. [New York Law Journal]
* Which accomplishments and activities should you leave off your résumé? A) law review editor in chief; B) second in the class; C) 4.05 GPA; D) nonprofit executive director; E) child porn aficionado. [Willamette Week]
* Stabbing your lawyer is so last season. Another criminal defendant reportedly attacked his defense attorney in court, but this time chose to whack his own counsel in the head with his handcuffed hand. [Boston Globe]
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Boutique Law Firms, Cars, Crime, Intellectual Property, Kids, Pornography, Texas
Prominent IP Attorney's Wife Hit With Child Porn Charges in Texas
The wife of a prominent Texas intellectual property attorney stands accused of child pornography charges. Let's learn more about the couple... -
Law Schools, Pornography
Under Siege, Penn State Law Still Has to Try to Raise Money
It’s hard to step back and take an objective look at what’s happening at Penn State. One man allegedly sexually molests God knows how many children, and it’s horrible, but now the entire university is under suspicion. Under siege. Under indictment in the court of public opinion. And still, they have to go on. Teachers […]