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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.28.22
* Been trying to wrap your head around what geopolitics means for firm life? This is a really good start. [Law.com]
* More than potholes: an in-depth analysis of President Biden’s infrastructure bills. [CNN]
* Wish your contracts outline had more sports involved? Here’s some specific performance for your studying. [The News Gazette]
* Can I get a doggie bag to stay? New Hampshire law lets you bring your pups to outdoor dining. [AP]
* Cluttered space: A space-bound future is gonna need to regulate our galactic litter. [Sun Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.27.21
* In addition to automatically going to heaven, Texas law makes sure dogs won’t be kept on chains outside. [Houston Chronicle]
* Two men who lynched a runner in Georgia are hoping a law that dates back to slavery can keep them out of prison. If you’re reading this in Alabama and feel like you’ve inadvertently been exposed to CRT, please grow up. [Reuters]
* Despite the dire warnings of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, people are still taking the LSAT — and their scores are better on average. [Reuters]
* Florida is luring dissatisfied and unvaccinated cops with a sign-on bonus. This looks like an negligent hiring suit waiting to happen. [Hernando Sun]
* The Patriot Act just celebrated its 20th birthday! Will this be its last? [Just Security]
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In-House Counsel
Career Lessons I’ve Learned From My Senior Rescue Dog
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Crime
Police Threaten To Euthanize K-9 Units If Pot Is Legalized
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.29.18
* Kirkland & Ellis raiding Cravath is now officially “a thing”; it’s been covered in the newspaper of record. [New York Times]
* Extension requests: not just for law school papers, but for cert petitions too (and there’s no shame in seeking them; they’re often requested by prominent practitioners). [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Want to talk intelligently about the Michael Cohen
messcase with your friends? Start by reading this primer on “privileged” versus “confidential” client communications, by Joel Cohen (no relation) and Dale Degenshein. [Law and Crime]* Boycotts have a venerable history in terms of the law and the First Amendment — but they might be losing their effectiveness in the digital age, as noted media lawyer Charles Glasser explains. [Daily Caller]
* Eugene Volokh flags this interesting issue (and opinion): under what circumstances does denying a felon the right to own a gun violate the Second Amendment? [Reason / Volokh Conspiracy]
* Has the whole “emotional support animal” phenomenon gone too far at Yale? [Yale Daily News via Instapundit]
David Lat is editor at large and founding editor of Above the Law, as well as the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at dlat@abovethelaw.com.
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Pets, Television
Judge Judy Allows Dog To Decide Animal Custody Case For Her
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Biglaw, Pets, Real Estate
Latham Partner And 'Dog Racism': Or, The Dumbest Thing You'll Hear Today
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Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
There Are Puppies in SmallLaw
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Money, Pets, Trusts and Estates
Dog Caught In $100K Inheritance Fight Because America Is Ridiculous And Can't Have Nice Things
People make things way too complicated.
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Email Scandals, Pets, Reader Polls, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Prosecutor's Pooch Spawns Epic Email Bitchfest
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.10.15
* “While some argue that going to law school is still a safe bet, little evidence exists to support this position.” This law professor thinks law schools are in a “death spiral,” and that a “top” school may soon be in danger of closing. Uh oh! Which one could it possibly be? [Washington Post]
* “Rascal was the perfect law student because he never missed a class. If Rascal was asked a question he never said ‘pass.'” In 1937, Samford’s Cumberland School of Law graduated its first and only dog. In 2015, dogs bark and howl at Samford because of its new U.S. News rank. [Alabama.com]
* “You do not need to have a law degree to understand how troubling this is.” Politicians are pissed at Hillary Clinton over the email scandal she got herself into at the State Department, but it turns out she technically obeyed the law. [National Law Journal]
* Why do law firms fail? Dean Frank Wu of UC Hastings Law thinks that it’s because “[s]mart people overestimate the importance of being a smart person” — that is, your firm can still flop even if its lawyers are the best lawyers in the world. [Huffington Post]
* According to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after two months of soul-sucking declines in the market, the legal sector gained 3,100 jobs in February. Wow, we only need 40,000 more jobs until all of last year’s class is employed. [Am Law Daily]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 02.12.15
* Meet Hewie, a cuddly puppy adopted by a law firm to act as its social media avatar. Wachtell was considering the same thing, but Ragnok, Destroyer of Souls, wasn’t up for adoption. [Legal Cheek] * After throwing a hissy-fit over nuts, Korean Air Lines’ Heather Cho is sentenced to one year. Luckily for her […] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 12.03.14
* As we’ve addressed, the grand jury declined to indict the officer in the police-cause homicide — per the medical examiner — of Eric Garner. [New York Times]
* This is a good time to remember Eric Garner was killed for the horrible crime of selling loosies, a product that developed a black market in NYC in response to rising cigarette taxes. Evading cigarette taxes should be a crime. But, like, a “here’s your $50 ticket” crime, not the death penalty. [Huffington Post]
* An anonymous Georgetown law student has filed suit against the school and one of its instructors, Rabbi Barry Freundel, for “luring her to the bath as part of her studies at the school.” And who didn’t have that lesson in Civ Pro? [Washington Post]
* Another in the continuing series looking back on a decade of Chief Justice Roberts. This time looking back at the slow and steady drive to curtail women’s rights. [Constitutional Accountability Center]
* Remember the woman suing the owner of the dog that her dogs killed? She’s dropped her suit. [ABC News]
* The Bar Association of San Francisco is hosting an event next Tuesday featuring Chief Judge Alex Kozinski entitled: The Wizard of Koz. Um, may not be the best time to use to “Cos” sound in a title. But that aside, it promises to be an interesting event if you’re in the area. [San Francisco Bar]
* Brian Finch of Pillsbury Winthrop talks cyberattacks and admits what everyone else wants to deny: law firms are a weak link in cybersecurity. [Bloomberg TV]
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Law Professors, Non-Sequiturs, Rape, Sports
Non-Sequiturs: 11.18.14
* We are coming to Chicago, and we’d love to see you at our event on Thursday night — RSVP here. [Above the Law]
* Wait, FIFA may be dishonest? Kirkland partner Michael Garcia announces plans to appeal after FIFA releases ethics report on the Russia and Qatar World Cup bidding process that contains “numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions.” And he should know since he worked on the investigation. [Am Law Daily]
* Behold the all-purpose citation! [Lowering the Bar]
* Regarding yesterday’s crazy “woman sues the owner of the dog that her dogs killed,” an astute reader notes that a year ago, the Texas Supreme Court limited damages in pet deaths to “animal’s market worth.” So in the interest of reining in damages, the courts gave the victim less incentive to sue than the owner of the perpetrators. Sounds like a great system there. [Dallas Morning News]
* The holidays are around the corner. Get that special lawyer some prints of courthouses around the country to spruce up their office. [Courthouses of America]
* Wow. California school district argues that 14-year-old girl could legally consent to sex with her teacher because, I mean, come on, we all knew she was a slut. This happened. In 2014. [Slate]
* Advice that should go double for lawyers: sometimes you really just need to drop acid to clear your head. [What About Clients?]
* Professors who refuse to retire are the worst. [TaxProf Blog]