Eduardo M. Peñalver
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CourtsT14 Law School Dean Remembers Justice John Paul Stevens As A 'Judge's Judge'
He may not have been a hero of the right or the left, but he was a kind man who 'strove for fairness' on the bench. -
Law SchoolsAnother Group Of Law Students Thought It Was Okay To Rank Classmates Based On Their Looks -- This Time It's A T14 Law School
When the same crap is happening at two law schools in the same week -- a week when issues surrounding sexual assault and harassment are in the national spotlight -- you have to wonder: what the hell is going on? 
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Morning DocketMorning Docket: 05.30.18
* Guess which Biglaw firm has decided to bring back on-campus recruiting for its summer associate program? Here’s a hint: You’re going to need a pair of flip flops. We’ll have more on this later today. [American Lawyer]
* With an estimated $11 million annual salary, Sandra Goldstein, who recently left Cravath for Kirkland & Ellis, may be the highest paid female partner in all of Biglaw. You go, girl! [The Careerist]
* Speaking of female Biglaw partners, Bracewell partner Barbara Jones’s $700 per hour rate as special master in the review of materials seized from Michael Cohen’s office has added up to a pretty YUGE bill for just one week’s worth of work: $47,390. [New York Law Journal]
* The Justice Department approved a merger between Bayer and Monsanto, but only after the companies agreed to dump $9 billion in business assets. “Today’s news makes it clear that our antimonopoly laws are completely worthless,” said one farm group that’s just thrilled by the news. [Washington Post]
* Eduardo M. Peñalver, the first Latino dean of an Ivy League law school, has been reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of Cornell Law after achieving quite a few milestones for employment and bar pass rates at the school. [Cornell Chronicle]
* Briana Williams, a single mother who requested an epidural while she was in labor so her contractions wouldn’t interfere with her completion of a final exam, recently graduated from Harvard Law School. Much respect from one law mama to another. Congratulations and best of luck in all that you do! [Yahoo!]
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Law Schools, Minority Issues, RacismMinority-On-Minority Racist Memeing, At Cornell Law
Racist meme was a problem, but the apology was accepted. -
Law School Deans, Law Schools
Cornell 1L Loses His Damn Mind On Message Board, Spars With Dean
Some 1Ls drop out of law school. Some leave flaming bridges as they go. This kid is the latter. -
Gender, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 03.19.14
* The Fortune 500′s top women lawyers have a message for you. There is a ton of female talent out there, and you’ll probably have a woman at the head of your legal department very, very soon — whether you like it or not. [Corporate Counsel]
* Cornell Law’s new dean would definitely be a contender if we still ran those Law School Dean Hotties contests. Welcome, Eduardo Peñalver. First task: resolve the tie at #13 in the latest U.S. News law school rankings. [Cornell Chronicle]
* Cleveland-Marshall Law has a new “risk-free” degree. Just go for one year. If you hate it, you can drop out, but you’ll have a master of legal studies — which is better than one-third of a J.D. [National Law Journal]
* Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, the man who has emphatically and repeatedly denied that he’s Bitcoin’s creator, hired a law firm to continue to spread his denials across the globe. Wow. Such lawyer. [Newsmax]
* This catfight could use some mud: A lawyer for Sarah Grimes, the sorority girl who came to blows with Nick Saban’s daughter and sued, pledged to take his client’s case to the state’s highest court. [AL.com]
