Garrett Epps

  • Morning Docket: 05.21.19
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 05.21.19

    * Shocking no one, a federal judge ruled that, yes, Congress can issue subpoenas. [Courthouse News Service]

    * CKR says its rapid growth isn’t the reason it’s struggling to pay its lawyers. What is the story? It was a bank error, then it was underperforming partners… were people paid last week? [American Lawyer]

    * After play acting as a defender of the rule of law for the press… Don Mc Gahn’s rediscovered his Trump administration bona fides. [Reuters]

    * Too attractive for law… or too much lip for law? It’s a whole thing. [Legal Cheek]

    * Profesor Epps takes a deep dive into the assault on the Constitution. [The Atlantic]

    * Steven Hammond, the former Biglaw partner accused of masturbating in a gym sauna always maintained that the story was a fabrication and is now going after the gym for defamation. [Law 360]

    * Don’t murder animals, sure. But is this really a necessary exercise of professional resources in a world with a glaring justice gap and thieving attorneys? [ABA Journal]

  • Airplanes / Aviation, Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Bonuses, Books, Deaths, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Jeffrey Toobin, Money, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Securities Law, Supreme Court

    Morning Docket: 10.01.12

    * Bank of America agreed to pay $2.43 billion, one of the biggest securities class-action settlements in history, to put the Merrill Lynch mess behind it. According to Professors Peter Henning and Steven Davidoff, B of A “is probably quite happy with the settlement given that it could have potentially faced billions of dollars more in liability in the case.” [DealBook / New York Times]

    * “Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting.” Here is Robert Barnes’s take on the SCOTUS Term that starts today. [Washington Post]

    * And here is Professor Garrett Epps’s review of Jeffrey Toobin’s new book on the Supreme Court, The Oath (affiliate link). [New York Times]

    * How Dewey justify paying a big bonus to a member of the management team “when it has been widely pointed out that excessive compensation to the firm’s upper management significantly contributed to the firm’s collapse in the first place?” [Bankruptcy Beat via WSJ Law Blog]

    * A high-profile Vatican trial raises these questions: “‘Did the butler do it?’ Or rather, ‘was it only the butler who did it?’” [Christian Science Monitor]

    * Ben Ogden, an Allen & Overy associate who was killed in a Nepalese plane crash, R.I.P. [Am Law Daily]

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