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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.13.17
* Does Trump’s health care executive order violate ERISA? [CNBC]
* Just when law firms needed another challenge, here comes PwC. [Law.com]
* Pepper Hamilton partner brings clients to secluded private island. Enjoy Camp Crystal Lake everyone! [The Legal Intelligencer]
* On Sunday, 60 Minutes will have a profile on the fascinating career of Shon Hopwood, the Georgetown Law professor who came to his career as a jailhouse lawyer while serving time for bank robbery. [National Law Journal]
* Why aren’t there vegan wigs? It’s actually a pretty interesting question. [Legal Cheek]
* Judge was “unaware” that he gave joint custody to an accused rapist. But before the judge gets pilloried for conducting a slapdash proceeding, consider that the prosecutors never bothered to mention this. [ABA Journal]
* The gender bias suit against Proskauer reaches the Second Circuit on claims that Judge Cote erred in preventing the plaintiff from getting key discovery for her retaliation claim. [Law360]
* A guide to interviewing for introverts. The first tip should be to open every interview with, “I’m interested in tax.” In my experience, firms expect to put the tax geniuses in a dungeon and let them work their sorcerer’s ways in peace, so they’ll forgive any awkwardness as a sign of genius. [The Recorder]
* Law firm merger mania strikes Texas. [Houston Chronicle]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.15.17
* Credit where credit is due: Attorney General Jeff Sessions wins qualified praise for his forceful condemnation of the Charlottesville violence. [New York Times]
* Donald Trump needs all the legal help he can get — so he’s surely pleased and proud about daughter Tiffany Trump starting up at Georgetown Law this month. (More on this later.) [Washington Post]
* And wouldn’t it be
incredibly awkwardinteresting to have Tiffany as a classmate in your Con Law class this semester? [New York Times via How Appealing]* The ABA will reconsider its controversial, much-criticized changes to how law schools report graduate employment data. [Law.com]
* Taylor Swift prevails in her lawsuit accusing DJ David Mueller of groping her during a photo op. [Law360]
* Merger mania spreads — from Biglaw to boutiques. [Law.com]
* Tech company DreamHost will resist — a Justice Department effort to acquire information about visitors to an anti-Trump website set up to coordinate Inauguration Day protests. [Washington Post]
* An investors’ lawyer claims that his lawsuit against Duane Morris “could bankrupt that firm.” [Law.com]
* There are reasonable arguments for and against splitting up the Ninth Circuit, but the ABA’s position is clear: firmly opposed. [ABA Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.11.17
* President Donald Trump rejects reports that he’s considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller, while offering a less-than-ringing endorsement of his relationship with Attorney General Jeff Sessions: “It is what it is.” [New York Times]
* Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, whose house was the subject of a predawn raid by the FBI, parts ways with WilmerHale and goes back to his former lawyers at Miller & Chevalier. [National Law Journal]
* Meanwhile, the Trump administration files its opening brief in the Supreme Court in the travel ban litigation. [How Appealing]
* Georgetown Law launches a new con-law center, the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, led by star SCOTUS litigator Neal Katyal, former National Security Council official Joshua Geltzer, and former Justice Department official Mary McCord. [ABA Journal]
* Some Democratic senators claim that the White House isn’t consulting them enough about judicial nominations. [Politico]
* The hype may exceed the reality on alternative-fee arrangements — but not at pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline, which takes an aggressive and innovative approach to AFAs. [Am Law Daily]
* Settling the “pink slime” litigation cost Disney/ABC how much? [How Appealing]
* Also not cheap: the costs of bad-faith discovery spoliation. [Big Law Business]
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Georgetown Law's Epic Grade Screw-Up
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Is T14 Dead? Is It T15? T13? Was T14 An Arbitrary Ranking All Along?
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It's Official -- There's A New T14 In Town! (2018 USNWR Rankings Are Here)
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Georgetown Report And Fox Rothschild Signal Importance Of Niche Law Blogs
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Georgetown Law Prof Busted For Selling Meth
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Law School Students EXPOSED In WikiLeaks Dump!
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.04.16
* Good news! You can still RSVP for Georgetown Law Center’s Supreme Court Book Fair. Bonus: you can hear David Lat (and several other authors) speak about the Court. [Georgetown Law]
* Has Donald Trump tipped his hand regarding who’d he nominate for the Supreme Court should the seventh seal be opened and he’s elected? [South Florida Lawyer]
* Will you “keep calm” in the face of campus open carry? [Harvard Law & Policy Review]
* A law firm leak reveals Vladimir Putin’s friends have shuffled $2 billion through a series of offshore accounts. Color me not at all surprised. [Slate]
* Lawyers who find themselves in the contract workforce can find a way to survive. [Law and More]
* Terrible U.S. infrastructure may stop the self-driving car revolution. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
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