Harassment
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.03.21
* LA Mayor responds to lack of homeless shelter beds with a general ban on camping. [JURIST]
* 14th Amendment claim against mandatory vaccinations smacked down by the 7th circuit. Also, this is what the 14th is getting used for nowadays? Ugh. [REUTERS]
* Just stay home: Fake vaccination cards cost these two about 16k. That’s almost a month of law school! [THE CRIME REPORT]
* Why can’t they just say it like $hort? SEC plans to review their whistleblower rules. [LAW 360]
* What do you mean I can’t harass you?! California’s definition of “harassment” may include behavior clearly protected by the 1st Amendment. [REASON]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.05.19
* A look back at 40 years of Biglaw financials. Spoiler alert: they made a lot of money. [American Lawyer]
* Greg Craig was acquitted! Good news for all the lobbyists and foreign agents out there who (wink wink) aren’t lobbyists and foreign agents. [WSJ]
* Department of Labor official resigns after anti-Semitic social media posts surface. Frankly, one would’ve expected him to stay to own the libs. [Bloomberg Law]
* CVS and Aetna get their clearance to merge because despite all Judge Leon’s rage at DOJ he’s still just a rat in a cage that happens to keep people from caring about antitrust enforcement. [Law360]
* Simple way to fix harassment in Silicon Valley. [The Atlantic]
* It’s a day that ends in “y” so Dentons just got bigger. [Dentons]
* Does Chambers have a blindspot for women? [Careerist]
* For those of you following the Alphabet/Google CLO shenanigans, the GC just married an employee this weekend, but not the employee who says he neglected their baby after he had an affair with her while married to yet another person. [CNBC]
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Labor / Employment, On The Job
Why I'm The Inigo Montoya Of Employment Law
The next time someone mentions 'right to work' laws or 'harassment' at work, direct them to this article.
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Labor / Employment, On The Job
Workplace Sexual Harassment And Bullying: Can Anything Be Done?
What can we learn from the experience of other countries? -
Law Schools
The Official Report Of The Sexual Harassment Claims Against The Law School Dean Is Pretty Damning
Above the Law has obtained a copy of the official investigatory report. -
Law School Deans, Law Schools
Former Law Dean Wants Court To Ban Everyone From Learning Why He's The Former Law Dean
What's in this report, eh? -
Law School Deans, Law Schools
Law School Dean Dismissed Amid 'Hostile Work Environment' Accusations
Following an investigation, this dean is out after a year on the job. -
Labor / Employment, On The Job
3 Things ‘The Office’ Taught Me About Employment Law (Part 3)
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Law Schools, Technology
Taking A Stand: Tiffany Dehen's $100 Million Lawsuit Against Twitter And Her Law School
When does a parody account cross the line into harassment? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.10.16
* “If the LSAC is willing to include GRE scores in the [credential assembly services], then this may be an easy way for the LSAC to continue to certify the accuracy of standardized test scores reported to law schools.” In response to the tantrum LSAC threw over the future certification of LSAT scores, Educational Testing Service, the organization that administers the GRE, has offered to share its exam results with LSAC. [ABA Journal]
* “It is time for the ABA to catch up.” The hotly contested rule proposed by the American Bar Association that would make behavior “[a] lawyer knows or reasonably should know is harassment or discrimination” a form of professional misconduct was “resoundingly adopted” by the House of Delegates earlier this week. Well done, ABA. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Sorry, investment advisers, you make think it’s “unfair,” but according to a recent decision from a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial in-house courts are constitutionally sound because the agency’s ALJs don’t make “final” decisions on behalf of the SEC. [Big Law Business]
* Husch Blackwell, which completed a combination with Whyte Hirschboeck in the middle of last month, now not only has bragging rights on finalizing the largest law firm merger of 2016, but it can also claim to have one of the largest real estate practices in the entire country. Congratulations on all of your success! [Midwest Real Estate News]
* Who are eight of the most impressive graduates of Columbia Law School? Would you be surprised to learn that the list includes two former presidents, two Supreme Court justices (one of whom has a law school named after him), a U.S. Attorney General, and various political figures? If you’re interested, check out the list here. [Business Insider]
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Lunacy, Small Law Firms, Violence
Law Firm Chief Brings Machete To Staff Meeting
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.12.15
* George Zimmerman was arrested for aggravated assault and domestic violence with a weapon. His lawyer said his client “has not been lucky with the ladies.” He hasn’t been lucky with being a decent human being, either. [USA Today]
* Lawrence McCreery, the Hawaii lawyer who licked a client’s ear and inspired the judge on his case to call him a “dirty old man,” has had his harassment conviction upheld on appeal. Get excited, he’s still got a law license, ladies. [Associated Press]
* We may soon see same-sex marriage bans in three states struck down, as the Fifth Circuit “appeared poised” to do so after oral arguments on Friday. Roberta Kaplan, our 2013 Lawyer of the Year, delivered a standout performance in arguing against Mississippi’s ban. [BuzzFeed]
* What do Sidley Austin, Baker & McKenzie, Reed Smith, Hogan Lovells, and Skadden Arps have in common? Their names were used in phishing emails to scam people out of their money. Some might say that’s business as usual. [Crain’s Chicago Business]
* An arrest was made in the forcible rape of a woman — presumably a law student — that took place in the stacks of the Southern University Law Center’s library last semester. The accused rapist is currently behind held without bond. [WBRZ]
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Billable Hours, Crime, Non-Sequiturs, Police, Racism, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Television, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Non-Sequiturs: 08.28.14
* Here’s the international sign for “don’t urinate in public.” Glad to know we needed a sign for this. [National Review] * An illegal hostile work environment is created when coworkers wear confederate flag T-shirts. Because… obviously it is. Professor Volokh thinks this is unconstitutional. Apparently a document drafted by white slaveholders is set up […] -
Akin Gump, Biglaw, Confirmations, Copyright, Gender, Jed Rakoff, Law Professors, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Securities and Exchange Commission, State Judges, Westlaw
Morning Docket: 02.12.13
* This guy could teach a master class in how to stand by your (wo)man. Mary Jo White’s husband, John White, will relinquish his equity partner status at Cravath upon her confirmation as the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. [Am Law Daily]
* Macho, macho man: it looks like we’ll never know if Dechert actually has a “macho culture,” because the FMLA and paternity leave case that questioned the very existence of this Biglaw subculture was settled out of court. [National Law Journal]
* Why you gotta go and ruin Valentine’s Day for everyone at O’Melveny and Akin Gump? Apple’s request to speed up the Greenlight Capital case was approved, with arguments now scheduled for February 19. [CNET]
* Despite her nomination being crapped on by the Senate, Jenny Rivera, the CUNY School of Law professor, was recently confirmed as an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals. [New York Law Journal]
* Remember the lawyer who sued Westlaw and Lexis for copyright infringement? Judge Jef Rakoff dismissed it for reasons yet to be disclosed, but probably for legal dumbassery. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* “Behold, the instrument of your liberation!” Survivors of the Aurora movie massacre are being harassed by conspiracy theorists, and the DA asked the judge to scrub their names from the record. [Courthouse News]
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Minority Issues, New Jersey, Racism, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Twittering
Teen Charged With Harassment Over Racist Tweet
Criminalizing Twitter teaches kids nothing... -
Attorney Misconduct, Lawyer of the Day, Legal Ethics, Perverts, Weirdness
Lawyer of the Day: Hawaii Attorney Convicted of Harassment for Licking a Client's Ear
A Hawaii attorney has been convicted of harassment for engaging in some unwanted tongue action with a client... -
Crime, Eugene Volokh, Free Speech, Reader Polls, Religion, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Violence
The 'Zombie Mohammed' Judge: Let's Discuss
A Pennsylvania judge dismissed a harassment charge against a Muslim man who allegedly attacked an atheist dressed up as "Zombie Mohammed." Since then, everyone has been talking about and arguing over this case. What do you make of it? -
4th Circuit, Biglaw, Election 2012, Election Law, Google / Search Engines, Law Schools, Lindsay Lohan, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Politics, United Kingdom / Great Britain, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 01.18.12
* The Fourth Circuit denied Rick Perry’s Virginia election law appeal in about four seconds flat. Not like it matters. He’s probably going to be out of the race come Saturday. [Washington Wire / Wall Street Journal] * Women are having trouble making equity partner in Biglaw firms, and not because of the glass ceiling […]
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Health Care / Medicine, Quote of the Day, Sex, Sexual Harassment
Quote of the Day: It Feels Like a Bag of Sand
Sex is like petting something furry for the first time. — a comment allegedly made by Dr. Jeffrey Wisoff, a pediatric neurosurgeon, to Kristen Haight, a pediatric nurse, after Dr. Wisoff discovered that Haight may be a 41-year-old virgin.