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Public Interest
How Much Garbage Can Lawyers And Lobbyists Shove In One Agreement? Actually, Quite A Bit According To This Harvard Law Grad
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Law Schools
Harvard Law School Gives Terrible Sexual Harassment Advice
The law school probably has good intentions, but the advice they give leaves a lot to be desired. - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Harvard Law School Graduate Accused Of Murdering His Mother Wants To Represent Himself
Police found his mother's skeletal remains, including her crushed skull, in a fire pit in the backyard.
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Law Schools
Alan Dershowitz Is The Saddest Man In Martha's Vineyard
The Trumpist law professor is complaining that people don't seem to appreciate his stumping for the president. -
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Law Student Who Took Final Exam While In Labor Has Now Graduated From Harvard Law School
Mom and baby in matching caps and gowns -- too cute! -
Courts
Republican-Appointed Racism Tacks On About Three Months When Sentencing Black Defendants, According To Law School Study
New study reveals that Republican-appointed federal judges are harsher to blacks, more lenient with women. -
Morning Docket
Morning 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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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.25.18
* The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today on the Trump travel ban case. What’s at stake here, aside from the high court potentially allowing the travel ban to become permanent? The legacy of the Roberts Court also hangs in the balance. A decision upholding the ban could very well be the next Dred Scott, Plessy, or Korematsu, and forever marring this Court’s record. [Take Care]
* Is AG Jeff Sessions recusing himself from the investigation into Michael Cohen, or isn’t he? According to the DOJ, Sessions isn’t involved in any investigations “related in any way to the campaigns for president,” but according to news sources, he hasn’t decided to recuse himself from the Cohen probe quite yet. [Politico; Bloomberg]
* Judge John Bates of the District of Columbia has ruled that the Trump administration’s decision to end the DACA program was “arbitrary and capricious” and “virtually unexplained,” and therefore “unlawful.” Judge Bates ordered that the government must not only continue DACA, but accept new applicants. He stayed his ruling for 90 days to give DHS a chance to explain itself. [Washington Post]
* Kyle Duncan, President Trump’s fifteenth federal appeals court nominee who’s known for litigating disputes involving voter ID requirements, same-sex marriage bans, transgender bathroom access, and the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate, was very narrowly confirmed to the Fifth Circuit. [Big Law Business]
* According to the Harvard Law Women’s Law Association, there’s a glass ceiling at the school. The faculty is “overwhelmingly male,” and the administration is “turning a blind eye” to the success of women once they’re enrolled. Something has to change so women can achieve as much success as their male classmates. [Harvard Law Record]
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Law Schools
Only Harvard Law Would Still Care About Something Like This
The school dropped its Royall Crest as an unnecessary vestige of a racist past. But the school can't quite figure out what to do without a coat-of-arms because pretentiousness is a hell of a thing. -
Law Schools
The 'Grisly Reality' Behind Mental Health Issues At Harvard Law School
Will Harvard Law lead in the area of mental health? -
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Biglaw, Technology
‘The Snapchat Story’ Has All The Salacious Details Legal and Tech Nerds Will Love
If you are a legal and tech nerd, then you will thoroughly enjoy Gallagher’s new book. -
Law Schools
New York Is Officially GRE Country
A fifth New York law school will now accept the GRE for admission.
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Law Schools
Dear Trump: Please Stop Hiring Harvard Law Grads Because We Are The Actual Worst
You show me an HLS grad willing to work with Trump, and I'll show you an active threat to democratic self-government. -
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Another Elite Law School Eyes GRE For Admissions
Is the GRE expanding its footprint to Greenwich Village? -
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Another Law School Jumps On The GRE Train
This won't be the last law school to accept the GRE. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.26.18
* “Impartiality requires fair treatment for both sides, not merely for victims—even victims in a case as horrifying as this one.” Some are calling into question Judge Rosemarie Aquilina’s impartiality during Larry Nassar’s sentencing. [PrawfsBlawg]
* If you’re invited by the Supreme Court to brief and argue a case as an amicus curiae, you better believe that your career in the law is about to take off. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* A few of the New England Patriots visited Harvard Law to learn about inequities in the criminal justice system before securing a spot in the Super Bowl. [Harvard Law Today]
* Maybe your life won’t end if you get bad 1L grades — maybe it’ll be a whole new beginning. [LinkedIn]
* Here are some useful tips on how to avoid getting burned if someone asks you for your salary history when you’re applying for a job. [Corporette]
* Are you a law review nerd, a legal scholar, or professor obsessed with when your latest article will be published? Then you must check out the Law Review RSS Project. [Excess of Democracy]
* Can you get a DUI in a self-driving vehicle? In the future, the answer to this question may depend on how autonomous the vehicle is. [Versus Texas]
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Law Schools
The Legal-Genius Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree
This young legal eagle is following in his famous mother's footsteps by joining the Harvard Law School faculty. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.23.18
* The effort to hijack “religious freedom” to legalize discrimination continues to be plagued by members of Satanic Temples invoking the same law to secure personal freedoms that governments routinely curtail. [Huffington Post]
* Cy Vance is barring donations to his campaign from lawyers with business before his office, resolving a conflict that was obvious to everyone but him. [ABC News]
* Mary Jo White admits Debevoise made a mistake in naming confidential witnesses in its report that functionally exonerated the University of Rochester in a massive sexual harassment investigation. Well, when they’re described as “confidential” witnesses this would seem to be a mistake. [American Lawyer]
* Prosecutors want to retry Senator Menendez and have a list of demands for the new trial like, “not letting defense attorneys talk.” [New Jersey Law Journal]
* HLS students open a startup bringing AI into document categorization following in the proud tradition of Harvard undergrads who dropped out to become tech moguls. [Legaltech News]
* Discrimination suit against Winston & Strawn hinges on what it means to be a “partner.” In other words, can firms placate attorneys with empty titles without accepting the consequences? [Litigation Daily]
* Pennsylvania’s gerrymandered map gets the benchslap. [NPR]