Hong Kong
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Courts
Judge Earns Benchslap For Just Copying And Pasting Opinion
It's hard to call 98% copying much of an independent decision. -
Biglaw
Davis Polk Asia Chair Speaking At Event Commemorating Hong Kong Crackdown Is... Not The BEST Look
The event's theme is 'Thrive with Security,' which must violate at least some George Orwell IP. - Sponsored
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Asia Chronicles, Sponsored Content
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Immigration, Small Law Firms
Hong Kong Residents Get U.S. Immigration Reprieve
Effective immediately, eligible Hong Kong residents are able to apply for employment authorization for 18 months, through February 5, 2023. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Reinstates Coronavirus Work-From-Home Policy After Blowback From Employees
Which firm made this questionable decision? -
Small Law Firms
Hong Kong Protestors Carry Last Wills And Testaments As They Protest Economic Conditions
The last will and testament as a final demonstration. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.16.19
* According to a new report, “personal attacks and language that politicizes or otherwise casts doubt on the judicial branch as a whole has the potential to cause significant damage to our democracy.” Thanks, Trump. [Big Law Business]
* Why are there so few minority law clerks?
California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu and Federal Judicial Center director Jeremy Fogel are trying to solve this “mystery” in conjunction with the ABA. [National Law Journal]* A former IRS staffer has pleaded guilty to unlawfully accessing Michael Cohen’s confidential financial information and distributing it to Michael Avenatti, who once represented Stormy Daniels. He faces up to five years in prison and up to $250K in fines. [New York Post]
* With hundreds of flights canceled, Hong Kong’s airport had been at a complete standstill due to protestors clashing with police until this Biglaw firm managed to intervene. Be sure to thank Hogan Lovells for getting an injunction on airport protests. [American Lawyer]
* In case you’ve been wondering about what bar pass rates and law school debt have looked like for the past decade or so, you can see it in some stunning graphics right here. [Law.com]
* Thanks to the Lousiana Supreme Court, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell won’t have to testify just yet in the Rams-Saints NFC Championship game lawsuit. Everything is on pause while the state’s high court decides whether the case should be allowed to continue at all. [NBC Sports]
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Biglaw
Hong Kong Law Firms Haven't Started To Panic, But That Day Is Coming
This seems like this is going to be a problem. - Sponsored
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.11.19
* Another attorney opts into the Jones Day sex discrimination suit. [Law360]
* Bill introduced to legalize sex work in New York. Eliot Spitzer wondering, “where were you when I needed you?” [NBC New York]
* Supreme Court balks at lawsuit seeking to expand constitutional protection for silencers. Remember, the only thing that can stop a bad guy performing an assassination in East Berlin is a good guy performing an assassination in East Berlin. [Reuters]
* John Dean stopped by Congress to give a history lesson since no one else is honoring their subpoenas. [Courthouse News Service]
* Pepper Hamilton more or less kept tight control of its investigation into the Baylor sexual assault case, but now it could face sanctions for potentially withholding records requested in a civil suit arising from the matter. [Texas Lawyer]
* Trump’s team takes its “legitimate legislative purpose” argument to the D.C. Circuit. Shouldn’t some wizened Republican be stepping up and putting a stop to this argument before Trump inadvertently guts the Congress that the party has worked so hard to gerrymander of any real authority? [National Law Journal]
* Student launches crowdfunding campaign to pay for legal education. But this is Britain so he only needs about $80K to go to Cambridge instead of $200K+ to go to a TTT. [Legal Cheek]
* The proposed extradition law that could allow China to nab people in Hong Kong could undermine foreign involvement in the semi-autonomous region. And that means a lot of big law firms. [CNN]
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Biglaw
Book Of Business: Meet A Milbank Tweed Partner
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Biglaw
Book Of Business: New Offices, New Frontiers
From the East Coast to the Far East, and back again. -
Biglaw, Layoffs
Biglaw Firm To Close Two Offices, Lay Off 25 Lawyers
Is your law firm conducting lawyer layoffs? -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Money
Salary Increases Reach Biglaw Offices In China
Lawyers in China get good news about salary.
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China
Legally Speaking, Hong Kong Is Not China
If any of your clients have Hong Kong/China problems, you must take steps to resolve them -- quickly. -
Biglaw, Headhunters / Recruiters, Lateral Moves, Litigators, Partner Issues
Davis Polk Takes The Gloves Off In Fight With Legal Recruiter
Davis Polk isn't backing down in a fight with a recruiter seeking a seven-figure fee. -
Affirmative Action, Federal Judges, Judicial Nominations, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 06.13.13
* Edward Snowden is still in Hong Kong. [Los Angeles Times]
* Obama is a fan of the ladies. [The Blog of the Legal Times]
* Well, if you don’t like what the Supreme Court is doing, you can still sit outside First Street and protest. I doubt it’ll have any effect whatsoever, but knock yourselves out. [National Law Journal]
* Speaking of the Supreme Court, things are still harder for minority law students. Not that such pesky things like facts should stop Chief Justice Roberts from feeling confident about telling us how to end racial discrimination in our time. [National Law Journal]
* As if the curse of Superman wasn’t bad enough, now he needs a lawyer. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
* Lionel Messi is as creative with his tax bill as he is on the pitch. [QZ]
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Books, Crime, Non-Sequiturs, Patents, Sexual Harassment, White-Collar Crime
Non-Sequiturs: 04.30.13
* A patent infringement suit filed over the “hairy visor.” The best idea for combatting hair loss since SNL’s Chia Head. [Lowering the Bar] * The Hong Kong legal community is split over the continued donning of wigs. It’s nice how China allows them to think they have a choice on such matters. [Wall Street […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Breasts, Cocaine / Crack, Drugs, Gender, General Counsel, Hotties, Litigators, Money, Morning Docket, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Patents, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 12.14.12
* NALP is becoming the harbinger of doom for law practice. Here’s some cheerful news: the percentage of female associates in Biglaw dropped for the third year in a row. Perhaps they’re going the way of the Clifford Chance mommy. [National Law Journal]
* Biglaw hotties are coming to a continent near you! Davis Polk & Wardwell will be adding a litigation practice to its existing shop in Hong Kong, and they managed to poach two big name Clifford Chance litigators in the process. [DealBook / New York Times]
* According to the ACC, in 2012, base salaries for general counsel rose 1.9 percent, while cash bonuses dropped 7.9 percent. But really, who’s going to complain about a six-figure bonus? [Corporate Counsel]
* A Delaware jury ruled that Apple infringed on several patents in a mobile-device technologies case filed by MobileMedia Ideas. Somewhere, Samsung’s bigwigs are laughing their asses off. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* A woman was arrested in Spain for trying to smuggle in cocaine from Colombia. Seems pretty standard, except for the fact that she was hiding the coke in brand new breast implants — three pounds of it! [CNN]
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Biglaw, Cars, China, DUI / DWI
Hong Kong Biglaw Partner Arrested for Driving Under the Influence, Allegedly Crashing Car Into Minibus
A Biglaw partner in Hong Kong was arrested for drinking and crashing his sports car into a minibus. -
Attorney Misconduct, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Facebook, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, John Edwards, Legal Ethics, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Shoes, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, Tax Law, Trials, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 05.18.12
* Rob me once, shame on you; rob me twice, shame on me? Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed for a second time, but this time as the victim of a burglary on May 4. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* Dewey know when this ship is finally going to capsize (so we can stop making these puns)? Two of D&L’s Hong Kong partners have decided to defect to DLA Piper, and more may be joining them soon. [Asian Lawyer]
* He might’ve been a “bad husband,” but that doesn’t mean he’s guilty. The jury in John Edwards’s campaign finance trial will begin deliberating today. Let’s see if they convict him of being more than an adulterer. [CNN]
* After his citizenship stunt, Eduardo Saverin can look forward to being defriended by the United States — not like that’s a bad thing, because to be honest, the movie version of him is much cuter. [New York Daily News]
* And this is why lawyers shouldn’t try to be funny. Safeway’s General Counsel, Robert Gordon, is being branded a sexist for telling a recycled joke about pigs and D.C.’s most powerful women. [Corporate Counsel]
* A three month suspension has been recommended for a former Treasury Department attorney who attempted to steal ties from Nordstrom. What, he couldn’t spring for a Neiman’s run? [National Law Journal]
* If you bought those stupid ass Skechers Shape-Up shoes in the hope that your booty would look like Kim Kardashian’s, you can get a piece of the $40M settlement. Not bitter, not at all. [Los Angeles Times]