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  • Morning Docket: 10.05.17
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 10.05.17

    * Corporate Counsel asks “how much money will Uber’s next general counsel make?” Duh, it depends on surge pricing. [Corporate Counsel]

    * Law firm merger rumors!!! [Law.com]

    * Supreme Court takes another opportunity to laugh in the face of people who care about government transparency. [National Law Journal]

    * A “so-called judge” strikes again! [The Guardian]

    * Would you share your cyberthreat assessments with the government? [Law360]

    * It’s time for some standards in the FCPA industry. [FCPA Professor]

    * People are not agricultural products. Somehow this is something we needed an opinion on. [Lowering the Bar]

  • Morning Docket: 09.25.17
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 09.25.17

    * It’s Long Conference Day. For the unaware, this is arguably the most important day of the year for Supreme Court hero-worshippers, as the Court reads and evaluates around 2000 petitions and doesn’t at all phone it in (no matter what the statistics say) because they’re MAGIC! [Constitution Daily]

    * Months into his new job — a job that requires a public financial disclosure — Ty Cobb hasn’t yet figured out if he made $5 million or $25 million at Hogan Lovells. Maybe Don McGahn is hiding that information from him too. [Law.com]

    * Lawyer accused of flashing girl’s basketball teams. This is all just a big misunderstanding — if his buddies had shown up, it would have been obvious he was just they’d spelled out “Go Team!” on their balls. [Indy Star]

    * Jared Kushner apparently used his private email for some White House business. It doesn’t sound like a big deal at all, but that’s not going to prevent everyone from freaking out about it. [Huffington Post]

    * Convicted Hunton partner seeks probation in securities fraud case. The government is asking for 51 to 64 months in prison so at least the two sides are pretty close here. [Law360]

    * NBC is developing a Supreme Court show following the clerks. It’ll be like The West Wing, except with standing and patent disputes! [Law.com]

    * Speaking of the Supreme Court, in what ways are the top law firms making it to the Supreme Court? [Empirical SCOTUS]

  • Morning Docket: 04.11.17
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 04.11.17

    Uh-oh! Trouble in paradise? It looks like Martin Shkreli’s lawyer — who also happens to be his co-defendant — has turned on him.

    * Florida has released the results from its administration of the February 2017 bar exam, and they were not pretty. The percentage of those who passed dipped a bit since 2016, but students at both Orlando law schools were more likely to have failed. But which law school did the worst of all? We’ll have more on this later. [Orlando Sentinel]

    * Trouble in paradise? Martin Shkreli’s former lawyer, Evan Greebel — who also happens to be his co-defendant — has turned on him, accusing the pharma bro of submitting false documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and engaging in illegal stock trading. Greebel, of course, now wants to be tried separately from Shkreli. [Bloomberg]

    * “I never in my wildest dreams imagined I would be back.” Five women who once worked at Davis Polk and had been gone for at least two years to raise their families have returned to the firm for one-year stints with a program called “Davis Polk Revisited.” If all goes well, they may be able to return for a longer period of time. [WSJ Law Blog]

    * A former Hunton & Williams partner who spent 20 years on the lam as a fugitive has finally been caught. Scott Wolas, who was disbarred in 1999, was most recently accused in a $1.5 million real estate investment fraud scheme. Over the course of his alleged criminal career, Wolas reportedly assumed a number of other aliases. [Am Law Daily]

    * Each year around Easter, the ABA Journal hosts a Peeps in Law diorama contest. It’s time to cast your vote for your favorite, and this time around, the competition is pretty stiff. We’re particularly partial to the entry that’s been dubbed “State of Peepington v. Trump,” but “Peepsburg and Sugarmayor” is also very cute. Vote! [ABA Journal]