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Courts
Iowa Lawyer's 'Rhetorical Hyperbole' Could Land Him 60 Day Suspension
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Courts
A 17-Year-Old Was Forced To Pay $150k To A Family For Defending Herself
If there was ever a time for debt forgiveness, it would be this.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.18.22
* Focus, Gov: Hawaii law prevents Governor from moonlighting for Uber as a side gig. [Star Advertiser]
* While it is hard to beat learning torts in pajamas, law students still prefer the real thing. [Reuters]
* More ethanol in Des Moines, please! Iowa law mandates ethanol increase in fuel. [Times Republican]
* NY aims to prevent the use of rap lyrics in criminal cases. About time. [Digital Music News]
* Dark trendsetting: Overturning Roe v. Wade will have global spillover. [The Guardian]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.29.21
* Two Nazis handed a 9-year sentence for trying to pop off race war. Happy Friday! [Forbes]
* Amazon faces discrimination lawsuit because it doesn’t cater enough to white straight men. Somebody clue the beginning to this Eminem song I guess. [Law360]
* Iowa’s Pro Bono Society shows love to 56 students who empowered their communities. THANK YOU! [UIowa]
* SCOTUS will be hearing oral argument on SB8’s enforcement mechanism on November 1st. It has to have a chilling effect on something, at least. [KHN]
* $13 Million marijuana conspiracy involving cops is the talk of Franklin County, Maine. I wonder if the business involved infused butter for lobsta rolls. [WGME]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.20.20
* A California judge has approved some marijuana delivery services within the state. Guess Pineapple Express can now be expressly delivered, and you can get your weed and munchies delivered at the same time… [Los Angeles Times]
* Joe Biden might be considering Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, to be his Attorney General. [CBS Boston]
* A new lawsuit alleges that employees at a Waterloo, Iowa, meatpacking plant (a facility hit hard by the pandemic) took bets about how many workers would contract COVID-19. Seems pretty morbid. [CNN]
* A lawyer has been charged with multiple crimes for allegedly luring teenage girls to sleep with him in exchange for being their “sugar daddy.” [New York Post]
* A former Virginia attorney said that “I may have have made a mistake” after losing his law license for allegedly misappropriating millions from a client. Seems like an understatement… [CBS News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.17.20
* A Florida lawyer has been charged with extortion against two NFL players for allegedly asking for cash in exchange for clients recanting robbery and assault allegations. Guess the attorney might be liable for “unnecessary roughness”… [New York Times]
* An Iowa lawyer, who allegedly forged his client’s name on court documents, has been suspended from practice. [Bloomberg Law]
* The Supreme Court may soon determine whether governments can restrict church functions to curb the spread of COVID-19. [New York Times]
* A Colorado lawyer, who was purportedly arrested four times in 2019, has been suspended from practice for over a year. [Denver Post]
* A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by former New York Knick’s player Charles Oakley over a televised scuffle at a game. Guess Oakley is flexing his muscle in another “court”… [New York Post]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.15.20
* A Florida city has repealed an ordinance against saggy pants over claims that the law unfairly targeted people of color. [Fox News]
* An Iowa lawyer, who transferred a case to another lawyer without client consent, has been suspended from practice. [Bloomberg Law]
* The Mayor of Rochester, New York, has fired the city’s police chief and suspended the Rochester City Attorney over the death of Daniel Prude. [Hill]
* The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the Green Party will be off the presidential ballot in Wisconsin for the upcoming election. [CNN]
* Law school deans are asking for an open-book bar exam given the hardships that bar candidates presently face. [ABA Journal]
* A Nebraska lawyer has been sentenced to up to four years in prison for purportedly keeping thousands of dollars of settlement money meant for clients. [Lincoln Journal Star]
* Attorneys General of several states are calling on Netflix to remove the show Cuties due to alleged sexualization of children. [ABC News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.09.20
* Three New Hampshire hospitals are suing Vermont over Medicaid reimbursements. Maybe they’ll accept payment in maple syrup… [Keene Sentinel]
* The Kansas Supreme Court has ordered a suspended attorney to serve a 30-day jail sentence for practicing law while his license was revoked. [Kansas City Star]
* The Justice Department is asking to defend President Trump in a defamation lawsuit over sexual assault allegations. [CNN]
* An Iowa lawyer has been suspended from practice for accepting a settlement offer that his client rejected. [Bloomberg Law]
* President Trump is expected to announce a new list of potential Supreme Court picks as soon as today. The former reality show host should know some interesting ways to make the announcement… [Guardian]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.19.20
* SmileDirectClub has filed a $2.8 billion lawsuit against NBC for broadcasting an allegedly defamatory and misleading story about the company. They sound more like FrownDirectClub… [Hill]
* A well-known Texas lawyer is suing his estate planning attorney for a Texas-sized tax liability he wasn’t able to avoid. [Texas Lawyer]
* A New Orleans lawyer has been disbarred for spending her client’s settlement money received because of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. [Advocate]
* The Georgia Supreme Court has struck down a law requiring the licensing of lactation specialists. First learned about this profession from The Office. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
* A lawsuit against the parents of a killer who murdered four people is being allowed to proceed. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* An Iowa attorney has been suspended from practice for overbilling a public defender’s office, sometimes logging more than 24 hours in a day. Maybe the lawyer had Doc Brown’s DeLorean? [Bloomberg Law]
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Family Law
Racism, Blackmail, And Death: Iowa Supreme Court Makes Pro-Surrogacy Ruling In Tumultuous Case
Let's count this as an important half-victory for securing the rights of intended parents to enter into valid surrogacy agreements. -
Election Law
If You Think Bernie Proves That Money Doesn’t Matter, You Need To Listen To This
Money, Politics, Dirty Tricks, we talk with an Election Law expert about all of it.
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Politics
Hillary Will Pretend To Bash Wall Street Because Iowa Has Caught A Nasty Case Of 'The Bern'
Even Iowans must find this boring by now. -
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Drinking, Judge of the Day, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Judge Punished For Going To Court Drunk, Peeing In The Street
She had to spend three days in an intensive care unit for severe alcohol intoxication... -
Conferences / Symposia, Technology
'We Already Have The Good Corn': Notes From The Forum On Legal Evolution
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Bar Exams, Law Schools, Student Loans
What's More Expensive: 3 Years of Law School or 6 Weeks of Bar Prep?
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Bar Exams, Biglaw, Billable Hours, Clerkships, Crime, Gender, Job Searches, Kids, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Rape, Ted Olson, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 01.13.14
* While we’re celebrating recently anointed Biglaw partner classes, let’s take a minute to call out the firms that haven’t bestowed the honor upon a single woman this year. Cheers, jerks. [Am Law Daily]
* The results of the NLJ’s Law Firm Billing Survey are out, and lo and behold, one of the top partners in the country is pushing $2,000 an hour for his services. Congrats, Ted! [National Law Journal (sub. req.)]
* Everyone’s buzzing about the federal law clerk who’s been accused of attempted aggravated rape and solicitation of a minor under 13. Don’t let that legendary 4.0 GPA go to waste. (More on this later.) [Times-Picayune]
* Congratulations to Gerchen Keller Capital, the litigation finance firm founded by former SCOTUS clerks and hedge-fund alumni, on raising $260 million for its new fund. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Iowa is thinking about allowing law school grads to practice immediately instead of having to take and pass a bar exam. Paired with its recent tuition cuts, the Hawkeye State is looking better and better. [Des Moines Register]
* If you’re in the unfortunate situation of still having to look for a law job once OCI has ended, then you might want to start considering applying for some of the other law jobs that don’t want you. [Mashable]
* The incarceration of a blogger known for making salacious allegations against federal judges raises First Amendment concerns. [New York Times]
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Attorney Misconduct, Email Scandals, Lawyer of the Day, Legal Ethics, Rank Stupidity
Lawyer Falls For Nigerian Inheritance Scam, Gets Suspended
Which is worse, to be unethical or to be stupid -- really, really stupid?