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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.24.19
* With Ben Brafman off the case, Harvey Weinstein is going with the Casey Anthony/Aaron Hernandez/Kobe Bryant defense team. For a New York courtroom. [New York Law Journal]
* And some of these new Weinstein lawyers previously represented Rose McGowan on an unrelated matter. She is… less than pleased with this development. [Yahoo]
* Reed Smith facing $500 million malpractice claim from Zombie Bear Sterns. [American Lawyer]
* Deutsche Bank neck deep in global money-laundering inquiry. At least there’s no way this could ensnare any major political figures. [Law360]
* Federal judge strikes down Iowa’s “we’re banning abortion but not calling it that” law. [Jurist]
* What will happen to the legal profession during the next recession? Well, it could well be quite the reckoning. [Forbes]
* A deep dive into the crackdown on law schools that can’t get graduates past the bar exam hurdle. [AZ Central]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.06.18
* Congratulations to Quinn Emanuel partner Alex Spiro and Jose Baez, of Casey Anthony fame, on a big win: a full acquittal in the securities-fraud trial of David Demos. [Bloomberg]
* Do you feel that the Supreme Court is taking its sweet time in releasing opinions this Term? Adam Feldman confirms that it’s not your imagination. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Consovoy McCarthy Park, the elite litigation boutique led by a group of conservative former SCOTUS clerks, welcomes its newest partner: Jeffrey Harris, former associate administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and former law clerk to Chief Justice Roberts. [National Law Journal]
* Are law school graduates getting “good” jobs? Professor Derek Muller has a novel idea: why don’t we ask them? [PrawfsBlawg]
* The Colorado congressional race featuring two NYU Law alumnae, incumbent Diana DeGette and challenger Saira Rao, reflects a divide in the Democratic Party more broadly. [NBC News]
* Criminal defense lawyer Joel Cohen argues against reading too much into an individual’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment — even if the individual happens to be Donald Trump or someone connected to him. [The Hill]
* Criminal defense lawyer Elizabeth Kelley interviews Stanford law professor Paul Goldstein about his biting and funny law school satire, Legal Asylum (affiliate link). [AuthorChats]
* Speaking of books, if you’d like to support the Jersey City Free Public Library — and enjoy some delicious Filipino food by celebrity chef Dale Talde — please join me this Thursday, May 17, for what should be a great evening! [Jersey City Free Public Library]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.22.17
* According to a lawsuit filed against the NFL and the New England Patriots by Aaron Hernandez’s family, the former football player who was serving a life sentence for murder at the time of his death had a “severe case” of CTE. Jose Baez, the family’s attorney, said Hernandez had “the most severe case [researchers] had ever seen for someone of Aaron’s age.” [CBS Boston]
* A man after Trump’s own heart: During a recent speaking engagement, Justice Neil Gorsuch explained why he believes judges ought to be conservative on the bench, saying that “the job of the judge to apply it, not amend the law … even when he might well prefer a very different outcome.” Later, he said judges must stick to interpreting laws instead of rewriting them. [Associated Press]
* Uh-oh. Skadden is under fire for work the firm did for Paul Manafort five years ago. Apparently Manafort asked the firm to write a report justifying the jailing of a client’s political rival, and it’s coming back to haunt them. The DOJ wants the firm to hand over all documents having to do with the matter. [New York Times]
* After being fired by President Donald Trump for her refusal to defend the travel ban, former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates has found a new home, at least for this semester. Yates will serve as a Distinguished Lecturer from Government at Georgetown Law. Congratulations! [Law.com]
* In an effort to bring on-campus residential life back for law students — and thanks to alumni donations totaling $60 million — Yale Law is expanding its campus for the first time in almost 100 years. Construction on the new dorm is expected to be completed by the end of next summer. [Yale Daily News]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.19.17
* An interesting look at the life and career of Gloria Allred — who has litigated groundbreaking civil rights cases as well as TMZ fodder. [Coverage Opinions]
* Lawyer Jose Baez intends to investigate the death of his client Aaron Hernandez, who was found dead in his prison cell after apparently hanging himself. [Deadspin]
* Footnote of the day (gavel bang: Raffi Melkonian aka @RMFifth Circuit). [Twitter]
* Professor Jonathan Adler still has doubts about the Emoluments Clause lawsuit against President Trump (although it’s much stronger now, thanks to some additional plaintiffs). [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* Professor Glenn Reynolds has some doubts about diversity (although I suspect he strongly supports intellectual diversity). [Instapundit]
* Professor Ann Althouse has her doubts about… Democrats (even though she has voted for more Democrats than Republicans over the years). [Althouse]
* And Professor Eugene Volokh has his doubts about the constitutionality of this order. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* In honor of national haiku poetry day, here are some verses from Dean Dan Rodriguez of Northwestern Law. [PrawfsBlawg]
* Congrats to the ACLU of Massachusetts, the national ACLU, the state public defender’s office, and Fick & Marx LLP on a huge and historic win! [ACLU]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.09.16
* Let’s just cut to the chase. You want to know what salary news you may have missed since you last checked in with us. Here’s the roster of movement news — good, bad, and indifferent — from yesterday: Cleary, Simpson, Holwell, Covington, Debevoise, Quinn Emanuel, Winston, SullCrom, Kirkland, Skadden, Freshfields, Cooley, Davis Polk. If you’re ever worried that you’ve missed any of our coverage, check out our omnibus 2016 salary page where we collect all these stories. [Above the Law / 2016 Salary Increase]
* Speaking of a firm that hasn’t announced salary changes yet — seamless transition! — Dentons is having to field some tough offshore tax scandal questions. That said, since they employ 4 out of 5 lawyers in the world things like this were inevitable. [Am Law Daily]
* Former Patriots TE Aaron Hernandez hires Casey Anthony’s lawyer, Jose Baez, and Thabo Sefolosha’s lawyer, Alex Spiro. No word on Hernandez and Baez’s fee arrangement. [Fox61]
* The Justice Department offers 6 tips for presenting your client’s merger to federal agencies. Being a top campaign bundler inadvertently left off the list. [National Law Journal]
* “Trump’s Terrifying Relationship With the Law.” It’s the bimbo he just can’t leave. [Rolling Stone]
* Dumb political reporting tries to make something out of an O’Melveny lawyer attending some Hillary events while working on the Trump University case. [Politico]
* If you need to get your white slippers of albino African endangered rhino back home, don’t book tickets on Delta. [Courthouse News Service]
* In New York, there’s new ethical guidance on advertising after changing firm names to reflect new partners. [Law360]
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Attorney Misconduct, Bad Ideas
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.25.16
* Peter Thiel may not have liked being a lawyer, but he’s willing to pay for them — as long as they’re suing Gawker. [Law and More]
* The owner of the New York Jets is backing Donald Trump and he has an unblemished record of picking winners. As long as you ignore Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow, Ken O’Brien, the desiccated corpses of Brett Favre and Neal O’Donnell… actually this may turn out okay for the Democrats. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* The Senate actually did something, and it was good! Yesterday, they passed a bill to help sexual assault survivors. [Slate]
* Did Casey Anthony pay for Jose Baez’s legal services with her body? A private investigator claims that she did. [Radar Online]
* The term “Oriental,” as a way to refer to people, is being stripped from federal law. [Air Talk]
* Follow up is super important, especially when you are trying to build your own law practice. [Reboot Your Law Practice]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.18.15
* Jose Baez of Casey Anthony trial fame gave the commencement address at Valparaiso Law this weekend and let graduates know that they, too, can be attorneys, even if they’ve been financially irresponsible. They’re letting this man teach at Harvard Law now. [The Times]
* Suffolk Law and Cardozo Law will have new deans this summer, and both are planning for smaller classes. Considering Suffolk’s plummeting LSAT scores (and standards?), its new dean may have bigger problems to deal with than filling seats. [National Law Journal]
* He “Pressure Drop[ped]” the ball: If you could take the LSAT or open for the Rolling Stones with Toots and the Maytals, which would you pick? This Paul Hastings partner took the test, and says it’s his only regret about choosing law over music. [Am Law Daily]
* Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have been sentenced to death last week, but it’s highly unlikely that his punishment will be carried out any time soon, if at all. Instead, he’ll be putting his lawyers to work for time ad infinitum. [WSJ Law Blog]
* “[D]on’t let anyone say that Charleston School of Law was already in trouble.” A local attorney says that this soon-to-fail law school only started circling the drain after its proposed sale to InfiLaw was announced. That’s quite the indictment. [Post and Courier]
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Books, Crime, Department of Justice, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Federal Judges, Job Searches, Law Schools, Litigatrix, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Securities and Exchange Commission, Securities Law, Trials, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 05.08.13
* “Is there a public interest in unwanted pregnancies … that can often result in abortions?” The judge who ordered that Plan B be made available to all women regardless of age is pissed at the DOJ. [The Caucus / New York Times]
* Mary Jo White, the littlest litigatrix, will “review” the Securities and Exchange Commission’s policy of allowing financial firms to settle civil suits without affirming or denying culpability, but for now, she’s defending it. [Reuters]
* Dewey know what this failed firm is supposed to pay its advisers for work done during the first nine months of its bankruptcy proceedings? We certainly do, and it’s quite the pretty penny. [Am Law Daily]
* In a round of musical chairs that started at Weil Gotshal, Cadwalader just lost the co-chairs of its bankruptcy practice and another bankruptcy partner to O’Melveny. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Another day, another law school comparison website. Take a look at Law Jobs: By the Numbers, which includes a formula from the laughable National Jurist rankings system. [National Law Journal]
* In a move that shocked absolutely no one, attorneys for Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes announced they will enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity for their client. [CNN]
* From the “hindsight is 20/20″ file: the judge who presided over the Casey Anthony trial thinks there was enough evidence to convict the ex-MILF. He also likened Jose Baez to a used car salesman. [AP]
* Check out Logan Beirne’s book (affiliate link). Even when sensationalizing George Washington’s rise from general to president, attention must be paid to the rule of law. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
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Celebrities, Crime, Paralegals
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Morning Docket: 01.28.13
* So, this happened over the weekend: Anonymous hacked the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s website and is threatening to release government secrets about the DOJ (and possibly all nine of our Supreme Court justices) unless the legal system is reformed. [CNET]
* A spoonful of sugar makes the lawyering go down? Apparently the best way to remind lawyers that they need to act civilly is through song. Or through Above the Law posts, but we aren’t in the habit of hosting sing-a-longs like the New York Inn of Court did. [Wall Street Journal]
* “[U]nless there are major changes in the legal industry,” law school administrators shouldn’t expect people to apply in droves, especially when they’re now fleeing like rats from a sinking ship. [National Law Journal]
* Arizona’s Supreme Court will allow people to take the bar exam after two years of study, but come on, the justices don’t want to jump the shark by allowing online law grads take the test, too. [East Valley Tribune]
* Tim Tebow got to trademark Tebowing, so why shouldn’t Colin Kaepernick get to trademark Kaepernicking? All the San Francisco 49ers quarterback wants to do is sell some inevitably overpriced t-shirts. [NBC Bay Area]
* An appeals court threw out two of Casey Anthony’s convictions, but her legal drama is far from over. The ex-MILF filed for bankruptcy to escape nearly $1 million in liabilities, including Jose Baez’s legal fees. [CNN]
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Conferences / Symposia, Practice Pointers, Small Law Firms, Technology
The Practice: The Future of Law, Circa 1972
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Trials and Error: The Casey Anthony Case
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Morning Docket: 02.23.12
* And now another reason for lawyers to hate other lawyers (even more than they already do): Westlaw and LexisNexis are being sued for copyright infringement for selling access to publicly filed legal documents. [WSJ Law Blog]
* MGA Entertainment’s antitrust suit against Mattel has been dismissed. In celebration, attorneys from Quinn Emanuel will buy themselves hot pink convertibles while singing that “Barbie Girl” song. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* Yesterday in the Golinski case, a federal judge ruled that the definition of marriage under DOMA is unconstitutional. Come on, even a Bush II appointee knows what’s up. [Poliglot / Metro Weekly]
* After finally realizing that he was a lawyer and not an agent — and that his most infamous client wasn’t worth as much as he thought — Jose Baez dropped Casey Anthony like a bad habit. [Miami Herald]
* Former University of Virginia lax player George W. Huguely V was found guilty of second degree murder in the death of Yeardley Love. UVA students are instructed to pop their collars at half-staff. [Bloomberg]
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Facebook, Law Schools, Lindsay Lohan, Morning Docket, Murder, Religion, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Texas
Morning Docket: 01.12.12
* Landmark case alert. This just in from SCOTUS: the separation of church and state even applies to employment discrimination lawsuits. Say hello to the “ministerial exception.” [New York Times] * Paul Ceglia was fined for ignoring a discovery order. He also has to reimburse Facebook for all of its related, Biglaw legal fees. Here’s […]
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Quote of the Day: You're Not the Only One
I genuinely dislike Jose Baez. — Jeff Ashton, former Florida prosecutor in the Casey Anthony case, commenting in his new book, Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony (affiliate link), on how he really feels about her lead attorney, Jose Baez. (More of Ashton’s less-than-complimentary commentary on Baez, after the jump.)