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Morning Docket: 04.12.17

* The Republicans hold on to the House seat vacated by CIA director Mike Pompeo; state treasurer Ron Estes defeated James Thompson, a Wichita civil rights lawyer. [New York Times] * So it seems the FBI did obtain a FISA warrant to monitor the communications of a Trump adviser (foreign policy adviser Carter Page). [Washington Post] * In a time when many firms are closing offices, Adams and Reese is opening new ones, in Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale. [Law.com] * The retirement buzz around Justice Anthony M. Kennedy persists -- and stems from conversations Kennedy has had with people close to him. [Bloomberg and CNN via How Appealing] * As for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has she been enjoying Opus One yet again? [New York Daily News] * Yes, it's possible for an in-house legal department to be too cost-conscious -- just ask Wells Fargo. [Big Law Business] * A professor accused of sexual harassment by a student and a staff member just lost his case before the Sixth Circuit. [Law.com] * Speaking of things sexual... don't write "sexual favors" in the check memo line when paying your taxes. [Billings Gazette]

By David Lat
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]

By Staci Zaretsky