Lewis Brisbois
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Biglaw
Biglaw Associate Who Cheated His Way To Six Figures Allowed To Practice In 3 States
Who cares about honor code violations when you could be making moneyyy -
Biglaw
Scandalous Lewis Brisbois Breakaway Firm Will Close Its Doors After Last Defectors Flee
The firm has officially flopped, all thanks to its former leaders' offensive emails. - Sponsored
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.11.23
* Supreme Court steps in to block opioid settlement that would’ve immunized the Sacklers. Looks like someone needs to start buying some luxury vacations for Clarence! [CNN]
* FEC looking into campaign deepfakes. Not to offer Donald Trump free advice, but he might want to embrace AI and argue that all those election calls were just malicious AI phonies. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Law firm closing up shop after nearly a century in business. [Law.com]
* Ed Blum is taking his effort to stamp out diversity from the classroom to the boardroom, going after a venture capital firm that invests in Black-owned businesses. [Reuters]
* University of California drawing back from Lewis Brisbois over the email scandal. Though those guys aren’t there anymore so this is more of a “how did you let this happen?” penalty. [Law360]
* Caltech and Apple have settled lawsuit over Wifi. With that kind of money, maybe they can join the Big Ten too. [9to5Mac]
* Is an LLM worth putting off a Biglaw job? [LegalCheek]
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Biglaw
GC Writes The Legal Equivalent Of Maximum Side-Eye In Response To Latest Lawyer For Coach Bob Huggins
Bob Huggins is trying to pull a George Costanza and the GC isn't having it. -
Biglaw
LA County Fires Lewis Brisbois Over Racist Emails... From Lawyers Who Left The Firm... That The Firm Disclosed To The Public
Query: Should the client punish the lawyers' prior firm for this? -
Boutique Law Firms
'Maximum Damage': Law Firm Partners Learn The Hard Way Never To Put Offensive Things In Writing
It's impossible not to look at this law firm train wreck. -
Boutique Law Firms
Barber Ranen Leaders Resign From Their Own Firm After Racist, Sexist, Antisemitic Emails Are Leaked
The rise and incredibly quick fall of a law firm thanks to its leaders’ inappropriate emails. -
Boutique Law Firms
Leaders Of Barber Ranen Exchanged Racist, Sexist, Antisemitic Emails For Years
These emails are incredibly inappropriate. Read at your own risk. - Sponsored
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.22.23
* Allen & Overy finally finds its American match, announcing a deal with Shearman & Sterling. The new firm will be called “A&O Shearman”… for a couple of months before we just call it “Allen & Overy.” [Law360]
* Biden seems unwilling to invoke the Fourteenth Amendment to avoid a government shutdown, though it’s not clear why since there wouldn’t be any injured plaintiff. [Reuters]
* Not that having a viable legal theory matters much to this Supreme Court. So why does the media bend over backward to frame opinions through a legal lens? In fairness, Above the Law more or less stopped trying to do that years ago. [Slate]
* A former Lewis Brisbois COO alleged financial shenanigans back in 2019. Not saying these rumors contributed to over 100 lawyers bailed, but they can’t have helped. [American Lawyer]
* Meta, the artist formerly known as Facebook and likely subsequently to be known as Facebook, receives 1.3 billion Euro fine for GDPR data privacy violations. [The Verge]
* Ty Cobb thinks Trump will end up in jail over classified documents. So don’t expect Cobb to be rejoining the legal team. [Newsweek]
* January 6 probe triggers secretive hearing involving WilmerHale — likely over social media data. [Politico]
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Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Appoints New Managing Partner In The Wake Of Mass Defection Of Attorneys
He is the first person to serve in this role since 2020. -
Podcasts
How Have We Not Yet Hit The Bottom Of The Clarence Thomas Scandal?
When you list all of the revelations of the past month, it's impressive. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Plagued By Exodus Of 100+ Lawyers Suffers Another Blow As Its Chair Steps Down
The firm is now completely revamping its management model. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.04.23
* Harlan Crow paid for Clarence Thomas to send his kid to private school?!?! Honestly, I’m starting to think ProPublica brilliantly slow-played all these stories to give the Wall Street Journal and Fox maximum opportunity to embarrass themselves by going all in on “personal hospitality exception” before dropping this. [ProPublica]
* Now Trump says he will probably attend his own rape trial. But his legal team has yet to amend its prior position that it would not call any witnesses so he’s just planning to hang out. [Reuters]
* CFTC Inspector General suspended pending investigation into squelching whistleblower complaints. [Law360]
* DeSantis selling merchandise designed to invoke the Disney trademark because he hasn’t given them enough to sue him over. [Bloomberg Law News]
* And because no one in Florida government understands that admitting to abusing public office is a problem for its legal claims, the legislature is passing bills to crackdown on the Disney Monorail. [Forbes]
* Lewis Brisbois chair steps down following mass exodus. [The Recorder]
* McDonald’s franchise caught employing 10-year-olds. [NPR]
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Boutique Law Firms
Partners Lead Mass Defection From Biglaw Firm, With Up To 140 Lawyers Set To Join New Boutique
That's more than 8% of the firm's lawyers. -
Biglaw
Fun Fact: You Can't Just Name Yourself After A National Law Firm And Start Doing Business
A Lewis Brisbois by any other name... -
Biglaw
These Are The Biglaw Firms Racking Up The Lateral Partners
Are you surprised by the firms on the list? -
Biglaw, Legal Ethics
Biglaw Associates Caught Overbilling Lose Jobs, Ability To Practice Law
Stop padding your hours, because those pesky ethical obligations will always catch up with you. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Lawyer Bills 2000+ Hours To Closed Matter... Disciplinary Committee Displeased
Working on a phony summary judgment motion... for a year! -
Biglaw
The Upswing In Biglaw Partner Departures
Which firms have had the most partners leave this year? -
Biglaw
Biglaw Attorneys In The South Can't Go To Court, But They Can Get Tattoos
'It’s sort of a surreal world we’re living in,' says a managing partner.