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March Madness
ATL March Madness: Revealing The Elite 8
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March Madness
ATL March Madness: Sweet 16 Proves America Still Loves Perry Mason
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Television
ATL March Madness: Television And Chaos
There were some surprising upsets in the first round of these brackets.
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Books, Movies
ATL March Madness: Second Round Of Greatest Legal Books And Movies
Round two for the greatest legal films and novels. -
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Courts
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stars In Her Very Own Film, 'RBG'
The documentary about the 'flaming feminist litigator' will be featured at select theaters on May 4, 2018. -
Movies
ATL March Madness: The Greatest Work Of Legal Fiction Ever
Cast your ballot in our annual bracket showdown. -
Women's Issues
The First Woman To Land A Leading Role As A Lawyer
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.06.18
* A reminder that legal counsel is expensive even if you don’t fight all the way to trial — Michael Flynn is selling his house to pay his legal bills. [ABC News]
* Jim Walden has a very Oscar-friendly practice. His clients managed to be the subject of the Best Documentary winner and a Best Screenplay nominee. So if you’re a criminal looking to break into the entertainment industry, hire Walden. [New York Law Journal]
* Sam Nunberg thinks it’s advisable to ignore Robert Mueller’s subpoena. Good luck with all that. [Courthouse News Service]
* At this firm, revenue is up… but the partners aren’t really seeing it. [American Lawyer]
* Poor Michael Cohen complains that he never got reimbursed for paying off that porn star for the president. [New York]
* Some advice for newly minted GCs. [Corporate Counsel]
* Hearings begin tomorrow for DOJ Civil Division chief nominee Jody Hunt tomorrow. Here’s a primer on exactly how many times you’ll hear the word “Russia” tomorrow. [National Law Journal]
* Oregon passes new gun control law. Go ahead and set your watch to the NRA filing a lawsuit by the end of the month. [Huffington Post]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.02.18
* This weekend, Sheppard Mullin — and Lankler Siffert & Wohl for that matter — will be pulling for Abacus: Small Enough To Jail, the stellar documentary about the only bank prosecuted for the housing crisis that starred the lawyers who represented Abacus and its family owners. [New York Law Journal]
* In the first year of its merger, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer earned 1 percent over its legacy firm totals. Firm chairman Richard Alexander describes the firm as “generally… pleased.” But not pleased enough to keep Kaye Scholer on its branding. [National Law Journal]
* Robert Schulman is hoping the Second Circuit can get him out of his drunken insider trading conviction. [Law360]
* Texas Wesleyan is looking for a new baseball coach after firing the last one for rejecting a Colorado recruit and telling the kid the school wouldn’t recruit from states with legal weed. [VICE News]
* Now we have sovereign cryptocurrency which kind of defeats the whole point, but whatever. [Bitcoinist]
* Your daily reminder that white supremacists are bad people. [ABA Journal]
* Speaking of white supremacists, FSU Law students have started to notice that their main academic building is a tribute to a segregationist and that maybe that’s a bad thing. [Tallahassee Democrat]
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Law Schools
What Happens When A Law School Visits Wakanda?
This was quite possibly the best law student event ever. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.21.18
* Lawyers for Brendan Dassey of Making a Murderer have filed a writ of certiorari, asking the Supreme Court to review a decision made by the en banc Seventh Circuit that upheld his conviction for murder. Earlier, a federal magistrate overturned his conviction and a panel of the Seventh Circuit affirmed. This is totally going to be in the show’s sequel. [ABC 2 WBAY]
* A step in the right direction for gun control? During a Medal of Valor ceremony at the White House, President Trump announced that he’d directed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to draft regulations that would effectively ban the use of bump stocks. Now we’ll just wait a few months to see some action on AR-15s… [USA Today]
* Could it be? Could Justice Neil Gorsuch be on your side when it comes to privacy? Believe it or not, “[h]e may even become the Supreme Court’s next swing vote on Fourth Amendment issues,” and this term he’ll have more than an ample opportunity to swing on the issues of digital privacy and police search warrants. [VICE News]
* If you thought you couldn’t get rid of your student loans in bankruptcy, you were likely be right, but that could change. The Trump administration is looking into what it takes for borrowers to meet the “undue hardship” threshold for the discharge of federal loans in bankruptcy, and may clarify the standard. [Wall Street Journal]
* In perhaps the best student event ever, Howard Law rented out an entire movie theater so that students, faculty, staff, and alumni could see an opening-night screening of Black Panther. The school’s SBA co-hosted the awesomeness with Georgetown Law’s Black Law Students Association. Congratulations! [Law.com]
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Movies
Behold The Legal (Acting) Chops Of Your New Celebrity Crush, Chadwick Boseman
You know you spent the weekend contemplating the Boseman oeuvre.
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 12.29.17
* Luke Skywalker’s legal duty to save the galaxy. (Spoilers for The Last Jedi.) [The Legal Geeks]
* Will the class-action lawsuits against Apple for throttling older phones lead to a resurgence in class-actions? [Law and More]
* The latest episode of the Amicus podcast explores how to combat a history of harassment in the judiciary in the wake of the Alex Kozinski scandal. [Slate]
* Tracking the use of the phrase “help me” by Supreme Court justices in oral arguments… which is to track the passive-aggressive stylings of the Court. [Empirical SCOTUS]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWP6Qki8mWc
* Yup, this is how the President of the United States used his Twitter account in 2017. [The Hill]
* Speaking of the President, he teases a Constitutional crisis in an impromptu interview. [Huffington Post]
* Could a feminist perspective change the tax code? [TaxProf Blog]
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