New York Bar

  • Morning Docket: 04.30.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 04.30.21

    * A judge has denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Amazon challenging the award of a lucrative Defense Department contract to Microsoft. Guess Jeff Bezos doesn’t have enough money already… [Verge]

    * The FBI has purportedly seized a phone from a lawyer who has ties to Rudy Giuliani. [Salon]

    * A lawyer connected to “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli has resigned from the New York Bar. [Bloomberg Law]

    * The family of a protester shot and killed by police during the Capitol riot earlier this year is filing a wrongful death lawsuit. [NBC News]

    * A New York lawyer, who is accused of vanishing and leaving clients and their money in the lurch, allegedly forged his mother’s signature on loan documents. Guess the joke about lawyers being willing to throw their mothers under the bus might be true for some people… [Commercial Observer]

  • Morning Docket: 01.17.20
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 01.17.20

    * Harvey Weinstein is attempting to move his criminal trial outside of New York City, citing the intense publicity of the matter. Fairly sure every community in America knows about Weinsten’s case. [Fox News]

    * Lawyers in a class action against Aramark are getting more than just free food, filings provide for $5 million in cheddar as counsel fees. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

    * The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that felons need to pay all costs associated with their sentences before having their right to vote restored. [CBS News]

    * A attorney has been disbarred for continuing to practice despite being suspended for failing to pay bar dues and neglecting to register with the New York Bar. This is a stern reminder to pay all bar dues. [Albany Times Union]

    * A man serving life in prison has been granted a new trial because his lawyer was racist. [San Francisco Chronicle]

  • Morning Docket 11.27.19
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket 11.27.19

    * The New York Bar is helping attorneys reach “high profits” by allowing lawyers to advise clients on legal issues related to marijuana. [Bloomberg]

    * A Michigan lawyer has been sworn in as an attorney by the same judge who sent him to prison two decades earlier. [Detroit Free Press]

    * Looks like Elon Musk won’t settle a lawsuit about his imfamous “pedo guy” tweet and will testify in his own defense. Wonder what type of experts Musk plans to introduce at trial. [Reuters]

    * A NYC man has won $280,000 against a lawyer who called him an “a-hole” and a “jerk” online. Never thought an NYC jury would award so much money for such insults. [New York Post]

    * The Oregon State Bar has allegedly mishandled the cases of a disbarred Oregon lawyer who is accused of stealing from her clients. [The Oregonian]

    * The DC Attorney General has joined the pile-on against Juul, the maker of electronic cigarettes, over allegations it illicitly advertised to minors. [CNBC]

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