New York Magazine
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.06.16
* Roger Ailes hires Hulk Hogan and Melania Trump lawyer Charles Harder for a possible suit against NY Mag. [Huffington Post]
* As expected, Haynes & Boone has merged with Curtis Davis Garrard [Texas Lawyer]
* Berkeley’s Sujit Choudhry still coming to work amid sexual harassment claims. [ABC 7]
* An update on the revenge porn law that’s seen over 200 prosecuted in England and Wales. [CNET]
* Avvo defends its fixed-fee legal services after a South Carolina ethics ruling dinged the practice. [Corporate Counsel]
* Sullivan & Cromwell tapped to make one lucky French fan base learn what it’s like to have Frank McCourt as an owner. [The Am Law Daily]
* Second Circuit throws procedural roadblocks in front of workers seeking back wages. Happy Labor Day! [Law360]
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Antonin Scalia, Clerkships, Constitutional Law, Gay, John Paul Stevens, Religion, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, Television, Women's Issues
10 Tasty Tidbits From Justice Antonin Scalia
A wide-ranging interview with Justice Scalia, covering everything from his pet peeves (women cursing), his tastes in television, and his desire to hire more law clerks from "lesser" law schools. - Sponsored
How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
Findings from the "Future of Professionals Report," based on a survey of 1,200 professionals from North and South America and the UK. -
Law Schools, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!
Jesse Strauss, one of the lawyers behind the class action law school lawsuits, was recently interviewed by New York Magazine. What did he have to say about the growing movement and the year of law school litigation?
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Gay, Gay Marriage, Non-Sequiturs, Nude Dancing, Paul Bergrin, Paul Clement, Viet Dinh
Non-Sequiturs: 06.10.11
* New York magazine is on a roll: first the buzz-generating Paper Tigers piece, then the big Anna Nicole Smith story, and now this great profile of Paul Bergrin, “The Baddest Lawyer in the History of Jersey.” [New York Magazine] * When Elie read Megan McArdle’s response to his debt story, he screamed, “I said […] -
Anna Nicole Smith, Celebrities, Hotties, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The Peculiarly American Anna Nicole Smith
During her short lifetime, Anna Nicole Smith managed to sell sex, jeans, weight-loss pills and, with her reality show, a sense of superiority to millions of Americans who could take some solace in the fact that they were not that messed up. She was voluptuous, then she was just plain fat, then she was voluptuous […] -
Politics
A Portrait of Georgia's President as a Young Lawyer
Here is a short Intelligencer item we just wrote for New York Magazine, about the two years that Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia, spent in New York. It begins: Fifteen years before his country was invaded — or, perhaps, reinvaded — by Russia, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was learning about the American system of law […]