Disappointing Badged WWE Enthusiasts Everywhere, NY Cops Can’t Use Chokeholds On People. Again.
How am I supposed to protect and serve under these conditions?
Judicial Retreat Turns Into Superspreader Event
This many COVID cases is nothing to sneeze (or sniffle) at. Yikes!
Schenck Price Competes Smarter With Lexis+ With Protégé
LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.
Morning Docket: 05.18.22
* Focus, Gov: Hawaii law prevents Governor from moonlighting for Uber as a side gig. [Star Advertiser] * While it is hard to beat learning torts in pajamas, law students still prefer the real thing. [Reuters] * More ethanol in Des Moines, please! Iowa law mandates ethanol increase in fuel. [Times Republican] * NY aims to prevent the use of rap lyrics in criminal cases. About time. [Digital Music News] * Dark trendsetting: Overturning Roe v. Wade will have global spillover. [The Guardian]
Morning Docket: 05.05.22
* Saving face by not showing it: Alito cancels on conference. Worried about hecklers, maybe? [Reuters] * Tell no tales: After the short-term squabbling about the person who leaked Alito's draft is over, there may be some changes to how sensitive documents get circulated behind closed doors at SCOTUS. [NBC News] * Fearing backlash from the Alito leak, police officers are being called in. [Yahoo!] * Firms are trying to push going back to the office and folks aren't having it. I imagine dress requirements are a little more lax at home, after all. [Law.com] * Do they let just anybody be a judge in New York?! Well... [Daily Orange]
Morning Docket: 04.21.22
* Irate Policing or Intellectual Property?: Cops play Disney songs on patrol to prevent the public from recording them. [CNN] * Special lasagna: Newly weds break in their relationship with criminality after dosing their special guests. [CNN] * Texas and Florida are looking to end tenure. If only this directly impacted a certain professor at Penn. [The Hill] * SCOTUS may give the ok for people to carry guns on NY trains. I still shudder thinking about Goetz. [Fast Company] * Its my money and I need cash now!: Seattle law clinic helps workers fight wage theft. [King 5]
Sorry To Say That $10K Per Day Penalty For Donald Trump’s Contempt Won’t Cut It
He’s already paying his lawyers more than $10,000 per day anyway.
Filevine’s New Legal AI Platform LOIS Turns AI Into A True Legal Coworker
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
Judge Got Hit By A Train And That’s Not Even The Wildest Part Of The Story
What was the FBI looking for when they raided the judge's home?
Morning Docket: 03.24.22
* Bad Blood: Apple is facing antitrust litigation because of its heart monitoring capabilities. [9to5Mac] * Idaho’s governor just yolo signed a bill that flouts Roe. [NYT] * All hands on deck: students are putting books on hold to support Ukraine. [Reuters] * No Cuomo: NY passed laws that will strengthen harassment and discrimination protections. [National Law Review] * According to the judge, you’re gonna need some paperwork for that. [Tennessee Lookout]
Unvaccinated New York Court Employees To Be Fired In April
They have about two weeks left to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before they lose their jobs.
Morning Docket: 02.09.22
* We all know about pleading the 5th, but the 14th might keep Trump out of office. [Denver Gazette] * Big Family is watching — because they care: Esther's Law will make it easier for families to put cameras in nursing homes to make sure their family is safe. [Cleveland 19] * New JD advantage job just dropped: helping clients confront their mortality. No, it doesn't involve being a criminal defense attorney. [Insider] * Doing the rights thing: New York's Office of the Advocate for People with Disabilities is back. Get the word out! [Chronicle Newspaper] * Pot of Avarice is back on the ban list: NY regulators say "gifting" weed doesn't make it any more legal. [Law360.com]
Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup
With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation.
Car Accident? That’ll be $100M. Don’t Worry, We’ll Bill You For It.
They made the insurance companies one too many offers they couldn't refuse.
New York Proposes Donor-Conceived Person Protection Act
If passed, it would add into state law a duty for reproductive tissue banks to collect and verify medical, educational, and criminal background information for all donors.
Morning Docket: 01.06.22
* A New York firm by any name would be just as legal. Unless it's confusing. [Bloomberg Law] * World's most famous naked baby has one (1) more chance to sue Nirvana over their Nevermind cover. [ABA Journal] * Over 100 years after the matter, Homer Plessy is pardoned for his crime of not respecting "separate but equal." Quite the legal Odyssey. [AP News] * "Only you can maintain democracy," say law deans reflecting on today, a year ago. [Reuters] * Wisconsin law outlaws rubber necking and double texting around accidents. [News8000]
Don’t Phone In Your Mental Health, Call 9-8-8 Instead
I think the cultural competency training will go something like 'Now, are we talking deadass? Or *deadass*?'
Morning Docket: 11.22.21
* On today's episode of Strange Scholarships™: Sheriffs who pick and choose when to enforce the laws they are supposed to uphold. [The Daily Beast] * New York's "Nourish Bill" will encourage farmers to send their surplus produce to food banks. This is a kind of corn-y I can get behind! [WIVB] * Texas passes law that puts penalties on being too good of a Samaritan. [The Battalion] * If you've served your country and need another reason to not harm your partner(s) — be horrible and they may take your precious gun(s) away. [Military.com] * For any 0Ls who'd like some help wrapping their heads around the Rittenhouse verdict, here are a couple lawyers who might help make sense of self-defense doctrine. [NPR]