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  • Morning Docket: 11.02.17
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.02.17

    * The Hamilton Ponzi scheme ends in a guilty plea. Well, he had his shot. [New York Law Journal]

    * You know who is really worried about the Paul Manafort case? Every lawyer who acts as a lobbyist and thinks, “uh oh… this criminal complaint reads a lot like my billable hour diaries.” [National Law Journal]

    * Charleston School of Law didn’t have a very good bar exam. [Post and Courier]

    * Womble completes its merger with Bond Dickinson. [American Lawyer]

    * NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin’s term has ended. So gear up for the new Lochner-era! [Law360]

    * Game-changing litigation moves. Probably not game-changing… game-adjusting. [Litigation Daily]

  • Morning Docket: 09.19.17
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 09.19.17

    * Baker Botts files SCOTUS brief reminding them what wedding cakes look like. Someday we’ll look back on a case designed to create second class citizens and think, “oh right, that’s the one where the Supreme Court decided with the help of a picture book.” [National Law Journal]

    * Pepe the Frog’s creator is going nuclear with his intellectual property challenges against the Nazi scum who’ve turned his character into a mascot. [Engadget]

    * Trader seeks to withdraw guilty plea after government shows him evidence that he probably didn’t commit a crime. The more you ponder that sentence, the more troubling it is. [Law 360]

    * There are more female equity partners than ever, which means still not very many. [Am Law Daily]

    * BuzzFeed hires Roy Black in the defamation case over the Trump dossier. Specifically, this case is about the allegations in the dossier that Aleksej Gubarev hacked the Democrats, but that’s no fun, so let’s remember the dossier also talked about Russian pee parties. [Law.com]

    * A review of the federal government’s merits and amicus arguments this Term and it’s an aggressive invitation to legislate from the bench. So much for railing against “activist judges”! [Empirical SCOTUS]

    * Harvard University is hoping Trump’s NLRB changes labor law so they can crush unionization efforts on campus. Damn liberal, socialist colleges. [Labor Notes]

    * Here’s one to make some of you feel very old: Toys R Us files for bankruptcy. [Huffington Post]

  • Morning Docket: 02.03.17
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 02.03.17

    * 50 Cent is suing Reed Smith for malpractice. As they say, “Get Rich Or Sue Your Lawyers.” [Law.com]

    * The federal government lags in cybersecurity because all the talent is going to the private sector. [New York Law Journal]

    * Nothing says, “politics as usual” better than the South Dakota legislature declaring an “emergency” to overturn an ethics law. [Huffington Post]

    * D.C. Circuit blocks state attorneys general from coming to the defense of the CFPB. [National Law Journal]

    * Kellyanne scolds America for not remembering the Bowling Green massacre. Admittedly it’s easy to forget, what with it never happening and all. [CNN]

    * Trump plans to roll back the protections put in place after the financial crisis. Presumably next week he’ll take action to eliminate airbags because, “hey my car isn’t crashing right this second, why does anyone need these?” [Wall Street Journal]

    * NFL TE turned Wiley Rein associate Colin Cloherty has a hard time picking who to root for in the Super Bowl. [The Am Law Daily]

    * The NLRB’s general counsel issued a memo recognizing college football players as employees, because they fit every conceivable definition of an employee. So obviously politicians — of one party anyway — are demanding his resignation. [Law360]

  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 08.31.15

    * Good news if you’ve made it to midlevel associate — survey says you’re happier than ever. [American Lawyer]

    * Amal Clooney lost a case in Egypt, her client was one of three Al-Jazeera journalists sentenced to prison for their coverage of the 2013 uprising. Clooney warned the sentence sends a “dangerous message.” [People]

    * More and more Pennsylvania firms are getting on-board with the $160k pay scale. [Legal Intelligencer]

    * Chalk another victory up for the Amazing Schneiderman — that’s New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. This time, retail giant Gap Inc. has fallen in line. [Fashionista]

    * A happy ending for David Powers, whose admission to St. John’s Law was revoked after officials there found out about a drug conviction. He’s starting at Pace Law today. [New York Times]

    * When a client announces a new general counsel, law firms should consider that a wake-up call — or get fired. [Corporate Counsel]

    * In truly horrific news, two Indian sisters were sentenced to be gang raped as punishment for their brother eloping with a woman of a different caste. The (hopefully) good news is the women have appealed to the Indian Supreme Court for protection. [Jezebel]

    * What do in-house counsel need to know about the recent NLRB decision expanding the concept of joint-employers? [Law360]