Paul Clement

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.20.18

* Law school placed on probation and in a refreshing turn of events, the school claims to be working with the ABA instead of hiring Paul Clement to sue. [Atlanta Journal Constitution] * Woman charged with fake witchcraft because 2018 just keeps on giving. [NPR] * Secret Cohen filings? Hm. [CNBC] * Wait, the law is set up to help people like Harvey Weinstein? No kidding. [Gothamist] * Killing Bill O'Reilly's Lawsuit Against Lawyer. [Hollywood Reporter] * Federal judge still respects asylum law, no matter what the administration says. [Courthouse News Service]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.11.18

* "We never once saw him take a shortcut, treat a case as unimportant, or search for an easy answer." According to 34 of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's former clerks, the man is apparently not just a judge, but also a saint, and they wanted the Senate Judiciary Committee to know all of the details. [National Law Journal] * Nice guys get confirmed fast? More on Judge Kavanaugh's sainthood. The man coaches not one, but two girls' basketball teams, he's a superb "carpool dad," and he takes a family friend's daughter whose father died to the school’s annual father-daughter dance each and every year. He's just so nice! [Washington Post] * Damn, it's not just Arizona Summit's graduates who can't practice law in Arizona. Three lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis -- including Paul Clement, Viet Dinh, and Christopher Bartolomucci -- were booted from the school's case against the ABA for failing to comply with out-of-state attorney admission procedures. [Law360] * Acording to the Boston Larger Law Firm Managing Partner Group, "much work needs to be done" when it comes to attorneys who have experienced inappropriate sexual behavior at work. Per a recent study, 60 percent of respondents had either received messages of a personal or sexual nature, been touched inappropriately, or witnessed a coworker being touched inappropriately. [Boston Business Journal] * Lawyerly Lairs: Convicted Murderer Edition. The 80-acre ranch of Claud "Tex" McIver, the former Fisher Phillips partner who shot his wife in the back, is now on the auction block, and there's a dispute over who will receive the proceeds. [Daily Report]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.05.18

* No donation is too small, and no donor is too young: Former Senate candidate and former judge Roy Moore is begging his supporters via Facebook for cash for his legal defense fund because his "resources have been depleted" and he's "struggled to make ends meet." [Washington Post] * The Trump administration wants to stop federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, and the Justice Department is using the travel ban case to ask the Supreme Court to "reject the deeply misguided practice." Will SCOTUS put these "so-called judges" in their place? [Associated Press] * Remember Claud "Tex" McIver, the Biglaw partner who shot his wife in the back and killed her, allegedly blamed the incident on a Black Lives Matter protest? Jury selection for his murder trial begins today. [Daily Report Online] * No, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn't advising LeadInvest, a company promoting cryptocurrency investments in Texas, and neither are former U.S. Solicitors General Theodore Olson, Seth Waxman, and Paul Clement. The Texas State Securities Board sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that the company remove photos of the justice and the lawyers from its site. [National Law Journal] * And the Oscar for Best Lawyer goes to... John Quinn of Quinn Emanuel has served as outside counsel to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1986, and he attends every show with the ABC contract in his pocket in case a legal issue pops up. [Corporate Counsel] * Is it time to bring back the lists and rankings commemorating the "hotties of law"? Vivia Chen has a hot take, and thinks that in this puritanical era, it's high time that we stop pretending lawyers are asexual. So long as both men and women are included on the lists, what's the harm? Right now, a lot. [American Lawyer]

By Staci Zaretsky
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 02.25.18

* Audacious: former Mercer Law student Stephen McDaniel, who took apart the body of Lauren Giddings after brutally murdering her, seeks habeas corpus. [WGXA] * "Did #MeToo really bring a reckoning to the legal industry?" A discussion featuring Katherine Ku, Dahlia Lithwick, Leah Litman, Ian Samuel, and me. [Vice] * Speaking of #MeToo and the legal profession, look for more disturbing stories like this one to emerge in the weeks ahead. [Medium] * Best friends: which amici in the Supreme Court have the strongest track records in major cases? [Empirical SCOTUS] * Speaking of SCOTUS, if you were a billionaire who dropped $32.5 million on beachfront property, you too would hire Paul Clement to seek certiorari in your takings case. [SFGate] * As someone with a mild case of prosopagnosia (aka face-blindness), I totally agree with Eugene Volokh's recommendations about nametags at conferences. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason] * Divorce lawyer and former Playboy model Corri Fetman, no stranger to our pages, is running for Cook County Circuit Court judge -- and calling out her opponents for running body-shaming attack ads. [Chicago Reader] * Here's what the United States can -- and can't -- learn from the small, happy, and fairly homogenous nation of Denmark (by Megan McArdle via Glenn Reynolds). [Instapundit] * If you share my confusion about blockchain, here's a recommendation: check out the new Integra Wallet, just released by legal-blockchain pioneer Integra Ledger. [Artificial Lawyer] * Speaking of leveraging the power of blockchain, you simply must check out Casey Flaherty's new Magic Money Machine™. [3 Geeks and a Law Blog] * If you work a lot with expert witnesses, you might want to check out Courtroom Insight, for reasons explained by Jean O'Grady. [Dewey B Strategic] * Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Levi, recipient of the ABA Stonewall Award for her pioneering work on transgender rights! [Western New England University]

By David Lat