Plea Agreements
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Crime
Plea Bargaining: A Necessary Evil?
What can be done to improve this important and problematic practice? -
Crime, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Attorney Still Hoping To Avoid Defending His Client In Court
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Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, White-Collar Crime
Dewey Know Who's Not Going To Trial? Defendant No. 4, Zachary Warren
Congratulations to both the promising young lawyer and the prosecution and putting this unfortunate episode to rest.
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White-Collar Crime
An AUSA Would Like His Time To Be Worth More Than Ted Olson's; Or, DOJ's New Appellate Threat So It Can Avoid Work
Spending any time actually "lawyering" should demand a high price for federal prosecutors. -
Alan Dershowitz, Crime, Sex, Sex Scandals
Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyers Want To Seal Documents To Stop The Frolic With The Media
Should information relating to plea negotiations be kept confidential? -
Crime, Sentencing Law, White-Collar Crime
Overpunishment, Rationality, And Rakoff
A look at one federal judge's proposal to reform the criminal justice system and the responses it has generated. -
Jed Rakoff, White-Collar Crime
White Collar Trials, Snitches, And Telling The Truth
Snitches are crafty witnesses. -
Crime, Facebook, Gay, Insider Trading, Non-Sequiturs, Patents, Supreme Court, Tax Law
Non-Sequiturs: 02.20.14
* Congrats to Weil Gotshal and Fenwick & West for getting in on Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, the biggest Internet deal in a decade. [The Recorder] * In South Carolina, you can get arrested for crimes that aren’t even things any more. Like “failure to return a VHS tape.” [Lowering the Bar] * Drunk lawyer at heart of alleged insider trading scheme. [Dealbreaker] * Did LBJ colossally screw up the Supreme Court? [Concurring Opinions] * Were you curious about who would be on the Mount Rushmore of Tax Law professors? No? Well, here they are anyway. [TaxProf Blog] * The so-called “trial penalty” is really a myth and empirical data confirms that defendants who reject plea deals and go to trial actually garner a “trial discount.” Yep, prosecutors aren’t overreaching at all. [PrawfsBlawg] * President Obama called for patent law reform in the State of the Union address. Now we have some insight into what he’s thinking about. [Patently-O] * Congratulations to Matthew Skinner, the next executive director of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York! [LeGal] - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Department of Justice, White-Collar Crime
Unsealing The Trial Penalty?
Kevin Ring's lawyers want the world to see the presentation he was given by DOJ. The DOJ does not want you to have any clue what they told him. -
4th Circuit, Barack Obama, Election 2012, Election Law, Kids, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Murder, Old People, Small Law Firms
Morning Docket: 01.16.12
* Rick Perry’s primary ballot election law suit in Virginia was unsuccessful, but maybe the Fourth Circuit will help him out on appeal. Or not. At least Huntsman’s out of the race, right? [Bloomberg] * That didn’t take too long. The National Federation of Independent Business has officially popped the cherry on filing lawsuits challenging […]
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Cars, Judge of the Day, Minority Issues, Racism, State Judges
Judge Rejects Plea Deal as Something 'That Only Goes to White Boys'
If you spend any time around criminal defense lawyers, progressive lawyers, or people in a black barber shop, you’ll hear the claim that African-American criminal defendants receive harsher sentences than their white counterparts. People have done studies about this, people have written reports about this, people have held conferences about this institutional expression of discrimination. […]
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