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Biglaw Partner Used To Think 2400 Hours Was The Bare Minimum -- Now She's Left The Practice Entirely
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BakerHostetler Was Ordered By The Court To Stop Working On This Matter... It Looks Like They Ignored That
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.26.19
* The LeClair Ryan dissolution enters a new chapter. But will it be Chapter 7? [American Lawyer]
* Alex Jones set to find out if it’s really defamation to tell the world that grieving parents are lying about their dead children. [Connecticut Law Tribune]
* America has the RBG Jabot-Watch, the UK has the Lady Hale Brooch-Watch. [Legal Cheek]
* Judge Preska did not seem convinced by the latest Dershowitz arguments. [The Careerist]
* Racist voting laws in the South are to be expected by everyone but Chief Justice Roberts, but usually they’re more subtle than this provision that Mississippi’s had for over a century. [NPR]
* Banks one step closer to actually cashing in on the marijuana economy. [Courthouse News Service]
* While everyone got distracted by impeachment, there are still “not qualified” judges streaming through the system. [Law360]
* Bill Cosby has to fork over some hefty funds to Quinn Emanuel. [The Recorder]
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The Biglaw Firm Trying To Capitalize On The #MeToo Movement
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.25.19
* The Am Law 100 left $4.4 billion on the table last year. Or… maybe. Biglaw offered $4.4 billion in discounts which could mean the industry undercut each other for an overall loss of value. Or it could mean the market gravitated toward what legal services are really worth. An interesting walk through the finances of Biglaw work. [American Lawyer]
* Some Selendy & Gay partners are headed to arbitration Quinn Emanuel over a provision in their agreement that Quinn’s exercising seeking a portion of their profits on ported business. So much for my wishful thinking that the two firms would come to let bygones be bygones. [New York Law Journal]
* Litigation funders are hiring lobbyists to push back against a new push by Senate Republicans to require more transparency — something those same Senate Republicans spend a lot of time fighting against when it comes to… lobbyists. The circle of life. [American Lawyer]
* March Madness continues in court with testimony about Arizona paying players. It’s at this point that we recall that Arizona wasn’t even the best college basketball team in Arizona this season. [Law360]
* EY continues its overseas legal build-out. [Law.com]
* Twitter’s chief legal officer made $11 million last year to tell everyone that they can’t do anything about Nazis. [Corporate Counsel]
* Supreme Court crushes class victims again! [Courthouse News Service]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.24.19
* Impending constitutional crisis alert: President Trump is opposed to his White House aides — especially former White House Counsel, “real lawyer” Don McGahn — testifying before Congress because they already cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. [Washington Post]
* Meanwhile, fake lawyer Michael Cohen, who served as legal counsel to Trump for about decade, will soon report to his Federal Correctional Institution – Otisville, which has been referred to as a “castle behind bars.” At least he’ll get to hang out with The Situation. [Daily Beast]
* Bill Cosby is suing Quinn Emanuel over its “unconscionable fees,” claiming that the firm overstaffed his case to the tune of $8.55 million over the course of nine months. Maybe stop checking you emails so much? [American Lawyer]
* George and Amal Clooney will be on campus at Columbia Law tomorrow for the official launch of TrialWatch, an initiative that will monitor trials acros the globe to protect human rights and eventually create a global justice index. [Law.com]
* Another happy ending for Robert Kraft (for the time being): Prosecutors have been blocked from releasing footage that allegedly shows the New England Patriots owner receiving sexual favors in a massage parlor. [Reuters]
* On the next episode of “Empire,” Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, the brothers who helped stage a racist and homophobic attack against Jussie Smollett, will file a defamation lawsuit against the actor’s attorneys. [Big Law Business]
* Cooley Law has a new president and dean following the departure of Don LeDuc. James McGrath will join the school from Texas A&M Law, where he serves as associate dean of academic support and bar services. Good luck! [WMU Cooley Law]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.19.19
* Michael Flynn and his business partner are sparring over documents the partner wants to defend himself in his criminal case. [Politico]
* “It’s the corporate equivalent of the death penalty.” Maybe let’s not trivialize the death penalty by comparing it to a $1 million fine. [Law360]
* Quinn partner eyed for Ambassador to Mexico role. Maybe he can get them to pay for the wall. [Reuters]
* Some law firms are getting verein, verein rich. Ugh, that’s just terrible. [American Lawyer]
* When law firms attack: Manatt sues Brown Rudnick. [National Law Journal]
* Another opportunity for journalists to spellcheck “emoluments.” [Courthouse News Service]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs: 01.27.19
* Regarding the nomination of Patrick Bumatay to the Ninth Circuit, “Why are Democrats fighting the judicial nomination of a qualified gay minority?” Good question! [The Federalist]
* Speaking of highly qualified minority nominees under attack, Carrie Severino argues that it’s the critics of D.C. Circuit nominee Neomi Rao, not Rao herself, who are being inflammatory. [Bench Memos / National Review]
* And KC Johnson, reviewing the collegiate writings by Rao that have generated the attacks against her, argues that Rao’s views on campus sexual assault — from 25 years ago, so who knows whether or not she still holds them — are “align[ed] both with statute and today’s mainstream opinion.” [City Journal]
* Litigation over a watchdog commission for handling complaints of prosecutorial misconduct in New York State involves a lot of legal luminaries, including Jim Walden and Jacob Gardener of Walden Macht, Jim McGuire and Daniel Sullivan of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg, and Andrew Rossman, Kathleen Sullivan, and Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel. [New York Law Journal]
* Could Nick Sandmann and the Covington boys file libel lawsuits over some of the commentary on their controversy? It could be an uphill climb, according to Eugene Volokh (a First Amendment expert, and hardly anyone’s idea of a leftist). [Reason / Volokh Conspiracy]
* But if Covington cases do get filed, they could give rise to some interesting issues of civil procedure, as Howard Wasserman notes. [PrawfsBlawg]
* Many lessons can be learned from the Fyre Festival debacle — and one of the legal ones is that FTC disclosures actually matter. [All Rights Reserved]
* If you’re a liberal or progressive appellate litigator interested in taking on the Trump Administration, check out this new job posting from the good folks at the CAC. [Constitutional Accountability Center]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.15.19
* States win big victory blocking Trump’s birth control rules from taking effect. Now I guess he’ll have to build a wall around vaginas too. [Law360]
* Former Sullivan & Cromwell chief John Merow and his wife were killed in an apartment fire on Saturday. [New York Law Journal]
* Quinn Emanuel adds Sandra Moser to co-head the firm’s white collar practice. [National Law Journal]
* Are the days of law firm expansion coming to an end? I’m guessing no. [Law.com]
* William Barr will now face the Senate’s rubber stamp treatment. Here’s a quick recap of this retread. [Vox]
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Quinn Emanuel Announces Bonus Scale With Bigger Bonuses For Big Billers
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.07.18
* Which Supreme Court justice is apparently the best at throwing shade at her colleagues during oral arguments? It’s Justice Kagan. Sick burn, Your Honor. [National Law Journal]
* “Presidential harassment”? President Trump is blaming special counsel Robert Mueller’s election interference probe for his low Rasmussen Reports approval rating of 50 percent. Damn, when a pollster known for favoring the president is only giving him a 50 percent rating, you know it’s pretty bad. [POLITICO]
* Speaking of Robert Mueller, here’s a little preview of what you can expect from the court filings to be filed today which have to do with the implosion of Paul Manafort’s cooperation deal (i.e., “what may have pushed him to commit legal suicide”). Oh, and we may also see a possible sentencing plan for Michael Cohen. [USA Today]
* In case you missed it, Quinn Emanuel just announced its largest partner class ever. Fourteen attorneys will ascend to new heights at the firm, and half of them are women, which is very exciting. Congratulations to the firm! [Big Law Business]
* The holiday season is here, but that doesn’t give Biglaw associates an excuse to say “screw it” when it comes to what they’re eating. Here are some tips from a corporate wellness consultant on how to avoid weight gain and bloating. [Law.com]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.01.18
* Supreme Court looks to further cripple class actions by killing off cases that chasten corporate misconduct but can’t feasibly reimburse every individual victim. So, if you’re planning to injure a bunch of people, make sure to do it in a small and difficult to track manner! [National Law Journal]
* Brexit comes to Biglaw as Kirkland moves its European hub to Paris. [International]
* Biglaw associate suing USA Gymnastics for all the reasons USA Gymnastics is getting sued these days. [American Lawyer]
* Tribes are suing North Dakota over its naked effort to disenfranchise Native Americans. [National Law Journal]
* Shocking absolutely no one, the EEOC finds that the #MeToo movement has not resulted in a surge in false allegations. [Law.com]
* This lawsuit against Spirit Airlines uses a lot of fast food analogies but misses the most apt: flying Spirit Airlines is like willfully going to the dirtiest Sbarro you can find and being shocked. [Law360]
* The legal battle over Selendy & Gay’s billings following the departure from Quinn Emanuel pits contractual obligations against legal ethics. [New York Law Journal]