Quinn Emanuel
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.19.18
* John Quinn of Quinn Emauel has no plans to step down as managing partner, no plans to retire any time soon, and no desire to do any succession planning (aka “an example of superfluous business school-speak that adds nothing”) for his firm. After all, the business of law “is a pretty dumb business.” [American Lawyer]
* Elon Musk has been sued by a Tesla shareholder in the Delaware Court of Chancery over his “erratic behavior” and the company’s board has been dragged into the suit for their alleged “gross mismanagement” of Musk’s Twitter antics. [Delaware Business Court Insider]
* If you’re in the Los Angeles area and you’re a fan of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, you may want to stop by the Skirball Cultural Center to see its latest museum exhibition, which will be going on until mid-March: “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” [Los Angeles Times]
* An expert witness says this Biglaw partner’s deposition tactics and demeanor gave him a health scare. “I felt like a prisoner before a Nazi-administered trial and became seriously concerned and stressed about what was happening.” [Law.com]
* Fix your gaze on this, pre-law students: If you want to learn how you can ace the LSAT, you may want to take a look at this study on eye tracking. [Berkeley News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.11.18
* If you’ve been following the Adidas wire fraud saga you know they have more than their share of headaches. So they’ve hired a senior in-house person from Bayer. See what I did there? [Corporate Counsel]
* Middle Tennessee becomes the new home for Valpo students… subject to approval. I’m old enough to remember when Valpo adamantly denied they were in trouble? Ah, 2017! [Daily News Journal]
* Former Biglaw partner gets 5 year prison term. [New Jersey Law Journal]
* Litigation finance earmarking $50 million for women-led matters. [American Lawyer]
* A welcome development in the Robert Indiana case. [Law360]
* Who’s excited about class action fee settlements! [NY Times]
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Biglaw
David Boies Scores Coup With HUGE Lateral Pickup
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Biglaw
18 Attorneys Jump From Quinn Emanuel, Head To Loving Embrace Of Dechert
A lot of lawyers are changing firms. -
Biglaw
Quinn Emanuel Is Quick To Fall In Line With New Market Salaries
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Selendy & Gay Raise Associate Salaries, And I Can't Wait For The Quinn Emanuel Response
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John Quinn Wants Partners To Regret Leaving His Firm
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.31.18
* Avenatti is no longer trying to get in on the Michael Cohen case… because he says they’re already going to get all the documents they need. [CNBC]
* Weil Gotshal shortening its partnership track in bid to keep young talent around. [New York Law Journal]
* Former K&L Gates business development manager charged with threatening a professor who had written that Trump voters were violent racists. A point underscored when… violent racists started making threats against him. [American Lawyer]
* Ethics experts weigh in on Quinn Emanuel’s forfeiture-for-competition clause. They… don’t like it. [Law360]
* We’ve talked about White & Case’s decorating chops before. Now they’ve got themselves a new Silicon Valley look. [The Recorder]
* California passes a strict net neutrality bill. I guess they weren’t compelled by Ajit Pai’s stupid video. [Courthouse News Service]
* National Law Journal names the DC litigation departments of the year. Do we have a name for this? Like “The Deecees” or something? [National Law Journal]
* Legendary internet commenter “Loyola 2L” has dropped his mask. [American Lawyer]
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Biglaw
Quinn Emanuel Revamps Its Summer Associate Program By Bringing Back On-Campus Interviews
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.30.18
* Guess which Biglaw firm has decided to bring back on-campus recruiting for its summer associate program? Here’s a hint: You’re going to need a pair of flip flops. We’ll have more on this later today. [American Lawyer]
* With an estimated $11 million annual salary, Sandra Goldstein, who recently left Cravath for Kirkland & Ellis, may be the highest paid female partner in all of Biglaw. You go, girl! [The Careerist]
* Speaking of female Biglaw partners, Bracewell partner Barbara Jones’s $700 per hour rate as special master in the review of materials seized from Michael Cohen’s office has added up to a pretty YUGE bill for just one week’s worth of work: $47,390. [New York Law Journal]
* The Justice Department approved a merger between Bayer and Monsanto, but only after the companies agreed to dump $9 billion in business assets. “Today’s news makes it clear that our antimonopoly laws are completely worthless,” said one farm group that’s just thrilled by the news. [Washington Post]
* Eduardo M. Peñalver, the first Latino dean of an Ivy League law school, has been reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of Cornell Law after achieving quite a few milestones for employment and bar pass rates at the school. [Cornell Chronicle]
* Briana Williams, a single mother who requested an epidural while she was in labor so her contractions wouldn’t interfere with her completion of a final exam, recently graduated from Harvard Law School. Much respect from one law mama to another. Congratulations and best of luck in all that you do! [Yahoo!]
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Biglaw
Quinn Emanuel Filed A Complaint To Save An Artist's Life... Sadly, It Came Too Late
Star art world litigator Luke Nikas filed suit to protect an elderly artist. Now the fight is over Indiana's legacy.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.23.18
* A trio of big name partners — including the group co-chairs — are leaving the products liability group at Quinn Emanuel for Dechert. So far there’s no email from John Quinn blasting the move. [Law.com]
* Former Michael Cohen business partner, Evgeny “Gene” Freidman, has taken a plea deal and will cooperate with the government. The pressure on Cohen just keeps on mounting. [New York Times]
* Michigan State named a new General Counsel, Robert Young. That poor bastard. [Corporate Counsel]
* A couple trying to get their 30-year-old son to move out of their house resort to court proceedings. It… does not work out well for the freeloading son. [Washington Post]
* You’re not wrong to be worried about the merger between AT&T and Time Warner. Things could really go pear-shaped for consumers. [Slate]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.11.18
* Senator Chuck Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee really, really, really wants any Supreme Court justice who’s considering retiring any time soon to speed things up and retire immediately so their successor can be confirmed ASAP before the midterms. You hear that, Justice Kennedy? You apparently need to announce your retirement “now or within two or three weeks.” [Reuters]
* Quinn Emanuel may face an investigation from the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the agency responsible for overseeing attorneys in the United Kingdom, in the wake of allegations concerning a dismissed partner’s inappropriate behavior. The firm reported itself to the SRA, because it takes the allegations “extremely seriously.” [Legal Week]
* Squire Patton Boggs is really trying to distance itself from Michael Cohen. Remember that strategic alliance they had? Psshtttttt, please, forget about that. Under the bus you go, my friend: “At all times, Cohen maintained his independence, was not an employee of the firm, and did not maintain files or bill clients through the firm.” [The Hill]
* The Federal Communications Commission is planning to kill net neutrality on June 11, one day before the Senate is set to vote on Congressional Review Act resolution that seeks to overturn the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality rules. [NPR]
* Dr. Dre, the rapper, lost a trademark infringement fight against Dr. Drai, the gynecologist. These motherf**kers at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office act like they forgot about Dre. [Courthouse News Service]
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Celebrities, Finance
Jay-Z's Got 99 Problems And This SEC Subpoena Might Be One
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Biglaw, Health / Wellness
Biglaw Partner Wants The World To Know He Suffers From Depression
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Litigators
Implicit Bias In Legal Arguments -- The Optics Always Matter
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Biglaw
Quinn Emanuel Benchslapped For Saying Use Of 'N-Word' Was Bad Joke
The judge wasn't particularly amused by this 'joke.' -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.11.18
* This great profile of Chuck Cooper, by Tierney Sneed of TPM, includes more details on why he withdrew from the solicitor general sweepstakes. [Talking Points Memo]
* A team from Quinn Emanuel, led by high-profile hire Alex Spiro, is repping Jay-Z in a trademark fight. Can Biglaw + Beyonce be far behind? [Hollywood Reporter]
* Steven Brill, the godfather of modern legal journalism, launches his latest venture: NewsGuard, which “uses journalism to fight fake news.” [Dewey B Strategic]
* Speaking of “fake news,” leading media lawyer Charles Glasser puts President Trump’s “war on the press” in a broader, global context. [Daily Caller]
* Still on the subject of POTUS v. Press, is the media being played in the Stormy Daniels drama? Joel Cohen and Dale Degenshein think so. [Law & Crime]
* Strange bedfellows at One First Street: Adam Feldman looks at Supreme Court cases featuring unusual ideological alliances. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Protip for litigators and litigants: don’t tick off Judge Frederic Block (or any other judge presiding over your case, for that matter). [artnet]
* If our five Biglaw business development tips weren’t enough for you, Jane Genova adds two more for your consideration. [Law And More]
* How can technology be harnessed to bridge the justice gap? Neota Logic has some ideas. [Artificial Lawyer]