Quinn Emanuel

  • Morning Docket: 03.05.18
    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]

  • Morning Docket: 02.15.18
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 02.15.18

    * A white substance sent to Stanford Law School turned out to be harmless, but the school remains concerned based an accompanying threat. [Stanford University News]

    * This prolonged malaise in the legal sector? Yeah, that’s not normal. [Law.com]

    * Fifth Circuit agrees that the bail system employed in the Houston area is unconstitutional. But, you know, didn’t go so far as to actually release anybody. [Courthouse News Service]

    * Selendy & Gay opens for business today after striking out on their own from Quinn Emanuel. [American Lawyer]

    * Playboy’s suit against Boing Boing — which sounds funnier than it is — was dismissed for failing to state a copyright claim. Playboy had sued Boing Boing for reporting on a website that contained copyrighted material in a certainly felt like a wild overreach. [EFF]

    * Partner’s son admits to embezzling $827K from firm. Whenever one of these office manager embezzling stories comes up I’m always left wondering how people manage to miss the first $826,999.

  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 02.09.18

    * Will Chief Justice John Roberts be asked to testify before Congress for his role as the appointer of judges for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court? According to House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), it could happen, even though they “don’t know the correct way to proceed because of the separation of powers issue.” [National Law Journal]

    * Quinn Emanuel’s Bill Burck is representing two Trump administration rejects (Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus) and a current major player in the Trump administration (Don McGahn), all at the same time. The discussion about whether there’s any conflict of interest here between Burck’s triple-play is pretty interesting. [American Lawyer]

    * Sigfredo Garcia and Katherine Magbanua, who are both currently waiting to stand trial for the murder of Florida State Law Professor Dan Markel, are now facing some additional charges. The pair now face counts of conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder. We wonder when either of them will take a plea. [Tallahassee Democrat]

    * In case you missed it, in a world first, Bermuda will be abolishing same-sex marriage, after legalizing same-sex marriage just one year ago. Same-sex marriages will now be referred to as domestic partnerships, conferring all the same rights that married couples have, but without the legal title. [Washington Post]

    * Do you know this man? For years and years, this man’s portrait has been hanging outside the chief justice’s chambers at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, but no one has any idea who he is. Help name this mystery justice and win a prize! [AP]

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  • Morning Docket: 02.08.18
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 02.08.18

    * “Nobody should live their life as a bystander. You’re going to do bigger things than me,” said Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells an audience in what will almost assuredly turn out to be a lie. [Daily Report Online]

    * While examining Uber’s former CEO, Charles Verhoeven of Quinn Emanuel successfully played a clip from Wall Street for jurors in the Uber-Waymo trial. Next up, “Dude where’s your car?” while interviewing the engineer who allegedly stole automotive plans. [The Recorder]

    * Andy Sandler is leaving Buckley Sandler to concentrate on his other three full-time jobs. Slacker. [Litigation Daily]

    * After winning a case for a wheelchair-bound former prosecutor and netting a share of her back pay settlement, attorney Mark Moody is suing his client, seeking a share of her salary on the logic that he technically “won” her job back entitling him to a share of her salary going forward. Wow. [NY Post]

    * Judge says serial objector engaged in conduct “unfitting for any member of the legal profession.” But, you know, offered no sanction whatsoever so that was more of an FYI. [American Lawyer]

    * Why Patriots Offensive Coordinator Josh McDaniels probably won’t be sued by the Colts despite the fact that they clearly detrimentally relied on his promises. [Sports Illustrated]

    * If you saw high-heeled shoes with a red sole, would you know who made them? Obviously. Yet Louboutin is embroiled in litigation over whether or not the brand really has a trademark. Another example of how if you parse every legal conundrum to death, you will only achieve absurd results — [Quartz]

  • Morning Docket: 12.29.17
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.29.17

    * Both Quinn Emanuel and Kirkland & Ellis are moving into Boston. Is this going to be a trend? Is there enough extra work laying around up there for this to be a trend? [American Lawyer]

    * Look forward to hearing more about machine learning in 2018! It’s good to know it won’t all be vague conversations about blockchain next year. [Legaltech News]

    * Jeff Sessions opens door to debtor’s prisons, because of course he does. [New York Times]

    * And… here come the lawsuits over Apple’s newly uncovered practice of slowing down old phones. There’s a lot of ill will about these types of suits, but this is a pretty good example of how out of hand things can get without the threat of litigation. [Daily Business Review]

    * Texas Lawyer put together a top 10 list of the troubled lawyers and judges of 2017. [Texas Lawyer]

    * Steptoe’s John Nolan Jr., who negotiated the Bay of Pigs prisoner releases, has passed. [National Law Journal]

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  • Morning Docket: 11.09.17
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.09.17

    * Harvey Weinstein is bringing on famed defense attorney Ben Brafman who is conveniently not representing the New York Times at the moment. [Reuters]

    * Appellate attorney spoke candidly about the lack of funding for his death penalty appeal, prompting the state quickly remedy the situation to avoid the specter of injustice. Nah, just kidding, they fired the attorney. [Salt Lake Tribune]

    * Texas judge ordered to take a class on listening. There are probably a few other judges that could use a refresher course on that. [Texas Lawyer]

    * There’s a new GC at the NLRB and he’s fired up and ready to begin dismantling the agency and turning a blind eye to the constituents he’s supposed to serve. [Law360]

    * Election day swept some Biglaw lawyers into office. [National Law Journal]

    * Locke Lord hit with £500,000 over a London partner’s “dubious” financial arrangements. [American Lawyer]

    * Companies continue to delay sweeping information governance changes. But soon they might be unavoidable if clients want to keep discovery costs down. [Legaltech News]

    * A $30 million lawsuit against Morgan Lewis for alleged conflicts will go forward. [Legal Intelligencer]

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    The Games Law Students Play: Law school BINGO: at some point in their academic career every lawyer has played it. Now Joe Patrice passes the time-honored tradition down to the next generation of 1Ls. And I’m not saying it should be played as a drinking game, just that it could be played as a drinking game.

    https://abovethelaw.com/2015/01/the-quintessential-law-school-game-lets-all-play/

    Mexico’s Baffling Generosity: Mexico has offered assistance to Texas in the wake of the historic flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey. Elie Mystal is … a lot more petty than that, but that’s why he’s not in charge.

    https://abovethelaw.com/2017/08/should-mexico-help-our-country-recover-from-harvey/

    Quinn Emanuel Wows With Special Bonus — But There’s A Catch: It’s a classic story of good news, bad news. Staci Zaretsky reports Quinn will be banking 1% of firm profits for special bonuses (in addition to end-of-year bonuses) for second- through sixth-year associates, but the money doesn’t vest for three years, and the lawyers have to be at the firm to get the payday.

    https://abovethelaw.com/2017/08/associate-bonus-watch-litigation-powerhouse-announces-special-bonus-pool/?rf=1

    Holy Sexism Batman! Baylor Law School sent around a job listing for a local law firm seeking “Baylor Law School wives” for a clerical position. The out-of-touch language is drawing ire, since, you know, now they admit women to law school.

    https://abovethelaw.com/2017/08/law-school-posts-job-listing-seeking-wives-of-students/?rf=1

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