Racism
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Law Schools
Penn Trustee Resigns In Defense Of Amy Wax's God-Given Right To Make Up False Claims About Students
He appears to have never bothered to follow, well, any of the Wax controversy based on his misconception of basic facts in this letter. -
Law Schools
Amy Wax Relieved Of Her 1L Teaching Duties After Bald-Faced Lying About Black Students
Amy Wax finally took her racially insulting behavior far enough that the school had to step in. - Sponsored
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Biglaw
Former Biglaw Partner Under Fire For Allegedly Making Racist, Sexist Comments
Find out about the scandal that has ended an illustrious legal career.
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Biglaw
Quinn Emanuel Benchslapped For Saying Use Of 'N-Word' Was Bad Joke
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.13.18
* Winston & Strawn revenue up 19 percent last year after securing a hefty contingency fee in the pink slime matter. Despite their victory, we suspect these lawyers are using their windfall on grass-fed free-range beef. [American Lawyer]
* In the continuing war on class actions as a lingering nuisance to our corporate overlords, the Supreme Court may be taking aim at cy pres settlements to “protect the class” by making class actions harder to pull together. [National Law Journal]
* The photographer from the horrendous decision ruling that embedded Tweets are copyright violations is fighting an effort by defendants to get an interlocutory appeal to clear up this travesty as quickly as possible. You know, to save the Internet. [Law360]
* In an article that manages to avoid any reference to Ready Player One, Rhys Dipshan considers the IP challenges facing widespread adoption of VR and AR products. As an example, the article considers what would happen if someone put that famous picture of Albert Einstein into the game. Perhaps the better question is why isn’t that in the public domain and can VR be the technology that finally reverses the broken IP regime Sonny Bono dropped on us? [Legaltech News]
* Can California’s sanctuary laws survive federal assault? Professor Noah Feldman says they should. [Bloomberg]
* Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff considers the sideshow of a career his Penn Law colleague Amy Wax has decided to pursue. [Faculty Lounge]
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Law Schools
Professor Declares Black Students 'Rarely' Graduate In The Top Half Of Law School Class
And have *never* graduated in the top quarter as far as she can remember. -
Law Schools
You Actually Won't Believe Who Is Suing DePaul Law School For Discrimination
I did not see this one coming. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.02.18
* This weekend, Sheppard Mullin — and Lankler Siffert & Wohl for that matter — will be pulling for Abacus: Small Enough To Jail, the stellar documentary about the only bank prosecuted for the housing crisis that starred the lawyers who represented Abacus and its family owners. [New York Law Journal]
* In the first year of its merger, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer earned 1 percent over its legacy firm totals. Firm chairman Richard Alexander describes the firm as “generally… pleased.” But not pleased enough to keep Kaye Scholer on its branding. [National Law Journal]
* Robert Schulman is hoping the Second Circuit can get him out of his drunken insider trading conviction. [Law360]
* Texas Wesleyan is looking for a new baseball coach after firing the last one for rejecting a Colorado recruit and telling the kid the school wouldn’t recruit from states with legal weed. [VICE News]
* Now we have sovereign cryptocurrency which kind of defeats the whole point, but whatever. [Bitcoinist]
* Your daily reminder that white supremacists are bad people. [ABA Journal]
* Speaking of white supremacists, FSU Law students have started to notice that their main academic building is a tribute to a segregationist and that maybe that’s a bad thing. [Tallahassee Democrat]
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Law Schools
Law Professor Drops Racial Slur In Class Because Otherwise How Will Black Students Ever Learn About Racism?
There's no excuse for employing racial epithets in the classroom, but this law professor's going to try and come up with some. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.01.18
* The NFL is going to ask Jerry Jones to reimburse legal fees spent on Roger Goodell’s contract negotiations because Jones — prudently and responsibly — argued that the league had an obligation not to rubber stamp a multi-million dollar extension to this idiot. You’ve got to hand it to Goodell… he’s made Jerry Jones a sympathetic figure. [NPR]
* Tim Kaine is leading a handful of Democrats in an effort to make it harder to enforce anti-discrimination laws in the housing market. Oh. [Huffington Post]
* Kirkland & Ellis is out there doing crazy stuff to bolster revenue… and it’s working. [Law.com]
* SEC reportedly issuing subpoenas in crackdown on fraudulent ICOs. Apparently, the agency is concerned that some companies handing out magic beans may not be on the up and up. [Bloomberg Markets]
* Alston & Bird tagged by jury as 32 percent liable for its role in enabling millions in ill-gotten gains. [Daily Report Online]
* Harvey Weinstein’s carrier refuses to cover his legal bills. Apparently “Chubb” doesn’t cover horny men accused of misconduct which seems ironic. [Variety]
* A dive into just how badly the Supreme Court kneecapped detained immigrants and their attorneys this week. [VICE News]
* The first editorial from the American Lawyer’s Young Lawyer Editorial Board tackles sexual harassment in the legal industry. [American Lawyer]
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Government
When Sessions Talks About The Law's 'Anglo-American Heritage,' It Can Be Accurate And Racist At The Same Time
How you feel about the phrase "Anglo-American heritage" says a lot about how you view racism. -
Conferences / Symposia
Getting Ahead Of Implicit Bias In The Legal Profession
Implicit bias may not be something you can eradicate, but it's something you can control. -
Law Schools
Judge Who Made Racist Comments To Law Students Resigns
Can this judge ever be fair to minorities from her high seat on the bench?
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Law Schools
Judge Tells Law Students That Rooms 'Full Of Big Dark People' Make Her Uncomfortable
The school called this an 'important learning moment' for law students. -
Law Schools
Penn Law's Holiday Letter Adroitly Avoids That Whole 'Superior Culture' Incident This Year
One story loomed over 2017 for Penn Law. But you wouldn't know it from the dean's letter. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.26.17
* “Neighbors are fed up with ‘crazy’ lawyer’s nonstop screaming” [NY Post]
* Should white supremacists be barred from practicing law? Wouldn’t that leave the DOJ with some high-profile vacancies? [Huffington Post]
* More on law school’s making a “comeback” despite the legal job market holding mostly flat. That sounds like a recipe for success. [Winston-Salem Journal]
* As we march toward the year’s end, the “year in review” pieces are coming fast and furious. Here’s Law360’s legal industry recap. [Law360]
* A deep dive into oral argument practices. Neil Gorsuch is all about the snark. [Empirical SCOTUS]
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Biglaw
We Needed A Whole 'Spotlight' Investigation To Figure Out Boston Is Still Racist?
The numbers on law firm partner diversity are laughable, pathetic, and entirely predictable. -
Education / Schools
Nasty Roommate Arrested For, Essentially, Bio-Terrorism To Get Rid Of Her Black Roommate
University didn't seem to take the allegations serious until it went... viral. -
Courts
Suspect Asks For A 'Lawyer, Dog,' Willfully Ignorant Court Denies Comma, Counsel
A Louisiana court was willing to look incredibly stupid to read in ambiguity. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.25.17
* Fresh off his six-month stint as White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus will be returning to Am Law 200 firm Michael Best and Friedrich, where he’ll serve as president and chief strategist. He’ll lead the firm’s government affairs practice group, and he plans to help clients with their Trump problems. Best of luck, those clients might need it. [POLITICO]
* Sorry, consumers, but the Senate had to call in VP Mike Pence in the middle of the night to kill the the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule banning mandatory arbitration clauses in credit card and checking account agreements. Damn all those “frivolous lawsuits by special interest trial lawyers”! [The Two-Way / NPR]
* Author John Grisham was inspired to write his latest novel, The Rooster Bar (affiliate link), after reading an article in The Atlantic by Paul Campos about for-profit law schools and the student loan crisis. Well, at least someone is going to make some money after learning about a for-profit law school. [CBS News]
* Biglaw firms are trying to reduce the amount of their leased square footage. According to the CBRE Group, on average between the first quarter of 2016 and the second quarter of 2017, firms in 26 markets were able to shrink their office space by about 27 percent. But did their headcount shrink along with it? [Wall Street Journal]
* Major lateral hire alert: Paul Basta left Kirkland & Ellis this summer, and now he’s landed at Paul Weiss, where he’ll be working as the co-chair of the firm’s corporate restructuring practice. Alan Kornberg, the practice group’s current chair, called Basta’s arrival at the firm “sort of a dream come true in a way.” [Big Law Business]
* According to a study conducted by Professor Carlos Berdejó of Loyola Law School, prosecutors tend to give white defendants better plea deals than black defendants. We needed a study to confirm that some prosecutors discriminate based on race? [Slate]