Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 02.02.18
* A question that has crossed the mind of every Biglaw corporate associate: “How much of lawyering is being a copy-and-paste monkey?” [3 Geeks and a Law Blog]
* Kenneth Jost notes out how Justices Ginsburg and Gorsuch like to butt heads — and scores the fight 2-0 in RBG’s favor. [Jost on Justice]
* And speaking of rumbles at One First Street, which pairs of justices have the most disagreements with each other, as reflected in majority and dissenting opinions? Adam Feldman has answers. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Saira Rao, former Cleary Gottlieb associate and author of the clerkship novel Chambermaid (affiliate link), takes on a new challenge: running for Congress. [American Bazaar]
* Data privacy is the name of the game these days, and Thomson Reuters is ready; TR showed off its new, Watson-enabled Data Privacy Advisor at Legalweek here in New York. [Dewey B Strategic]
* Amidst all the hoopla and robot fights at Legalweek, it would be easy to overlook the latest news from Neota Logic — but you shouldn’t. [Artificial Lawyer]
* Should more states move away from requiring unanimous jury verdicts in criminal cases? Joel Cohen argues that 11 is not enough. [Law & Crime]
* Can a U.S. court punish someone for their speech, on the theory that he breached an agreement not to speak, while keeping the speech-restrictive agreement secret? Eugene Volokh thinks not (with good reason). [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
* Dewey see an end in sight for legal proceedings related to the collapse of the Biglaw giant? Former executive director Stephen DiCarmine was supposed to be in court today to face fraud claims from the Securities and Exchange Commission, but it looks like the parties might have a deal. [Law360]
* If you will be in New York City next weekend and are interested Asian-American leadership in the legal field, consider attending Columbia APALSA’s annual conference — where Kathy Hirata Chin will be honored for her efforts to promote diversity in the legal profession. [Columbia Law School APALSA]
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Optimistic The Partisan Sh*tstorm We're Living In Will End
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Better Things To Do Than Attend Donald Trump's State Of The Union
She won't be around to watch the sure-to-be-disastrous address.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.29.18
* She’s going to be 85 in just a few months, and like a fine wine, she just keeps getting better with age. No one should count on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg retiring any time soon. [Associated Press]
* Speaking of Justice Ginsburg, you’re going to have to change up your State of the Union drinking games this year, because she won’t be in attendance. She’ll be on a Northeast law school tour instead — and she’ll be wide awake. [The Hill]
* The president wants “[his] guys” at the “Trump Justice Department” — but not Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, he wants Rosenstein out — to make public a classified memo on the Russia investigation, an act that the DOJ said would be “extraordinarily reckless.” [Washington Post]
* Don McGahn may have threatened to quit his job as White House counsel last summer, but because he decided to stick around, he’s been instrumental to the Trump administration in reshaping a much more conservative judiciary. [CNN]
* Just a few months ago, merger talks between Andrews Kurth and Hunton & Williams seemed pretty tepid, but now they’re heating up. We can tell because AK partners are being picked off by other firms like crazy. [American Lawyer]
* Justice is blind — and cheap: Stephen McAllister was recently sworn in as U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas, and he’s taking a humongous pay cut. The former Kansas Law dean earned more than $1 million by working three jobs, and his new gig pays more than $800K less. [National Law Journal]
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Coming To A Law School Near You: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg!
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Shares One Of Her Own #MeToo Experiences
Women in the legal profession and beyond who have experienced sexual harassment now know that they have a Supremely powerful ally. -
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The One Topic That Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Nothing To Say About
She's notoriously silent when it comes up during lunchtime conversations with her fellow justices. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.08.18
* Okay, let’s get this straight: Roy Moore’s Jewish lawyer isn’t Richard Jaffe, the one who voted for Doug Jones; no, Roy Moore’s Jewish lawyer is Martin Wishnatsky, the one who “has accepted Christ” as his savior. [Washington Post]
* In our last Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch, we focused a bit on the fact that rumored retiree Justice Anthony Kennedy hired a full set of clerks for OT 2018, but in case you missed it, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg already has a full set of clerks for OT 2019. The Notorious one isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. [Newsweek]
* Lawyers for the Department of Justice who are attempting to defend the Trump administration’s rescission of the DACA program have asked Judge William Alsup, who is handling the case, to ignore our “very stable genius” president’s recent tweets regarding the immigration policy. [The Recorder]
* Evan Greebel, pharma bro Martin Shkreli’s ex-lawyer, is facing hard prison time for conspiracy, but one of the juror’s who convicted him is having second thoughts. The former Biglaw partner better hope that Judge Kiyo Matsumoto decides to reopen his case. [Big Law Business]
* In what may have been some sort of a Christmas miracle, the legal sector witnessed a very slight uptick in jobs in December. Beggars can’t be choosers, so a gain of 600 jobs is better than nothing at all. Employment in the profession is still nowhere near where it once was before the recession. [American Lawyer]
* Lewis Donelson, cofounder of Baker Donelson, RIP. [Memphis Business Journal]
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A SCOTUS Justice With Refined Taste For The More Decadent Things In Life
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.10.11
* One of Roy Moore’s former law school classmates says he isn’t surprised that the former judge was accused of having a “sexual encounter” with an underage girl. He warns Alabama to “beware of false prophets,” because he’s seen “Bible-thumping, God-fearing hypocrites” all his life — and Moore is one of them. [Washington Examiner]
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President Trump’sthe DOJ’s chagrin, AT&T has no plans to sell CNN in order to push through its deal with Time Warner. [DealBook / New York Times]* Earlier this week, the Supreme Court released its first opinion of the October 2017 Term, less than a month after hearing oral arguments in the case. Justice “Rapid Ruth” Ginsburg wrote the Court’s unanimous opinion in record time. [Associated Press]
* Who is Kate O’Scannlain? You’re not the only one who has no idea, but she’s the Trump administration’s pick for solicitor of labor. You may be familiar with her dad, though. He’s a senior judge on the Ninth Circuit. [Big Law Business]
* According to a new report by the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance, although 2017 was a record year, women are still lagging behind men when it comes to making partner in law firms. This is apparently news to some people? [American Lawyer]
* A juror who was dismissed from Senator Bob Menendez’s bribery trial says she thinks this is going to end in a hung jury. She says if she would’ve stuck around, “he would have been ‘not guilty’ on every charge.” [New York Post]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.30.17
* Former President Barack Obama has been called for jury duty in November, and unlike most Americans, he’s not looking for a way to get out of serving. [ABC Chicago]
* The pivot you’re looking for is in another castle: Now that a grand jury’s approved the first charges in the Russian collusion investigation and someone’s about to be taken into custody, President Trump took to Twitter to demand that Hillary Clinton be investigated. [New York Times]
* Paul Manafort is turning himself in. Surprise! (Is this really a surprise?) [CNN]
* Like it or not, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is planning to be around for the long haul. Don’t count on this “flaming feminist litigator” retiring any time soon. [The Hill]
* Justice Don Willett of the Texas Supreme Court, the state’s Tweeter Laureate, hasn’t tweeted a single time since he was nominated to the Fifth Circuit. How long will this god-awful silence from everyone’s favorite Twitter judge last? [Texas Lawyer]
* So long, borrower-defense rule? Betsy DeVos is thinking about only partially forgiving loans for students who were defrauded by for-profit schools. [AP]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.24.17
* Former Dentons associate Michael Potere pleads guilty to lesser charge in extortion case where he allegedly broke into the firm’s system and threatened to hand over embarrassing material to Above the Law. The lesson is: if you have compromising information about your employer don’t try to extort your firm — just hand it directly to Above the Law. [The Recorder]
* A lot of people are chiming in to say that Trump’s decision to interview U.S. Attorney candidates is improper because it breaks with tradition or because he currently faces a special counsel investigation. That’s all true, but what should really raise red flags is in an administration riddled with open jobs and a floundering legislative agenda, the only thing a president under investigation seems to care about is picking his prosecutors. [Litigation Daily]
* We all kind of suspect that SCOTUS advocacy is largely a self-reinforcing old boys’ club, but here’s the data. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Chadbourne’s gender bias suit may be getting bigger. [Law360]
* Yes, RBG’s famous workout is now available in book form (affiliate link). [National Law Journal]
* In-house counsel say they want more from their law firms. And yet, I’m assuming they don’t want “more bills” from those firms for all this extra work. [Corporate Counsel]
* AUSA suspended for affair with FBI agent. What’s the ethical dilemma? We all know the FBI is shacked up with the U.S. Attorney’s Office anyway. [Law.com]
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Trump Predicts Justices Ginsburg And Sotomayor Will Die During His Presidency
Trump would just love it if a pair of powerful, outspoken women got out of his way. -
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Notorious R.B.G. Talks Trash About Gorsuch, Gerrymandering
She doesn't really seem to be a fan of either. -
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Claps Back At Neil Gorsuch
Don't sleep on RBG, she'll cut you down. -
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Still LOVES Being Called 'The Notorious R.B.G.'
This 'flaming feminist litigator' will always prefer to be no-no-no-NOTORIOUS! -
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thinks Sexism Is To Blame For Presidential Election Results
And yet, the Notorious RBG is still hopeful for gender equality in government in the future. -
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Tiffany Trump Attends Ruth Bader Ginsburg Talk And It Isn't Awkward At All
Tiffany Trump appreciates RBG's humor. -