Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is A Beast In The Gym
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Drama About Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg And Sandra Day O'Connor Coming To A TV Screen Near You
The show will focus on the justices' friendship and how the social impact of their jurisprudence has shaped the high court and the country. - Sponsored
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What's It Like To Be Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Granddaughter?
Life is sweet when your Bubbie is on the Supreme Court.
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The 'RBG' Movie: A Portrait Of A Supreme Court Justice Whose Commitment To Women's Rights Has Shaped The Nation
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life has been dedicated to seeking justice for all, but for women especially. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.11.18
* President Trump may have a very busy Saturday night planned, because according to inside sources, he’s considering firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — or even Attorney General Jeff Sessions — in an attempt to take “aggressive action” against special counsel Robert Mueller. He could even fire Mueller, since he “believes he has the power to do so.” [CNN]
* Squire Patton Boggs ended its relationship with Michael Cohen on the same day his office was raided by the FBI, but sources inside the firm seem to have no idea why the firm’s relationship existed with Cohen in the first place. Cohen was supposedly there to “advance the interests” of Squire’s clients, but lawyers say they were generally kept in the dark about those alleged client interests. [American Lawyer]
* The Trumpiest of those who reside in Trumpland? Apparently that honor goes to Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, but it’s worth noting that the justice “has not gone nearly as far as his Ginni in embracing fringy Trumpist dogma.” [Slate]
* Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg swore in 201 new U.S. citizens in New York yesterday, much to their surprise. Here’s what one new American said about being addressed by Justice Ginsburg: “I felt so important. Sitting in front of somebody so special, I felt so special. I feel like I’m in my own country now.” [New York Daily News]
* Ieshia Champs, a 33-year-old single mother of five children, will be graduating from the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University later this spring, and her inspirational graduation photos — which include all five of her kids — are going viral. A well-deserved congratulations go out to Ieshia from ATL! [The Grio]
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Supreme Court
When You're Getting Reamed For Saying It's OK To Compare Gay People To Murderers, Doubling Down On Calling Justice Sotomayor 'Thuggish' Ought To Fix Things
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Dedicated Crusader For Women's Equality
Her unending, focused dedication to justice and equality has helped to clear a path for the rest of us. - Sponsored
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Stephen Colbert Can't Handle Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Workout Routine
The 85-year-old justice gets absolutely notorious in the gym. -
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Adds 'Style Icon' To Her Résumé With Love Of High-Class Scrunchies
The Notorious R.B.G. is a fashion trendsetter for women's hair accessories. -
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stars In Her Very Own Film, 'RBG'
The documentary about the 'flaming feminist litigator' will be featured at select theaters on May 4, 2018. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.14.18
* Ever since Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit, who had been accused of sexual harassment by 15 women, retired, a working group within the federal judiciary has been trying to come up with reforms to be made as far as sexual harassment is concerned. Thus far, they’ve come up with about 20 reforms, and Chief Justice John Roberts is confident the group’s work will “ensure an exemplary workplace for every court employee.” [National Law Journal]
* Time’s up, UK: The Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales has warned law firms not to use nondisclosure agreements to cover up sexual harassment and assault scandals. After all, these are instances of professional misconduct, so of course a professional regulatory agency wants to know about that. [American Lawyer]
* Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be turning 85 later this week, and she says she’s “feeling fine.” Many hope that the self-described “flaming feminist litigator” continues to feel that way until we find a way to turn her into a little RBG judicial bot that will never, ever short-circuit — or until there’s a Democrat in office. [USA Today]
* Nichole Ashley Collins, the Pennsylvania lawyer who was fired for allegedly stealing money from her firm and then returned to the firm to allegedly steal more money to buy sex toys, has been disbarred. Who would’ve expected such a thing… [FOX 43]
* Prosecutors in Florida will seek the death penalty against Nikolas Cruz for his role as the accused gunman in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. Last week, Cruz was indicted by a grand jury on 17 counts of premeditated murder in the first degree and 17 counts of attempted murder in the first degree. [CNN]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.12.18
* President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, claims that he used his home equity line to pay off Stormy Daniels out of the goodness of his heart, and while people have been focusing on the fact that he may have violated campaign finance laws, not many have mentioned that he likely violated New York’s ethics rules, would could get him disbarred. [Slate]
* Remember the time that Judge Katherine Forrest ruined the internet with a single ruling? Several media outlets are preparing to appeal to the Second Circuit, saying the copyright decision could change the internet as we know it. [Big Law Business]
* Dean Andrea Lyon of Valparaiso Law — the school that’s not closing, per se, but will stop accepting students and is hoping to merge with another school or move locations — will be resigning on June 1. No one knows what will happen to the school, and soon there won’t even be a dean. These poor students… [Indianapolis Business Journal]
* Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a foodie, and in honor of her upcoming birthday — and because “[s]he eats real food and plenty of it” — here are a few of the Notorious One’s favorite places to dine in her hometown of New York City. [am New York]
* The February bar exam has come and gone, and with it, hundreds of jobs across the entire legal services industry. According to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 200 fewer people were employed in the legal sector last month than in January. Hopefully things improve before graduation. [American Lawyer]
* “Katy Perry represents everything we don’t believe in. It would be a sin to sell to her.” Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, 89, who had been locked in litigation with the singer and the archdioces for several years over the sale of her former convent, collapsed and died in court on Friday during a post-judgment hearing. [NPR]
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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]
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Courts
Is It Time To Stop Worshipping Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg As A Legal Celebrity?
Some would agree to disagree with this law professor. -
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Likes 'Most' Of Her Supreme Court Colleagues
Justice Ginsburg also touched on collegiality at the high court, the #MeToo movement, and the role of sexism in the 2016 election. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 02.11.18
* Uber and Waymo settled, so now we can have flying cars. Or something. [Corporate Counsel]
* New charges in the Dan Markel murder case. [U.S. News]
* Trump can pretty much get away with anything, so why not talk to prosecutors and just take the Fifth? [The Hill]
* A look at the difficult work of navigating a romance at work. [Law and More]
* A week in the life of a mom working as a solo practitioner. [CorporetteMoms]
* An excellent new podcast for aspiring trial lawyers, from McKool Smith and Benchmark Litigation, kicks off by interviewing legendary litigator Evan Chesler of Cravath. [McKool Smith]
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Still Can't Believe She's An Octogenarian Pop Culture Icon
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.05.18
* “I’d like to see in the Constitution a statement that men and women are people of equal citizenship stature. I’d like to see an equal rights amendment in our Constitution.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is all in favor of amending the Constitution to benefit women. Are you? [Washington Post]
* Kashyap Patel, the “primary author” of the House Intelligence Committee’s secret memo, is no stranger to controversy. You may remember when he dropped out of this bachelor auction due to an issue with his license to practice or from this “Order on Ineptitude” after he was berated by a federal judge. [New York Times]
* Duke Law has a brand new dean, and she’ll be starting her job come July 1. Congratulations to Kerry Abrams — “one of the brightest stars in legal education” — on becoming one of the handful of women to lead one of America’s top law schools. [Duke Today]
* The DOJ wants former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s suit against special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein to be tossed, arguing that its only purpose is to “interfere with [his] ongoing criminal prosecution.” Yep, that was the whole point. [CNN]
* Ouch! One Am Law 100 Firm is experiencing that awkward moment when management decides to completely scrub the name of the firm’s major merger partner from all of its branding, just one year after the combination was consummated. [American Lawyer]