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Law Schools
Dean Builds 146th Best Law School And Retires With $5.3 Million Package
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 11.12.19
* A University of North Texas lawyer has resigned after using the N-word during a free speech panel at the school. This attorney just learned a valuable lesson in free speech. [New York Post]
* A lawyer set to argue an important case about DACA in front of the Supreme Court is a Dreamer himself. [CNN}
* Hundreds have signed a petition in opposition to Scott Brown’s appointment as president of New England Law. [Boston Globe]
* An attorney from Roswell, New Mexico, is running against President Donald Trump in the New Hampshire primary. His chances of winning are out of this world… [KOAT Action News]
* Lawyers for Representative Tulsi Gabbard are demanding that Hillary Clinton retract allegedly defamatory comments about Gabbard’s relationship with Russia. [Hill]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.25.16
* A lawsuit by New York Giants player Jason Pierre-Paul against ESPN will go forward. The firework enthusiast is mad ESPN reporter Adam Schefter tweeted out a pic of the x-ray of his hand after an accident last Fourth of July. [The Hollywood Reporter]
* The Kardashians are changing their #sponsoredcontent ways. [Jezebel]
* How lawsuits against Ivy League retirement plans could help you — by William Birdthistle, author of Empire of the Fund (affiliate link). [Forbes]
* A Republican Super PAC is going hard after Fordham Law professor and Congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout. [The Slot]
* “I knew you would pull it off.” When clients help their lawyers with an impressive victory. [Katz Justice]
* Exactly how readable are the decisions from the 2015 Supreme Court term? [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Are immigration glitches hurting American farmers? [Huffington Post]
* Should you feel sorry for Scott Brown because he wasn’t named in a lawsuit? [Law and More]
* This is how the Ivies bust unions. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.24.16
* A debate between two British academics in honor of National Ukrainian Independence Day. [Debates.EU]
* Fascinating podcast with Professor Steve Drizin who heads up the legal team defending Making A Murderer’s Brendan Dassey. [Scalar Learning]
* You really don’t want a stressed out jury on your hands. [Law360]
* The University of Kentucky would rather sue its student newspaper than release documents about a professor accused of sexual assault. [Buzzfeed]
* Early retirement is probably not happening for law firm partners. [Law and More]
* The Title VII loopholes restaurants use to only hire pretty servers. [Jezebel]
* Scott Brown is denying Andrea Tantaros’ allegations that he sexually harassed her at Fox News. [Slate]
* Is law school worth the money? 1 percent of attorneys have high paying careers — you be the judge. [Investopedia]
* Analogizing law school to setting a track and field world record. [Tax Prof Blog]
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Trivia Question of the Day
Learning The Essential Skill Of Dealing With Loss
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Crime
So Maybe This Affluenza Thing Really Was B.S. -- Arrest Warrant Issued
Probation was apparently too difficult for this delicate little snowflake. -
Copyright, Fashion, Legal Ethics, Non-Sequiturs, Reader Polls, Television, Weddings
Non-Sequiturs: 09.08.14
* David Letterman and CBS got smacked with the latest internship class action. To think, poor Paul Shaffer’s been working for free all those years. [Deadline] * Class action could be on the horizon over high-frequency trading. [Wall Street Journal] * Frankly, I don’t know what the problem is. [Washington Post] * You may have been following the story of Justice Ginsburg’s officiating a wedding in New York this weekend. Well, if so, here’s the Times write-up. [New York Times] * The federal courts are looking at tightening the word limits on appellate briefs. How do you feel about this move? I’m with the author that “The number of cases where attorneys think they need a word extension is greater than the number of cases that actually warrant one.” [New Mexico Appellate Law Blog] * Scott Brown, formerly of both Massachusetts and the Senate, is threatening to sue Harvard’s Larry Lessig after Lessig labeled the Nixon Peabody “advisor on governmental affairs” a “lobbyist.” Lessig asks if the campaign preferred he write the more technical, “sold his influence to a DC lobbying firm.” Ha. [Time] * Fordham professor Susan Scafidi, founder of the Fashion Law Institute and designer Narciso Rodriguez make the case for strong legal protection for fashion designs. [Room for Debate / New York Times] * On Friday, Keith Lee wrote about a lawyer who billed a client for sanctions. We’ve written before about lawyers billing for the time spent boning their clients. A law professor who teaches professional responsibility asks: “Is billing for sanctions better or worse than billing for sex. I say sanctions. Can we have a survey on this?” Of course you can. Poll after the jump…. -
Airplanes / Aviation, Biglaw, Books, Celebrities, Cocaine / Crack, Law Schools, Libraries / Librarians, Mergers and Acquisitions, Morning Docket, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Weirdness
Morning Docket: 04.04.14
* “Those who support limits see the court right now as the T. rex from ‘Jurassic Park.’” Folks are pretty worried even more campaign finance laws will fall thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling in the McCutcheon v. FEC case. [New York Times]
* Skadden Arps and Simpson Thacher are at the top of their game when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. Both firms did very well in new deal rankings released by Bloomberg, Mergermarket, and Thomson Reuters. Nice. [Am Law Daily]
* Former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown has reportedly ditched Nixon Peabody to try his hand at a U.S. Senate run in New Hampshire. We hope he doesn’t lose his shirt again. Oh wait… [Boston Globe]
* As it turns out, the book in the Harvard Law library once believed to be bound in human skin is actually bound in sheepskin. Congrats, this is slightly less creepy. [Et Seq. / Harvard Law School Library Blog]
* Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson was turned away from a flight to the U.S. after her admission to coke usage in a trial. She should probably stop sticking her nose in other people’s business. [The Guardian]
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3rd Circuit, Cocaine / Crack, Crime, Dolores Sloviter, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Saira Rao, Tax Law
Non-Sequiturs: 03.11.13
* Recently ousted Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown has a new law firm. Apparently not everyone’s a winner at Nixon Peabody these days. [Political Intelligence / Boston Globe] * So, and maybe I’m reading too much into this story, I think this guy likes cocaine. [The Pulp / Broward Palm Beach Times] * If you’re at NYU, the Law Review has been holding out on you with a private stockpile of outlines. Prometheus brings them to the masses. I don’t know why this person chose a terrible movie for a pseudonym. [PrometheusNYU] * If you’re doing your taxes in Minnesota, you’d better be using H&R Block, because the authorities have warned taxpayers not to use TurboTax. [Tax Prof Blog] * Burglar foiled by “supernatural figure.” [Legal Juice] * Judge Dolores Sloviter, the former Chief Judge of the Third Circuit, announced that she’s taking senior status. That should lighten the load on her law clerks… [Legal Intelligencer] * Earlier today, Staci was on HuffPo Live talking about the plight of recent law school graduates. Video after the jump…. -
Election 2012, Politics, Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Quote of the Day: That's Also Not a Real Answer, But Whatever, You're An Independent!
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Attorney Misconduct, Bar Exams, Celebrities, Charles Fried, Fabulosity, Laurence Tribe, Law Professors, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Reader Polls
An Update on the Elizabeth Warren Law License Controversy
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Attorney Misconduct, Bar Exams, Celebrities, Fabulosity, Law Professors, Law Schools, Legal Ethics
Does Elizabeth Warren Have a Law License Problem?
That's the question a Cornell law professor is asking. What are Warren's possible defenses? -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Copyright, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Football, Gay Marriage, Law Professors, Law Schools, LLMs, Morning Docket, Music, Politics, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner
Morning Docket: 05.09.12
* Dewey get the chance to reap revenge against all of the partners who defected? Only in bankruptcy clawback suits. Many are keeping an eye on the Coudert and Thelen Chapter 11 cases to see if they’ll have to pay up. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* “People have bigger concerns on their mind than whether Elizabeth Warren is 1/32 Cherokee.” Well, Scott Brown isn’t most people. He wants all of her job records from her career as a law professor. [Washington Wire / Wall Street Journal]
* “We are not anti-gay, we are pro-marriage.” I don’t think “pro-marriage” means what you think it means. Last night, North Carolina voters passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in the state. [CNN]
* Mike McQueary is filing a whistleblower lawsuit against Penn State. Hate to say it, but that’s definitely not the first time Penn State’s seen a lawsuit over something being blown in the locker room. [Centre Daily Times]
* Washington University in St. Louis Law is launching an online LL.M. program for foreign lawyers for the low, low price of $48K. The exchange rate surely can’t be good enough for that to be worth it. [New York Times]
* Joran van der Sloot will likely be extradited to the United States from Peru this summer. His lawyer, Maximo Altez, isn’t a fan, because he thinks that we’ll charge his client with murder. America, f**k yeah! [ABC News]
* Oh, of course a member of the Village People’s claim just had to be the test case for 35-year copyright transfer termination. Well, kudos to you, Mr. Motorcycle Cop. You’re a real “Macho Man.” [Bloomberg]
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Morning Docket: 11.16.11
* One of the reasons that members of Congress are so filthy rich is because they’re only technically breaking the law, but Scott Brown wants to try to curb Congressional “insider trading.” [CBS News] * In other Congressional news, pizza is now considered a vegetable. And fat people the world over rejoiced by stuffing their […]
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Election 2012, Politics, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Not Everyone Can Be a Hottie With a Body
Thank God! — Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown commenting in response to opponent Elizabeth Warren’s recent jab that she “didn’t have to take her clothes off” to pay for college. (Actually, Brown posed nude for Cosmopolitan in 1982, when he was studying for finals at Boston College Law School.) -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.27.11
* Graduate student loans could be a casualty of any debt ceiling compromise. [Taxing Matters / Forbes] * When I saw this, I thought, “Man, I really should read this.” But really, it is you, the anonymous commenter, who really needs to read this. [Social Media Law Blog] * An ode to the many bad […]