SMU Law
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Law Schools
Law Student/Son Of Buc-ee's Co-Founder Accused Of Secretly Filming In Bathrooms
House guests allegedly found a hidden camera in the bathroom. -
Disasters / Emergencies, Public Interest
SMU Dedman Law Alum And APIS Chair Punam Kaji On Building Bridges In The Wake Of Hurricane Harvey
Even attorneys whose homes were damaged were asking, 'What should we be doing right now to help?' - Sponsored
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Pro Bono, Public Interest
For Giving Families Hope During The Holidays, Brittany Byrd Is My Inspirational Attorney Of The Year
It's high time to question our current system and government sentencing policies.
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Lawyerly Lairs, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: Another Professorial Palace, On The Market For $4.4 Million
This law prof is "something of a legend" -- and his house should be too. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.23.15
* In a story we’ve been following for years, a federal judge has put down the most notorious copyright troll in the world: “Happy Birthday To You” is now in the public domain. [LA Times]
* Former SMU Dean John Attanasio, hit with a prostitution arrest back in February, is looking at a pre-trial diversion program if he’s willing to admit the charge. [CBS DFW]
* Just weeks after his brother took over hosting duties on The Late Show, Edward Colbert has been named managing partner of Kenyon & Kenyon LLP. [Law360]
* The Republic of Guinea may have to cough up a lot of guineas in unpaid legal fees to Dentons after Judge Royce Lamberth rejected its sovereign immunity request. [Legal Times]
* Honestly, who doesn’t bring a couple dildos along when visiting a Rent-A-Center? [Courthouse News Service]
* Dewey know what horrors await law firm managers if convicted? It’s more than a little troubling that a couple million people face this fate, but we only get glossy coverage of these conditions when some millionaire lawyers might end up there. [The Am Law Daily]
* Gibson Dunn under fire for not keeping original notes of its Bridgegate interviews because defense lawyers don’t know how these new-fangled “computer” things work. [The Record]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.04.15
* When we first reported on this former law school dean’s arrest for prostitution, we weren’t sure if he was the alleged john. Now we know: SMU Law’s John Attanasio allegedly offered to pay an undercover officer $100 for “specific sexual acts.” [Dallas Morning News]
* It seems that a lawyer in Nebraska lost his “special pen” at the courthouse, and he’d really like it to be returned to him. It’s not just any pen — it’s a $500 Montblanc Meisterstück. Help this man get his prestigious pen back. [Omaha World-Herald]
* The early numbers on Cadwalader’s ranking in the Am Law 100 seems to indicate that would-be chair James Woolery got the hell out while the getting was still good. The firm’s profits per partner dropped by 15.3 percent in 2014. Ouch. [Am Law Daily]
* “Being in the law school business looked like a good idea. Those days are over.” Enrollment continues to decline at law schools across the country, and in Virginia, class sizes are about 20 percent smaller than they were in 2011. [Roanoke Times]
* When it comes to the recent murder-suicide of two Tulane Law students, “[p]eople are really surprised and baffled about what happened” because they say there were no warning signs. If you’re depressed, please seek help. [New Orleans Advocate]
* Given the fact that children’s vaccinations have become a topic presidential candidates are debating, you should know that almost half the states allow anti-vaxxer parents to opt-out. Thanks for the measles, everyone! [WSJ Law Blog]
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Law School Deans, Prostitution
Former Law School Dean Busted On Prostitution Charge
Members of law school administrations are just like us: they sometimes get arrested for salacious crimes. -
Kids, Law Schools, Politics, Quote of the Day, Texas
Sorry, SMU Law -- You're Just Not 'Brilliant' Enough For Wendy Davis
How insulted will students at this school be when they find out what one of their gubernatorial candidates said about their intelligence? - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Law Schools
Which Law Schools' Grads Run Biglaw? An ATL Infographic
An aquatic look at which law firms' alumni have the top spots at the largest U.S. law firms. -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Texas
The Ultimate In Law School Funded Employment: Symplicity Posts Opening To Be Dean Of Your Law School
Which law school is accepting online nominations to be its new dean? -
Biglaw, Constitutional Law, Deaths, Department of Justice, Election Law, Federal Judges, Job Searches, JPMorgan Chase, Law Professors, Law Schools, Mergers and Acquisitions, Money, Morning Docket, Musical Chairs, Politics, Privacy, S.D.N.Y., SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 02.25.13
* The horror! The horror! Sacrilege! Constitutional law nerds nationwide will weep at the very thought of someone suggesting that our country’s governing document be amended to abolish life tenure for Supreme Court justices. [Los Angeles Times]
* Quite frankly, it’s pretty amazing how quickly the preclearance section of the Voting Rights Act went from being seen by states as something that wasn’t “onerous” to being “arbitrary and burdensome.” That’s politics for you. [It’s All Politics / NPR]
* Jim Woolery, an M&A superstar formerly of J.P. Morgan, has made the jump to Cadwalader after only two years at the bank. Upgrade or downgrade from his Cravath partnership? [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* Some law professors stop teaching classes to tend to their divorce proceedings, but others law professors teach classes from their hospital beds so their students aren’t thrown to the wolves. [Tex Parte / Texas Lawyer]
* It you want to be employed, make damn sure you nail your interview because “[t]he stakes are higher than ever” — fewer than 13 percent of permanent law jobs were obtained from OCI in 2011. [National Law Journal]
* Greenlight Capital’s case against Apple might have been perceived as a “silly sideshow” by some, but it looks like Judge Richard Sullivan of the S.D.N.Y. purchased front row tickets. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Speaking of silly sideshows, the DOJ recently joined the fray with Floyd Landis and his False Claims Act suit against Lance Armstrong. Perhaps it’s time for the disgraced biker to take his ball and go home. [Bloomberg]
* Alan Westin, privacy law scholar and professor emeritus of public law at Columbia, RIP. [New York Times]
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Law School Deans, Law Schools, Texas
Dean's Ouster Inspires Outrage From Trustees, Joy From Students
I think an ousted law dean got stomped by an elephant in the room. -
Biglaw, Crime, Law Schools, Texas
Texas Woman Accused of Forging Law Degree, Faking Biglaw Summer Associate Position
A Texas mother of two is accused of forging a law degree from a top law school. Which one?
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Biglaw, California, Deaths, Football, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Police, Silicon Valley, Texas, Trials, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 06.14.12
* Kleiner Perkins responded to Ellen Pao’s gender discrimination suit, and it’s not pretty. Not only does the firm’s answer deny her allegations, but it also calls into question her work product. [San Jose Mercury News]
* Joe Amendola’s preferred strategy at the Jerry Sandusky trial seems to be the use of the “tried and tested technique” of ignoring all of the alleged accusers’ tears and making them cry all over again. [New York Times]
* Who in their right mind would attempt to fake being a lawyer these days? Michelle Fyfe, a 43-year-old woman from Texas, is accused of forging a law degree from SMU Dedman School of Law. [Dallas Morning News (sub. req.)]
* Say hello to Baltimore Law’s new dean, Ronald Weich, the former assistant attorney general who penned the notorious false gun letter to Congress. Surely this ex-DOJ official will stand up to Bogomolny. [The Hill]
* This must be like getting it caught in your zipper — but much, much worse. A Brooklyn man claims that members of the NYPD “strangled his penis,” so he’s suing. [Huffington Post via Courthouse News Service]
* Reuben G. Clark Jr., a founding partner of Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (WilmerHale), RIP. [Washington Post]
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Law Schools, Reader Polls, Texas, Transfer Students
Should Transfer Students Be Allowed to Be Valedictorians?
The administration at SMU Law thinks so. What do you think? Take our poll and let us know. -
Fast Food, Gay Marriage, Guns / Firearms, Health Care / Medicine, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.01.11
* Apparently hearsay exceptions are still hard to grasp, even for justices on the Supreme Court. [CNN Justice] * Threaten judges over a ban on guns and your own guns get banned. Hal Turner gets pistol-whipped by karma. [Bloomberg] * Obama is giving states the “flexibility” to drop federal health care reform by 2014 — […]
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Law Schools, Sex, Sex Scandals, Texas, Videos, Violence
Cuckolded Spouse Gets Revenge on SMU Law School Lovers
One Dedman School of Law student may be a dead man. He may have picked the wrong person’s wife to have an affair with. Here’s the set-up: a husband suspects that his wife, a student at SMU Law School, is cheating on him with another SMU Law student. So the husband sets up a video […] -
Dewey & LeBoeuf, Donald Trump, Hotties, Layoffs, Liza Minnelli, Reality TV, Television
Congrats to Brandy Kuentzel, Laid-Off Kirkland Lawyer Turned Apprentice Winner
Apologies for this very belated coverage of the season finale of The Apprentice, which aired last week. Alas, no member of Team ATL — not even Marin, our resident reality TV addict — actually watched the show. The final episode was a bit like the proverbial tree falling in the forest without anyone around to […] -
Career Alternatives, In-House Counsel
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: CEO
Good news for general counsel who dream of one day sitting in the king’s seat: the ABA Magazine says there is a new trend of corporations tapping lawyers to become top executives: Nine of the Fortune 50 companies now have a lawyer as chief executive, up from three just a decade ago. In December, Bank […] -
Abortion
SMU Law Grad Morphs Into Anti-Abortion Warrior
Erlyndon Joseph Lo, 27, graduated from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 2007. Lo is a devout Catholic and has been using his knowledge of the law to fight abortion. We must add that his knowledge of the law appears to be shaky. In March, he sued the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the […]