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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.05.18
* “It was a mistake. I swear to God,” remarks Giuliani outlining the excuse for conflicting testimony that works like a charm for every other criminal defendant. [CNN]
* Law professors point out that Trump’s lawyers are bad at their jobs, which isn’t news but will somehow dominate the news cycle and still not sway anyone who isn’t already on board with these facts. [Politico]
* Judge Aaron Perksy — who sentenced rapist Brock Turner to a mere six months — may get recalled today. So it’s a good time to remind everyone of this older post laying out exactly how dangerous and misguided this is. Persky may deserve to lose his job in due course… but embracing the recall mechanism for judges who hand down lenient sentences is a one-way road to needless mass incarceration, usually with a heavy dose of racial bias. [Slate]
* Liverpool player injured in nasty tackle has achieved immortality as the subject of a law school exam question. [BBC]
* The NFL may have a new problem with its disastrous anthem policy — it violates multiple state constitutions… in states with perennial playoff teams too. [Slate]
* Despite the death of the prime suspect, Arizona law firms went ahead and beefed up security in the wake of the recent paralegal murders. [AZ Central]
* The GOP tax bill accidentally put a tax on victims of sexual abuse because that’s what happens when you railroad a bill through both chambers in the middle of the night with a bunch of hand-written amendments in the margins. [Bloomberg]
* Sex workers are taking action against SESTA/FOSTA, the ill-conceived anti-human trafficking law that really just puts legitimate sex workers in danger — almost like that was the politicians’ plan all along. [Gizmodo]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.05.18
* Good news for Holland & Knight, who successfully escaped a $34.5 million malpractice rap. [American Lawyer]
* Wisconsin passes a law requiring disclosure of litigation financers because juries should be gravely suspicious of anyone who can afford to seek legal redress from a corporation. [National Law Journal]
* Cleary Gottlieb partner loses battle over rent-stabilized penthouse. While that sentence doesn’t make him sound particularly sympathetic, he’s actually the good guy here. [New York Law Journal]
* Executives and board members should be more involved in cybersecurity efforts according to the Department of Obvious Things. [Corporate Counsel]
* Sexual assault defendant pleas down to charge of “seduc[ing] and debauch[ing] any unmarried woman.” That’s offensive on so many levels. [Detroit News]
* Workers comp can’t cover paralegal injured playing for firm softball team. [ABA Journal]
* Law firm conducting use-of-force review simultaneously representing deputy accused of shooting and killing two men while on duty. Foxes, hen houses, etc. [KOB 4]
* Did you know some law schools are now accepting the GRE? Because the Times just figured that out. [New York Times]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.03.18
* The possibility of Donald Trump turning the Russia case over to Alan Dershowitz is too delicious of a train wreck to imagine. Stop teasing me! [The Hill]
* Andrew McCabe’s GoFundMe has raised over half a million dollars. All you need is a righteous claim and a sophisticated lobbying firm behind you. [Slate]
* LeBron has decided he holds intellectual property rights over barbershops or something. [National Law Journal]
* While DLA Piper is out there swiping lawyers, they’re also earning plaudits for a tech solution designed to retain clients. [American Lawyer]
* Joon Kim returns to Cleary Gottlieb. [Wall Street Journal]
* Jury selection underway in extortion case over Waffle House CEO’s syrup. [Daily Report Online]
* The Supreme Court declared it’s ready, willing, and able to engage in linguistic gymnastics to get out of labor protections. So… we’ve got that going for us. [Law360]
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Sports
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.19.18
* “This is crazy.” Donald Trump reportedly had members of his White House senior staff sign nondisclosure agreements that are supposed to last beyond his presidency. This raised some brows, but dissenters concluded that the contracts weren’t likely to be enforceable, so they signed on the dotted line. Yes, crazy. [Washington Post]
* With quotes from “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” President Trump’s personal lawyer, John Dowd, said — first on behalf of the president as his counsel, and later, on behalf of only himself (oopsie?) — that it’s time for the Mueller probe to end. [Daily Beast]
* And following a tweet storm about Mueller this weekend, it certainly seems like President Trump is gearing up to fire the special counsel. Congressional Republicans are less than pleased with the president’s behavior, and have issued a few stern warnings, urging Trump not to cross the “massive red [Mueller] line,” because “that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency.” [New York Times]
* Are you ready for legal sports betting? Your bookie might not be, but America’s four major U.S. sports leagues are preparing for anything and everything that could happen as a result of the Supreme Court’s forthcoming ruling. [Washington Post]
* “What’re you in for?” “A law degree.” According to a report from the ACLU, debts “from medical bills to car payments to student loans” are being criminalized, and courts across the country are issuing arrest warrants. [Idaho Statesman]
* Christopher Tripp Zanetis, NYFD fire marshal, U.S. Air Force captain, Debevoise associate, RIP. We’ll have more on his passing later today. [American Lawyer]
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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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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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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.27.18
* The Supreme Court heard argument in Janus yesterday and, well, labor rights were fun while they lasted! [National Law Journal]
* Marvin Washington’s pot decriminalization suit dismissed, continuing the Jets losing streak. [Law360]
* The explosion of Emoji keyboards presents a problem for eDiscovery. So bust out those Rick & Morty stickers if you want to keep your insider trading habits from prying eyes. [Legaltech News]
* How does a receiver deal with Bitcoin? How can currency with no “home” be seized? A Jones Day partner is figuring that out. [The Recorder]
* Supreme Court debates whether or not Amex can prevent merchants from offering incentives to keep people from using their Amex card. So if it gets more difficult to use your corporate card, blame the justices. [Courthouse News Service]
* The head of legal relationship management for Barclays discusses the bank’s model for dealing with outside counsel. [Big Law Business]
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Courts
NCAA Doubles Down On Comparing Student Athletes To Prisoners
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Sports
State Legislators Are Going To Drive Soon-To-Be Legal Sports Betting Right Back To Offshore Sites And Neighborhood Bookies
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Internet Troll Revealed To Be Lawyer Because Obviously
Notorious Kentucky fan outed as an attorney.