Sports
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Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: 3 Lessons From Uncle Tony
What lawyers who have left Biglaw can learn from the celebrated sports commentator. -
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Sports, Trivia Question of the Day
Labor Relations And Professional Sports
It's a challenge to get these parties to agree.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.21.16
* Despite the fact that President-elect Trump has called for the cast of “Hamilton” to apologize to Vice President-elect Pence for delivering a message to him after the show, Pence handled it well, saying he “wasn’t offended,” and that he reminded his kids that the mixture of boos and cheers from the audience as he took his seat was “what freedom sounds like.” [PLAYBILL]
* President-elect Donald Trump may be able to get a pretty hefty tax write-off for settling the Trump University fraud case for $25 million, since according to tax lawyer Robert Wood, most business settlements are fully tax deductible. Perhaps the president-elect — or his legal team — really does know the tax code better than anyone else. [Forbes]
* Libertarian vice presidential candidate Bill Weld is settling back into private practice after the election. The former Massachusetts governor has returned to the Boston office of Mintz Levin as a partner in the firm’s government relations practice, says that being back is a “pure pleasure because you get to sit at a desk and think.” [Am Law Daily]
* In an effort to slash their legal bills, rival fantasy sports rivals DraftKings and FanDuel will be merging in the second half of 2017. As the two sites are market leaders and their union would likely create a monopoly, there will be some antitrust issues to review before the merger closes. We wonder which firms are working on the deal. [Reuters]
* Kaplan’s Concord Law School, an unaccredited, for-profit, online-only institution, is petitioning several states to allow its students to sit for the bar exam. California is the only state that allows Concord graduates to sit for its bar exam, and their passage rate for first-timers on the July 2015 administration of the exam was 25 percent. [ABA Journal]
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Technology
Gone To Pot: The Toronto Maple Leafs And Snoop D-Oh-Double-G In Trademark Spat
Why is a hockey team going after Snoop? -
Sports
Northwestern Antitrust Lawsuit Places NCAA’s Transfer Restrictions In Crosshairs
Another day, another legal challenge to the NCAA structure. -
Biglaw, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Small Law Firms
Simone Biles, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, And Practicing Law: More Alike Than You Might Think
"Deliberate practice" is what separates superstars from the merely good, as managing partner Bruce Stachenfeld explains. -
Sports
The Nuclear Path To Legal Sports Betting
A drastic solution to the stupid ban on sports gambling. - Sponsored
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In-House Counsel, Sports
Why This In-House Lawyer Skipped The Greatest Game In The Cubs' History
Why did this in-house lawyer give up a chance to witness baseball history? -
Biglaw, Blogging, Sports
Lawyer Quits Job At Biglaw Firm To Publish Cubs Blog
A law blog based on passion works, and too many lawyers are living proof. If you build, they will come. -
Baseball, Law Schools
Chicago Law Professors, Like Their Students, Must Also Suffer Through Class During World Series
The law school should have canceled all evening classes. -
Sports
Law Firm Linked To Sick Burn Of Lane Kiffin
Lane Kiffin may have left Tennessee, but he hasn't been forgotten. -
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms, Sports
Beyond Biglaw: A Gooner's Wisdom
What can lawyers learn from one of the world's most successful football (aka soccer) managers? -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 10.05.16
* The lawsuit filed by Harris Faulkner over the Hasbro toy named Harris Faulkner has been settled. [Jezebel]
* A look at LGBT claims in state courts. [Lambda Legal]
* The NCAA and UCLA are being sued over concussions in college football. [Los Angeles Times]
* This is a complete waste of judicial resources. [Slate]
* A look at the VP debate live tweets. [Law and More]
* Mike Pence’s terrible legacy on reproductive freedom. [Salon]
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Sports
SCOTUS Punts On Amateurism In College Sports, But It May Not Be The End
Lots of briefs filed, not many changes. -
Old People
Old Lady Lawyer: Lessons From A Baseball Great
Why is the Old Lady Lawyer talking about baseball? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.27.16
* “Even with a new Republican appointee, [Justice Clarence] Thomas is likely to remain somewhat isolated on the extreme right.” In the case of Justice Thomas, it wouldn’t even matter if Donald Trump won the presidency — he’d still be the most conservative justice in the modern history of the Supreme Court. [New York Times]
* The Supreme Court’s long conference was yesterday, and we’ll likely find out later today (or in the days to come) the cases for which the justices decided to grant certiorari for the 2016-17 term. One of those cases may be NCAA v. O’Bannon, where the question of sports amateurism for the purpose of athletes’ pay is up for debate. [CBS Sports]
* Hot on the heels of the news that Dentons dragged down revenue per lawyer rankings for the entire 2016 Global 100 thanks to its mega-merger with Dacheng, the firm had a more upbeat announcement. Partners Mike McNamara, Jeff Haidet, and Peter Wolfson have ascended to national and global leadership positions. Congrats! [Big Law Business]
* Under a new California law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, actors may conceal their age and force websites like IMDb to remove their age from bio pages in order to shield themselves from age-based discrimination in casting. Critics of the law are calling this an attack on free speech — and it’s too little, too late for Junie Hoang. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Judge Leonard I. Garth, Third Circuit Court of Appeals jurist, RIP. [Washington Post]
* Daniel O. Bernstine, president of LSAC, RIP. [ABA Journal]
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Rape, Sports
Ken Starr Is Just Making Everything Worse
It's going to be a long, embarrassing decline. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.22.16
* A look at the Supreme Court’s IP docket for next Term. [The Fashion Law]
* The Los Angeles Rams just lost a lawsuit to its personal seat license holders back in St. Louis. [Deadspin]
* Judges in North Carolina can still refuse to perform same-sex weddings. And, it may not change any time soon. [The Atlantic]
* Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow (affiliate link), is taking a break from Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law to serve as a visiting professor at the Union Theological Seminary. [Union Theological Seminary]
* The uneven resources in local criminal prosecutions. [Katz Justice]
* Tiffany & Co. aggressively defends its trademarks. [Androvett Blog]