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Elite Law Firm And Law Schools Team Up For Social Justice Initiative
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.14.21
* A Supreme Court advocate mentioned a case involving Taylor Swift at oral arguments recently. Bet that advocate hopes the justices don’t shake it off… [TMZ]
* An attorney who represents a client in connection with acts allegedly committed during the Capitol riot last week is placing blame for the event on President Trump. [NBC News]
* Amazon had some harsh words for Parler after the social media site filed a lawsuit against Amazon over a suspension of services. [Fox News]
* A Stanford Law professor, and legal ethics expert, has passed away at the age of 68. [Washington Post]
* Mary-Kate Olsen’s lawyer says her divorce has been “resolved.” Is she certain? Pretty sure “it takes two” but now she can move in with Uncle Jesse… [Vulture]
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Stanford Joins List Of Law Schools With White Professors Using The N-Word In Class
In an unusual twist for these stories, the professor has committed to never using the word again.
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Elite Law Schools Move To Pass/Fail System Over COVID-19 Disruptions. But Will That Hurt Students?
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4 More Prestigious Law Schools Close Their Doors Over Coronavirus Concerns
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Students At Elite Law Schools Demand Increased Sexual Harassment Protections For Federal Clerks
Let's actually do something to stop sexual harassment in the federal judiciary. -
Law Schools
Law School Professor Shares What He Learned About Misogyny From An Afternoon On Twitter
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Republicans So Incensed By Pam Karlan They're Going To Name Barron Trump 'Archduke Of Manhattan'
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Elite Law School Names Woman Of Color As Their New Dean
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.07.19
* Jay-Z has hired a lawyer for 21 Savage. [BBC News]
* Stanford Law finds itself a new dean. [The Recorder]
* With the “Art of Fielding” copyright case falling flat at the Second Circuit, stay tuned for my upcoming novel: “Diamond of Memories” about a Nebraska farmer who builds a baseball field into his soybean crop. [Law360]
* Michigan State’s legal incompetence continues — after learning that the school is bringing on its fourth GC in a year, we find out that it’s on the hook for almost $1 million in severance to its last GC. [WXYZ]
* Former Linklaters executive wants to tell the world about the firm’s “struggle with women in the workplace.” The UK’s High Court is having none of that kind of talk. [Legal Cheek]
* “Pro-America” President who skipped out on Vietnam about to ask Supreme Court to cut off Vietnam vets with cancer. [National Law Journal]
* The robots aren’t coming for your job just yet, but if they have to come for anything at least it’s to help out Legal Aid and pro bono projects. [Legaltech News]
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Prior To Joining The Supreme Court, A Future Justice Rejected A Marriage Proposal From A Future Chief Justice
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Stanford Law School Pulls Down Largest Ever Alumni Donation Of $25 Million
The law school is using the generous gift to fund a global law program. -
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T14 Law Student's Death After Accepting Biglaw Offer Ruled An Accident
The student died from 'multiple blunt force injuries.'
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Law Student Found Dead After Accepting Offer From Prestigious Biglaw Firm
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.06.18
* You know your client sucks when…: This weekend, President Trump admitted on Twitter that his eldest son’s 2016 Trump Tower meeting was held to “get information on an opponent,” not to discuss “a program about the adoption of Russian children,” as he’d dictated in his son’s earlier account. His lawyer, Jay Sekulow, then had to walk back a statement he’d made earlier to get in line with Trump’s comments, because “over time facts develop.” [Daily Beast]
* A federal judge has ruled for the second time that the Trump administration’s decision to end the DACA program was unlawful, referring to the DHS’s reasoning as “a hodgepodge of illogical or post hoc policy assertions.” Not only that, but the judge ordered that DACA be restored. Ouch. [National Law Journal]
* In other immigration news, a federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s request that the ACLU locate deported parents for reunification with their children, noting that “for every parent who is not located, there will be a permanently orphaned child, and that is 100 percent the responsibility of the administration.” [USA Today]
* Dean Elizabeth Magill of Stanford Law School will be leaving her job at the end of the upcoming academic year to become the provost of the University of Virginia. Stanford will begin the search for her replacement in September. [The Recorder]
* After news of the class of 2017’s success in the job market comes last month’s loss of 2,100 jobs in the legal sector. Sorry ‘bout that, class of 2018. For those not entering Biglaw, you better hope those were all administrative jobs. [American Lawyer]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.27.18
* Barbara Jones, a former federal judge who now serves as a partner at Bracewell (a firm where Rudy Giuliani was once a name partner), has been appointed as a special master in Michael Cohen’s case to decide which materials that were seized from his office are protected by attorney-client privilege and which materials can be reviewed by prosecutors. [New York Post]
* This just got really interesting: The anonymous Proskauer partner who is suing the firm in a $50 million gender bias case has come forward and revealed her name. Jane Doe is better known as Connie Bertram, head of the firm’s labor and employment practice in D.C. and co-head of the firm’s whistleblowing and retaliation group. [American Lawyer]
* Veteran Supreme Court advocate Lisa Blatt of Arnold & Porter received a rare honor at the high court earlier this week during oral arguments in Trump v. Hawaii when Justice Stephen Breyer mentioned her as the author of an amicus brief. This almost never happens. Congratulations on a job well done! [National Law Journal]
* The Stanford Law Class of 1998 has the special sauce for producing female deans at top law schools. Kimberly Yuracko of Northwestern, Kerry Abrams of Duke, and Gillian Lester of Columbia all graduated in the same year. [The Recorder]
* Cooley Law School is back in compliance with ABA accreditation standards. Apparently the school is now admitting candidates who appear capable of finishing law school and gaining admission to a state bar (even though recent bar exam pass-rate statistics seem to strongly disagree with that assessment). [ABA Journal]
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Biglaw
Biglaw Associate Killed In Helicopter Crash
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Arrest Made After T14 Law Professor Receives Envelope Filled With Suspicious White Powder
The man arrested also targeted Donald Trump Jr., who he called an 'awful person.' -
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Public Interest IP Law School Clinics
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'Not The First Time I Have Received A Rape Threat': Stanford Law Prof Targeted Speaks Out
The professor was targeted over her activism.