Stanford Law School

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]

By Joe Patrice
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]

By Staci Zaretsky
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]

By Staci Zaretsky
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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.15.18

* A white substance sent to Stanford Law School turned out to be harmless, but the school remains concerned based an accompanying threat. [Stanford University News] * This prolonged malaise in the legal sector? Yeah, that's not normal. [Law.com] * Fifth Circuit agrees that the bail system employed in the Houston area is unconstitutional. But, you know, didn't go so far as to actually release anybody. [Courthouse News Service] * Selendy & Gay opens for business today after striking out on their own from Quinn Emanuel. [American Lawyer] * Playboy's suit against Boing Boing -- which sounds funnier than it is -- was dismissed for failing to state a copyright claim. Playboy had sued Boing Boing for reporting on a website that contained copyrighted material in a certainly felt like a wild overreach. [EFF] * Partner's son admits to embezzling $827K from firm. Whenever one of these office manager embezzling stories comes up I'm always left wondering how people manage to miss the first $826,999.

By Joe Patrice