State Judges

The defendant was jaw-droppingly rude, although the judge wasn't great either.

* So Sheppard Mullin was our only associate raise of yesterday. Well, that’s not technically true because there was another one overnight, but we don’t have that post up yet. So stay tuned! [Above the Law / 2016 Salary Increase]

* Jones Day sued over gender and pregnancy discrimination. Maybe this explains the firm’s reticence in raising salaries: it’s trying to build a record that it screws all its associates equally. [Law360]

* Jimmy Johns agrees to drop its ludicrous noncompete agreements as part of a settlement with the NYAG’s office. Finally, Subway and Quiznos can build that lateral market we always desperately needed. [CNBC]

* Did this GC lose her job over her Tweets? [Corporate Counsel]

* The American Constitution Society unveiled a study proving what we pretty much would have expected — judges are mostly white dudes. But the extent of the racial and gender disparity is astounding. [Gavel Gap]

* Texas Senator sues Dez Bryant. Is this finally something he can’t blame on the rest of the team? [Courthouse News Service]

* Interesting profile of Jodi Ettenberg, the world traveling food connoisseur former lawyer we’ve covered before. [Business Insider]

* New Mexico is totally cool with putting a bunch of restrictions on judges using social media. [New Mexico Appellate Law Blog]

* In the merger between LinkedIn and Microsoft, Wilson Sonsini (LinkedIn’s counsel) left their fingerprints all over the agreement. [Big Law Business]

* If the legislative body you’re a part of refuses to get down to business, I guess this is what you have to do. Rep. John Lewis is leading a sit-in on the House floor to force a vote on gun control. [Slate]

* Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network might be held liable for someone pretending to be a lawyer. [Legal Profession Blog]

* Polygamous Mormon sect leader Lyle Jeffs is on the run, after being put on house arrest as he awaited trial for food-stamp fraud and money laundering. According to his half-brother, “Blame the judge for this. Everybody knew that he was going to do this. Everybody.” [Jezebel]

* Proposed law to stop the ‘Brock Turner Problem.’ [Huffington Post]

* ATL columnist Jeena Cho is featured in ALM’s “STEM Cells” series. [CodeX]

Sure, this hedge fund must have the cash.

Voters toss controversial judge.

You know things aren't going well when the judge offers to do the job for you.

Absolute nightmare of a trial judge.

* The Justice Department is seeking a stay of Judge Andrew Hanen’s benchslap and order of ethics training while it appeals the ruling — a ruling the DOJ says could cost approximately $5 million to $8 million to comply with. [Texas Lawyer]

* Cheryl D. Mills, chief of staff to Hillary Clinton at the State Department, wishes that the issue of Clinton’s private email server “had been something we thought about.” [New York Times]

* Jim Lewis, counsel to Sigfredo Garcia, the man charged last week with the murder of Professor Dan Markel, maintains that Garcia had “had nothing to do with” the crime. [Tallahassee Democrat]

* Former attorney general Eric Holder says NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden performed a “public service” by sparking a debate over government surveillance — but still must pay a price for his illegal actions. [CNN]

* The Fourth Circuit holds that the police don’t need a warrant to obtain a person’s cellphone location data. [How Appealing]

* In other Fourth Circuit news, the court won’t go en banc to rehear its prior ruling in favor of the Obama Administration’s policy that transgender students are protected under existing civil rights law (aka the “transgender bathroom case”). [BuzzFeed via How Appealing]

* Those unsealed Trump University documents we mentioned yesterday? They don’t put the Donald in the best light. [New York Times]

* And Donald Trump isn’t getting much financial love from the legal community, as measured by campaign contributions (c’mon, Jones Day lawyers, help your client out). [American Lawyer]

* Judge Joseph Portelli of New Jersey, recently reprimanded for alleged inappropriate comments to counsel, gets renominated to the bench. [ABA Journal]

* Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: congratulations and best wishes to acclaimed novelist (and Dentons partner) Scott Turow and fellow lawyer Adriane Glazier — who first met when he interviewed her years ago for a summer associate gig. [New York Times]

I can’t believe I’m about to agree with a judge who handcuffed a lawyer to a jury box to teach them a lesson.

Has Jesus forsaken our favorite state judge hopeful?

UPDATE: We've learned more about why Jesus has a role in this election... and it's pretty disgusting.

The judge noted: "It isn't 1964; you're not in Tupelo, Mississippi."

How do judges live well?

Wow... The judge was given notice to "not destroy [or] otherwise dispose of [his] paddle."

It’s time for New Jersey, and numerous other states, to address the diversity crisis in the judiciary system.

This compassionate veteran wins our Judge of the Day title.

Months after her last sanction, a Florida judge is suspended for allegedly showing up to work drunk.

Do you think this judge was out of line?

Mindfulness has been widely accepted in the tech industry as well as others, but as is typically the case in the legal profession, we are slow adopters.

The fight over $75 with a country club goes to court.