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The First Supreme Court Clerk To Really Make It Big
There are a lot of Supreme Court clerks, but only a handful went on to serve on the Court. -
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
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Harry Reid Challenges Dems To Focus On The Supreme Court
Listen to your friend, Harry Reid, he's trying to help you.
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Morning Docket: 12.13.19
* President Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen is asking for a sentence reduction. Guess President Trump’s former fixer is not enjoying his time in “Club Fed.” [CNBC]
* The alleged Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyer has argued that the jury pool was tainted and that the bomber’s death sentence conviction should be thrown out. [NBC News]
* The Supreme Court has been urged to review a constitutional challenge to the high tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Hopefully, the justices will look into the New Jersey turnpike next. [Penn Live]
* A defeated governor is accused of handing out an insane number of pardons on his way out the door, even catching some of the pardoned prisoners completely by surprise. [Washington Post]
* Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has begun succession planning so that the firm can continue long past David Boies’ tenure. [Wall Street Journal]
* A Florida politician is accused of stealing nearly $50,000 from a law firm, and buying items from a sex toy store, among other purchases. Maybe he’ll argue that this was a business expense… [CBS Miami]
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Conservatives Arguing For Supreme Court Term Limits -- Watch Democrats Somehow Screw This Up
The only way to fix the judiciary is to break the packing cycle. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.10.19
* A GOP lawyer brought files to an impeachment hearing yesterday in grocery bags. Pretty sure the bags weren’t from Whole Foods… [New York Post]
* A lawyer is saying that booze led him to swindle elderly clients out of millions. Sounds like this attorney is taking his defense from Jamie Foxx. [Albany Times Union]
* The Supreme Court has declined to review a Kentucky law that requires doctors to play the sound of a fetal heartbeat to individuals seeking abortions. [Slate]
* Attorney General Barr has rescheduled a Justice Department holiday party that was to occur at the Trump International Hotel. I guess my invitation got lost in the mail… [Washington Post]
* An appellate court seemed skeptical Monday about an Emoluments Clause lawsuit filed against President Trump. [NPR]
* A mistrial has been declared in a murder case after the defense lawyer was struck by a car. Hopefully, this does not give criminal defendants any ideas. [Boston Globe]
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Hundreds Of Women Lawyers Who Have Had Abortions Come Forward To Ask Supreme Court To Protect Abortion Rights
They say they 'would not have been able to realize their personal and/or professional goals were it not for their ability to control their reproductive lives.' - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
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All Quiet On The SCOTUS Front: Supreme Court Unlikely To Upend Gun Laws Today
Oral arguments proceed without a bang [pun!]. -
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The Roberts Court Is Here
With Kavanaugh's arrival, the last Term provided a glimpse of the fully armed and operational Roberts Court. -
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Everyone Needs To Chill Out About RBG's Hospital Trips
Justice Ginsburg is recovering at home after a fever took her to the hospital. -
Biglaw
Kids (Of Supreme Court Justices) Say The Darnedest Things
Eugene Scalia has a curious theory about who's to blame for the dearth of Biglaw conservatives. -
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It Takes The Supreme Court A While To Really Get Moving
Just because you have a Supreme Court, doesn't mean you immediately start using the Supreme Court.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 11.12.19
* A University of North Texas lawyer has resigned after using the N-word during a free speech panel at the school. This attorney just learned a valuable lesson in free speech. [New York Post]
* A lawyer set to argue an important case about DACA in front of the Supreme Court is a Dreamer himself. [CNN}
* Hundreds have signed a petition in opposition to Scott Brown’s appointment as president of New England Law. [Boston Globe]
* An attorney from Roswell, New Mexico, is running against President Donald Trump in the New Hampshire primary. His chances of winning are out of this world… [KOAT Action News]
* Lawyers for Representative Tulsi Gabbard are demanding that Hillary Clinton retract allegedly defamatory comments about Gabbard’s relationship with Russia. [Hill]
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Intellectual Property
Dot Com Dilemma? gTLD Extensions And Testing The Boundaries Of Genericness
Can generic terms can shed their 'genericness' by the addition of a top-level domain and acquire secondary meaning over time? SCOTUS will decide. -
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Conservative Supreme Court Justices Are Showing Their Biases On Twitter Now
If only the Supreme Court had ANY ETHICS RULES AT ALL. -
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Didn't Always Earn High Grades At The Supreme Court
One justice in particular didn't find her to be very notorious. -
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The Supreme Court's Very Own Police Force
They take protecting the Supreme Court very seriously.