Television
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Television
Law Firm Sues Network For Connecting Them To Fraud Probe... Of Two Guys With The Same Names
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.28.16
* If Bush v. Gore didn’t teach you that election laws are a mess, then this season of Veep will hammer the lesson home. [Strook]
* D.C. Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh knows the value of saying no — especially to a sitting president. [United States Law Week]
* Oh, this is fun, well, at least if you are an avowed Trekkie. There’s an amicus brief written entirely about the Klingon language. When arguing that Paramount cannot claim a copyright over the Klingon language, what better to spice up your prose than some quotes actually written in Klingon? [Popehat]
* A look at the most cited law reviews in Supreme Court opinions from the 2013 Term to the present. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Wait — what did this Oklahoma court say? That forcing an unconscious woman to perform oral sex isn’t sexual assault? What. The. Hell. [Slate]
* Pauli Murray, lawyer, scholar and activist, just had a residential college named after her at Yale. [New York Magazine]
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Television
Standard Of Review: On 'Better Call Saul,' Characters Are Blowing In The Wind
Despite a few narrative bumps, the fact that our TV critic Harry Graff can write an entire column on Better Call Saul that focuses on two non-leads shows the care the show takes with each and every character. -
Television
We Talk With Dean Strang Of 'Making A Murderer'
The Thinking Like A Lawyer podcast chats with Making A Murderer's Dean Strang. -
Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Television
Standard Of Review: Confirming That You Don't Need To Watch 'Confirmation'
Columnist Harry Graff would not recommend Confirmation to anyone except perhaps hard-core Supreme Court nomination aficionados. -
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Television, Wall Street
Billions Recap: Because You're A Criminal, Bob
If you missed the season finale of Billions, you can get caught up here. - Sponsored
AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
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Crime, Television
Standard Of Review: The People v. O.J. Simpson Ends Its Stellar Season, Humanizes Johnnie, Marcia, And Chris
While The People v. O.J. Simpson is not the best show on television, it is one of the most entertaining. -
Crime, O.J. Simpson, Television
The People V. O.J. Simpson: You Must Acquit (Episode 10 Review)
A lot of good could have come from the O.J. Simpson verdict. Too bad nothing did. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.06.16
* Gawker asks judge to reduce or set aside the $140.1 million Hogan verdict. That’s nice to offer the judge avoid a humiliating reversal on appeal. And yet I’ve seen Wrestlemania, so expect the doomed judge to hit Nick Denton over the head with a chair while he isn’t looking before this gets better. [Capital New York]
* Ramon Fonseca assures the world that all of its operations were legal. Sure. I mean, cockfighting is still legal in Panama so this might not be the most ringing affirmation. [NBC News]
* The Stoli trademark battle may be headed to the Supreme Court. That’s absolut-ly crazy. [Law360]
* There’s an unauthorized Walking Dead theme restaurant out there in case you had a hankering for some possum and cheese whiz and there’s no Carl’s Jr. nearby. [Litigation Daily]
* Which Biglaw firms are making big bucks off baseball season? [The Am Law Daily]
* Eric Conn, dubbed “Mr. Social Security” arrested on federal charges that his immense success is due less to his legal acumen than “paying a doctor and a judge to rubber-stamp false disability claims using phony medical evidence.” Remember when he hired Miss Congeniality USA as a PR flack? Those were happier days. [ABC News]
* North Carolina releases its February bar exam results. So we know of at least 201 people who couldn’t let the championship game spoil their high. You may say, “well Duke students weren’t going to be devastated by the game.” Silly rabbit, Duke kids aren’t taking the February exam. [Bar Exam Stats]
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Television, Wall Street
Standard Of Review: 7 Ways To Fix 'Billions'
As Billions ends its first season and begins to prepare for its second, television critic Harry Graff offers some suggestions on how to improve it. -
O.J. Simpson, Police, Racism, Television
The People v. O.J. Simpson: Cops Say The Darndest Things (Episode 9 Review)
Johnnie Cochran says it best, the Fuhrman tapes simply proved what black people already knew to be true.
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Television
Billions Recap: 'If You Have Dinner With Me I’ll Buy You A Mini Cooper'
Are you up to date with Billions? Here's a great recap of the latest episode if you aren't. -
Crime, Sports, Trials, Videos
A Wrongful-Arrest Defense Clinic: The Thabo Sefolosha Story
The behind-the-scenes story of the star athlete's legal battle against the NYPD. -
Reality TV, Sarah Palin, Television
No Law Degree? No Problem! Sarah Palin To Preside Over Reality TV Court
Sarah Palin will tell you about a crazy legal theory called rootin’-tootin’ res ipsa loquitur. -
Television
Billions Recap: Where'd You Stash Him?
Missing informants, and martial strife, and Cleveland, oh my! -
Politics, Television
John Oliver: All Of The Legal, Economic, And Practical Problems With Donald Trump's Wall
About the Trump wall. There are just a few problems with that... -
Television
Standard Of Review: On 'Better Call Saul,' A Man Got To Have A Code
Minor criticisms aside, culture critic Harry Graff is enjoying this season of the show and looks forward to where it goes with two key characters. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.16.16
* President Obama will announce his pick to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia later this morning. Which member of the D.C. Circuit will he choose, Judge Sri Srinivasan or Judge Merrick Garland? America will find out at 11 a.m., and then the real political circus of trying to get a confirmation hearing will begin. [New York Times]
* “Republicans know they can’t get away with complete and total obstruction, so they may try to set up a double standard.” Senate Republicans have refused to fill the vacancy left on the Supreme Court left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, but it looks like more than 30 other federal judicial nominees may have been caught in the political fray. [AP]
* After having a district court judge’s deferred compensation remedy slapped down by the Ninth Circuit, lawyers in the O’Bannon NCAA student-athlete pay case have asked the Supreme Court to grant certiorari. The lawyers involved “[feel] so strongly in the principles involved” that they don’t care if they lose their fees and costs. [USA Today]
* A small victory for a washed-up Mean Girl? Lindsay Lohan has never really had much success when it comes to suing others on the basis of likeness appropriation, but a New York judge has refused to dismiss her case against Rockstar Games over a look-alike character in Grand Theft Auto V. You go, girl! [THR, ESQ. / Hollywood Reporter]
* Per Lex Machina, after a slow 2014, patent litigation rose by 14.7 percent in 2015. What’s troubling to some lawyers, though, is that all of the action has migrated to Texas courts: “Why should this little corner that’s not particularly a hotbed of innovation have such an important role to play in patent law?” [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
* Talent agency Rebel Entertainment Partners is suing CBS, the TV station that airs “Judge Judy,” because it claims Judge Judy is taking in such a high salary that the network has been unable to dole out its contractually obligated payments. Although she’s not named in the suit, Judge Judy, full of sarcasm, says this is “hilarious.” [Variety]