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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.17.23
* Federal courts consider continuing COVID-era streaming of proceedings. Just like all the ethical rules, this won’t apply to the Supreme Court. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Some firms have moved to four mandatory office days… but it’s been a “slow trickle.” And Biglaw isn’t used to slow trickles when it comes to policy changes. [American Lawyer]
* Judge rules state ban on high-capacity magazines does not violate Second Amendment. So start the clock on this getting struck down. [CNN]
* Biglaw attorney quits to bicycle from Canada to Argentina. [LegalCheek]
* Shocking no one, when police bar the ticky-tack justifications for pretextual stops, pretextual stops go down. [Reuters]
* More Twitter execs suing for unpaid legal bills. This guy really hates Biglaw fees, huh? [Law360]
* A slice of history when first-year associates were only making $70K. That’s $188K in today’s dollars. Of course private law school tuition averaged under $10K/year then, which under be around $27K/year in today’s dollars. Instead it costs around $50K so associates are still falling behind. [Intuitive Career Coaching]
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Technology
King Twit's Firing Habit Could Cost The Company A Cool $500M
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Elon Musk Sues Wachtell For Being Better Lawyers
Wachtell helped Twitter force Musk to buy the company... now he wants that money back.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.10.23
* Lawyers don’t understand lawyer talk either. [Scientific American]
* While Elon Musk merely whines about Facebook, he actually filed a suit against Wachtell for the $90 million in fees the firm generated whipping Elon in the first place. Now, if he can just get back that $90 million… and then another $30 billion he’d be back where he started. [Law360]
* Law firm mergers aren’t crossing borders as much anymore, which is a pity since merging presents sort of an existential crisis for UK firms. [American Lawyer]
* Sarah Silverman sues AI developers for training on copyrighted material. Defense likely to argue “yeah, but our output still sort of sucks so there’s no harm.” [Reuters]
* Private credit on the rise as core Biglaw practice area, so remember this when the economy collapses in 10 years and everyone cites “private credit.” [Bloomberg Law News]
* “Testi-lied” is super clever! Also super gonna get you censured. [ABA Journal]
* Florida will stop recognizing certain state IDs. In case you needed a “full faith and credit” hypo for your exam. [Yahoo]
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Technology
Elon Musk Sends Legal Threat To Facebook And Once Facebook Finishes Laughing I'm Sure They'll Get Right Back To Him
Musk won't cage fight Zuckerberg, so he'll have to settle for getting whupped in court. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.16.23
* Donald Trump provides contracts courses with hypo on a gratuitous promise. [Miami New Times]
* January 6 defendant “JackTheTripper” heading to prison where I hope he has two roommates and engages in goofy hijinks. [Courthouse News Service]
* After mandating a 4-day office week, reportedly over the objection of the majority of partners, Eric Friedman is out as Skadden’s executive partner. So the office thing was a YOLO move. [American Lawyer]
* Twitter sued over music infringement and honestly if that’s the only trouble Twitter is in today that feels like a win. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Lottery lawyer gets 13 years which gratuitously designed to convey “unlucky.” [NY Daily News]
* A pair of law schools provide a blueprint for dealing with a post-affirmative action world. [Reuters]
* Government agencies besieged by cyberattacks after using a popular file transfer product. No law firms named in the attack yet, but it’s suspected to be the work of the group that hit Jones Day a couple years back. [Law360]
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Courts
Elon Musk Disappointed To Learn His Own Legal Agreements Still Apply To Him
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Elon Whines That He’ll Give Away NPR’s Twitter Account If They Won’t Start Using Twitter Again
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Technology
Actual Fake News: Elon Musk Threatens To Give Away News Source's Account If They Don't Behave
You got to hand it to a man who continues to make poor business decisions after halving his companies values and getting out-voted from leading it. -
Small Law Firms
Law Firm Suggests Reimbursing For Twitter Blue... In Case You Want Clients To Laugh At You
A legal marketing conundrum. -
Biglaw
The Biglaw Firms Willing To Pay For Twitter Verification
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Technology
Elon Musk Flirts With Libel While Apparently Trolling Stephen King & LeBron In Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Stupidity
Imagine blowing up a multibillion-dollar rocket being the SECOND dumbest thing you did on a Thursday.
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Twitter Facing Another Lawsuit For Ghosting Their Former Chief Legal Counsel And Others When It Was Time To Repay
For a company run by a billionaire, Twitter seems to be bad with managing money. -
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Elon Musk Proves His Commitment To New Strategies By Hiring A 4th Year Lawyer To Head The Legal Side Of Twitter
It has been reported that Elon Musk stans have been photographed asking Deep Thought to explain how this makes sense. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.27.23
* “This is our third major financial crisis,” said Sullivan’s Mitchell Eitel describing his experience weathering the legal fallout of economic troubles. Remember the 50 years where we didn’t have major bank collapses? Maybe we were all onto something. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Supreme Court to hear more argument about law banning speech about illegal immigration and practically deployed to surveil journalists. [Courthouse News Service]
* “Utah governor: Social media law limiting minors’ access not ‘foolproof.'” I think he meant to say “constitutional.” [Axios]
* Purdue’s online law school seeks permission to send graduates to the bar exam. Because rather than regulate legal education to graduate lawyers who can practice immediately or require a comprehensive exam for any interested potential practitioner, we have BOTH. [Journal Gazette]
* Someone leaked Twitter’s source code online in latest development from clown car central. [Reuters]
* Shearman revenue down 10 percent and partner profits off 17.5 percent. No wonder they were so hot to merge. [American Lawyer]
* New York will take another stab at selecting a Chief Judge. [Law360]
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Courts
Elon Musk Isn't The Only One Getting In Trouble For Firing People Over Tweets
Twitter fingers turn into employment law cases. -
Courts
Former Biglaw Attorneys Sue To Get Back On Twitter
An Elon Musk tweet is at the center of this lawsuit. -
Technology
Anyone Working For Elon Musk (Or Anyone Else For That Matter) Should Probably Run Their Contracts Through This Right Now
Most people don't have $100 million severance clauses, but they should figure out what they do have. -
Technology
Elon’s Response To A Working(?) Employee Was So Bad That Someone Realized Twitter Is Basically Circuit City Now. Prepare For HR Nightmares.
Somewhere, an Elon stan is studying the secrets of alchemy to explain why this is all just a 4D chess move.