Violence

Frankly, this law dishonors the career of a woman who fought to protect her clients from abuse.

And a statement from the Markel family.

According to reports, the partner had either been fired that same day or earlier in the week.

As another year draws to a close, the killers of Dan Markel have not yet been brought to justice.

When you view these things with cross-cultural eyes, they look different -- and quaint.

* Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families, friends, and colleagues of the victims of the deadliest church shooting in modern U.S. history, which took place yesterday in Sutherland Springs, Texas. This is the second mass shooting in a little more than one month. [ABC News]

* The Russian election collusion investigation is just getting started, but lawmakers have introduced a nonbinding resolution demanding that special counsel Robert Mueller resign due to his “obvious conflicts of interest.” [POLITICO]

* “Jeff, you need to tell us everything you know about Russia.” Senator Lindsey Graham wants AG Jeff Sessions to testify again before the Senate Judiciary Committee about whether there were any arranged meetings between President Trump’s campaign and Russia. [UPI]

* According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal profession lost 1,100 jobs in October, which is depressing news for jobless law school graduates who just found out positive bar exam news. [American Lawyer]

* LSAT or GRE? Thanks to a vote by the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, it might not matter. If this proposal passes, soon law schools won’t even have to test potential applicants seeking admission. [Law.com]

* Advice for the internet hero who shut down President Trump’s Twitter account on his last day of work: “Don’t say anything and get a lawyer.” Why? He likely violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. [The Hill]

* Todd Macaluso, one of Casey Anthony’s former attorneys, has been found guilty in an international cocaine distribution conspiracy involving a plane load of drugs worth about $13 million. He plans to appeal his conviction. [New York Daily News]

There's a special place in hell for someone who would steal a law student's laptop.

If past is prologue, death in the form of a gunman will happen again, very soon.

A GoFundMe account has been set up in her honor to defray medical costs. Click here to donate.

A friend said she was 'singing and dancing to country music when she was shot in the head.'

She deserved to get fired. She doesn't deserve to become a pawn.

Nevada has some of the most permissive gun laws, but we know that ain't changing.

The Case Western Law community believes 'bias-based policing' may have been a factor in his death.

Apparently premeditation is also not something cops can be held accountable for.

The judge is expected to survive.

* Leaders and prominent partners at Biglaw firms across the country are speaking out against President Donald Trump’s most recent comments concerning the deadly Charlottesville rally, where he blamed “both sides” for the violence that occurred. Has anyone among the leadership at your firm denounced Trump’s remarks? We’ll have more on this later. [Big Law Business]

* In case you missed it, James Alex Fields, the man accused of second-degree murder in the death of Charlottesville counter-protester Heather Heyer, was supposed to be represented by an attorney from the public defender’s office, but it seems there was a conflict of interest — a relative of an employee was injured in the car crash that led to Heyer’s untimely death. [Richmond Times-Dispatch]

* Judge Jim Hinkle of Gwinnett County, Georgia, has been suspended thanks to his Facebook comments about the events that unfolded in Charlottesville. Hinkle compared the protesters “nut cases tearing down monuments” to ISIS, referring to them as “snowflakes” with “no concept of history.” Hinkle said he didn’t “see anything controversial” about his posts. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

* Retired Judge Robert Echols, formerly of the Middle District of Tennessee and now a partner at Bass Berry & Sims, once donated about $3,000 to the Mary Noel Kershaw Foundation, which funds firearms training for the League of the South, a hate group tied to the violent Charlottesville rally. The firm has launched an internal investigation into the matter. [Tennessean]

* Austin Gillespie — d/b/a Augustus Sol Invictus, the DePaul Law grad who opened his own Florida solo practice, closed it via this unhinged memo, and later sacrificed a goat and drank its blood — was an organizer of the Charlottesville alt-right rally and is now running for Senate, again. [Am Law Daily]

Authorities have now identified the sole fatality in the incident as Heather Heyer, a paralegal in the bankruptcy division of the Miller Law Group.

* James Alex Fields Jr., the 20-year-old accused of ramming his car into a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one and injuring numerous others, has been charged with one count of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding, and one count related to leaving the scene of an accident. [NPR]

* Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was killed in Charlottesville this weekend, was a paralegal at a small law firm where she managed the bankruptcy department. She was described as woman willing to stand up against “any type of discrimination.” We’ll have more on this tragic news later today. [New York Times]

* After being urged by Senator Ted Cruz to “prosecute this grotesque act of domestic terrorism,” the Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the deadly white supremacy rally that occurred this past weekend in Charlottesville, as the events that unfolded there “strike at the heart of American law and justice.” [Independent Journal Review; The Hill]

* “Evidently that’s not going to happen.” Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is walking back comments that he made back in April about the likelihood of a Supreme Court justice (i.e., Justice Anthony Kennedy) retiring this summer. Maybe he’ll get his wish next summer. [Reuters]

* Classes are supposed to begin at Charlotte Law in three weeks, but according to a spokesman from the University of North Carolina system, the school’s temporary license to operate has expired. The dean of the troubled law school, on the other hand, says the license hasn’t expired. Hmm… [Charlotte Observer]

He was medically evacuated from Turks and Caicos and is now in stable condition.

If we're going to be originalist about the 2nd Amendment, let's go all the way.