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  • Morning Docket: 09.17.19
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 09.17.19

    * Faster lawyers don’t necessarily mean better lawyers sounds like something a client would say just before demanding an overnight answer. [Law.com]

    * Jurists rallying behind judge charged with obstruction for not letting ICE demean the judicial system by turning it into stakeout location. [National Law Journal]

    * Prosecutors seek 15 year sentence for Manafort’s former son-in-law. Maybe Skadden can write a report justifying his actions? [Politico]

    * Shenzhen is coming and Biglaw has a new market to figure out. [American Lawyer]

    * JP Morgan traders accused of 8-year racket. This is in contrast to the more broadly defined 220-year racket the company’s been up to. [Law360]

    * White House ordering more people to ignore subpoenas, so that’s a super development for the rule of law. [Courthouse News Service]

    * While the UK endures a constitutional meltdown, here are fun facts about their Supreme Court. [Legal Cheek]

  • Morning Docket: 09.12.19
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 09.12.19

    * Immediately after John Bolton lost his job, a true genius tweeted that he’d signed with the Patriots. It looks like he might return to Kirkland which is basically the same thing in legal circles. [National Law Journal]

    * Supreme Court decides government can circumvent international law while asylum rules get litigated. Cool. [NY Times]

    * Dentons just added five firms across Africa in one day. [American Lawyer]

    * “Chief Counsel of Digital Citizenship” is an actual title a major company came up with for a lawyer presumably after spinning the buzzword wheel. [Corporate Counsel]

    * Latest appellate judge pick was so mealy-mouthed and evasive that even the Republicans snapped at him before they’ll ultimately vote down the line to give the racist myth peddling jackhole a lifetime job. [Huffington Post]

    * Former Big 4 partner gets a year for fraud. [Law360]

    * What exactly would happen if California stood up for college athletes? [Sports Illustrated]

    * John Hinckley seeks sentence adjustment so he can move to California and get into the music business which is a sentence no one ever expected. [AP]

  • Morning Docket: 09.10.19
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 09.10.19

    * Redaction comedy: filings in the Roger Stone case inadvertently gave out Trump’s phone number. [National Law Review]

    * Law firm growth has slowed but we’re going to pretend that’s not a troubling sign. [American Lawyer]

    * California’s going to war with the NCAA and they stand a better chance than this year’s UCLA team. [KTLA]

    * Former Penn State GC faces discipline hearing before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. [Law.com]

    * Insider trading trial begins with argument that banker didn’t intend to go in on an insider trading scheme with his dad. [Law360]

    * FDA sends warning letter to Juul over its claims to be “safer than cigarettes” being potentially false as opposed to its claims to “not make you look like a douche” which are demonstrably false. [Corporate Counsel]

  • Morning Docket: 05.31.19
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 05.31.19

    * New evidence proves what everyone already knew: the citizenship question on the census was intended to suppress minority representation. Maybe Kavanaugh can get angry about it until everyone ignores it? [National Law Journal]

    * More abuse charges for R. Kelly. [USA Today]

    * Addressing mental health issues in the legal world probably requires rethinking what “the legal world” really means. But that time isn’t billable so it probably won’t happen. [Law.com]

    * HSBC avoids Ponzi scheme suit. Having personally represented HSBC in a Ponzi scheme case before, kudos. [Law360]

    * It behooves young lawyers to learn how the firm makes its money because it’s actually a lot more complex than “make you keep working.” [American Lawyer]

    * You can legally carry brass knuckles in Texas now. [CNN]

  • Morning Docket: 02.14.19
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 02.14.19

    * Paul Manafort is the Energizer Bunny of lying and he’d now botched his own plea deal. [Huffington Post]

    * Apple attorney in charge of insider trading compliance charged with… insider trading. [Law360]

    * John Roberts declared himself the First Amendment’s most passionate defender at the Supreme Court, which is absolutely true if you limit the First Amendment to political bribery and bigots with cake shops. [National Law Journal]

    * EU adopts new copyright law! It’s… not good. [EFF]

    * The Harvard admissions case — the Trojan horse action about gutting affirmative action programs — is now in the hands of Judge Allison Burroughs for the perfunctory first act on the road to a 5-4 Supreme Court opinion. [Law.com]

    * Proskauer inches toward the $1B revenue mark. [American Lawyer]

    * A review of Biglaw cafeterias in the UK. If any firms out there want Above the Law to duplicate this story here in America, feel free to give us a call. [Legal Cheek]