White-Collar Crime
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Government
Hey Y'All, Jay Sekulow May Have No F**king Clue What He's Doing
Trump's lawyer manages to put his foot in his mouth when "no comment" would have sufficed. -
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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. -
White-Collar Crime
The Problem With Compelling Lawyers To Give 'Direct Evidence' Against Their Clients
Will this decision have a chilling effect on the practice?
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White-Collar Crime
Grand Jury Secrecy -- The Other Kind
Cracking the great big black box of the criminal justice system. -
Biglaw, Crime
Fired Associate Takes Plea Deal In Biglaw Extortion Charge
There's no word yet on when he'll be sentenced. -
Biglaw
Quinn Emanuel Pulls Off Coup With Big-Time Criminal Defense Hire
A high-profile criminal defense star joins Biglaw. -
White-Collar Crime
Liberal Prosecutors, Pious Shibboleths, And What Really Matters In Criminal Justice Reform
Democratic prosecutors don't necessarily practice what they preach. -
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.12.17
* Former tax partner gets two year prison sentence. Maybe he can claim a good behavior deduction. [New York Law Journal]
* Chilling report on South Carolina’s routine violation of constitutional norms. [New York Times]
* Top in-house counsel share their thoughts on forging a privacy policy. As we all know, the first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. [Law.com]
* Austria’s racism manages to punish a law student in a shark costume. It’s the saddest moment for sharks since Left Shark. [Lowering the Bar]
* Checking in on Rogers Stevens, the Blind Melon guitarist who now works as a mid-level Labor and Employment attorney at Ballard Spahr. [Coverage Opinions]
* Experts say the Cowboys edict that the team will bench anyone who kneels during the anthem doesn’t run afoul of the NLRA… yet. [Law360]
* A conversation with Ellisen Turner, Irell & Manella’s newly minted managing partner, about race and discrimination and the added pressure that comes with being a person of color in the legal industry. [Am Law Daily]
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Biglaw, White-Collar Crime
No Jail Time For Convicted Dewey CFO
After years and buckets of cash spent on these prosecutions... there's still no one in jail. -
White-Collar Crime
"Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up!" Or, This Week In Ridiculous Government Sentencing Requests
This judge showed real courage. -
Politics
Robert Mueller Preps To Go Toe-To-Toe With The President On Pardons
Robert Mueller won't back down from this fight. -
White-Collar Crime
Ivanka And Don Jr. Avoided Indictment The Old-Fashioned Way: By Being Rich
'You couldn’t have had a better e-mail trail.'
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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White-Collar Crime
Pitchforks For The Rich?
Wither American democracy? We may already have the answer. -
White-Collar Crime
In Praise of Leakers: An Ode To The Mueller Investigation
Remember, targets aren’t really “people.” -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.19.17
* Baker Botts files SCOTUS brief reminding them what wedding cakes look like. Someday we’ll look back on a case designed to create second class citizens and think, “oh right, that’s the one where the Supreme Court decided with the help of a picture book.” [National Law Journal]
* Pepe the Frog’s creator is going nuclear with his intellectual property challenges against the Nazi scum who’ve turned his character into a mascot. [Engadget]
* Trader seeks to withdraw guilty plea after government shows him evidence that he probably didn’t commit a crime. The more you ponder that sentence, the more troubling it is. [Law 360]
* There are more female equity partners than ever, which means still not very many. [Am Law Daily]
* BuzzFeed hires Roy Black in the defamation case over the Trump dossier. Specifically, this case is about the allegations in the dossier that Aleksej Gubarev hacked the Democrats, but that’s no fun, so let’s remember the dossier also talked about Russian pee parties. [Law.com]
* A review of the federal government’s merits and amicus arguments this Term and it’s an aggressive invitation to legislate from the bench. So much for railing against “activist judges”! [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Harvard University is hoping Trump’s NLRB changes labor law so they can crush unionization efforts on campus. Damn liberal, socialist colleges. [Labor Notes]
* Here’s one to make some of you feel very old: Toys R Us files for bankruptcy. [Huffington Post]
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Politics, White-Collar Crime
Maybe Ty Cobb Just Doesn't Get This Whole 'Client Confidentiality' Thing
Trump's top lawyers regale restaurant patrons with claims of hidden documents. -
White-Collar Crime
What Jeff Sessions Can Learn From Betsy DeVos
What if Justice considered the rights of the accused as much as Education does? -
White-Collar Crime
Breaking: Martin Shkreli’s Clinton Threat Lands Him In Jail
As it turns out, threatening a former high-ranking cabinet official was ill-advised. -
White-Collar Crime
When Prosecutors Care More About Winning Than The Justice System
Sometimes people need to swallow their pride.