Texas
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Legal Ethics, Technology, Texas
Texas Judge Forced To Resign After Being Caught Texting Instructions To Assistant DA During Trial
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Partner Issues, Texas
Who Will Fill The Weil-Shaped Hole In Houston?
Which Biglaw firm has designs on the Houston legal market?
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Education / Schools, Football, Kids, Sports, Texas
Anti-Bullying Laws Invoked Because One Football Team Can't Stop Another Football Team
Parent accuses 91-0 high school football victors of "bullying." -
Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Texas
Weil Weil West: Weil Gotshal Reiterates Its Commitment To Texas
Glenn West, Weil Gotshal's managing partner in Dallas, issues a statement about the firm's Texas operations. -
Depositions, Health Care / Medicine, Legal Ethics, Litigators, Texas
Deposition Advice Column Irks Fellow Lawyers
A general advice column characterizes lawyers as disreputable. The truth hurts. -
Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Real Estate, Texas, Women's Issues
As The Weil Turns: Insights From Partner Departure Memos
The latest reports from Weil Gotshal, out of Dallas and New York. -
Attorney Misconduct, Biglaw, Billable Hours, Crime, Fashion, Federal Judges, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Morning Docket, Murder, Patton Boggs, Politics, Religion, Shoes, Texas, Trademarks
Morning Docket: 10.16.13
* Stop bullying the judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. They don’t cave to just any government data request — they make changes to about 25 percent of them. But uh… they don’t like to talk about the other 75 percent. [Bloomberg] * Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the number of Biglaw firms with […]
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Biglaw, Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Lateral Moves, Litigators, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Texas, Vicious Infighting
Weil Weil West: Dallas Departures Deepen
Who just left Weil Gotshal in Dallas, and where are they going? -
Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Litigators, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Texas, Vicious Infighting
As The Weil Turns: Houston, We Have A Problem
Additional information about the recent partner defections in Houston. -
Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Litigators, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Texas, Vicious Infighting
As The Weil Turns: More Texas Turmoil
How can one law firm produce so much drama? -
Biglaw, Intellectual Property, Lateral Moves, Litigators, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Patents, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Staff Layoffs, Texas
What's Cooking At Baker Botts?
There's good news and bad news: a new lateral partner, and layoffs of some staff. -
Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Texas
Weil We Wait For More Big News....
Interesting tidbits from the Dallas and Boston offices of Weil Gotshal.
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Biglaw, Gender, Lateral Moves, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Texas, Vicious Infighting, Women's Issues
The Weil Gotshal Dallas Departures: A Deeper Dive
We know the who, what, where, and when of the Weil partner departures; now let's dig into the WHY.... -
2nd Circuit, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Department of Justice, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Lateral Moves, Law Professors, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Police, Shira Scheindlin, Texas
Morning Docket: 09.18.13
* As previously discussed, Morgan Lewis partner Leslie Caldwell hopes to take over where Lanny Breuer left off at the DOJ Criminal Division. Her nomination was formally announced this afternoon. [Blog of Legal Times]
* Judge Scheindlin doesn’t want to end stop-and-frisk in New York City, she wants to end racial profiling, so you can’t have a stay pending your appeal to the Second Circuit, Mayor Bloomberg. [New York Law Journal (sub. req.)]
* Dewey know which companies were the latest to be sued by the failed firm’s liquidation trustee to recover funds paid out in the days before it went under? Yes, and Dial Car is really pissed off. [Am Law Daily (sub. req.)]
* Let’s face the facts: no one’s goal as an attorney in Biglaw is to make it drizzle. Because “law firms don’t know when to fold when trying to hire lateral partners,” they sometimes wind up with the opposite of what they want amid their ranks. [The Lawyer]
* Texas Wesleyan Law has been Texas A&M Law for only a few weeks, but new traditions are already being made for Aggie lawyers. Now when students enter a classroom, the professors say “howdy.” [KBTX]
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Biglaw, Gender, Lateral Moves, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Texas, Vicious Infighting, Women's Issues
The Soap Opera of 'Dallas': Now Starring Weil Gotshal
How many partners just left Weil's Dallas office, for which rival firm, and why? -
Bar Exams, Celebrities, Constitutional Law, Education / Schools, Labor / Employment, Law School Deans, Law Schools, LLMs, Money, Morning Docket, Pro Bono, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Texas, Trademarks
Morning Docket: 09.16.13
* You skip over the footnotes when you’re reading for class, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t think you should. She’s a proponent of the most important footnote in all of constitutional law. [New Yorker]
* New York will modify its pro bono requirement for LL.M. students to allow public service completed outside the country. Well, so much for closing the state’s justice gap. [New York Law Journal (sub. req.)]
* Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the government-initiated trademark infringement actions over “Don’t Mess With Texas.” Like “I <3 NY," the Lone Star State's slogans are off limits. [New York Times] * WUSTL Law Dean Kent Syverud didn’t mind advocating for halving professors’ salaries. He just stepped down to become Syracuse University’s president — for much higher pay. [National Law Journal (sub. req.)] * You can sue Lady Gaga for overtime pay all you want, but you do not want to face her wrath. The pop star is due in court in early November where she’ll tell a judge “exactly what f**king happened.” [Daily Mail]
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Free Speech, Gay, International Law, Sports, Texas
Olympic Village People
The IOC doesn't seem to have any laws that will prevent Putin from ruining the Russian games with his virulent homophobia. -
Antonin Scalia, Football, Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Sports, Supreme Court, Texas
Scalia Probably Thinks Giving The Redskins Their Own Football Team Was A 'Racial Entitlement'
What do you think Justice Scalia's favorite football team is? Not the Redskins! -
Books, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Texas, Weddings
Non-Sequiturs: 09.04.13
* A comprehensive analysis of the New York Times wedding announcements over the years. As the research team frames the question, “What do the world’s most self-important people think is important?” Unsurprisingly, the answer is “where they went to law school.” [News Genius / Rap Genius] * The National Jurist would like to deceive convince the potential law school class of 2017 that there will be tons of jobs for them. Apparently the legions of unemployed lawyers now will just disappear in some sort of legal industry Carousel. [National Jurist] * Elizabeth Wurtzel’s mom loves Al Jazeera because she hates pundits and talking heads. Like, for instance, Elizabeth Wurtzel. [The Daily Beast] * Walter Olson of Overlawyered is going on the road. There are a lot of stops; check if he’s coming to a town near you. You could totally tag one of these venues in a big slip-and-fall case. [Overlawyered] * The million-dollar-law-degree guys mount another defense. [Am Law Daily via Law School Tuition Bubble] * In the midst of a slew of law deans stepping down, Dean Patricia Salkin thinks this is the perfect time to become a law dean. Elie already put his hat in the ring for every available position via Facebook. [The Faculty Lounge] * Military personnel are guaranteed benefits for same-sex partners. Including personnel in state national guard units. But Texas has decided to deny those benefits. Yeehaw! In all seriousness, this is why all those liberals rooting for state marijuana ballot measures against the feds needed a little more foresight. [Dallas Voice] * An interview with Helen Wan, the author of The Partner Track: A Novel (affiliate link). Keep on the lookout for David’s coming interview with Helen. [CNN]