NCAA Swaps Law Firms After Its Biglaw Lawyers Called Rhode Island Judge ‘Dumb’ In Email CC Disaster
Calling the plaintiff 'poop man' probably didn't help either.
Morning Docket: 09.03.26
* Skadden and Kirkland fined $2 million after judge deemed firms engaged in “a widespread, long-running cover-up.” [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
* Clients of Pogust Goodhead and Quinn Emanuel say they’re dropping their firms, but the firms argue that they can’t be replaced. [Roll on Friday]
* Louisiana judge rules that LSU can play NFL players. Conference takes school to federal court. [ESPN]
* Bar exam scores on MBE dropped this July. [ABA Journal]
* ICE officer federally charged in shooting. Either the administration wants a distraction or those prosecutors aren’t long for their jobs. [NPR]
* Missouri Supreme Court rejects Trump supported gerrymander, ruling that it must be approved by the electorate. [CNN]
* Multiple jurisdictions of court records exposed as Thomson Reuters C-Track got hacked. [Hacker News]
* New Orleans case over staged car accidents ends in fraud conviction for lawyer, mistrial on murder charges. [NOLA]
* Class actions firm claims Paul Hastings, K&L Gates, Clifford Chance, Quinn Emanuel, and others deserve smaller shares of the fees from the Blue Cross case. [Reuters]
It’s Time To Stand Up For Judges — See Also
New Report Begs Lawyers To Defend Judges — Ask The Florida Bar How That’s Going: A new study wants the profession to step up for a judiciary under siege, a nice idea, if the bar could be bothered.
You Want To Do What Now?: There are a lot of arguments for private equity investment in law firms. Using it as a way to workaround to avoid Rule 5.6 is probably not a great one to brag about.
Trump DOJ Gets It Right: They may be taking this stand for horrible, almost certainly corrupt reasons, but the administration is right that AI training is probably fair use.
Watch That CC Field: Lawyers replaced after cc’ing the other side while casually mocking plaintiff and calling the judge “dumb.”
Do Your Job: California is sick and tired of lawyers filing AI slop.
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