Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.29.16

* “This is, since the recession, the most robust job growth we’ve seen." Nearly all students who worked at Biglaw firms this past summer as associates received offers of full-time employment. Offer rates haven't been this high in more than a decade. [National Law Journal] * Mommy, wow! I'm a big kid now! Affluenza teen Ethan Couch was finally deported from Mexico and booked into a juvenile detention center. Today, we'll see if he'll be moved to a big-boy jail, and in February, we'll see if his case is moved to the grown-up court system. [Associated Press] * Sorry, Hillary Clinton, but President Obama has no desire to be on SCOTUS. According to White House press secretary Josh Earnest, while Obama “would have plenty of ideas for how he would do a job like that,” he "may have other things to do." [The Hill] * It's so hard to get execution drugs that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is asking state legislators for alternative methods for carrying out death sentences, like death by firing squad, electrocution, and hanging. Seems reasonable? [Reuters] * Arizona is so eager to kill people it hired Alston & Bird to go up against the Food and Drug Administration in the state's quest to obtain the release of a shipment of execution drugs that it had imported to the country from India this summer. [BuzzFeed News]

By Staci Zaretsky on January 29, 2016 8:53 am
Woo, Biglaw, bro!

Woo, Biglaw, bro!

* “This is, since the recession, the most robust job growth we’ve seen.” Nearly all law students who worked at Biglaw firms this summer as associates received offers of full-time employment. Offer rates haven’t been this high in more than a decade. [National Law Journal]

* Mommy, wow! I’m a big kid now! Affluenza teen Ethan Couch was finally deported from Mexico and booked into a juvenile detention center. Today, we’ll see if he’ll be moved to a big-boy jail, and in February, we’ll see if his case is moved to the grown-up court system. [Associated Press]

* Sorry, Hillary Clinton, but President Obama has no desire to be on SCOTUS. According to White House press secretary Josh Earnest, while Obama “would have plenty of ideas for how he would do a job like that,” he “may have other things to do.” [The Hill]

* It’s so hard to get execution drugs that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is asking state legislators for alternative methods for carrying out death sentences, like death by firing squad, electrocution, and hanging. Seems reasonable? [Reuters]

* Arizona is so eager to kill people it hired Alston & Bird to go up against the Food and Drug Administration in the state’s quest to obtain the release of a shipment of execution drugs that it had imported to the country from India this summer. [BuzzFeed News]