Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.05.16

* In case you haven't been keeping score like we have, these are the firms that recently raised salaries: Kilpatrick Townsend, Sutherland, Norton Rose Fulbright, Morgan Lewis (additional details), Troutman Sanders. If you’re worried you’ve missed any of our coverage on pay raises, you can check out our omnibus 2016 salary chart where we collect these stories. [2016 Salary Increase / Above the Law] * “The plan was always to retire after this summer, retirement just came a little sooner than I’d hoped." Olympic gold medalist Shannon Vreeland isn't going to the Rio Olympics this summer; instead, she'll be swimming in the completely the uncharted waters of law school at Vanderbilt. Will she be the new Aquagirl? [SwimSwam] * Worried about Brexit? So are clients who have hired Mischon de Reya lawyers to make sure the British government doesn't try to leave the EU without consulting parliament. "Everyone in Britain needs the government to apply the correct constitutional process and allow parliament to fulfill its democratic duty," says a firm partner. [Bloomberg] * Judge Richard Posner would like to sincerely apologize for saying that the Constitution isn't worth the time judges have spent studying it. What he really meant to say was that he thinks the Constitution is so vague that judges are simply "do[ing] the best they can" to make the 17th century document applicable to our modern world. [WSJ Law Blog] * "I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you're ready, you just need to do it! You can't think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don't get why you aren't." Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts teen who walked her boyfriend through his suicide via text, will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter. [AP]

By Staci Zaretsky on July 05, 2016 8:59 am
Shannon Vreeland (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty)

Shannon Vreeland (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty)

* In case you haven’t been keeping score like we have, these are the firms that recently raised salaries: Kilpatrick Townsend, Sutherland, Norton Rose Fulbright, Morgan Lewis (additional details), Troutman Sanders. If you’re worried you’ve missed any of our coverage on pay raises, you can check out our omnibus 2016 salary chart where we collect these stories. [2016 Salary Increase / Above the Law]

* “The plan was always to retire after this summer, retirement just came a little sooner than I’d hoped.” Olympic gold medalist Shannon Vreeland isn’t going to the Rio Olympics this summer; instead, she’ll be swimming in the completely the uncharted waters of law school at Vanderbilt. Will she be the new Aquagirl? [SwimSwam]

* Worried about Brexit? So are clients who have hired Mischon de Reya lawyers to make sure the British government doesn’t try to leave the EU without consulting parliament. “Everyone in Britain needs the government to apply the correct constitutional process and allow parliament to fulfill its democratic duty,” says a firm partner. [Bloomberg]

* Judge Richard Posner would like to sincerely apologize for saying that the Constitution isn’t worth the time judges have spent studying it. What he really meant to say was that he thinks the Constitution is so vague that judges are simply “do[ing] the best they can” to make the 17th century document applicable to our modern world. [WSJ Law Blog]

* “I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you’re ready, you just need to do it! You can’t think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don’t get why you aren’t.” Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts teen who walked her boyfriend through his suicide via text, will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter. [AP]

Staci Zaretsky is an editor at Above the Law. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments. Follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.