Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.22.17

* Law firms have a great quarter! Assuming you let gangbuster Am Law 50 revenue drag up the rest of the industry. [Am Law Daily] * A Minnesota firm has fired an attorney who ran a Neo-Nazi record label. There's some hand-wringing over free speech in the workplace, but the real question is: How did a lawyer even have time to run a whole business on the side? [Huffington Post] * What company boasts the highest paid GC? [Corporate Counsel] * California tries to make it illegal to bone your clients. Don't worry, you can still screw them with your billable rate. [The Recorder] * Bill Cosby hires new lawyers. [Law.com] * Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz offering $350K for SCOTUS clerks. This isn't getting out of hand at all. [National Law Journal] * Law firms enlist schools to help figure out just how bad they are at diversity. [Law360]

money trophy* Law firms have a great quarter! Assuming you let gangbuster Am Law 50 revenue drag up the rest of the industry. [Am Law Daily]

* A Minnesota firm has fired an attorney who ran a Neo-Nazi record label. There’s some hand-wringing over free speech in the workplace, but the real question is: How did a lawyer even have time to run a whole business on the side? [Huffington Post]

* What company boasts the highest paid GC? [Corporate Counsel]

* California tries to make it illegal to bone your clients. Don’t worry, you can still screw them with your billable rate. [The Recorder]

* Bill Cosby hires new lawyers. [Law.com]

* Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz offering $350K for SCOTUS clerks. This isn’t getting out of hand at all. [National Law Journal]

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* Law firms enlist schools to help figure out just how bad they are at diversity. [Law360]