Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.15.17

* The "20th Century Disney" deal helped make this a very happy holiday season for a bunch of Biglaw firms. [American Lawyer] * "Did Alabama just violate federal voting law?" I'm going to go ahead and assume the answer is "yes" until proven otherwise. Now there's an idea! We could have some sort of statute that presupposes changes to voting laws in places like Alabama are bad until proven otherwise. A law that requires that they get, I don't know, "preclearance" for election law changes. [Slate] * The Net Neutrality law suits are piling up and throttling the FCC's plan to move forward at full speed. [National Law Journal] * Remember when Nate Newton was arrested for having 213 pounds of marijuana in his car? Well this arrested Georgia football player is, like, the complete opposite of that. [Slate] * Vivia Chen discusses Heidi Bond, focusing on how systematic abuse has the power to make people with all the objective markers of success feel incompetent. [The Careerist] * WSJ declares that it's cool to go to law school again. There's no way this leads to another bubble. [Wall Street Journal] * There are a lot of reasons why Sedgwick is going out of business but one of them has to be partners who had enough spare time to build stuff like this. [The Recorder]

By Joe Patrice on December 15, 2017 8:50 am

* The “20th Century Disney” deal helped make this a very happy holiday season for a bunch of Biglaw firms. [American Lawyer]

* “Did Alabama just violate federal voting law?” I’m going to go ahead and assume the answer is “yes” until proven otherwise. Now there’s an idea! We could have some sort of statute that presupposes changes to voting laws in places like Alabama are bad until proven otherwise. A law that requires that they get, I don’t know, “preclearance” for election law changes. [Slate]

* The Net Neutrality law suits are piling up and throttling the FCC’s plan to move forward at full speed. [National Law Journal]

* Remember when Nate Newton was arrested for having 213 pounds of marijuana in his car? Well this arrested Georgia football player is, like, the complete opposite of that. [Slate]

* Vivia Chen discusses Heidi Bond, focusing on how systematic abuse has the power to make people with all the objective markers of success feel incompetent. [The Careerist]

* WSJ declares that it’s cool to go to law school again. There’s no way this leads to another bubble. [Wall Street Journal]

* There are a lot of reasons why Sedgwick is going out of business but one of them has to be partners who had enough spare time to build stuff like this. [The Recorder]