Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.20.18

* Now that people have suddenly decided that sexual harassment is a real problem, can we revisit the guy with the lifetime appointment whose Senate confirmation testimony has been branded false by multiple accusers? Just a question from New York Magazine. [New York] * New initiative aims to mint more lawyers through apprenticeship to avoid law school debt. [The Root] * The keys to a great law firm website. The article doesn't mention it, but "dank memes" should be your top priority. [Forbes] * Vivia Chen thinks Michael Cohen's story about paying off Stormy Daniels makes him a pimp, which is... pretty fair actually. [American Lawyer] * Department of Justice tells judge that Donald Trump does have it in for CNN but that's not a reason to block the AT&T merger. "Oh Kent, I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes." [National Law Journal] * Who's paying Schulte Roth & Zabel? That's the big question in the ongoing New York state government corruption case. [New York Times]

By Joe Patrice on February 20, 2018 8:41 am

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

* Now that people have suddenly decided that sexual harassment is a real problem, can we revisit the guy with the lifetime appointment whose Senate confirmation testimony has been branded false by multiple accusers? Just a question from New York Magazine. [New York]

* New initiative aims to mint more lawyers through apprenticeship to avoid law school debt. [The Root]

* The keys to a great law firm website. The article doesn’t mention it, but “dank memes” should be your top priority. [Forbes]

* Vivia Chen thinks Michael Cohen’s story about paying off Stormy Daniels makes him a pimp, which is… pretty fair actually. [American Lawyer]

* Department of Justice tells judge that Donald Trump does have it in for CNN but that’s not a reason to block the AT&T merger. “Oh Kent, I’d be lying if I said my men weren’t committing crimes.” [National Law Journal]

* Who’s paying Schulte Roth & Zabel? That’s the big question in the ongoing New York state government corruption case. [New York Times]