Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.02.19

* Is SCOTUS Trump's "lap dog" -- at least concerning the border wall? "[T]hat the majority rushed to give the administration everything it asked for, tells us all we need to know about the Supreme Court at this moment -- and sadly, frighteningly, tells President Trump the same thing." [New York Times] * Where has Leah Wilson, the California bar's executive director, been amid all of the madness concerning the state's unhead of leak of its bar exam essay topics? As it turns out, Wilson's son took the test this week, so she was "walled off" from everything having to do with the massive screw-up. [The Recorder] * That's all, folks! The Judicial Conference’s Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability officially has no interest in taking another look at the previously rejected misconduct complaints against Justice Brett Kavanaugh related to his Supreme Court confirmation testimony. [National Law Journal] * Cozen O'Connor recently acquired the Miller Law Group, one of California's largest woman-owned employment law firms, and the combination will help bolster the Biglaw firm's headcount in its its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Congrats! [Big Law Business] * In case you missed it, Cyntoia Brown, the woman who'd been serving a life sentence since she was 16 years old and got her sentence commuted after catching Kim Kardashian's attention (and the attention of the reality star cum law student's legal team), will be released next week. [Refinery29]

By Staci Zaretsky on August 02, 2019 8:13 am

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* Is SCOTUS Trump’s “lap dog” — at least concerning the border wall? “[T]hat the majority rushed to give the administration everything it asked for, tells us all we need to know about the Supreme Court at this moment — and sadly, frighteningly, tells President Trump the same thing.” [New York Times]

* Where has Leah Wilson, the California bar’s executive director, been amid all of the madness concerning the state’s unhead of leak of its bar exam essay topics? As it turns out, Wilson’s son took the test this week, so she was “walled off” from everything having to do with the massive screw-up. [The Recorder]

* That’s all, folks! The Judicial Conference’s Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability officially has no interest in taking another look at the previously rejected misconduct complaints against Justice Brett Kavanaugh related to his Supreme Court confirmation testimony. [National Law Journal]

* Cozen O’Connor recently acquired the Miller Law Group, one of California’s largest woman-owned employment law firms, and the combination will help bolster the Biglaw firm’s headcount in its its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Congrats! [Big Law Business]

* In case you missed it, Cyntoia Brown, the woman who’d been serving a life sentence since she was 16 years old and got her sentence commuted after catching Kim Kardashian’s attention (and the attention of the reality star cum law student’s legal team), will be released next week. [Refinery29]

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.