Morning Docket: 09.11.20

* Lindsay Lohan is being sued by a publisher for collecting her $365,000 advance and never writing an autobiography. When she writes the book, hope she explains why there was never a sequel to "Mean Girls"... [USA Today] * A Florida attorney was allegedly killed by his son earlier this week in an apparent murder-suicide. [New York Daily News] * Parents for a Northeastern University student who was suspended for breaking anti-COVID-19 measures have lawyered up. [Boston Globe] * Federal prosecutors are asking that civil cases against Ghislaine Maxwell be put on hold while the criminal prosecution moves forward. [ABC News] * A lawyer who falsely claimed he needed to have cancerous tumors removed to get discovery extensions may be suspended from the practice of law. As Arnold Schwarzenegger would say, "it's not a tumor!" [ABA Journal]

By Jordan Rothman

onSeptember 11, 2020 at 8:30 AMSeptember 11, 2020 at 9:03 AM

Lindsay Lohan (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty)

* Lindsay Lohan is being sued by a publisher for collecting her $365,000 advance and never writing an autobiography. When she writes the book, hope she explains why there was never a sequel to “Mean Girls”… [USA Today]

* A Florida attorney was allegedly killed by his son earlier this week in an apparent murder-suicide. [New York Daily News]

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* Parents for a Northeastern University student who was suspended for breaking anti-COVID-19 measures have lawyered up. [Boston Globe]

* Federal prosecutors are asking that civil cases against Ghislaine Maxwell be put on hold while the criminal prosecution moves forward. [ABC News]

* A lawyer who falsely claimed he needed to have cancerous tumors removed to get discovery extensions may be suspended from the practice of law. As Arnold Schwarzenegger would say, “it’s not a tumor!” [ABA Journal]

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Jordan Rothman is a partner of The Rothman Law Firm, a full-service New York and New Jersey law firm. He is also the founder of Student Debt Diaries, a website discussing how he paid off his student loans. You can reach Jordan through email at [email protected].