Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.18.21

* A client fired his lawyer at a Zoom hearing recently saying his attorney was a "bum ass dude." Don't know how the legal news cycle worked before Zoom hearings... [Boing Boing] * A lawyer accepted a $1 billion lottery check on behalf of his clients. [Hometown Life] * The Texas Attorney General is suing a utility in order to forgive have high electricity bills stemming from extreme weather earlier this year. [New York Daily News] * Republican's state Attorneys General are threatening to sue the Biden Administration over the recently passed stimulus bill. [Hill] * SCOTUSblog is running a March Madness contest to see who was the best Supreme Court Justice of all time. Now this is a bracket with which I can finally be involved... [SCOTUSblog]

* A client fired his lawyer at a Zoom hearing recently saying his attorney was a “bum ass dude.” Don’t know how the legal news cycle worked before Zoom hearings… [Boing Boing]

* A lawyer accepted a $1 billion lottery check on behalf of his clients. [Hometown Life]

* The Texas Attorney General is suing a utility in order to forgive have high electricity bills stemming from extreme weather earlier this year. [New York Daily News]

* Republican’s state Attorneys General are threatening to sue the Biden Administration over the recently passed stimulus bill. [Hill]

* SCOTUSblog is running a March Madness contest to see who was the best Supreme Court Justice of all time. Now this is a bracket with which I can finally be involved… [SCOTUSblog]


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].