Morning Docket: 11.18.21
* Kirkland & Ellis is giving the $12.5M winnings the firm received for a pro bono case back to strengthen the HBCU legal community. [Baltimore Sun] * Does Native sovereignty spill over into areas that are not part of the rez? The outcome of this case may determine that. [EENews] * On Truth And Lies In A Legal Sense: If Michigan's "Truth in Sentencing" act gets repealed, incarcerated folks may have to spend less time behind bars. [Michigan Radio] * HODL your horses — Biden's new infrastructure is going to change how your crypto is taxed. Should the slogan be changed from "To the moon!" to "For the streets!"? [WaPo] * Looks like more associates are taking their bosses' "If you don't like it, you can leave!" less like a threat and more like an invitation. [Law.com]
* Kirkland & Ellis is giving the $12.5M winnings the firm received for a pro bono case back to strengthen the HBCU legal community. [Baltimore Sun]
* Does Native sovereignty spill over into areas that are not part of the rez? The outcome of this case may determine that. [EENews]
* On Truth And Lies In A Legal Sense: If Michigan’s “Truth in Sentencing” act gets repealed, incarcerated folks may have to spend less time behind bars. [Michigan Radio]
* HODL your horses — Biden’s new infrastructure is going to change how your crypto is taxed. Should the slogan be changed from “To the moon!” to “For the streets!”? [WaPo]
* Looks like more associates are taking their bosses’ “If you don’t like it, you can leave!” less like a threat and more like an invitation. [Law.com]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in Juhttps://www.eenews.net/articles/rights-of-nature-tribal-case-may-upend-pipeline-law/ne 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
