It’s Friday, so it’s time for the weekly feature that we were calling Happy Hour Hearsay. Maybe we will again… just testing out some options.
This week, let’s frame this as the home for practice pointers, random legal stories, and other fun stuff you don’t really need to know, but will nonetheless thrill your colleagues.
Legal Chatter
How You Can Take Control Of Your Firm’s Financial Future
Roadblocks to data-driven business management are falling, and a better bottom line awaits.
* Now that we know it’s going to be Ketanji Brown Jackson, it’s worth digging into how Jim Clyburn’s quest to put Michelle Childs on the Supreme Court had way more to do with hunting federally protected birds than you’d think. [American Prospect]
* NY Rangers great Ron Duguay hung out at Sarah Palin’s defamation trial? Are they dating? Was this about impressing a New York jury? Does anyone remember the Rangers before 1994? [MEDIUM]
* Nebraska bar applicant kicked out of test for 101 degree fever. She didn’t have COVID. But it’s Nebraska so masks and vaccines apparently aren’t precautions worth taking when ruining someone’s test for no reason is an option. [ABA Journal]
* Remember when Judge Jerry Smith suggested that FedSoc clerks were getting increasingly zealous? Well, here’s the story of his own clerk and a Harvard Law Review Note about the constitutionality of canceling presidential elections. [Balls & Strikes]
How MyCase Accounting Transforms Legal Bookkeeping
This complete system built for lawyers simplifies the complex world of law firm finance.
* Seditionists aren’t allowed to serve in Congress. North Carolina is trying to keep its resident seditionist off the ballot. If you’re interested in following this effort, this will become your headquarters. [PrawfsBlawg]
* Those Canadian truckers know as little about the law as you’d expect. [Globe & Mail]
Meme Time
Was $397K just a bridge too far?
Meanwhile, the message inside a lot of global law firms today…
TikTok… Not Just For Billables Anymore
Divorce lawyer breaks down the massive filings in the Kardashian-West divorce proceedings.
@lawyerlimor Reply to @awsmgmann Kim’s Reply to Kanye’s Responsive Declaration Pt. 1. #kimkardashian #kanyewest #familylaw #divorce #petedavidson #prenup #custody
Podcast Corner
* David Oscar Markus (who, apparently, knew Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson from high school debate circles) continues his series interviewing attorneys in legendary criminal defense cases, speaking with Geoffrey Fieger who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkian when Michigan prosecutors went after the doctor for assisting patients to die with dignity. [For the Defense]
* The Legal Services Corporation podcast chat with Gene Sperling, the coordinator of the American Rescue Plan about how the $1.9 trillion package will improve access to justice. [Talk Justice]
Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.