Morning Docket: 04.27.23

* Judge Luttig joined the chorus calling for stricter Supreme Court ethics -- a chorus that features pretty much everyone not on the Supreme Court. [Reuters] * Trump loses effort to block Pence testimony. Again. [Politico] * Biglaw firms game their partnership size to look more profitable, but there's a stat to look for to check if a firm is truly healthy. [Bloomberg Law News] * Biglaw capital market groups living in suspended animation as the whole economy continues to pretend there's a recession until the Federal Reserve gives up trying to create one. [American Lawyer] * Fox handing Smartmatic the Murdoch depositions because how much more damage can be done? Reputationally, we mean. Financially, it's about $2 billion more. [Law360] * Copyright claim against Ed Sheeran lodged by Marvin Gaye's co-writer. Look, I get that Blurred Lines was -- in addition to a bizarrely rapey song for the 21st century -- pretty much Got to Give It Up, but you don't get to own every chord progression in the universe. [ABA Journal] * Ivanka hires Jeffrey Epstein lawyer after separating counsel from her brothers. [Daily Beast]

By Above the Law on April 27, 2023 9:09 am

Supreme Court Holds Investiture Ceremony For Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

(Photo by Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images)

* Judge Luttig joined the chorus calling for stricter Supreme Court ethics — a chorus that features pretty much everyone not on the Supreme Court. [Reuters]

* Trump loses effort to block Pence testimony. Again. [Politico]

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* Biglaw firms game their partnership size to look more profitable, but there’s a stat to look for to check if a firm is truly healthy. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Biglaw capital market groups living in suspended animation as the whole economy continues to pretend there’s a recession until the Federal Reserve gives up trying to create one. [American Lawyer]

* Fox handing Smartmatic the Murdoch depositions because how much more damage can be done? Reputationally, we mean. Financially, it’s about $2 billion more. [Law360]

* Copyright claim against Ed Sheeran lodged by Marvin Gaye’s co-writer. Look, I get that Blurred Lines was — in addition to a bizarrely rapey song for the 21st century — pretty much Got to Give It Up, but you don’t get to own every chord progression in the universe. [ABA Journal]