Kiwi Camara

8th Circuit

Morning Docket: 09.12.12

* Good news, everyone! According to Citi’s Managing Partner Confidence Index survey, firm leaders are feeling pessimistic about their business due to an overall lack of confidence in the economy. [Am Law Daily] * Per the Ninth Circuit, an Idaho statute that essentially criminalizes medication-induced abortions imposes an undue burden on a woman’s ability to terminate her pregnancy. Really? You don’t say. [Bloomberg] * Kiwi Camara’s circuitous route to SCOTUS: thanks to the Eighth Circuit, Jammie Thomas-Rasset started and ended her journey with $222K damages for copyright infringement. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight] * “Fashion law is a real career choice,” says Gibson Dunn partner Lois Herzeca. This niche practice area is one of the hottest new trends in the wonderful world of fashion, and it’s not likely to go out of style any time in the remote future. [Reuters] * Your clawback suit is a wonderland? John Mayer was named as a defendant in a suit filed by trustees seeking to recover money paid out by Ponzi schemer Darren Berg. [Bankruptcy Beat / Wall Street Journal]

By Staci Zaretsky
Kiwi Camara

Non-Sequiturs 01.22.10

* “I think the record should reflect that the witness is vomiting.” [Young Lawyers Blog] * Morbid adventures in lawyer advertising. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog] * PPP numbers from 2009 are not sunny at Sonnenschein. [AmLaw Daily] * A scorned mistress wreaked revenge on her married ex-lover, putting ads up on billboards in […]

By Kashmir Hill
Copyright

Kiwi Camara Fights the RIAA One More Time

You learn a few things when you survive a major outbreak of alleged racism before you even graduate from law school. One thing you learn is that you don’t have to step aside quietly when million-dollar judgments go against your client. Last month, we reported that Jammie Thomas-Rasset — who is represented by K.A.D. Camara […]

By Elie Mystal
Kiwi Camara

$80,000 Per Song Could ‘Backfire,’ Says K.A.D. Camara

As we mentioned this morning, K.A.D. (Kiwi) Camara was on the wrong side of the news cycle yesterday. A federal jury ruled that his client, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, violated copyrights on 24 songs she downloaded, and hit her with a whopping $1.92 million judgment — which works out to $80,000 per downloaded song. Camara has achieved […]

By Elie Mystal
Kiwi Camara

Kiwi Camara: He’s Baack

Remember Kiwi Camara? He’s the legal Doogie Howser who graduated from Harvard Law School at the tender age of 19, reportedly making him the youngest graduate in the school’s history. But K.A.D. Camara, as he’s also known, may be best known for a youthful indiscretion: referring to African Americans as “nigs,” in a class outline […]

By David Lat
Education / Schools

Prodigy Watch: The Next Kiwi Camara?

Some of you have questions about this CNN video report on a 19-year-old who’s about to graduate with a 4.0 GPA from the University of Michigan and head off to law school. Here are our thoughts on Nicole Matisse: * She’s amazingly attractive. Most of those child-prodigy spelling-bee-winner types have thick glasses and an overbite. […]

By Laurie Lin
Kiwi Camara

Kiwi Camara: We Are Still Confused

We recently blogged about Kiwi Camara — the young, brilliant, controversial legal scholar — and his mysteriously disappeared job offer from George Mason University School of Law. Camara is a legal Doogie Howser who was 16 when he entered Harvard Law School. At HLS, he caused an uproar after dropping the N-bomb in a group […]

By David Lat
Job Searches

Kiwi Camara and GMU Law: Maybe They Found This Video?

Yesterday we issued a request for information about what really happened between controversial legal scholar Kiwi Camara and George Mason University School of Law. GMU was on the verge of hiring Camara, until something weird happened. Today one of you emailed us the video clip below, and asked: “Could it be because of this video?” […]

By David Lat
Job Searches

Kiwi Camara and GMU Law: What Happened Here?

Today’s Washington Post has an update on controversial legal scholar Kiwi Camara (at right). Camara, you may recall, is the legal Doogie Howser who was 16 when he entered Harvard Law School. At HLS, he caused an uproar after dropping the N-bomb in a group outline. (That’s the Cliffs Notes version; Google him for more.) […]

By David Lat