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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.14.19

* Paul Manafort is the Energizer Bunny of lying and he’d now botched his own plea deal. [Huffington Post]

* Apple attorney in charge of insider trading compliance charged with… insider trading. [Law360]

* John Roberts declared himself the First Amendment’s most passionate defender at the Supreme Court, which is absolutely true if you limit the First Amendment to political bribery and bigots with cake shops. [National Law Journal]

* EU adopts new copyright law! It’s… not good. [EFF]

* The Harvard admissions case — the Trojan horse action about gutting affirmative action programs — is now in the hands of Judge Allison Burroughs for the perfunctory first act on the road to a 5-4 Supreme Court opinion. [Law.com]

* Proskauer inches toward the $1B revenue mark. [American Lawyer]

* A review of Biglaw cafeterias in the UK. If any firms out there want Above the Law to duplicate this story here in America, feel free to give us a call. [Legal Cheek]

By Joe Patrice
Biglaw, Law Schools
Biglaw Firms Coming Up With Exciting New Programs To Recruit Women And Minority Law Students

Will this work to resolve the legal profession's difficult diversity dilemma?

By Staci Zaretsky
Biglaw
Another Biglaw Firm Gives Associates Bonuses To Be Thankful For

More market bonuses!

By Kathryn Rubino
Biglaw
Partner Who Brought Biglaw Discrimination Suit Moves Firms

With the ink on her settlement not yet fully dry, Connie Bertram is moving on.

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.31.17

* Colin Kaepernick’s lawsuit against the NFL alleging collusion between NFL teams will be allowed to go forward, at least to a full hearing. [Slate]

* A former NBC exec says the network threatened to smear Ronan Farrow if he kept investigating Harvey Weinstein. [Daily Beast]

* Proskauer settles lawsuit over the work the firm did for convicted Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford… to the tune of $63 million. [New York Law Journal]

* A Mueller bombshell to drop by 5pm today? We’ll be watching. [Mediaite]

* Inside the fight to deregulate the U.K. legal market. [The Financial Times]

* Microsoft is doubling down in making sure its outside law firms (and other suppliers) provide paid parental leave for their employees. [Corporate Counsel]

* Bank of America is facing backlash after freezing accounts of people they suspect as being non-U.S. citizens. [Huffington Post]

By Kathryn Rubino
Biglaw
Proskauer Settles Gender Discrimination Lawsuit, But Details Remain Shrouded In Secrecy

The parties have refused to offer comment on the settlement.

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.13.18

* Confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh will begin on September 4, which means that Justice Brett Kavanaugh will likely be ready and raring to go for October Term 2018. [Politico]

* If and when Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, he’ll be able to fulfill his hoop dreams at “the highest court in the land.” Unfortunately, as his fellow players and coaches have confirmed, white ~~men~~ judges can’t jump. [Wall Street Journal]

* In the meantime, liberal activists seem to be struggling in their attempts to rally the troops to convince Republican senators (like Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Dean Heller) to vote “no” on Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS nomination. [New York Times]

* Remember when Rudy Giuliani spoke to George Stephanopoulos about President Trump’s conversation with James Comey on Michael Flynn? Giuliani doesn’t. In fact, he’s now saying Trump’s conversation with Comey never took place. [CNN]

* Partner Connie Bertram has settled her $50 million gender discrimination suit against Proskauer Rose. Details on their agreement aren’t available, but let’s hope that the labor and employment leader is getting what she’s due. [American Lawyer]

* If you want to attend the Manafort trial but have no idea what to do with your electronics, the Cafe Gallery deli across the street from the courthouse will hold onto everything for you for just $2 per item. [Washington Business Journal]

By Staci Zaretsky
Biglaw
The First Biglaw Firm To Match Becomes The Latest Firm To Match... It Makes Sense, Trust Us

It took some 24 days, but Proskauer is matching in full.

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.12.18

* Proskauer tells the EEOC that there’s nothing “sinister” about employers demanding that sexual harassment victims sign away their legal rights to be railroaded through employer-chosen kangaroo courts and then forcibly silenced. Welcome to 2018. [National Law Journal]

* In emoluments news, Judge Peter Messitte asked the Justice Department if, based on their chosen defense, “Wouldn’t that be bribery?” which he seemed to think would be a bad thing as if the Supreme Court hadn’t legalized bribery in McDonnell. [US News]

* Chris Christie is starting his own law firm and somehow Rudy Giuliani has already managed to lie about that. [NJ.com]

* Betsy DeVos succeeded in keeping fraud victims indebted to the government. She was also ordered to stop pursuing collection actions against the victims, but she still gets to destroy their credit ratings, which is still a great day for kleptocracy. [Courthouse News Service]

* Nelson Mullins merging with Broad and Cassel as part of the growing trend of super-regional firms designed to keep the Am Law elite at bay. [Daily Report]

* In a lesson on putting carts ahead of horses, the former general counsel for Portland, Oregon’s public school district was just admitted to the bar… after the state bar lodged ethics violations against him for serving in that role without a law license in the state. [Portland Tribune]

By Joe Patrice
Biglaw
The First Biglaw Firm To Match The New Associate Raises

Is $190,000 the new Biglaw normal?

By Kathryn Rubino