TikTok
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World’s Wealthiest Law Firm Working On Bid To Buy TikTok
Tapping the big guns to get this bid off the ground.
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TikTok’s Free Speech Argument Has Support Among Legal Scholars
Congress should have brushed up on their Con Law.
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A TikTok Ban Is A Pointless Political Turd For Democrats
From the election-season-seppuku dept.
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Will Contract Troubles Take Song And Dance From TikTok?
The ones where people are talking are better than the dancing ones anyway.
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Montana Won’t Be Able To Hit The Finisher On TikTok Without Addressing The Constitution
To think that there would be this much trouble over the dance app.
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* Fifth Circuit judge scolds attorney for “personal attack” because she accurately described the district court opinion as unprecedented. As Inigo Montoya would put it, “I don’t think that word means what Judge Elrod thinks it means. [Slate]
* After watching Disney’s experience beating up on Florida lawyers, Penguin Random House is starting to sue Florida school districts for banning books. [AP]
* Montana has banned TikTok in a reminder that “free speech” is now limited to punishing students for carrying mean signs during FedSoc events. [Wall Street Journal]
* Deutsche Bank paying $75 million to settle claims that the bank facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operations. Another win for Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Pottinger representing Epstein’s victims. [Reuters]
* Massachusetts US Attorney accused of abuse of power “to achieve a political goal epitomiz[ing] the type of ‘political justice’ that Congress intended to prohibit.” Too bad she wasn’t a judge taking free vacations from parties before the court… she’d be home free by now.[Law360]
* WilmerHale earned 5 percent of its total revenue from Meta, the company you remember as Facebook before they completely retooled to chase a creepy VR chat room that they’ve since killed after costing the company about $13 billion. Which is all to say that Wilmer may want to diversify its revenue streams at this rate. [Bloomberg Law News]
* A discussion of Shadow Docket by Steve Vladeck (affiliate link). [ABA Journal]
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* John Durham publishes report ripping all the wrongdoing that he could never substantiate during all the years taxpayers paid him to investigate. It’s the legal equivalent of “look, I know she was into me… no I never asked her out, but I stalked her for awhile and I’m positive she’d have totally been into me if I had.” In other words, the perfect document for the Fox audience. [Law360]
* Biglaw attorneys have taken to TikTok and their employers are worried about their online personas. Take the moral panic Biglaw had over the internet, and then Facebook, and then Twitter, and just insert it here. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Wells Fargo puts up a billion dollars to settle shareholder complaints that the bank misled them over its compliance with the orders entered after the last time the bank misled them. [Reuters]
* Law firms are leasing office space again. So much for using the lessons of the pandemic to cut overhead and maybe give clients a break. [American Lawyer]
* Ukraine’s top Supreme Court justice accused of taking massive bribe. Has Harlan Crow ever been to Kyiv? [Radio Free Europe]
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The TikTok Ban Is Starting To Look A Lot Like Gen Z’s Patriot Act
Watching TikTok vids with a VPN? That’s 20 years minimum.
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Yes, The US Government Threatening To Block TikTok Violates The 1st Amendment
From the free-speech-until-china-builds-a-successful-app? department….
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This U.S. Senator Wants To Keep America Free By Banning TikTok From Your Phone
But where else can I find cool dancing content and youth targeting radicalization? PragerU?
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3 Lawyers Weigh In With Their Top TikTok Marketing Tips
Useful tips and practical advice for lawyers interested in expanding their law firm’s social media footprint.
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Ambidextrous Fortune 500 GC Wows The World With His Art On TikTok
He’s got a really unique talent. Check it out.
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Should Lawyers Use TikTok For Marketing?
One of the best ways to understand how to take advantage of TikTok to market your law practice is to see how other lawyers are using it.
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Absolutely Fantastic Lawyer Commercial For All The Public Urinators Out There
If you haven’t gone over there yet, there’s a whole world of fun attorney content on TikTok.
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Learn how attorneys are using TikTok successfully to generate quality leads and attract traffic to their website and other online platforms.