{"id":1918,"date":"2017-12-29T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=487499"},"modified":"2017-12-29T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:47:11","slug":"morning-docket-12-29-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2017\/12\/29\/morning-docket-12-29-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 12.29.17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/11\/boston-skyline1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"127\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-110529\" \/>* Both Quinn Emanuel and Kirkland &amp; Ellis are moving into Boston. Is this going to be a trend? Is there enough extra work laying around up there for this to be a trend? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/sites\/americanlawyer\/2017\/12\/28\/kirkland-quinn-emanuel-beef-up-in-boston\/\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Look forward to hearing more about machine learning in 2018! It&#8217;s good to know it won&#8217;t all be vague conversations about blockchain next year. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/corpcounsel\/sites\/legaltechnews\/2017\/12\/28\/many-businesses-are-expected-to-move-forward-with-machine-learning-in-2018\/\">Legaltech News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Jeff Sessions opens door to debtor&#8217;s prisons, because of course he does. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/28\/opinion\/sessions-says-to-courts-go-ahead-jail-people-because-theyre-poor.html\">New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>* And&#8230; here come the lawsuits over Apple&#8217;s newly uncovered practice of slowing down old phones. There&#8217;s a lot of ill will about these types of suits, but this is a pretty good example of how out of hand things can get without the threat of litigation. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/nationallawjournal\/sites\/dailybusinessreview\/2017\/12\/28\/miami-attorneys-sue-apple-for-throttling-iphone-performance\/\">Daily Business Review<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Texas Lawyer put together a top 10 list of the troubled lawyers and judges of 2017. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/texaslawyer\/sites\/texaslawyer\/2017\/12\/28\/2017s-top-10-troubled-lawyers-and-judges-in-texas\/\">Texas Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Steptoe&#8217;s John Nolan Jr., who negotiated the Bay of Pigs prisoner releases, has passed. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/sites\/nationallawjournal\/2017\/12\/28\/steptoe-partner-who-struck-a-deal-with-fidel-castro-dies-at-90\/\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">* Both Quinn Emanuel and Kirkland &amp; Ellis are moving into Boston. Is this going to be a trend? Is there enough extra work laying around up there for this to be a trend? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/sites\/americanlawyer\/2017\/12\/28\/kirkland-quinn-emanuel-beef-up-in-boston\/\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Look forward to hearing more about machine learning in 2018! It&#8217;s good to know it won&#8217;t all be vague conversations about blockchain next year. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/corpcounsel\/sites\/legaltechnews\/2017\/12\/28\/many-businesses-are-expected-to-move-forward-with-machine-learning-in-2018\/\">Legaltech News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Jeff Sessions opens door to debtor&#8217;s prisons, because of course he does. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/28\/opinion\/sessions-says-to-courts-go-ahead-jail-people-because-theyre-poor.html\">New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* And&#8230; here come the lawsuits over Apple&#8217;s newly uncovered practice of slowing down old phones. There&#8217;s a lot of ill will about these types of suits, but this is a pretty good example of how out of hand things can get without the threat of litigation. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/nationallawjournal\/sites\/dailybusinessreview\/2017\/12\/28\/miami-attorneys-sue-apple-for-throttling-iphone-performance\/\">Daily Business Review<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Texas Lawyer put together a top 10 list of the troubled lawyers and judges of 2017. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/texaslawyer\/sites\/texaslawyer\/2017\/12\/28\/2017s-top-10-troubled-lawyers-and-judges-in-texas\/\">Texas Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Steptoe&#8217;s John Nolan Jr., who negotiated the Bay of Pigs prisoner releases, has passed. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/sites\/nationallawjournal\/2017\/12\/28\/steptoe-partner-who-struck-a-deal-with-fidel-castro-dies-at-90\/\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":110529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[20,59,325,2314,2315,268,145,1420,1088,7],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morning-docket","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-department-of-justice","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-john-nolan-jr","tag-kirkland-ellis","tag-morning-docket","tag-prisons","tag-quinn-emanuel","tag-steptoe-johnson","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Morning Docket: 12.29.17 - Above The Law&#039;s Legal Tech Non-Event<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2017\/12\/29\/morning-docket-12-29-17\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morning Docket: 12.29.17 - Above The Law&#039;s Legal Tech Non-Event\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"* Both Quinn Emanuel and Kirkland &amp; Ellis are moving into Boston. 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