{"id":2544,"date":"2018-03-02T08:43:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T13:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=493374"},"modified":"2018-03-02T08:52:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T13:52:06","slug":"morning-docket-03-02-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2018\/03\/02\/morning-docket-03-02-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 03.02.18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-409338\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/Oscar-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/>* This weekend, Sheppard Mullin &#8212; and Lankler Siffert &amp; Wohl for that matter &#8212; will be pulling for <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2017\/09\/small-enough-to-jail-looks-at-the-only-bank-prosecuted-over-the-housing-crisis\/\">Abacus: Small Enough To Jail<\/a>, the stellar documentary about the only bank prosecuted for the housing crisis that starred the lawyers who represented Abacus and its family owners. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/02\/28\/to-sheppard-mullin-litigators-appearing-in-oscar-nominated-film-telling-great-story-is-a-win\/\">New York Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* In the first year of its merger, Arnold &amp; Porter Kaye Scholer earned 1 percent over its legacy firm totals. Firm chairman Richard Alexander describes the firm as &#8220;generally&#8230; pleased.&#8221; But not pleased enough to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2018\/02\/biglaw-firm-boots-merger-partner-off-its-new-branding\/\">keep Kaye Scholer on its branding<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/03\/01\/arnold-porter-sees-progress-on-revenue-profits-after-kaye-scholer-deal\/?et=&amp;bu=&amp;cn=&amp;src=&amp;pt=\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Robert Schulman is hoping the Second Circuit can get him out of his <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2017\/03\/biglaw-partner-convicted-of-insider-trading-after-jury-trial\/\">drunken insider trading conviction<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/newyork\/articles\/1017606\/ex-hunton-atty-urges-2nd-circ-to-undo-insider-trading-rap\/\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>* Texas Wesleyan is looking for a new baseball coach after firing the last one for rejecting a Colorado recruit and telling the kid the school wouldn&#8217;t recruit from states with legal weed. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/qveab5\/texas-college-fires-coach-for-rejecting-recruit-from-weed-legal-colorado\">VICE News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Now we have sovereign cryptocurrency which kind of defeats the whole point, but whatever. [<a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/marshall-islands-to-issue-crypto-legal-tender-sovereign-sov-a-global-first\/\">Bitcoinist<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Your daily reminder that white supremacists are bad people. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/lawyer_representing_neo_nazis_declares_that_white_people_are_the_chosen_peo\/\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Speaking of white supremacists, FSU Law students have started to notice that their main academic building is a tribute to a segregationist and that maybe that&#8217;s a bad thing. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/2018\/03\/01\/fsu-college-law-students-urge-removal-b-k-roberts-name-academic-building\/386169002\/\">Tallahassee Democrat<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">* This weekend, Sheppard Mullin &#8212; and Lankler Siffert &amp; Wohl for that matter &#8212; will be pulling for <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2017\/09\/small-enough-to-jail-looks-at-the-only-bank-prosecuted-over-the-housing-crisis\/\">Abacus: Small Enough To Jail<\/a>, the stellar documentary about the only bank prosecuted for the housing crisis that starred the lawyers who represented Abacus and its family owners. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/02\/28\/to-sheppard-mullin-litigators-appearing-in-oscar-nominated-film-telling-great-story-is-a-win\/\">New York Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* In the first year of its merger, Arnold &amp; Porter Kaye Scholer earned 1 percent over its legacy firm totals. Firm chairman Richard Alexander describes the firm as &#8220;generally&#8230; pleased.&#8221; But not pleased enough to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2018\/02\/biglaw-firm-boots-merger-partner-off-its-new-branding\/\">keep Kaye Scholer on its branding<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/03\/01\/arnold-porter-sees-progress-on-revenue-profits-after-kaye-scholer-deal\/?et=&amp;bu=&amp;cn=&amp;src=&amp;pt=\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Robert Schulman is hoping the Second Circuit can get him out of his <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2017\/03\/biglaw-partner-convicted-of-insider-trading-after-jury-trial\/\">drunken insider trading conviction<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/newyork\/articles\/1017606\/ex-hunton-atty-urges-2nd-circ-to-undo-insider-trading-rap\/\">Law360<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Texas Wesleyan is looking for a new baseball coach after firing the last one for rejecting a Colorado recruit and telling the kid the school wouldn&#8217;t recruit from states with legal weed. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/qveab5\/texas-college-fires-coach-for-rejecting-recruit-from-weed-legal-colorado\">VICE News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Now we have sovereign cryptocurrency which kind of defeats the whole point, but whatever. [<a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/marshall-islands-to-issue-crypto-legal-tender-sovereign-sov-a-global-first\/\">Bitcoinist<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Your daily reminder that white supremacists are bad people. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/lawyer_representing_neo_nazis_declares_that_white_people_are_the_chosen_peo\/\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Speaking of white supremacists, FSU Law students have started to notice that their main academic building is a tribute to a segregationist and that maybe that&#8217;s a bad thing. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/2018\/03\/01\/fsu-college-law-students-urge-removal-b-k-roberts-name-academic-building\/386169002\/\">Tallahassee Democrat<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":409338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[2840,2841,1214,102,2566,2842,2843,2844,268,75,490,2845,2846,418,7,986],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morning-docket","tag-abacus","tag-arnold-porter-kaye-scholer","tag-baseball","tag-biglaw","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-florida-state-university-college-of-law","tag-hunton-williams","tag-lankler-siffert-wohl","tag-morning-docket","tag-movies","tag-racism","tag-robert-schulman","tag-sheppard-mullin","tag-sports","tag-technology","tag-white-collar-crime"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Morning Docket: 03.02.18 - 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\/2018\/03\/02\/morning-docket-03-02-18\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morning Docket: 03.02.18 - Above The Law&#039;s Legal Tech Non-Event\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"* This weekend, Sheppard Mullin -- and Lankler Siffert &amp; Wohl for that matter -- will be pulling for Abacus: Small Enough To Jail, the stellar documentary about the only bank prosecuted for the housing crisis that starred the lawyers who represented Abacus and its family owners. 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