{"id":2975,"date":"2018-04-05T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=496647"},"modified":"2018-04-05T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T12:24:21","slug":"morning-docket-04-05-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2018\/04\/05\/morning-docket-04-05-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 04.05.18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/gavel-on-hundreds-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-483981\" \/>* Good news for Holland &amp; Knight, who successfully escaped a $34.5 million malpractice rap. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2018\/04\/04\/holland-knight-gets-34-5m-malpractice-verdict-overturned\/\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Wisconsin passes a law requiring disclosure of litigation financers because juries should be gravely suspicious of anyone who can afford to seek legal redress from a corporation. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/04\/04\/wisconsin-litigation-funding\/?et=&amp;bu=&amp;cn=&amp;src=&amp;pt=\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Cleary Gottlieb partner loses battle over rent-stabilized penthouse. While that sentence doesn&#8217;t make him sound particularly sympathetic, he&#8217;s actually the good guy here. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2018\/04\/04\/penthouse-in-peril-for-cleary-gottlieb-lawyer\/\">New York Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Executives and board members should be more involved in cybersecurity efforts according to the Department of Obvious Things. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/corpcounsel\/2018\/04\/04\/companies-should-get-execs-board-members-more-involved-in-cybersecurity-survey-says\/\">Corporate Counsel<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>* Sexual assault defendant pleas down to charge of \u201cseduc[ing] and debauch[ing] any unmarried woman.\u201d That&#8217;s offensive on so many levels. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2018\/04\/04\/arcane-seduction-law-used-ex-msu-players-plea-deal\/33556649\/\">Detroit News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Workers comp can&#8217;t cover paralegal injured playing for firm softball team. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/paralegal_injured_playing_softball_for_law_firm_team_isnt_entitled_to_worke\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Law firm conducting use-of-force review simultaneously representing deputy accused of shooting and killing two men while on duty. Foxes, hen houses, etc. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kob.com\/albuquerque-news\/law-firm-picked-for-use-of-force-review-also-represents-deputy\/4851773\/\">KOB 4<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>* Did you know some law schools are now accepting the GRE? Because the Times just figured that out. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/05\/education\/learning\/lsat-law-school-testing-alternative.html\">New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">* Good news for Holland &amp; Knight, who successfully escaped a $34.5 million malpractice rap. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2018\/04\/04\/holland-knight-gets-34-5m-malpractice-verdict-overturned\/\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Wisconsin passes a law requiring disclosure of litigation financers because juries should be gravely suspicious of anyone who can afford to seek legal redress from a corporation. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/04\/04\/wisconsin-litigation-funding\/?et=&amp;bu=&amp;cn=&amp;src=&amp;pt=\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Cleary Gottlieb partner loses battle over rent-stabilized penthouse. While that sentence doesn&#8217;t make him sound particularly sympathetic, he&#8217;s actually the good guy here. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2018\/04\/04\/penthouse-in-peril-for-cleary-gottlieb-lawyer\/\">New York Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Executives and board members should be more involved in cybersecurity efforts according to the Department of Obvious Things. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/corpcounsel\/2018\/04\/04\/companies-should-get-execs-board-members-more-involved-in-cybersecurity-survey-says\/\">Corporate Counsel<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Sexual assault defendant pleas down to charge of \u201cseduc[ing] and debauch[ing] any unmarried woman.\u201d That&#8217;s offensive on so many levels. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2018\/04\/04\/arcane-seduction-law-used-ex-msu-players-plea-deal\/33556649\/\">Detroit News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Workers comp can&#8217;t cover paralegal injured playing for firm softball team. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/paralegal_injured_playing_softball_for_law_firm_team_isnt_entitled_to_worke\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Law firm conducting use-of-force review simultaneously representing deputy accused of shooting and killing two men while on duty. Foxes, hen houses, etc. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kob.com\/albuquerque-news\/law-firm-picked-for-use-of-force-review-also-represents-deputy\/4851773\/\">KOB 4<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Did you know some law schools are now accepting the GRE? Because the Times just figured that out. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/05\/education\/learning\/lsat-law-school-testing-alternative.html\">New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":483981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[3032,3014,3033,413,935,1081,625,952,938,1463,268,1188,1211,3034,418,7,135],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morning-docket","tag-barry-fox","tag-cleary-gottlieb","tag-cybersecruity","tag-football","tag-gre","tag-holland-knight","tag-labor-employment","tag-litigation-finance","tag-lsat","tag-malpractice","tag-morning-docket","tag-police","tag-rape","tag-sexual-assault","tag-sports","tag-technology","tag-the-jabot"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Morning Docket: 04.05.18 - 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\/04\/05\/morning-docket-04-05-18\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morning Docket: 04.05.18 - Above The Law&#039;s Legal Tech Non-Event\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"* Good news for Holland &amp; Knight, who successfully escaped a $34.5 million malpractice rap. 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