{"id":3053,"date":"2018-04-17T08:19:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T12:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=497819"},"modified":"2018-04-17T08:19:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T12:19:47","slug":"morning-docket-04-17-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2018\/04\/17\/morning-docket-04-17-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 04.17.18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/white-men-white-male-lawyers-partners-diversity-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-442115\" \/>* The Incredible Shrinking Biglaw Partnership: Who&#8217;d have thought the idea of making more money by sharing it with fewer people would be so popular? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/newyork\/articles\/1032555\/why-biglaw-s-partnerships-are-shrinking\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Mayer Brown has a new managing partner. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/04\/16\/mayer-brown-appoints-former-london-head-clay-as-managing-partner-405-12779\/\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the president just fired 256 judges for, by and large, not having law degrees. That&#8217;s so weird, over here our judging problem are all the unfit hacks <em>with<\/em> law degrees. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/04\/dr-congo-president-sacks-256-judges-law-degrees-180417062748072.html\">Al Jazeera<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>* How do you expeditiously sort through millions of pages of documents in a wide-ranging criminal investigation? That&#8217;s a question Robert Mueller&#8217;s team has, and one that legal technology can actually answer. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/04\/16\/questions-over-collection-and-review-pile-up-in-mueller-investigation1\/\">Legaltech News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Merely threatening frivolous defamation claims can be big business. Charles Harder made $93,000 off Trump&#8217;s fear of Fire and Fury. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/04\/16\/trump-campaign-paid-lawyer-to-warn-steve-bannon-michael-wolff-over-fire-and-fury.html\">CNBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Neil Gorsuch seems to understand diversity in practice better than his colleagues. [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2018\/04\/the-supreme-court-is-terrible-at-hiring-diverse-law-clerks-but-neil-gorsuch-is-surprisingly-good-at-it.html\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Sheppard Mullin sets up a new lateral-fueled Dallas office. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/04\/16\/sheppard-mullin-launches-dallas-office-with-10-lateral-partners\/\">Texas Lawyer<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">* The Incredible Shrinking Biglaw Partnership: Who&#8217;d have thought the idea of making more money by sharing it with fewer people would be so popular? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/newyork\/articles\/1032555\/why-biglaw-s-partnerships-are-shrinking\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Mayer Brown has a new managing partner. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/04\/16\/mayer-brown-appoints-former-london-head-clay-as-managing-partner-405-12779\/\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the president just fired 256 judges for, by and large, not having law degrees. That&#8217;s so weird, over here our judging problem are all the unfit hacks <em>with<\/em> law degrees. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/04\/dr-congo-president-sacks-256-judges-law-degrees-180417062748072.html\">Al Jazeera<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* How do you expeditiously sort through millions of pages of documents in a wide-ranging criminal investigation? That&#8217;s a question Robert Mueller&#8217;s team has, and one that legal technology can actually answer. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/04\/16\/questions-over-collection-and-review-pile-up-in-mueller-investigation1\/\">Legaltech News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Merely threatening frivolous defamation claims can be big business. Charles Harder made $93,000 off Trump&#8217;s fear of Fire and Fury. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/04\/16\/trump-campaign-paid-lawyer-to-warn-steve-bannon-michael-wolff-over-fire-and-fury.html\">CNBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Neil Gorsuch seems to understand diversity in practice better than his colleagues. [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2018\/04\/the-supreme-court-is-terrible-at-hiring-diverse-law-clerks-but-neil-gorsuch-is-surprisingly-good-at-it.html\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Sheppard Mullin sets up a new lateral-fueled Dallas office. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/04\/16\/sheppard-mullin-launches-dallas-office-with-10-lateral-partners\/\">Texas Lawyer<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":442115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[102,83,3056,552,387,3000,268,570,2846,7,1050],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morning-docket","tag-biglaw","tag-books","tag-charles-harder","tag-defamation","tag-donald-trump","tag-mayer-brown","tag-morning-docket","tag-robert-mueller","tag-sheppard-mullin","tag-technology","tag-texas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Morning Docket: 04.17.18 - 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\/17\/morning-docket-04-17-18\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morning Docket: 04.17.18 - Above The Law&#039;s Legal Tech Non-Event\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"* The Incredible Shrinking Biglaw Partnership: Who&#039;d have thought the idea of making more money by sharing it with fewer people would be so popular? 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