Private Equity Found A Law Firm That Said Yes
Wood Smith Henning & Berman's reported $700 million deal with Charlesbank is the clearest sign yet of which way the wind is blowing.
Federal District Court Doesn’t Want Any Dedicated Public Defenders Slowing Things Up
There's no federal defender in the Southern District of Georgia, and it shows.
Why There Are Always Bad Emails
It's the corporate way of life.
Credit Suisse To Stop Doing Thing It Wasn’t Making Any Money On Anyway
But which was putting it a huge legal, regulatory and financial risk for nothing.
Morning Docket: 11.08.21
* Felonious Monkfish: the surf of your turf may actually be criminally good. [LA Times]
* Looking to naturalize in the US? Hope you’re up to date on your COVID immunity. And very lucky. [NY Daily News]
* …I think a town in Cali just seceded over vaccines? Am I reading this right? [The Guardian]
* SCOTUS will be hearing a case about coal that will determine the strength of the EPA’s bite. [Inside Climate News]
* Some of them that work forces, are the same that keep oaths. They tried to tell you. [NPR]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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