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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.05.20

* A Chicago lawyer featured on the Netflix show Indian Matchmaking is facing a tough adjustment after experiencing the fame of being on the show. This series keeps showing up on my queue... [Chicago Sun Times] * The Los Angeles District Attorney's husband will face charges for waiving a gun at protesters near his home. [Hill] * A new lawsuit is demanding that White House briefings have sign language interpreters. [New York Times] * The American Bar Association has voted on a set of best practices for third-party litigation funding. That sentence may sound boring, but the implications are profound. [American Lawyer] * A new class-action lawsuit claims that the popular app TikTok steals consumer data and sends it to China. [NPR] * Check out this story of a lawyer who paid off $200,000 in student loans in two years. Man, she beat me by 22 months, hope she doesn't start a blog... [Business Insider]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.01.18

The American Bar Association needs some new blood! A new report from Law School Transparency and the Iowa State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division recommends adding some younger members to the ABA's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. [Law.com] Partisan gerrymandering challenges may be making their way through the court system, but don't expect them to be a deciding factor in the midterm elections. [Big Law Business] It's never a great start to a trial when the judge has to explain the case isn't about whether your client is "evil." [Law360] Another day, another looming "constitutional crisis." [Washington Post] Everyone is out at USA Gymnastics. It is the absolute least they could do. [CNN] Stephen Cutler may be moving from JPMorgan Chase to Simpson Thatcher, but he says his practice will still focus on internal and government investigations, corporate governance matters and crisis management. [Law.com] Hank Greenberg of Greenberg Traurig is the president-elect designee of the New York State Bar Association. [New York Law Journal]

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.15.17

* Credit where credit is due: Attorney General Jeff Sessions wins qualified praise for his forceful condemnation of the Charlottesville violence. [New York Times] * Donald Trump needs all the legal help he can get -- so he's surely pleased and proud about daughter Tiffany Trump starting up at Georgetown Law this month. (More on this later.) [Washington Post] * And wouldn't it be incredibly awkward interesting to have Tiffany as a classmate in your Con Law class this semester? [New York Times via How Appealing] * The ABA will reconsider its controversial, much-criticized changes to how law schools report graduate employment data. [Law.com] * Taylor Swift prevails in her lawsuit accusing DJ David Mueller of groping her during a photo op. [Law360] * Merger mania spreads -- from Biglaw to boutiques. [Law.com] * Tech company DreamHost will resist -- a Justice Department effort to acquire information about visitors to an anti-Trump website set up to coordinate Inauguration Day protests. [Washington Post] * An investors' lawyer claims that his lawsuit against Duane Morris "could bankrupt that firm." [Law.com] * There are reasonable arguments for and against splitting up the Ninth Circuit, but the ABA's position is clear: firmly opposed. [ABA Journal]

By David Lat