Baseball

Supreme Court Precedent Settled In Yankees/Rays Game

Wait, did you see that?

Baseball Is Back, But Fist Bumps Are Expressly Prohibited

So much for attempts to reintroduce the spitball.

Getting A Job Versus Performing At A Job

Baseball offers examples for personal growth as a lawyer.

Boston Red Sox Counsel Knew That One Was Coming

Judge Forrest could read the signs when she appeared before Judge Rakoff.

Justice Sotomayor Throws First Pitch At Nationals-Phillies Game, Probably Should Join Phillies Rotation

A night at the ballpark before the October Term.

This Supreme Court Clerk Was Drafted By 2 Major League Baseball Teams

Hopefully he'll enjoy his time playing with his new team.

The ‘His Reputation Is Such Trash My Client Couldn’t Have Defamed Him’ Defense!

Which living people are truly libel-proof, with reputations so bad that defamation ceases to exist.

Morning Docket: 06.26.19

* After being subpoenaed, former special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify in open hearings before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17. How rare that someone would actually comply with a Congressional subpoena these days! [Washington Post] * “What are they hiding? Tell Joe Biden. Trump released his list. Why won’t you?” In case you missed it, a conservative legal advocacy group plans to spend big money on national ads demanding that 2020 Democratic presidential candidates release a shortlist of their potential Supreme Court nominees. [POLITICO] * Harvard Law’s Pipeline Parity Project, a group that’s working to end mandatory arbitration among Biglaw firms, is going national. Now known as the People’s Parity Project, the group has expanded its mission and hopes to form chapters at least six other law school campuses. [Law.com] * “It is time to do away with the stigmatization of women who challenge discrimination and harassment in their workplaces.” Three of the four women who were previously proceeding anonymously in their gender bias case against Jones Day have come forward to reveal their names. [Big Law Business] * The latest high-dollar addition to the Yankees is Mike Mellis, formerly the top lawyer at Major League Baseball, who will slide into home as the Bronx Bombers’ executive vice president and chief counsel. [New York Law Journal] * Timothy Thornton, CEO of 150-lawyer Greensfelder Hemker & Gale, RIP. [American Lawyer]

Moving The Rays To Montreal Half The Year Is Dumb, But At Least It’s Also An Impossible Legal Nightmare

It could be worse, you could be the Mets.

Morning Docket: 07.12.18

* Brett Kavanaugh built up around $200K in debt buying Washington Nationals tickets. This may be the Federalist Society's biggest vetting failure ever because all real conservative jurists would say they went $200K in debt buying Montreal Expos tickets. [Deadspin] * Ohio pulls obscure law out of a hat to harass Stormy Daniels for daring to point out that Donald Trump is a scumbag. [NY Times] * "Jesus never broke immigration law" says Evangelical Trumper whose religion is entirely based on a guy admitting he was an outlaw and getting the death penalty for it. [Vox] * Just when you were getting used to WestlawNext, WestlawEdge is here to radically change the game. [LegaltechNews] * Texas professors who don't want to die will take their case to the Fifth Circuit. [CBS News] * Lawyer says Shady orchestrated the assault on his ex. [Denver Post] * Trump pardoned the thugs who put the lives of firefighters in danger and then inspired an armed standoff with federal officers and then Mike Pence's buddy gave them a private jet home. [Oregon Live]

The Biglaw Firm That Was Way Ahead Of The Internet Curve

Biglaw Firm's Fascinating Connection To Baseball.

Morning Docket: 03.20.18

* Supreme Court won't wade into Arizona's death penalty law so they can really concentrate on the important work of union busting. [NY Times] * Speaking of the Supreme Court, Mississippi has set up a date to discuss its new abortion ban whenever the Court totally changes its membership. [NPR] * Trump hired Joseph Digenova, a kooky conspiracy theorist who goes on cable news to claim that the FBI framed Trump. I really want to test a theory -- if CNN is willing to have me on to explain my belief that Robert Mueller is just George Soros in a mask, how many days would it take before I got added to the defense team. [CNN] * The average age of a baseball fan is 53 years old. Now Congress wants to make sure the future of the sport are paid like it's 1965. [Washington Post] * The Tex McIver trial continues with some unsettling testimony. [CBS News] * Trump's reliance on NDAs has hit a wall -- fired White House officials can't be silenced. [Reuters]

Morning Docket: 03.02.18

* This weekend, Sheppard Mullin -- and Lankler Siffert & 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. [New York Law Journal] * In the first year of its merger, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer earned 1 percent over its legacy firm totals. Firm chairman Richard Alexander describes the firm as "generally... pleased." But not pleased enough to keep Kaye Scholer on its branding. [National Law Journal] * Robert Schulman is hoping the Second Circuit can get him out of his drunken insider trading conviction. [Law360] * 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't recruit from states with legal weed. [VICE News] * Now we have sovereign cryptocurrency which kind of defeats the whole point, but whatever. [Bitcoinist] * Your daily reminder that white supremacists are bad people. [ABA Journal] * 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's a bad thing. [Tallahassee Democrat]

Morning Docket: 09.06.17

* Let the DACA lawsuits begin! [New York Law Journal] * But don't forget about the transgender ban -- we've got a new lawsuit over that too, courtesy of Latham & Watkins. [The Recorder] * New York AG Office secures up to 7-year sentence in Operation Vandelay Industries, which was exactly what you'd think it is. [Law360] * Richard Spencer is trying to speak at the University of Florida now as part of the ongoing real assault on campus free speech -- the deliberate efforts by Spencer and others to whip up enough protest so they can then agitate for schools to install roadblocks against organized dissent. And lawyers remain the easiest marks in the world for this con. [Corporate Counsel] * Former CIA Director John Brennan is joining Fordham Law School's Center on National Security. [Seattle Times] * A profile of Edward Hanover, FIFA's first-ever compliance officer. So all that stuff about countries buying votes and using slave labor is a thing of the past! Or, will be by 2022 anyway. [Law.com] * The Boston Red Sox have filmed a powerful ad for the Apple iWatch. [NY Times]

Morning Docket: 09.01.17

* Supreme Court overrules presidential election! Unfortunately we're talking about Kenya. [Huffington Post] * Are partners employees? Asking for a couple Am Law 100 firms embroiled in a sexual discrimination suit. [Reuters] * Baseball continues to enjoy the most arbitrary legal exemption ever. [Law360] * Rumors swirl that Trump will announce the end of DACA today. Well, it is a Friday and we know how important that is for ratings. [GQ] * Fox Rothschild partner scores primo U.S. Open tickets. [Am Law Daily] * Jury finds that Manatt paid the wrong recruiter when it brought on a pair of lateral partners. [Law.com] * As we slide toward bonus season, this is a good time to remind your bosses that performance reviews are stupid. [The Careerist]