Burford
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Morning DocketMorning Docket: 08.13.19
* Data indicate the average attorney salary has doubled over the last 20 years. Adjusted for inflation though that’s about a 25 percent bump. Meanwhile, if law school tuition over that period only increased 25 percent, schools would be $40K cheaper now. [Law.com]
* Predictably, a staffing shortage is being blamed for Epstein’s death so everyone can start the push to hire a ton more guards rather than revisit overcrowding or reforming fundamental incarceration policies. [Huffington Post]
* Trump goes to war with the bald eagle. Finally, his revenge is complete. [NY Daily News]
* California and New York ban discrimination based on hairstyle almost 30 years after the Paulette Caldwell article pointing out exactly how messed up this practice is. [Law360]
* Biglaw shows up in force to help Burford fight back against short seller. [American Lawyer]
* ‘Space Law and Poop’ is coming to a 3L seminar near you. [Live Science]
* Ninth Circuit shuts down another attempt to get college football players a cut of the money they earn. [Courthouse News Service]
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Morning DocketMorning Docket: 03.14.17
* Happy Pi Day to all of you who entered this profession to get away from math. [Pi Day]
* Alabama will decide Chief Justice Roy Moore’s ethics violations case sooner than expected because this guy just won’t go away. [AL.com]
* Profile of David Cole, the new national legal director at the ACLU. He had very different expectations for this job. [NPR]
* Burford set to make 91 percent return on bankruptcy investment. No one’s come out of a bankruptcy this good since Donald Trump. [Am Law Daily]
* Cozen O’Connor is likely getting out of the $900 million RICO suit brought against it and Full Tilt Poker. [Law360]
* Feds look to let Ammon Bundy’s lawyer off the hook for his comical outburst. [Oregon Live]
* Can you fly with legal weed? Sure. For now. [Salon]
