Charles Harder

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.25.18

* Justice Department launches its bid to reverse LGBTQ rights. I'll bet several liked beers that the timing isn't a coincidence. [National Law Journal] * Speaking of the Supreme Court, anthropomorphic hemorrhoid Charles Harder is asking the Court to get rid of Section 230 so every website can be sued into oblivion for defamation they don't even commit. [The Verge] * With Baker McKenzie chair Paul Rawlinson stepping down from exhaustion, other Biglaw managing partners line up to describe how hard they have it. [American Lawyer] * Latham & Watkins partner takes Lording his position over everybody literally. [Legal Cheek] * "Hey Google, what are sanctions?" [Law360] * The DOJ may have won the stay it wanted, but it's still staring down a trial over the census. [New York Law Journal] * Judge set to resolve one of the many shady election law problems plaguing Georgia. [Courthouse News Service]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.17.18

* The Incredible Shrinking Biglaw Partnership: Who'd have thought the idea of making more money by sharing it with fewer people would be so popular? [Law360] * Mayer Brown has a new managing partner. [American Lawyer] * In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the president just fired 256 judges for, by and large, not having law degrees. That's so weird, over here our judging problem are all the unfit hacks with law degrees. [Al Jazeera] * How do you expeditiously sort through millions of pages of documents in a wide-ranging criminal investigation? That's a question Robert Mueller's team has, and one that legal technology can actually answer. [Legaltech News] * Merely threatening frivolous defamation claims can be big business. Charles Harder made $93,000 off Trump's fear of Fire and Fury. [CNBC] * Neil Gorsuch seems to understand diversity in practice better than his colleagues. [Slate] * Sheppard Mullin sets up a new lateral-fueled Dallas office. [Texas Lawyer]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.12.18

* "The chief justice, in particular, doesn’t like the court to be a disruptive force," but that might change this spring as the Supreme Court considers reversing at least three of its longstanding precedents. Trashing precedents could potentially become much easier now that Justice Gorsuch is here. [USA Today] * Berwin Leighton Paisner and Bryan Cave partners are voting on their proposed transatlantic merger, and the results are expected by the end of the month. If the tie-up is approved, BCLP -- the combined firm's new name -- will be a billion-dollar firm with 1,500 lawyers and 32 offices in 12 countries. [Law.com] * Charles Harder, the lawyer who brought down Gawker and now represents Donald Trump and members of his family, is experiencing some growing pains at his firm thanks to his presidential representation. Name partner Douglas Mirell just quit because of his "pledge to protect the First Amendment." [The Recorder] * New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a civil rights suit against the Weinstein Company and its founders, alleging that they "repeatedly and persistently treated female employees less well than male-employees through gender-based hostile workplace harassment, quid pro quo harassment, and discrimination." [Variety] * In an effort to increase diversity, LSAC will be awarding a total of $1.5 million to five law schools so they can hold Prelaw Undergraduate Scholars programs on their campuses. Akron, Alabama, Duke, Houston, and St. John's will each receive these grants to convince college students to enroll. [Black Enterprise] * Congratulations to Charleston Law's National Tax Moot Court team, which just clinched its seventh championship title in a row. It's nice to know that students were able to rise above the school's designation as one of the "least selective law schools in the country" to create a tax law dynasty. [Post and Courier] * Remember the former Ulta employee who accused the beauty retailer of reselling used products as new? Now a concerned customer has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit over the store's "widespread and surreptitious practice" of allegedly repackaging and selling returned products. [Chicago Tribune]

By Staci Zaretsky
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.05.18

* Attorney General Jeff Sessions is planning to challenge immigration judges over their authority to close cases without rendering decisions -- because in doing so, they're allowing immigrants to remain in this country without legal status of any kind. [ABA Journal] * Has a new era in textualism arrived at the Supreme Court? An examination of the use textualism by justices and attorneys at the high court since 2013. [Empirical SCOTUS] * According to a new survey, a "sizeable" amount of sexual harassment goes down at annual academic meetings. We hope this isn't the case at the 2018 meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, which is wrapping up tomorrow. [TaxProf Blog] * Attorney Charles Harder may have brought Gawker to its knees, but Michael Wolff, the author of the book that the president wants banished, isn't afraid of him. [Law and More] * Check out the 11 craziest crime stories from the year that was. Some of these are almost too hard to believe happened in real life. [Versus Texas]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.16.17

* Colin Kaepernick, who remains unsigned six weeks into the season, has filed a grievance against the NFL and its owners alleging collusion under the latest collective bargaining agreement, claiming that he's been deprived of employment in retaliation for "bringing awareness to peculiar institutions still undermining racial equality in the United States." [Bleacher Report] * Harvey Weinstein was planning to file suit against the New York Times for defamation, but Charles Harder, the hot-shot lawyer who brought down Gawker, has left the media mogul's legal team. Harder is the third lawyer to step away from this representation, following moves made by Lisa Bloom and Lanny Davis. [Deadline] * Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rolled back protections for transgender people in the workforce and in education, but the Department of Justice is taking a hard line when it comes to federal hate crimes that have been committed against the very people his policies have thrust into potential danger. [New York Times] * Harvard Law students and alumni want major improvements to be made to the school's public service loan assistance program, saying their alma mater has "fallen behind its peer schools" when it comes to supporting graduates who work in public interest. Will HLS act to preserve its stature, or to help its own? [Harvard Crimson] * Even though women account for more than 40 percent of the school's student body, there aren't enough women's bathrooms at the University of South Dakota School of Law, and students who've been forced to wait in long lines are pretty pissed that the administration has done such a piss-poor job of handling this issue. [Wichita Eagle]

By Staci Zaretsky