Chelsea Manning
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 01.20.17
* Welcome to the Trump era! Have you considered pro bono work? [The American Lawyer]
* Speaking of Republican leadership, former Speaker and Dickstein Shapiro alum Dennis Hastert trying to get out of paying the rest of that hush money that landed him in prison. [ABA Journal]
* To the tune of Paula Cole’s magnum opus: Where have all the ampersands gone? [The Am Law Daily]
* A profile of Nancy Hollander, the lawyer who won Chelsea Manning’s clemency. [The Litigation Daily]
* Good tips on how to attract and keep the lawyer of the future. But I assume we’ll all just keep condescending to them anyway. [Law360]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 1.17.17
* This is what happens when judges try to be cool. [Daily Report]
* Loretta Lynch’s powerful farewell. [Huffington Post]
* Daring Donald Trump to perjure himself. [Slate]
* President Obama commuted the majority of Chelsea Manning’s sentence. [New York Times]
* Despite similarities to the Nazis, Germany’s top court refused to ban the far-right National Democratic party. [The Guardian]
* How to make your emails actually convert into new business. [Law and More]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.12.17
* Fahrvergnügen! The DOJ charged six VW executives in the emissions-cheating scandal, arresting one in Miami. [New York Times]
* Dewey think the Trustee should be able to destroy records? [Law360]
* The Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing opted for the “he can’t be racist, he has a black friend” strategy that absolutely, positively never fails. [Litigation Daily]
* Child prostitution isn’t legal in California and oh my God why do we have to clarify this? [ABC News]
* Company under CFPB investigation battling to remain anonymous. This probably would be a significant legal challenge if we assumed the CFPB would exist past next month. [National Law Journal]
* Chelsea Manning’s sentence may be commuted before Obama leaves office. [Lawfare]
* The fight over legal rights to Prince’s catalog continues. [Page Six]
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Morning Docket: 08.22.13
* The NSA has violated the Constitution for years, you say? And it’s been misleading the FISA court about all of its domestic spying activities? As of this moment, the NSA is on double secret probation! [New York Times]
* Imagine how the New York stop-and-frisk case would have turned out if it had been before SCOTUS. The “human toll of unconstitutional stops” may not have been weighed so heavily. [Opinionator / New York Times]
* “[N]o one has a crystal ball,” but right now, it’s highly likely that the Supreme Court will take up another gay marriage case. Perhaps it’ll be the one that’s currently unfolding in Pennsylvania. [Legal Intelligencer]
* According to a recent survey conducted by Randstad, about 60 percent of lawyers are proud to be members of the legal profession, which is impressive(!) considering how unhappy they are. [The Lawyer]
* Birds of a feather really do flock together. Philip Alito, son of Justice Samuel Alito, will join Eugene Scalia, son of Justice Antonin Scalia, at Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office. [Blog of Legal Times]
* Even though the vast majority of his race-based claims were dismissed on summary judgment, this “token black associate” still has a respected Biglaw firm up against the Ropes. [National Law Journal]
* Law school applications are plummeting, but top law schools haven’t started scraping the bottom of the barrel — their applicants’ LSAT scores have remained relatively competitive. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* I am Chelsea Manning, I am a female.” Considering (s)he was just sentenced to 35 years in prison, Bradley Chelsea Manning sure picked a great time to make this announcement to the world. [Chicago Tribune]
* You dare call the Duchess of Dumplins racist and sexist? When it comes to Paula Deen’s new legal team from Morgan Lewis, five are women, and four are black. Take that, Lisa Jackson. [Am Law Daily]