Corruption

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 11.02.15

* An amazing look at the exact way lawyers should NOT handle cleaning up their reputation after a PR snafu. [Techdirt] * Even more bad bar results news, with Charleston School of Law taking a particularly bad hit. [Bar Exam Stats] * A single lawyer -- a divorce lawyer no less -- cannot bring the NSA to its knees. Color me surprised. [Ars Technica] * Attention new lawyers! Feeling overwhelmed? Here's a list of online resources to make your day easier. [Associate's Mind] * A detailed look into the how-tos of complying with U.S. anti-corruption laws while conducting business in India. [Forbes] * Here's what a real Biglaw partner does in a day -- or at least what Christina Martini, Chair of DLA Piper’s Chicago Intellectual Property Practice Group does when a camera is following her around. [Big Law Business/Bloomberg] https://youtu.be/mwbmQctfeNc

By Kathryn Rubino
1st Circuit

Morning Docket: 05.06.14

* U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara wants to know more about why Governor Andrew Cuomo shut down an anticorruption commission. [New York Times] * The ABA weighs in on the “unfinished business” controversy affecting bankrupt law firms, their lawyers, and their clients. [WSJ Law Blog] * Better late than never: students and professors at UC Davis Law are pushing for the posthumous admission to the California bar of Hong Yeng Chang, who was denied a law license in 1890 solely because of his Chinese heritage. [Associated Press; South China Morning Post] * Speaking of late, a robber sent to prison 13 years late because of a clerical error just got released. [ABA Journal] * Drones could claim another victim: the First Circuit nomination of Harvard law professor David Barron. [How Appealing] * Who still wants a landline phone? The jury foreman in the latest Apple-Samsung battle, who is sick and tired of cellphones after the month-long trial. [The Recorder (sub. req.)] * Not such a Great Adventure: “Cadwalader To Pay $17M In Six Flags Malpractice Fight.” [Law360 (sub. req.)]

By David Lat
Biglaw

Morning Docket: 04.23.13

* The Department of Justice announced federal charges against suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev yesterday, leaving the decision of whether the death penalty will be sought in Eric Holder’s hands. [National Law Journal] * Andrew Ceresney, most recently of Debevoise, was appointed to run the SEC’s enforcement bureau alongside George Canellos, an agency veteran. Maybe they’ll both be able to boost morale. [DealBook / New York Times] * “[T]he best way to find Albany on a map is to look for the intersection of greed and ambition.” Preet Bharara is mad as hell about corruption, and he’s not going to take it anymore. [New York Law Journal] * If Anthony Weiner decides to join the New York City mayoral race, partners from Am Law 200 firms will be responsible for his second coming thanks to their pre-wiener scandal funding. [Am Law Daily] * “It’s done. Turn the page. The distraction is over.” The new dean of St. Louis University’s law school would like to move forward from the “slow-motion train wreck” of years past. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

By Staci Zaretsky
Animal Law

Morning Docket: 12.28.10

* Demand for attorneys well-versed in animal law is on the rise as pet owners push for recognition of their pets as family members rather than ordinary property. Which reminds me of my dog Rascal. He ate his own crap, licked furniture, and once peed on a baby. And when he died, my parents looked […]

By Juggalo Law
Federal Judges

Senate Votes to Remove Judge Porteous from the Bench

This morning the United States Senate voted to convict Judge G. Thomas Porteous of Louisiana on all four articles of impeachment he faced. These convictions will remove him from his lifetime seat on the federal bench, making him only the eighth federal judge in U.S. history to suffer this fate, and strip him of the […]

By David Lat