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Biglaw
Partners Don't Think Associates Are As Good As They Used To Be
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Courts
For An Originalist, Gorsuch Is Clearly Slacking On His Definitions And Their Historical Meanings
Is what he said stupid? Yes. But let's be technical here.
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Crime
Florida Attorney Used Proceeds Of COVID Loan Scam To Pay Trump Golf Club
Does it get more Florida than this? -
Courts
Supreme Court Shadow Docket Is Showing -- Once Again -- Its Contempt For Consistency When It Stands In The Way Of Their Political Goals
What does the Supreme Court need with legitimacy anyway? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.28.22
* Oh look! The majority of the Supreme Court is once again shifting their interpretation of the law in order to support right-wing political objectives! In a 5-4 decision the Court held Title 42 must be kept in effect during the appeal of a lower court’s decision to end the use of the public health law to quickly expel migrants that arrived to the United States amid the COVID-19 crisis. Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the dissent writing, “And it is hardly obvious why we should rush in to review a ruling on a motion to intervene in a case concerning emergency decrees that have outlived their shelf life.” [Law360]
* More law schools are kicking USNWR rankings to the curb. We’re now at 10 percent of law schools that say they will not participate in the ranking process. [Law.com]
* Kari Lake, the Republican that ran — and lost — for the Arizona governorship, may have avoided sanctions for using the courts to avoid accepting the election results, but that doesn’t mean she won’t be paying money. A Maricopa County Superior Court found Lake was responsible for the ~$33,000 in expert witness fees AZ Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs incurred. [Huffington Post]
* There may not be a ton Congress can do about Republican George Santos’s lies that won him his seat, but there are some suspicious campaign campaign finance disclosures… [Slate]
* 2022 was the year that Constitutional Law dramatically shifted (to the right). [ABA Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.14.22
* Juris Doctor and Doctor Doctor join forces to fight COVID misinformation. [Mercury News]
* The practice of law is an art, no surprise it has produced artists too. [Daily UW]
* Landlords usually win in court cases against their renters. Things might change with renters having a fairer chance. [Today.Uconn]
* Lost oodles on Bitcoin? You should be interested in these JDs. [Business Insider]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.22.22
* Tune in, legal nerds! Breyer gave his Ecce Homo at Harvard. [The Crimson]
* A Maine healthcare law has been putting patients in danger. [Press Herald]
* Few things say COVID relief like…strengthening the police force? [Axios]
* Morgan Lewis just got a bump in partners! [Law.com]
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Government
Ron DeSantis Accused Of Abusing Federal Funds And Jonathan Turley Is Right There To Offer Argle-Bargle Analysis
Big day in 'abusing COVID funds' news. -
Biglaw
Associates Left Law Firms In Droves Last Year. Why'd They Go?
Associate attrition was at the highest recorded rate last year. -
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Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Learns Pandemic Not Over When Associate Retreat Leads To COVID Outbreak
COVID strikes at Biglaw firm. -
Biglaw
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Biglaw
Biglaw Partner Flouts Court's COVID Rules... Federal Judge Isn't Happy About That
The court takes COVID protocols seriously -- no exceptions. -
Small Law Firms
Veteran Real Estate Attorney Dishes On The Havoc COVID Has Brought To The Industry
It's not like the before times. -
Courts
Neil Gorsuch's Call For Civility Was Always Just For Show
Updated with theories on the... peculiar joint statement from Justices Sotomayor and Gorsuch. -
Government
Assistant District Attorney Goes On Anti-Vax/Mask Screed... No Longer Assistant District Attorney
This is probably not who you want in charge of prosecutorial decisions. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.22.21
* Law prof who oopsied a sexism and a racism on his final exam has to get schooled before he can return to his post. Looks like the law is a profession of continuous learning after all. [ABA Journal]
* The Kellogg’s strike is over and a contract has been agreed to. That’s Grrrreat! [Kiro7]
* Go Army, Beat COVID! The Army is finishing up on a vaccine that should cover current and future variants of the Rona and its SARS cousins. [Defenceone]
* Lincoln County in Georgia is down to just one polling station. If only there were some sort of federal law that existed that would have prevented something like this from happening. Maybe like a voting rights… action? [Truthout]
* Folks sentenced to house arrest due to COVID may be moving around their homes freely quicker than was expected. [NPR]