Cyrus Vance

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.20.18

* ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights score win with court order proclaiming the obvious: No, you can't blanket deny asylum seekers. [Associated Press via Huffington Post] * Cyrus Vance accuses someone of seeking publicity over justice. [Variety] * Are you suggesting that law firms and clients don't listen to each other? [American Lawyer] * The Trump administration wanted to share census answers with the cops... which is why they were so hot to get those illegal citizenship questions on there. It's like 3D checkers of bumbling xenophobia over here. [Washington Post] * The SEC's whistleblower program handed out more awards this year than ever before! Unsurprisingly, the article makes no mention of Justice following up on any of these financial crimes. [Law360] * Third Circuit taking a stab at New Jersey's ban on high-capacity magazines -- just as the Framers' envisioned. [New Jersey Law Journal] * What are law schools training students for? Debt management, maybe?[Forbes]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.25.17

* Donald Trump is launching a "major investigation" into voter fraud because the rest of us pointed out that his popular vote claims were pure bull hockey. This is fantastic. We've known that voter fraud really isn't a thing for years but now there'll be proof. [CNN] * A deeper dive into the Dentons conflict check snafu. [Litigation Daily] * The original patent troll firm is no more. [Ars Technica] * Sergey Aleynikov's conviction reinstated. "The decision is a 'big victory' for Vance and helps to enhance his reputation as a 'no-nonsense' prosecutor who will aggressively prosecute financial fraud." Wasting years pursuing a conviction the federal courts threw out just to appease Goldman Sachs donors in their private vendetta... sure that's the kind of financial fraud everyone's looking to see aggressively prosecuted. [Bloomberg] * Deutsche out $110 million. [Law360] * Hughes Hubbard files trademark application for Trump's reelection slogan "Keep America Great." Which he stole from The Purge, if you're wondering what's next on his agenda. [The Am Law Daily] * Oh. And we have our first martial law sighting! [Salon]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.08.15

* My, but how quickly things change! Manhattan prosecutors might not be retrying the D&L criminal case after all. Instead, they've offered all of the remaining defendants plea deals. Dewey know if any of the former execs of this failed firm will take a deal? [WSJ Law Blog] * In case you're wondering what's going to happen to Zachary Warren after all of this, it looks like Cyrus Vance found it in the goodness of his heart to offer the would-be Biglaw associate a plea deal: he'll have to plead guilty to a misdemeanor to get 200 hours of community service. [DealBook / New York Times] * Law students, get ready to lobby even harder for this, because a proposal to do away with the American Bar Association's ban on law students receiving academic credit for paid externships is moving forward to a notice and comment period. [ABA Journal] * If you're preparing for a law school interview, you should stop freaking out about it and focus on the things that matter -- like showing off your social skills to prove you'll be employable in some way after graduation. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News] * After having a culpable homicide conviction for which he already served time overturned and turned into a murder conviction instead, Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was granted $688 bail since he's not considered a "flight risk." [NBC News]

By Staci Zaretsky
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 07.06.15

* Is Apple Music an antitrust violation, a second-rate streaming music provider, or both. Probably both. [Dorf on Law] * Former Goldman employee Sergey Aleynikov acquitted... again. Who would have thought Cyrus Vance's trumped up show trial would fail so thoroughly? [Dealbreaker] * Landmark cases reimagined as movie posters. [Res Ipsa Law Poster] * If you missed it, here's the New York Times Editorial about the "Activist Roberts Court" that everyone was talking about over the weekend. [New York Times] * In her defense, Sarah Palin may not be the dumbest person from Wasilla. [Legal Juice] * In the wake of Obergefell, will some holdout religious schools lose their tax-exempt status? [Tax Prof Blog] * Susman Godfrey's Steve Susman chats with Richard Hsu about distance cycling. [Hsu Untied]

By Joe Patrice
American Bar Association / ABA

Morning Docket: 03.25.14

* Demand is down, but fees are up. The good news is that Am Law Second Hundred firms saw gains in billable hours purchased by corporate clients — and that’s about it for the good news. [Am Law Daily] * OMG, Dewey want to see the unsealed case records against D&L’s ex-leaders. DA Cy Vance wants our prying eyes to see all but one document. Secret seven identities… incoming! [Bloomberg] * It looks like that time Sheryl Sandberg refused to lean in is really paying off in court. Facebook is a witness, not a defendant, in an antitrust case about non-poaching agreements between tech giants. [Reuters] * Gaming the rankings for dummies? Law school deans are now pushing the ABA to require that law schools post their transfer students’ LSAT and GPA credentials. [Capital Business / Washington Post] * The easy way to decide whether you should be working in law school is to determine what you like more: money or grades. One will help you get the other later in life. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]

By Staci Zaretsky