Death
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Courts
Judge Gunned Down In Driveway; Judge Presided Over Lead Suspect's Divorce
The suspect is still at large. -
- Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Biglaw
Drug Company Found Liable In Biglaw Partner's 2010 Suicide
The partner's widow claimed her husband's suicide was the result of a drug side effect.
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Deaths, Drugs
The Death Of A Lawyer And The Power Of Relapse
I am not done facing loss and I am only as good as my last day sober. -
Family Law, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
I Want To Put A Baby In You: I Want Children After I Am Dead
How does the law handle requests from people who want their gametes to be used after their death? -
Family Law, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
I Want To Put A Baby In You: Removing Eggs And Sperm After Death
Advances in assisted reproductive technology have now created a new set of ethical and legal issues when it comes to death. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.09.16
* Drugs, sex, and death. A lawyer lands in hot water after his teenage lover dies. [CNN]
* The Good Wife took its final curtain call, and it was pitch perfect. [Slate]
* Properly preparing for the LSAT might make you a little difficult to take in social situations. But you probably knew that already. [Pre-law Guru]
* Should this lawyer tone down his ads? They’re very… Better Call Saul. [Law and More]
* A lawyer’s run for a Florida state judgeship is cut short over 20 cents. The devil is indeed in the details. [Miami Herald]
* Where did that case come from? An analysis of where cases before the Supreme Court originate. [Empirical SCOTUS]
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Trivia Question of the Day
Remembering The Loss Of A Lawyer Who Made A Difference
Sometimes a death hits you really hard. - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Crime
Double Stabbing Outside Courthouse -- One Dead, One Injured
Reports of a violent encounter on the courthouse steps overnight. -
Celebrities, Law Schools
3 Things Law Students And Young Lawyers Can Learn From The Late Blues Legend B.B. King
We can learn several life lessons from the late, great musician, as columnist Renwei Chung explains. -
Drugs, Sports
Reefer Sadness
On Wednesday, a race car driver named Smoke got off and it may be because the one he smote may have smoked -
Barack Obama, Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Politics
Blood-Soaked White Paper Outlines Legal Reasoning Behind Drone Assassinations
The imperial presidency is alive and well and violent. -
Deaths, Law Schools, Money, Student Loans, Suicide
Parent Cites Stepson's Law School Debt In Suicide Note
Student debt is affecting parents now, sometimes tragically...
Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, Betty Fletcher, Deaths, Federal Judges, Quote of the Day, Weirdness, William Fletcher
Quote of the Day: What's the Bluebook Parenthetical for That?
A Ninth Circuit potpourri: a highly unusual opinion, and the passing of a prominent liberal judge. -
Airplanes / Aviation, Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Bonuses, Books, Deaths, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Jeffrey Toobin, Money, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Securities Law, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 10.01.12
* Bank of America agreed to pay $2.43 billion, one of the biggest securities class-action settlements in history, to put the Merrill Lynch mess behind it. According to Professors Peter Henning and Steven Davidoff, B of A “is probably quite happy with the settlement given that it could have potentially faced billions of dollars more in liability in the case.” [DealBook / New York Times]
* “Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting.” Here is Robert Barnes’s take on the SCOTUS Term that starts today. [Washington Post]
* And here is Professor Garrett Epps’s review of Jeffrey Toobin’s new book on the Supreme Court, The Oath (affiliate link). [New York Times]
* How Dewey justify paying a big bonus to a member of the management team “when it has been widely pointed out that excessive compensation to the firm’s upper management significantly contributed to the firm’s collapse in the first place?” [Bankruptcy Beat via WSJ Law Blog]
* A high-profile Vatican trial raises these questions: “‘Did the butler do it?’ Or rather, ‘was it only the butler who did it?’” [Christian Science Monitor]
* Ben Ogden, an Allen & Overy associate who was killed in a Nepalese plane crash, R.I.P. [Am Law Daily]
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Drinking, Law Schools
Is Your Law School A Dram Shop?
Law school sued for letting people get drunk at its Barrister's Ball... -
Animal Law, Bar Exams, Deaths, Pets, Violence
Dead Cat Mars Usually Lovely Albany Bar Exam Experience
You weren't hallucinating, somebody really did kill a cat outside of the bar exam... -
Airplanes / Aviation, Deaths, Nauseating Things, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Screening Room Floor
The TSA is at it again, this time allegedly disrespecting a man carrying his grandfather's ashes for the sake of security screening… -
Bail, Crime, Deaths, Murder, Pranks, Screw-Ups, Violence
Good News and Bad News for Stephen McDaniel, Recent Law School Grad Accused of Murder
Remember the creepy message board posting attributed by prosecutors to Stephen McDaniel, the recent Mercer Law School graduate accused of murder? It seems he didn't write it (you heard it here first).... -
Crime, Deaths, Education / Schools, Law Schools, Murder, Video games, Violence, Weirdness
In Defense of Stephen McDaniel: A Testimonial From A Friend
A college friend of Stephen McDaniel, the Mercer Law School graduate accused of killing a former classmate and neighbor, speaks up in defense of McDaniel.