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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.21.20

* Amazon's lawsuit against the Department of Defense is on hold to give the DoD time to reconsider it's decision to award a $10 Billion contract to Microsoft. $10 Billion is chump change for Jeff Bezos... [Business Insider] * A lawyer may be dismissed from a case because he removed his pants at a courthouse security checkpoint after taking offense at being asked to remove his belt. [ABA Journal] * Dewey know Howrey going to weather the storm of COVID-19? Borrow more money. [American Lawyer] * A teen has filed a lawsuit after allegedly being threatened with arrest if she didn't remove social media posts suggesting that she had COVID-19. [ABA Journal] * Authorities claim that a Florida lawyer worked as a pimp when he wasn't practicing law. Sounds like the plot of a horrible sequel to Risky Business... [Miami Herald]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.12.19

* Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who’d reportedly been taken off suicide watch, died by suicide this weekend as he awaited trial. AG Bill Barr is “appalled,” and has called for an investigation into the circumstances of Epstein’s death. [New York Times] * In light of Epstein’s death, his victims want prosecutors to turn their sights upon Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been described as the financier’s “protector and procurer, his girlfriend and his madam.” [Washington Post] * Will the Supreme Court be able to delay hearing cases about expanding Second Amendment rights considering the fact that this country has quite the problem with mass shootings? Not too hopeful here. [USA Today] * Joel Sanders, defunct firm Dewey’s former CFO, wants his criminal conviction to be tossed out and his $1 million fine to be vacated with it. [New York Law Journal] * So much for those Biglaw raises... According to a report recently published by the ABA, lawyers’ wages have been pretty stagnant, growing slower than inflation from 2017 to 2018. [Big Law Business]

By Staci Zaretsky
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]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 02.26.16

* Justice Thomas chats it up with a TMZ reporter about Lance Ito, NYU, and his lunch at Capital Grille. For as engaged as he is, it's weird that he won't divulge what he ordered, right? I assume it was a steak and probably some kind of cola. [TMZ] * "Hey, buddy... we're going to take back your money because your old firm sucked. Sorry it took us four years to notice!" [National Law Journal] * Dewey know anyone breathing a little easier today? Former executive director Stephen DiCarmine and chief financial officer Joel Sanders saw 30 counts of grand larceny (15 each) dismissed today. [Law360] * Were you wondering when the next Supreme Court justice is going to die? Because there's an app for that... apparently. [Slate] * Remember Judge Richard Cebull's racist emails? Well, there are more, but we won't get to see them. [National Law Journal] * T-Swift is now in the litigation finance game. Imma let her finish but I think some of these other litigation finance firms are the greatest of all time. [Mighty] * Lawyer suspended for Facebook misconduct. That's a thing now. [Legal Profession Blog] * Keeping up the pressure: Fix the Court writes Chief Justice Roberts requesting faster access to Supreme Court audio in the name of transparency. He will probably go ahead and ignore this. [Fix the Court] * How do Biglaw bigwigs really live? Vivia Chen visits the home of our 2013 Lawyer of the Year, Roberta Kaplan of Paul Weiss. [The Careerist] * Attorney Renee Rabinowitz has had enough of this religiously cloaked sexism stuff. She's suing El Al for making her switch seats because an ultra-Orthodox man refused to sit next to a woman. [New York Times]

By Joe Patrice