Documentary

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 04.26.16

* Is this judge dangerous or just doing her job -- or worse, both? [Guile is Good] * So, you find yourself "in between" legal jobs at the moment. What do you do with the time? [Reboot Your Law Practice] * This University of Chicago Law student is just trying to make his nut, and he's developed a card game called "The Golfing Dead." A standard card game put through the "apocalyptic ringer." Even his law professor is on board with the fun game... it may not be important or amazing, but it is entertaining. [Kickstarter] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRN6vfrIY1c * This Anthony Weiner documentary looks like it is going to be everything you didn't even know you always wanted from a political documentary. [Gawker] * Despite blood testing company Theranos's recent onslaught of issues, including SEC and U.S. Attorney's Office investigation, David Boies reports the board is standing behind CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes. [Vanity Fair] * When a decrease in the number of prisoners in a state is the cause of a budget crisis, you know things are jacked up. [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * Deutsche Bank is pushing back against rising legal costs. Is this the new normal that law firms have to deal with? [Law and More] * New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's lawsuit against Trump University is going forward. [Law Newz]

By Kathryn Rubino
Fabulosity

Lawyerly Lairs: Hipsters in the Catskills<br>(Hey New Yorkers, Looking for a Country House?)

We're trying to diversify the coverage here at Lawyerly Lairs. After all, the world does not consist entirely of Park Avenue apartments owned by mega-rich law firm partners. Toward that end, we recently wrote about the housing search of some NYU Law students. Let's leave Manhattan behind and head to upstate New York, where we'll visit the beautiful Catskills house of a law professor and his filmmaker wife....

By David Lat