Domain names

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.14.15

* Judge Lance Mason, who was suspended from his duties earlier this year, recently pleaded guilty to charges related to a brutal attack made on his wife. He'll be sentenced in September, and faces up to 36 months in prison. [Northeast Ohio Media Group] * No one will be getting lucky in Kentucky under this clerk's watch: Two months after SCOTUS declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, this state court clerk is still turning away gay couples and refusing to issue marriage licenses. [New York Times] * Per the latest report from Citi Private Bank’s Law Firm Group, even though this year started out well, the bank is revising its financial performance forecast, and not in a good way. Hopefully firms will be able to weather the latest monetary storm. [Am Law Daily] * Starting in mid-October, lawyers and law firms will be able to purchase .law domain names. A few influential law firms -- DLA Piper, Skadden Arps, and SCOTUSblog-affiliated Russell & Goldstein -- have gotten first dibs on them. Congrats! [WSJ Law Blog] * Law librarians at large and medium-sized firms feel underutilized and underpaid, and that's unfortunate, because like Liam Neeson in Taken, they've got a very particular set of skills, skills they've acquired over a very long career. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]

By Staci Zaretsky
Allen & Overy

Morning Docket: 11.01.13

* The Magic Circle isn’t very magical across the pond in New York City. Four out of five firms from the U.K. — Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Linklaters — have yet to pull rabbits out of their

By Staci Zaretsky
Cyberlaw

Nobody Likes Porny .XXX Domain Names, Except Cybersquatters

Businesses spend a surprising amount of time and effort protecting their brand and intellectual property from cybersquatters. It often takes the threat of litigation or creative domain name registry to prevent random people from registering websites like Pepsisux.com. So, it’s kind of funny that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is in […]

By Christopher Danzig
Barack Obama

Morning Docket: 11.18.11

* John Wilkes Booth. Lee Harvey Oswald. Oscar Ortega-Hernandez. Sorry, Oscar, you have three names, but you didn’t actually kill the president, so you don’t get to join the club. [New York Times] * Former SCOTUS clerk Roy McLeese III has been nominated for a seat on the D.C. Court of Appeals. I don’t have […]

By Staci Zaretsky
Sponsored Content

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By Charles River Associates (CRA)