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Morning Docket: 05.24.12

* Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan apologized before a Senate panel for his agency’s prostitution scandal. We bet that you’d be “deeply disappointed” too if your employees were caught stiffing a hooker on her bill. [Miami Herald] * Day four of jury deliberations in the John Edwards campaign finance trial closed yesterday without a verdict. The former presidential candidate is probably just waiting to pack it in, get this jury declared hung, and call it a day. [CNN] * “This case is maybe something like a near disaster for Oracle.” A jury ruled unanimously that Google didn’t infringe Oracle’s Java patents in developing its Android software. Maybe they weren’t evil after all. [Bloomberg] * A record low of 41% of Americans call themselves “pro choice” when it comes to abortions, and only a little more than half think it should be legal under “certain circumstances.” What is this, Roe v. World? [Reuters] * Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman put together a task force to make recommendations on how to implement New York’s new pro bono prerequisite. Please let them take law school clinic hours. [Corporate Counsel] * Remember the lawyer who sued his posh fitness club over its failure to provide free breakfast? Not only is his suit now toast, but he also has to fork over some cash to the club’s lawyers. [New York Daily News]

By Staci Zaretsky
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Partner Playtime: Lawyer by Day, Roller Derby Diva by Night

Put down the bottle, alkie, because we've got a different de-stresser for you. Maybe you should consider taking this lovely litigatrix's lead, and join the local roller derby team. After all, you get to "slam into people," and that's what sold her on the crazy idea. Let's take a look into the life of Amy Dinn, a partner at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, who goes by the "Prosecutor" when she's in the rink....

By Staci Zaretsky