Faruqi & Faruqi LLP

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 06.04.15

* New developments in everyone's favorite soap opera of a case: Faruqi & Faruqi LLP is cross-appealing the $140,000 judgment in favor of former associate Alexandra Marchuk. [Law360] * Whoa. There's one SEC Commissioner actually doing her job! So retro. Stay strong, Commissioner Stein. [Guile Is Good] * Congress is working on a bill to prevent companies from foisting non-compete clauses on employees making less than $31,200/year. But, but, then someone else might learn the important trade secret of the Colonel's 11 secret herbs and spices! [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * Senior and junior lawyers speak a different language. This article comes to us from the U.K., but the sentiment is universal, even if the phrase "bugger off" isn't. [Legal Cheek] * Prosecutor called Asian Americans "greedy foreigners." That goes over about as well as you'd expect. [Angry Asian Man] * David spoke with the Legal Talk Network about "the importance of friendship and family and the psyche of young lawyers who often compromise personal relationships for career ambitions." If you guessed they were discussing Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link), then you're right. [Legal Talk Network] * Where are LL.M.s valuable? [LLM-Guide] * Lawyer sues EFF for calling his patent stupid. We here at Above the Law would like to reiterate that this patent is brilliant and probably the most Earth-shattering invention since the light bulb. [Corporate Counsel] * Maybe legalizing drugs doesn't solve all the violence. [Seattle Times]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket 02.23.15

* Welcome back my friends, to the case that never ends: attorneys for Alexandra Marchuk lodged a request for $1.4 million in attorneys fees after her Pyrrhic victory in the Faruqi & Faruqi case. [Law360] * In the wake of the Oscars, it's worth remembering that David Boies is a movie producer. Next up for his shop, Boies/Schiller Film Group, a movie starring Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor. Because their last movies together were so frigging fantastic. [The Am Law Daily] * Speaking of the Oscars, just how much will nominees be regretting that $160,000 swag bag come tax time? [TaxProf Blog] * Former Port Authority Chairman David Samson is under scrutiny for enjoying some untoward perks. Like the United Airlines flight route direct from Newark to Samson's weekend home that was routinely bereft of passengers and ceased to exist days after Samson left the job. Something's clearly suspect if someone is willingly flying United. [North Jersey.com] * We've previously discussed the benchslap potential for Howard Shipley over his unorthodox Supreme Court brief. Now his lawyers, including SCOTUS mainstay Paul Clement, have told the Court that it's basically all the client's fault. [Legal Times]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.28.15

* There's nothing like boner talk in federal court: Juan Monteverde of Faruqi & Faruqi reaffirmed his claim that he was too drunk to get it up "consummate the act" during the time Alexandra Marchuk alleged he forced sex upon her. [Law 360] * "There's something deeply ironic about a judge seeking the right to ignore another judge's ruling while crying 'judicial activism.'" Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court wants judges to ignore a federal ruling on his state's unconstitutional ban on gay marriage. [Reuters] * Just days after the legal news media found out that Dentons would be tying the knot with Dacheng, the deal has officially been sealed. Talk about a shotgun wedding! Best wishes go out to 大成 Dentons for a happy, international marriage. [Am Law Daily] * Elite litigation boutique Susman Godfrey will be consolidating its Dallas and Houston offices into one mega-office in 2016 after the firm's lease in Dallas is up. Will all of the displaced attorneys remain with the firm? [Houston Business Journal] * Can we talk... about wrongful death cases? A lawsuit has finally been filed against the outpatient endoscopy facility and physicians involved in the death of Joan Rivers, and details have been released as to the way the beloved comedian died. [CNN]

By Staci Zaretsky