Fenwick & West

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.26.23

* Biglaw collections experience slowdown. Time for Cravath to break out Rocco and Sal to break a few thumbs over at PwC. [American Lawyer] * A look at how judges manage to deal with gift offers besides just hopping on a private jet. [Bloomberg Law News] * JP Morgan fined by SEC after deleting 47 million emails involved in multiple investigations. Oopsie! [CNBC] * Fenwick doesn't have to produce documents in Sam Bankman-Fried case with judge ruling that the defense was just looking for value in nothing. [Law360] * Judge Luttig, formerly of the Fourth Circuit, wrote a brutal rebuke of the Republican party's Trump addiction. [New York Times] * Microsoft remains cool as workers organize, putting pressure on the rest of the video game industry. [Bloomberg Law News] * A ranking of television lawyers. Not sure about any list without Harvey Birdman, but all right. [Giant Freakin Robot]

By Above the Law
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.31.23

* When the Supreme Court tried to deflect the heat from Clarence Thomas taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts, the justices signed an ethics pinky swear. Alito breached it within the month. [Slate] * Corporate legal departments are hiring smaller law firms to save money. I swear we wrote this exact same story... the last time there was a whiff of rate hikes only to have everything return to normal in a year. [Corporate Counsel] * Sam Bankman-Fried preparing to blame Fenwick & West for everything. [Fortune] * Texas lawmakers unveil new anti-ESG laws to limit insurance carriers from considering environmental issues. You know... the environmental issues they're being asked to pay for. I'd like to limit life insurers from considering my career as a crocodile wrestler too, but c'est la vie. [Bloomberg Law News] * The family at the center of the opioid crisis can successfully shield themselves from liability because that's what corporations do! [Courthouse News Service] * NLRB goes after non-compete agreements and it's honestly a little shocking that they haven't always been going after non-compete agreements. [Law360] * Chris Christie announcing a presidential run next week. Over/under on the number of times he mentions that he was a prosecutor in his kickoff speech? I'm setting the line at 9. [CNN]

By Above the Law
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.03.23

* New York braces for Trump surrender. A lot of people are talking about how it's going to be just the best surrender. HUGE. Very classy. [Reuters] * Security measures in the city follow a fake bomb threat that turned out to be a Russian ploy. Because... obviously. [Law360] * Fenwick & West: Which client is this federal law enforcement subpoena for? Feds: Funny story... [Bloomberg Law News] * “Disney didn’t do anything secret. They publicized it, they advertised it,” [a law professor and former GOP legislator] said. “If you’re in Tallahassee, and you’re replacing the board, how do you not know what that board is doing in their public meeting? This was negligence on the part of the governor’s office and Republican legislators.” Yup. [Wall Street Journal] * Judge Ho expands clerk hiring boycott to Stanford, ditching "free speech" rationale in favor of religious discrimination claim in bid to reclaim spotlight from Judge Duncan. Well played. [Washington Free Beacon] * Lawyers don't want to be state judges any more. If you can't drag law schools into a phony Passion play in the WSJ editorial pages, what's even the point of being a judge? [Law.com]

By Above the Law