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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.27.18

* Is anything going on today? [BBC] * Anything at all? [USA Today] * Dan Snyder and Cadwalader settle their massive malpractice suit so Snyder can focus full time on his team's inevitably heartbreaking collapse. [Law360] * Speaking of Washington's football franchise, the heiress of its former owner is facing criminal charges for allegedly saying, "hurry up Jew" before beating a lawyer in the head until he bled. Lovely organization Washington's got there! [Fox News] * After months of bad press, America's tech giants are calling for a federal privacy law. Or, more accurately, after California passed a privacy law, America's tech giants are calling for a neutered federal law to preempt California's. [Reuters] * Since Rod Rosenstein might be leaving our public lives as early as today, here's an in-depth look at one of his most bonkers cases. [Washingtonian] * DLA Piper adds the former ambassador to Argentina as a special advisor. In other news, David Mamet's son used to be the ambassador to Argentina? Was anyone else tracking that? UPDATE: OK, I feel vindicated that I hadn't missed something huge. DLA Piper confirms that he's not actually David Mamet's son. I would've thought that would have been a bigger deal. [National Law Journal] * Amazon's commitment to screwing over its workers and leaving taxpayers to foot the bill runs right up to the NLRA line. But it's cool since that law won't survive Kavanaugh's first year. [Gizmodo] * Why PwC's new Fragomen partnership is a big deal. [Law.com]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.25.18

* Amid reports (from Fox News no less) that Mitch McConnell does not presently have the votes to confirm Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court took the precaution of removing several contentious matters from their long conference agenda lest. They're hunkering down for another couple months at 4-4. [National Law Journal] * Speaking of that Fox News report, let's be honest about what's happening here: Kavanaugh is refusing to withdraw and McConnell is covertly asking the network to convince Trump to withdraw the nomination. [Fox News] * Almost half of the top 15 firms in the Global 100 are the product of a transatlantic merger. Should your firm follow suit? Probably not. [American Lawyer] * Linda Burrow leaves Boies Schiller to Netflix and chill and then litigate. [Corporate Counsel] * Judge seems to think Stormy Daniels doesn't have a defamation claim against Trump over one of his Tweets. [Law360] * PwC makes a deal with Fragomen. The Big 4 invasion of the legal sector continues unchecked. [LegalCheek] * Lost in the shuffle of everything happening yesterday, Bill Cosby's sentencing hearings kicked off. [Courthouse News Service]

By Joe Patrice