Harvard Law School

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.07.23

* Elon claims that X will pay legal fees of users who lost their jobs over deplorable stuff they Tweeted. Bold promise from a guy who won't even pay his own legal fees. [Fortune] * Law firm demand is up as the market continues to fret about the recession that never materialized. [Reuters] * Federal Circuit panel calls for Judge Pauline Newman to be suspended for a year for not submitting to a mental health examination to prove or disprove the mental health allegations that the Federal Circuit seeks to suspend her over. [Bloomberg Law News] * Convicted war criminal seeks bar admission. In case you were worried about how character & fitness might eye your speeding tickets. [The Intercept] * Ken Paxton's lawyers recognize the broad gag order prohibiting them from discussing the case with the media beyond reciting information in public records... so they're just going on the radio and reading selective, inflammatory passages from their filings. [KABB] * Attorney David Oscar Markus snagged around 45 minutes with Trump attorney John Lauro. [For the Defense] * Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree has passed away. [Politico]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.10.23

* Sam Bankman-Fried tried to contact the GC of FTX by encrypted text?!? How does he not understand how this works? [Law360] * Judges increasingly use Wikipedia to write opinions. This is not an endorsement, but... ChatGPT looks pretty good by comparison. [Legal Cheek] * The Harvard Law School attack suspect is now facing criminal charges. [10 Boston] * "I'm gonna live forever" is a catchy lyric, but not a succession plan. And law firms can do good business scooping up smaller firms that never planned ahead. [American Lawyer] * Joe Biden may have won the State of the Union by tricking Republican legislators into pledging not to cut Social Security or Medicare, but the Fifth Circuit has already cooked up a new theory to do it through judicial fiat. [Slate] * We should've hit this story yesterday, but St. Thomas Law is naming itself after civil rights attorney Ben Crump. [Reuters]