‘Good’ LGBTQ Laws Outpace ‘Bad’ Ones In 2018
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Morning Docket: 12.08.16
* Brad Pitt filed a motion to seal the details of his custody arrangement with Angelia Jolie to protect his children's privacy, but a judge has rejected the actor's request. A lawyer for Jolie had this to say: "His ... request is a thinly veiled attempt to shield himself, rather than the minor children, from public view." Ouch. [Philadelphia Inquirer] * CHECK YOU EMAILS OFTEN, PARTNERS! Several Biglaw firms -- including Cravath and Weil Gotshal -- were hit by data breaches over the course of last year, and it's now been confirmed that those data breaches were carried out by Chinese operatives who were successful in stealing about seven gigabytes of data by hacking their way into partners' email accounts. [Fortune] * Each December, Jeffrey Toobin creates a "semi-accurate, semi-serious" list of his predictions for the top legal stories for the coming year. Perhaps most notably, Toobin predicts President Donald Trump will appoint Judge Diane Sykes of the Seventh Circuit to the Supreme Court as the late Justice Antonin Scalia's replacement. [New Yorker] * Which is more prestigious, a judicial clerkship or a first-of-its-kind Capitol Hill clerkship? Earlier this week, four senators introduced a bill to create a dozen yearlong Congressional clerkships for recent law school graduates. The bill would allow law school graduates to "spend a formative year in the legislative branch." [National Law Journal] * Per the most recent Corporate Equity Index survey released by the Human Rights Campaign, more Biglaw firms are doing well when it comes to protecting their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. One hundred and twelve firms earned perfect scores for their inclusive policies in the survey, up from 95 last year. [Am Law Daily]
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Morning Docket: 12.03.14
* Everyone's "BFF" Anthony Elonis, of the Elonis v. U.S. case that's currently before the Supreme Court, is facing additional scrutiny over a snarky note he sent to an ADA last year about burning a cross on the prosecutor's lawn. Wow, he sounds like really a "fun" guy. [WSJ Law Blog] * I was gonna go to class, but then I got high: DU Law is teaching a class about how to sell lots and lots of weed. Just kidding. According to the professor, the class is actually about the legal issues that come up when selling lots and lots of weed. [Cannabist] * The HRC's 2015 Corporate Equality Index is out, and noticeably absent from the list of Biglaw honorees is Boies Schiller. We suppose the firm forgot one of its name partners is helping to overturn gay-marriage bans across the country. [Am Law Daily] * The University of Iowa College of Law is asking -- nay, begging -- the Supreme Court to block a retrial of Teresa Wagner's claims of political bias discrimination. This is just one of the things law schools will do to keep their faculties liberal. [Associated Press] * From Yale to Wayne State, law students are getting involved in protests to spread the word about social injustice in Ferguson in the wake of Michael Brown's death. If you have a problem with this, someone from NYU might too. [National Law Journal] * Winter break is the perfect time for undergraduate students to start working on their law school applications, but we're more than willing to bet the future gunners out there have already sent all of theirs in. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]
The Best Law Firms for LGBT Lawyers
Is your law firm among the 81 that received perfect scores for their treatment of LGBT employees?
Seyfarth Says Yes To Defense Of Anti-Gay Bias Case
Will Seyfarth come to regret taking on this case?
Cleta Mitchell of Foley & Lardner: An ‘Anti-Gay’ Gay Icon?
Why is Cleta Mitchell the Judy Garland of Biglaw? And what secret from her past might be behind her active role in the anti-gay-marriage movement?
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The Best Law Firms For LGBT Lawyers
Of the 145 firms that participated in the Human Rights Campaign’s survey, 71 received perfect scores. Absolutely fabulous!
Morning Docket: 11.15.12
* In a move to “end the vacancy crisis,” one week after being reelected, and one day after the Senate returned to session, Barack Obama nominated seven people for open seats on federal district courts, including two S.D.N.Y. slots. [Blog of Legal Times] * Dewey know how much the Los Angeles Dodgers will have to pay the now defunct firm for its work on the team’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case? About $13M — the equivalent of their pitcher’s salary, or 62% of their first baseman’s pay. [WSJ Law Blog] * Which Biglaw firms in the Am Law 200 are the most LGBT friendly? Overall, of the 145 firms that participated in the Human Rights Campaign’s survey, 71 received perfect scores. Absolutely fabulous! [Am Law Daily] * The American Bar Association’s Task Force on the Future of Legal Education wants to know what should be done about law schools. This is a time to keep it simple, stupid: change EVERYTHING! [National Law Journal] * The New York Court of Appeals invoked the Major Disaster Rule for the first time ever, allowing out-of-state attorneys to perform pro bono services for Hurricane Sandy victims. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight] * William Adams, the Texas family court judge who got caught beating his daughter, returned to the bench yesterday after a year-long suspension. At least he won’t get physical abuse cases, anymore. [Fox News] * John Coffey, Senior Status Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, RIP. [Journal Sentinel]
A Biglaw Firm Institutes A Smaller Hours Requirement
One Biglaw firm is actually lowering its hours requirement. And instituting a new adoption / surrogacy benefit too. Could these trends spread?
Almost 100 Biglaw Firms Are Perfectly Gay
The Human Rights Campaign has released its annual Corporate Equality Index, which assesses corporate America’s progress towards equal treatment of the LGBT community. It’s a pretty great day to be gay and searching for career advice. Gawker has a list up right now on the top ten gay colleges, and the Human Rights Campaign is […]
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Biglaw Is Good to Gays
Let’s give credit where credit is due. The Human Rights Campaign has released its annual Best Places to Work list. It shows that law firms are great when it comes to creating a non-discriminatory environment for gays and lesbians. The ABA Journal reports: In 2006, the first year law firms were included in the Human […]
Which Law Firms Are Down With the Gays?
The Human Rights Campaign has some answers. HRC, which is the largest national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, recently released its annual list of Best Places to Work. And law firms were prominently represented: [T]he Human Rights Campaign Foundation released a report showing that numerous large U.S. law firms are providing important […]