Hunton & Williams

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.29.19

* Roger Stone's heading to court today. That should be a scene, man. [National Law Journal] * Corrupt legislatures... not just for U.S. Congress anymore! The ABA House of Delegates bails out for-profit law schools again. [Law.com] * The New Yorker has a deep dive into Plessy v. Ferguson as "The Case That Enshrined White Supremacy." Dude, let me introduce you to Shelby County. [New Yorker] * Texas is pretending thousands of "illegal" immigrants have voted over the years. The methodology is basically "they were once not citizens... then years later they voted!" I only highlight this story because in 6 months when it gets unceremoniously dropped by ACTUAL CRIMINAL DEFENDANT Texas AG Ken Paxton it's worth remembering how completely insane this all is. [Courthouse News Service] * Fugitive ex-Hunton attorney gets 7 years... or over 61,000 billable hours. [Law360] * Not to defend Harvey Weinstein, but should we really be using a human trafficking law here? [Time] * Now they want to make animal cruelty a federal felony. Could we maybe start with making a federal case out of "shooting unarmed kids in the back"? [WECT]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.02.18

* This weekend, Sheppard Mullin -- and Lankler Siffert & Wohl for that matter -- will be pulling for Abacus: Small Enough To Jail, the stellar documentary about the only bank prosecuted for the housing crisis that starred the lawyers who represented Abacus and its family owners. [New York Law Journal] * In the first year of its merger, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer earned 1 percent over its legacy firm totals. Firm chairman Richard Alexander describes the firm as "generally... pleased." But not pleased enough to keep Kaye Scholer on its branding. [National Law Journal] * Robert Schulman is hoping the Second Circuit can get him out of his drunken insider trading conviction. [Law360] * Texas Wesleyan is looking for a new baseball coach after firing the last one for rejecting a Colorado recruit and telling the kid the school wouldn't recruit from states with legal weed. [VICE News] * Now we have sovereign cryptocurrency which kind of defeats the whole point, but whatever. [Bitcoinist] * Your daily reminder that white supremacists are bad people. [ABA Journal] * Speaking of white supremacists, FSU Law students have started to notice that their main academic building is a tribute to a segregationist and that maybe that's a bad thing. [Tallahassee Democrat]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.29.18

* She’s going to be 85 in just a few months, and like a fine wine, she just keeps getting better with age. No one should count on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg retiring any time soon. [Associated Press] * Speaking of Justice Ginsburg, you’re going to have to change up your State of the Union drinking games this year, because she won’t be in attendance. She’ll be on a Northeast law school tour instead — and she’ll be wide awake. [The Hill] * The president wants “[his] guys” at the “Trump Justice Department” — but not Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, he wants Rosenstein out — to make public a classified memo on the Russia investigation, an act that the DOJ said would be “extraordinarily reckless.” [Washington Post] * Don McGahn may have threatened to quit his job as White House counsel last summer, but because he decided to stick around, he’s been instrumental to the Trump administration in reshaping a much more conservative judiciary. [CNN] * Just a few months ago, merger talks between Andrews Kurth and Hunton & Williams seemed pretty tepid, but now they’re heating up. We can tell because AK partners are being picked off by other firms like crazy. [American Lawyer] * Justice is blind — and cheap: Stephen McAllister was recently sworn in as U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas, and he’s taking a humongous pay cut. The former Kansas Law dean earned more than $1 million by working three jobs, and his new gig pays more than $800K less. [National Law Journal]

By Staci Zaretsky