James B. Stewart

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 06.21.16

* The details behind the Trump campaign's non-disclosure agreements. [Associated Press] * Make sure you are getting paid for the legal work you are doing. [Reboot Your Law Practice] * A deep dive into the Supreme Court coalitions for dissents. [Empirical SCOTUS] * Your daily dose of lawyer jokes. [JSTOR] * Podcast with author James B. Stewart, New York Times best-selling author of Den of Thieves, about Wall Street arbitrageur Ivan Boesky and junk-bond king Michael Milken. [Hsu Untied] * Donald Trump has been hanging out with McCarthy-era lawyer Roy Cohn. What does that mean for the candidate? [Katz Justice] * $180,000 goes a lot further outside of New York. [Law and More]

Department of Justice

Morning Docket: 10.21.13

* How Jamie Dimon (and Stephen Cutler and Rodge Cohen) reached JPMorgan Chase’s tentative $13 billion settlement with Eric Holder and the Department of Justice. [DealBook / New York Times; Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)] * Congratulations to all the New Jersey couples who got married since midnight, in the wake of the state supreme court’s decision not to stay a lower-court ruling in favor of marriage equality. [Newark Star-Ledger] * Additional insight into all the partner departures from Weil Gotshal in Texas. [Dallas Morning News] * Lawyers aren’t the only folks who know how to overbill; defense contractors do too, according to federal prosecutors who allege that a company provided prostitutes and kickbacks to Navy personnel. [Washington Post via The BLT] * The legal battle over Obamacare rages on. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)] * Judge Oing, this really isn’t that hard. Here’s a draft opinion for you in the long-running litigation between Macy’s and J.C. Penney over the right to sell Martha Stewart merchandise (by James Stewart, no relation to Martha). [New York Times] * If you’d like to run with the bulls without schlepping to Spain, former lawyers Rob Dickens and Brad Scudder can help. Presumably their legal training helped them draft ironclad waivers. [BuzzFeed] * Another interesting but very different event, taking place this Wednesday: “Healing the U.S. Lawsuit System.” [U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (one of our advertisers)]