Jones Day

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.11.23

* This is a shocker, but law firms aren't all that great at business. [Law.com] * Jones Day tried to pile the risk of sanctions atop a summary judgment motion that hasn't even been decided yet. The judge declined to indulge this lunacy. [Reuters] * Steve Bannon ordered to pay his bills. [CNBC] * Northwestern fired its football coach after the campus paper uncovered a string of hazing abuses. He's hired Winston & Strawn. [The Spun] * Proposing a ChatGPT tax to cover the cost of AI mistakes. Some form of mandatory liability insurance is probably more efficient, but yeah. [Bloomberg Law News] * Firms need to get a jump on recruiting clerks, but "mid-trial" is too much of a jump. [Law360]

By Above the Law
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.31.23

* Trump sues Bob Woodward claiming copyright on all the stuff he told Woodward during interviews Trump granted for the purpose of letting Woodward write a book. This is not going in the magical "Trump keeps winning cases" bucket his lawyer talks about. [Courthouse News Service] * Johnson & Johnson tried the "Monopoly Man turns out his pockets" routine and failed. [Law360] * Hey Siri, explain labor law. [MacRumors] * Speaking of labor law, a look at the upcoming Supreme Court labor showdown from the perspective of the service workers are preparing. [Eater] * Jones Day facing sanctions request citing harassment as the motivation for the earlier sanctions request Jones Day made against former associates in discrimination case. You may remember this one as the case that brought attention to Jones Day's... questionable photoshop decisions. [Reuters] * The pandemic may have broken lawyers. I mean, lawyers were always broken, but it broke them in a new way. [American Lawyer]

By Joe Patrice