Kathleen Zellner

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.19.19

* An attorney who put price tags for cheaper items on more expensive products at Walmart has just received a one-year stayed suspension from practice. [Bloomberg Law] * A plaintiffs lawyer involved in litigation against Monsanto has been charged with extortion for offering to cease legal action against a large company in exchange for a $200 million consulting fee. Hasn't Michael Avenatti taught this lawyer anything? [CBS News] * Boeing has been hit with another lawsuit involving its 737 Max jets. [CNN] * The first African-American Attorney General in the history of Kentucky was sworn in this week. [NBC News] * An attorney has been suspended for among other things submitting fake expense receipts for an ABA conference. [Bloomberg Law]. * It's been a while since Above the Law published a "Lawyerly Lairs" segment, but check out famed "Making a Murderer" attorney Kathleen Zellner's pad, which just hit the market. [Chicago Tribune]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.11.16

* According to the latest report from the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center, in a battle of the fittest, Biglaw firms may be heading the way of the dodo bird thanks to their refusal to evolve. [DealBook / New York Times] * The members of the most prestigious sorority around -- the women leaders of America's Biglaw firms -- dine together every few months to discuss the challenges associated with being in charge in a profession that's essentially still a boys' club. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * The makeup of the Supreme Court and its justices' past, present, and future rulings continue to be a big issue on the Election 2016 campaign trail, but what really makes this a true shame is that many U.S. citizens couldn't name a single justice if they tried. [CNN] * Why do Supreme Court justices love quoting Shakespeare so much? A study conducted by Scott and Ami Dodson found that Justice Antonin Scalia quoted The Bard most often in opinions, and perhaps it's because some believe he was a lawyer himself. [Economist] * Steven Avery, the defendant profiled in Making a Murderer, has a new lawyer who hopes to prove his innocence. Kathleen Zellner joins the Midwest Innocence Project to fight for his second exoneration after an allegedly wrongful conviction. [NBC Chicago]

By Staci Zaretsky