Lanier Law Firm

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.27.18

* Ken Starr has a new workplace to disgrace! [Law.com] * One of the lawyers who spoke at a recent Nazi rally has been disbarred. [Daily Beast] * Verizon is now apologizing for its decision to throttle the data of firefighters battling Western blazes, claiming it should not have throttled their data. The company should be apologizing for having a system that automatically artificially caps data in an effort to bleed money out of consumers, but they're not going to be doing that. [Courthouse News Service] * A collection of legal remembrances of John McCain. Eric Holder appears to leave out the whole "McCain fought against Martin Luther King Day" part in his reverential message. [National Law Journal] * Former critic named UVA's top lawyer. [Corporate Counsel] * Wait, there are helicopter parents in law school? Cut the f**king cord, people. [Legal Talk Network] * The U.S. government's criminal jurisdiction still requires at least some tie to the United States. [Law360]

By Joe Patrice
Biglaw

Morning Docket: 12.10.12

* “The people who are paying us say this is what we want.” When it comes to cross-border mergers, law firms aren’t becoming behemoths for the hell of it. The end goal is to be able to edge out the rest of the competition. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)] * It’s been six weeks since Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast, and “[e]verybody wants to go back downtown,” but some Biglaw firms in New York City — firms like Harris Beach and Cahill Gordon — are still stuck in their temporary offices. [New York Law Journal] * Following Jeh Johnson’s adieu to the DoD, drone-loving Harold Koh will be packing up his office at the State Department and returning to Yale Law to resume his professorship next month. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)] * According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal sector is employing 5,800 more people than it was at this time last year. We’d be in good shape if 40,000 people hadn’t graduated law school in May. [Am Law Daily] * Another day, another wrist slap: Villanova Law has been placed on probation for by the Association of American Law Schools over its grade-inflation scandal. Does that even mean anything? [Philadelphia Inquirer] * The Lanier Law Firm, known for its spectacular Christmas parties, hosted some country superstars at this year’s event. Guess we know where Faith Hill and Tim McGraw go for legal assistance. [Houston Chronicle] * A slim majority of American adults think that federal government employees should just sit back, relax, and smoke a bowl instead of enforcing federal laws against marijuana use. [FiveThirtyEight / New York Times] * “I’m sorry they are confused in the White House.” Puerto Rico’s statehood referendum received a majority of votes, but lawmakers say the results of the two-part plebiscite are too confusing to add a 51st state. [CNN]

By Staci Zaretsky