Lindsay Lohan

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.11.20

* Lindsay Lohan is being sued by a publisher for collecting her $365,000 advance and never writing an autobiography. When she writes the book, hope she explains why there was never a sequel to "Mean Girls"... [USA Today] * A Florida attorney was allegedly killed by his son earlier this week in an apparent murder-suicide. [New York Daily News] * Parents for a Northeastern University student who was suspended for breaking anti-COVID-19 measures have lawyered up. [Boston Globe] * Federal prosecutors are asking that civil cases against Ghislaine Maxwell be put on hold while the criminal prosecution moves forward. [ABC News] * A lawyer who falsely claimed he needed to have cancerous tumors removed to get discovery extensions may be suspended from the practice of law. As Arnold Schwarzenegger would say, "it's not a tumor!" [ABA Journal]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.30.18

* Attorney General Jeff Sessions won't be appointing a second special counsel to examine political bias in the handling of investigations by the FBI and DOJ just yet, but not to worry, because the Inspector General and the U.S. Attorney for Utah are on the case. [Politico] * Lawyer.com spokesperson Lindsay Lohan lost her invasion of privacy case against the maker of "Grand Theft Auto V" at the New York Court of Appeals in a unanimous decision penned by Judge Eugene Fahey, who said the video game character LiLo alleged was based on her was "not reasonably identifiable as plaintiff."  [Reuters] * As it turns out, Savannah Law School won't be immediately ceasing operations in early June. Now, the law school plans to move to another location within the city, and will close over the next five years without admitting any new students. [Savannah Morning News] * Adnan Syed, the subject of the hit podcast "Serial," had his murder conviction vacated by the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. His case has been remanded for a new trial on all charges. [New York Times] * "Mark, it hurts! You’re hurting me… Don't be so rough." In case you missed it, a juror fainted during trial after watching a video of graphic sex between a Texas attorney who traded sex for legal services and one of his clients. Yeehaw... [FOX News]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.22.18

* The First Law Student is single. People reports Tiffany Trump broke up with her longtime boyfriend as part of her law school transition. [People] * Jeffrey Toobin and Alan Dershowitz clash on television when Toobin points out that Dershowitz's cable appearances these days are less legal analysis than auditions for Sarah Huckabee Sanders's job. [Daily Beast] * Charles Cooper says Jeff Sessions is not currently under investigation for false statements or perjury. Update your scorecards accordingly. [USA Today] * Ninth Circuit rules in favor of the Gaye family in the Blurred Lines lawsuit. Wait, that's still going on? [Courthouse News Service] * Former Florida State deputy general counsel arrested in child sex sting. [Tallahassee Democrat] * In-house counsel are very concerned about GDPR. [Big Law Business] * Some people have some entirely understandable problems with Lindsay's new ad. [Ad Age] * CSM believes the Austin bomber case shows off law enforcement's deep surveillance powers. Yeah, they were so deep they pretty much did nothing for weeks. [Christian Science Monitor]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.16.16

* President Obama will announce his pick to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia later this morning. Which member of the D.C. Circuit will he choose, Judge Sri Srinivasan or Judge Merrick Garland? America will find out at 11 a.m., and then the real political circus of trying to get a confirmation hearing will begin. [New York Times] * "Republicans know they can't get away with complete and total obstruction, so they may try to set up a double standard." Senate Republicans have refused to fill the vacancy left on the Supreme Court left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, but it looks like more than 30 other federal judicial nominees may have been caught in the political fray. [AP] * After having a district court judge's deferred compensation remedy slapped down by the Ninth Circuit, lawyers in the O'Bannon NCAA student-athlete pay case have asked the Supreme Court to grant certiorari. The lawyers involved "[feel] so strongly in the principles involved" that they don't care if they lose their fees and costs. [USA Today] * A small victory for a washed-up Mean Girl? Lindsay Lohan has never really had much success when it comes to suing others on the basis of likeness appropriation, but a New York judge has refused to dismiss her case against Rockstar Games over a look-alike character in Grand Theft Auto V. You go, girl! [THR, ESQ. / Hollywood Reporter] * Per Lex Machina, after a slow 2014, patent litigation rose by 14.7 percent in 2015. What's troubling to some lawyers, though, is that all of the action has migrated to Texas courts: "Why should this little corner that’s not particularly a hotbed of innovation have such an important role to play in patent law?" [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * Talent agency Rebel Entertainment Partners is suing CBS, the TV station that airs "Judge Judy," because it claims Judge Judy is taking in such a high salary that the network has been unable to dole out its contractually obligated payments. Although she's not named in the suit, Judge Judy, full of sarcasm, says this is "hilarious." [Variety]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.21.15

* Somewhere in Florida, Casey Anthony can rest a little easier knowing that Zenaida Gonzalez, the woman she falsely implicated in the kidnapping and death of her already deceased child, just had her defamation suit thrown out. [WKMG] * Better late than never? The Judicial Conference finally decided impeachment is warranted for Judge Mark E. Fuller, who recently resigned from his position on the Middle District of Alabama's bench in the wake of his "reprehensible" domestic violence scandal last summer. [WSJ Law Blog] * In case you were wondering which Biglaw firms were reaping financial rewards in the race to represent clients in space, Squire Patton Boggs and K&L Gates have both performed at least six figures of work from their mission control centers. [Am Law Daily] * Thomas Rubino, a paralegal at Manhattan firm Paris & Chaikin, allegedly forged the names of 76 judges on fake orders to make his life easier at work. Now that he's facing 234 counts of forgery, something tells us his life is going to be more difficult. [New York Post] * Lindsay Lohan's defamation case against Fox News over comments made on The Sean Hannity Show that she did coke with her mother was dismissed because as Justice Wright noted, "truth is a defense." He clearly didn't think LiLo's claims were fetch. [MSN News]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.29.15

* It may have taken two years, but Lindsay Lohan finally completed her community service for her reckless driving conviction. In other news, for the first time in almost eight years, the Hollywood has-been is off probation. Yay! [Los Angeles Times] * A former staff attorney at Drinker Biddle was suspended from practice after overbilling his time doing doc review work by just a tad -- 418.5 hours, to be exact. He owes the firm $12,500 to be paid in monthly installments of $100. [Legal Intelligencer] * An ex-assistant dean and a professor at Cleveland-Marshall Law filed suit against Dean Craig Boise, claiming he retaliated against them after they assisted the faculty in unionizing. This, after they were offered raises of $0 or $666. [Northeast Ohio Media] * Someone's allegedly been a very bad boy: Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert was indicted by a federal grand jury for lying to the FBI in an attempt to conceal payoffs to a third party to cover up his "prior bad acts." We wonder what those "bad acts" were... [BuzzFeed News] * We bet you didn't know that if you get convicted for sex on the beach you'd have to serve jail time and register as a sex offender. Protip: Don't let 3-year-olds catch you doing the dirty in public. You'll regret it for life (or until you win an appeal). [Bradenton Herald]

By Staci Zaretsky
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 05.11.15

* Lindsay Lohan is heading back to community service. This time someone decided the party girl should be helping out at a preschool. She's apparently working down the block from me so I'll keep my eyes out. [Jezebel] * Exploring the labor issues involved in ESPN's hasty and petty considered decision to fire Bill Simmons because he is willing to speak honestly about Roger Goodell. [PrawfsBlawg] * Whoa. Vermont State Senator arrested late last week accused of raping three women. One of the alleged victims was a 15-year-old intern at the time. And then the court released the victims' contact information in direct violation of a judge's order. [VT Digger] * Next time you're in Yellowstone, be careful what you do with your photos: Wyoming just made it illegal to give them to a government agency lest they use the photos to figure out how badly Wyoming is poisoning the environment. Rationality! [Slate] * Bernardo Roman III, who had earned more than a little ire for his representation of the Miccosukee Tribe has, apparently, gotten canned. [South Florida Lawyers] * Meanwhile, Native Americans are both underrepresented and ignored in the profession. [The National Law Journal] * Staci spoke with Nicole Abboud about Women in the Law. [The Gen Why Lawyer] * Shearman partner Richard Hsu chats with Nathan Sawaya, the attorney who left it behind to become The Lego Brick Artist. [Hsu Untied]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.05.15

* Lindsay Lohan and her mom are suing Fox News with claims the TV network defamed them by saying “Lindsay Lohan's mom is doing cocaine with her.” Legal experts are of the opinion the Lohans must be doing lines if they think they'll win. [U.S. News & World Report] * A prospective juror in the Colorado movie theater massacre case was released after telling a judge she brought her unvaccinated grandchild to court and ripping her hair out. Well, that's one way to get out of jury duty. [Aurora Sentinel] * Justice Elena Kagan says that if she hadn't left her Harvard Law deanship to become solicitor general, she "[doesn't] think [she] would be doing law, quite honestly." The Supreme jurist says that "[i]t shows you how weird life can be." [Supreme Court Brief] * Lawyers in New York are worried that if the state adopts the Uniform Bar Exam, the "gold standard" of having passed the tougher version of the New York exam will be devalued. Aww, sorry about your butthurt. Get well soon. [New York Law Journal] * Fresh off an 18-month tour of racking up insider trading convictions as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, Richard Tarlowe will join Paul Weiss to focus on white-collar criminal defense. Best of luck. [DealBook / New York Times]

By Staci Zaretsky
5th Circuit

Morning Docket: 10.10.14

* This just in: Now that the Fifth Circuit has refused to hear the Texas abortion case en banc, it looks like we may see a viable case about a major social issue being brought to Term before SCOTUS after all. [National Law Journal] * Skadden came out on top of the Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, and Mergermarket league tables for the highest transactional value of its mergers and acquisitions deals in 2014. Congrats on kicking the competition’s ass. [Am Law Daily] * Per HBR Consulting, clients are winning the war when it comes to getting legal services on the cheap. Consider this a “call to action for law firms to reconsider the way they do business.” [WSJ Law Blog] * The Elon University School of Law is completely revamping its academic offerings in order to offer a law degree that can be earned in 2.5 years, and for about $14,000 less. Nice work! [Triad Business Journal] * Lindsay Lohan’s attorneys filed an amended complaint in her case against Grand Theft Auto’s publisher, this time going to far as to spell their client’s name correctly. [Hollywood, Esq. / Hollywood Reporter]

By Staci Zaretsky
10th Circuit

Morning Docket: 07.10.14

* Utah is appealing its gay marriage case directly to the Supreme Court, presumably because the state’s attorney general doesn’t even want to bother with an en banc hearing before the Tenth Circuit. This should be good. [Salt Lake Tribune] * Perkins Coie recently appointed its first ever Washington, D.C.-based managing partner in its 102-year history. Congrats to John Devaney, who will lead a “true national firm” beginning in January 2015. [Capital Business / Washington Post] * When your career goes awry in Biglaw through no one’s fault but your own, you can end up living your life in shame or in jail. We’re going venture a guess and say the former is nicer than the latter. [Am Law Daily] * How can law school graduates obtain law work experience? Simple. Get on your knees and learn how to please. Just kidding. Take some advice from this “poorly written” article instead. [CollegeRecruiter.com] * Everything about Lacey Jonas from Grand Theft Auto V is so Lindsay Lohan-esque that she should totally win her lawsuit. Just take it from someone who’s “no legal expert, but know[s] [her] tabloid stars.” [TIME] * Need a break from bar exam studying? Searching for something to do as a summer associate? Are you an attorney in need of fun? Come to tonight’s trivia event! All are welcome, sign up here. [Above the Law]

By Staci Zaretsky