Lobbyists

Morning Docket: 09.29.17

* Justice Neil Gorsuch delivers a speech on civility in public life at a lunch held at the Trump International Hotel -- and meets with protests. [How Appealing] * Congratulations to Makan Delrahim, just confirmed as head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. [Bloomberg via Big Law Business] * MoloLamken adds another star federal prosecutor to its roster, bringing aboard Megan Cunniff Church in Chicago. [Law360] * Speaking of stars, the Supreme Court clerks from October Term 2007: where are they now? [Excess of Democracy] * Don't say we didn't warn you: the list of law schools with the highest loan default rates is dominated by staples of Above the Law's pages. [ABA Journal] * Harvard Law School graduate Tamara Wyche, who failed the bar exam twice and lost her job at Ropes & Gray, can proceed with parts of her federal lawsuit against the New York State Board of Law Examiners. [Law.com] * Shocker: lobbyists go into high gear to try and save some cherished tax breaks from the scourge of tax reform. [New York Times]

Non-Sequiturs: 05.31.17

* What you can learn from Tiger Woods's DUI arrest. [Versus Texas] * Are we in the new age of monopolies? [Salon] * This is reading an awful lot into unanimous Supreme Court decisions. [Washington Post] * New York isn't the liberal utopia you might think it is. [Jezebel] * The election law gap between red states and blue states. [Election Law Blog] * In NYC? Then join WNYC’s All Things Considered host Jami Floyd for a conversation about Loving v. Virginia on June 12th. [The Greene Space] * Call off the lawyers. [Law and More] * What's the opposite of banning something? [Huffington Post] * Theorizing over Jared Kushner's motivation. [Slate]

Morning Docket: 05.25.17

* As voters head to the polls in Montana, they're finding out that frontrunner Greg Gianforte allegedly beat up a reporter in front of a bunch of witnesses. Will this doom his chances? Pfft. I present the case study of Michael Grimm. [Huffington Post] * Here comes the "Marc Kasowitz's ties to Russia" stories. Newsflash: Russians have a lot of businesses that get sued. Let's not make an equivalence between representing a Russian bank and handing them classified intelligence. [CNN] * The D.C. Circuit seems like they might actually save the CFPB. At least until there's an appeal to some politically hostile higher court. [Law.com] * Google fighting to avoid becoming a generic term. This is apparently called "genericide" which I'd never heard of. I'll have to Bing that. [Law360] * Dentons cutting jobs in the UK. [Legal Week] * If you want to know more about lobbying, Bracewell lobbyist Josh Zive just started a podcast called "The Lobby Shop." Apparently "Big Bags O' Bribes" reflects negatively on the practice. [National Law Journal]

Morning Docket: 02.08.16

* Remember Kent and Jill Easter, the married lawyers who planted bags of weed and pills in the car of Kelli Peters, a PTA volunteer at their son's school? Kent's law license was suspended, Jill was disbarred, they're now divorced, and to top it all off, a jury recently awarded Peters $5.7M in her case against them. [Orange County Register] * The horror! The horror! Not only did Marco Rubio get his ass handed to him during this weekend's Republican debate, but it turns out he's accused of having been a law firm lobbyist for Florida firms Becker & Poliakoff and Broad and Cassel. [BuzzFeed News] * A proposed ABA resolution that local bar groups think has to do with non-lawyer ownership of law firms -- they're not entirely sure, of course -- is making the hair stand up on the back of attorneys' necks. What could possibly go wrong? [WSJ Law Blog] * Career alternatives for attorneys law school deans: David Yellen, dean of Loyola Law - Chicago for more than a decade (and former ATL columnist), will be leaving the law school game to assume the presidency at Marist College. [Poughkeepsie Journal] * Applications may be down at Yale Law School when compared to prior years, but administrators aren't exactly concerned about it. Come on, get real: It's Yale, and the law school "still [has] more qualified applicants than [it] can accept." [Yale Daily News] * According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal profession celebrated the New Year by shedding 1,400 jobs. Don't worry, 2016 graduates, there's still a chance the job market could improve, but we'll have to wait it out. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * Miriam Cedarbaum, longtime federal judge of the S.D.N.Y., RIP. [New York Times]

Non-Sequiturs: 01.07.16

* People in the United Nations are doing a lot of legal research on a very disturbing subject. [Vox] * David Schwimmer is playing the late Robert Kardashian in American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson -- but that doesn't mean he'll meet with the Kardashian sisters. [The Hollywood Reporter] * If, for some reason, you need yet another reminder that we have a terrible problem in this country with racism and police aggression, here is an eloquent reminder. [Black Debate Guy] * Does the public have a right to know if their legislators are sleeping with lobbyists? One Missouri lawmaker thinks they do. [Columbia Tribune] * Gerald Rosenberg (affiliate link) is still wrong that court victories derail activist movements. [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * Is it child endangerment to leave a sleeping baby alone? Is that a cultural thing? [Law and More]