Loyola Law School – Los Angeles

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.27.17

* Is SCOTUS walking back its landmark commitment to equal rights for the LGBTQ community? Considering what could happen in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case and the high court's refusal to grant cert in Pidgeon, it seems like it. It's not as if this hasn't happened before. ::coughBrownvBoardcough:: [New Republic] * A federal judge ruled that an American ISIS suspect who's been detained as a "enemy combatant" in Iraq for the last three months is, in fact, entitled to a lawyer, and called the Trump administration's quest to deny counsel in this case "both remarkable and troubling." [New York Times] * Everything really is bigger in Texas: According to the ABA, there are just 0.8 percent more first-year law students this year than last year, but entering classes at law schools in the Lone Star State were 4 percent larger than they were last year. Hopefully all these students will be able to lasso themselves jobs. [Texas Lawyer] * Lawsuits have been rolling out ever since Apple admitted that it was slowing down iPhones with older batteries, and one of them was filed by two students who currently attend USC Law and hope to get the suit certified as a class-action. This is an absolutely awesome use of winter break. [RT] * Which states are likely to legalize marijuana in the new year? Vermont, New Jersey, and Michigan may soon end their prohibitions on cannabis, either through legislative means or by puff-puff-passing a voter referendum. [Forbes] * If you're a journalist with three years of experience and cover the legal profession in your reporting, consider applying to be a fellow at Loyola Law School's annual Journalist Law School. There is no cost to attend. The application deadline is February 9, 2018. [Journalist Law School] * Judge Thomas Griesa, the Southern District of New York jurist who oversaw the Argentine debt battle in federal court, RIP. [New York Law Journal]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.16.15

* At least a dozen professors from UT Law have had their identities stolen, and they only found out about it after their tax returns were rejected. As it turns out, the data thief had already filed their returns for them. Law profs' tax refund checks must be tasty. [American-Statesman] * If you've been wondering what kind of salary it'd take to woo away the dean of one of the top law schools in the nation to become your university's president, wonder no more. The answer is $660K per year. Way to go, Dean Schill! Play on, playa. [Register-Guard] * If you thought the list of the legal profession's luminaries was looking like a giant sausage party, then you should check out this new ranking of the "most accomplished female attorneys working in the legal profession today." [National Law Journal] * Biglaw, bigger egos? Law firm managing partners aren't feeling as confident as they once were about economic and legal industry growth, but they're totally jazzed about their own firms' potential for revenue growth and the demand for their services. [Am Law Daily] * Another law school makes big changes thanks to legal academia's rocky road: Loyola Law in L.A. is planning a 25% enrollment cut and is taking $20 million from its university's endowment to entice students to attend with fat scholarships. [Los Angeles Loyolan]

By Staci Zaretsky
Gay Marriage

Non-Sequiturs: 12.14.12

* Joe Patrice reposted this on his site and I’m linking to it because it’s a great look at the rhetorical weaknesses of the pro-gun argument. It’s old, so you can’t say that he’s being reactionary to the current tragedy. [Recess Appointment] * Here’s a very good takedown of the self-serving law school rankings from Loyola Law School (LA) Professor Theodore Seto, who magically finds that Loyola Law is the 25th best law school for becoming a Biglaw partner. [Witnesseth] * Is the procedural posture of same-sex marriage sexy? [Opinionator / New York Times] * The jury system is dumb. [The Republican] * Here’s some kind of ridiculous, anti-transparency argument for why posting rate-increase memos would be counterproductive. Lat gets a shout out for not acting like this. [Legal Rebels / ABA Journal]

By David Lat
Biglaw

Letter from London: ‘I Thought Freshfields Was a Supermarket’

“I thought Freshfields [Bruckhaus Deringer] was a supermarket when I got here,” says Kirsty Grant, a fourth-year associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Happily, Grant -- a fast-learner who got through law school in L.A. while working full-time during the day -- quickly figured out that the Anglo-German law firm, a member of the Magic Circle, wasn’t the place to fulfill her grocery needs. Not that Grant, 33, has oceans of spare cash to splash on her grocery needs. How do her finances as an American abroad compare to those of her Biglaw counterparts back home?

By Alex Aldridge