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Morning Docket: 05.14.18

* Could it be? Will another Biglaw firm be dragged into this mess after Skadden? Michael Avenatti, lawyer to Stormy Daniels, thinks that special counsel Robert Mueller ought to take a look at Squire Patton Boggs, the firm that's been working hard to disavow its "strategic alliance" with Michael Cohen, the president's personal attorney. [Newsweek] * "[Y]ou can’t have one rule for Democratic presidents and another rule for Republican presidents." Chairman Chuck Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who recently suggested that any Supreme Court justice who was thinking about retiring do so right f**king now, claims that he won't hold any hearings or votes for a Supreme Court nominee during the lead-up to the 2020 election [Bloomberg] * The American Bar Association is planning to do away with its requirement that accredited law schools use a standardized admissions test to admit students. Will any law schools actually go so far as to admit students without any test scores at all? More on this later today. [Law.com] * The end of the latest Supreme Court Term is drawing near, and if you've been watching goings-on at the high court, you know what that means: justices seem to be more likely to injure themselves now than during any other time of the year. Cross your fingers and hope that no one else sustains any broken bones -- or worse -- before the end of June. [CNN] * Public law schools are usually cash cows for their associated undergraduate universities, but one law school is doing the complete opposite thanks to a dip in applications. But for a gigantic annual subsidy from main campus ($7.5 million), the University of Minnesota School of Law wouldn't be able to balance its budget -- and the school will need even more by 2020 ($12 million). Yikes! [Duluth News Tribune]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.09.18

* What's behind the Supreme Court's sluggish pace, and does Justice Gorsuch have anything to do with it? Only 18 rulings have been sloooooowly handed down so far this Term, and the world is still waiting for decisions to be made in some of the high court's most contentious cases. [Reuters] * House Republicans are so pissed the DOJ failed to comply with a subpoena deadline to turn over more than a million documents related to investigations of Hillary Clinton's emails, alleged FISA abuses, and Andrew McCabe's firing that there's a "growing consensus" Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein could be held in contempt of Congress -- or even impeached. [Washington Examiner] * There may be a law school brain drain when it comes to a lack of applications from students at top undergraduate institutions, but the Law School Admission Council is reporting that the number of applicants with LSAT scores of 160 or higher is up by 21 percent since last year. We'll have more on this interesting news later. [Law.com] * In case you missed it, with an average deal size was $3.7 billion and a market share of about 24 percent, Skadden came out on top of Bloomberg's law firm league table for global M&A deal volume in 2018's first quarter. Congratulations! [Big Law Business] * According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal services industry added 400 jobs between February and March. The entire profession now ranges from 1.2 to 1.3 million jobs, down from pre-recession highs of 1.8 million jobs. Sorry, but after about a decade, it's looking like those jobs may be lost forever. [American Lawyer]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.05.18

* Good news for Holland & Knight, who successfully escaped a $34.5 million malpractice rap. [American Lawyer] * Wisconsin passes a law requiring disclosure of litigation financers because juries should be gravely suspicious of anyone who can afford to seek legal redress from a corporation. [National Law Journal] * Cleary Gottlieb partner loses battle over rent-stabilized penthouse. While that sentence doesn't make him sound particularly sympathetic, he's actually the good guy here. [New York Law Journal] * Executives and board members should be more involved in cybersecurity efforts according to the Department of Obvious Things. [Corporate Counsel] * Sexual assault defendant pleas down to charge of “seduc[ing] and debauch[ing] any unmarried woman.” That's offensive on so many levels. [Detroit News] * Workers comp can't cover paralegal injured playing for firm softball team. [ABA Journal] * Law firm conducting use-of-force review simultaneously representing deputy accused of shooting and killing two men while on duty. Foxes, hen houses, etc. [KOB 4] * Did you know some law schools are now accepting the GRE? Because the Times just figured that out. [New York Times]

By Joe Patrice