Maricopa County

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.11.20

* The former CEO of McDonald's is asking to be dismissed from a discrimination lawsuit filed by two former executives. Sounds like he could use a Happy Meal... [Restaurant Business] * A Connecticut lawyer has been sentenced to prison for allegedly fleecing donors of a veterans' charity. [Hartford Courant] * Sources suggest that Senator Amy Klobuchar is being considered as a potential Attorney General in the Biden Administration. [CNBC] * The first woman has been elected to become the new Maricopa County Attorney, leading the third-largest prosecutorial agency in the country. [Arizona Republic] * The Los Angeles Times and Tribune Publishing have settled a longstanding pay disparity lawsuit. It must be interesting for the Times to write an article about itself... [Los Angeles Times]

By Jordan Rothman
Bankruptcy

Morning Docket: 07.11.12

* Following yesterday’s hearing, Kleiner Perkins may be able to get a second bite at the proverbial apple after a judge tentatively denied the firm’s bid to arbitrate Ellen Pao’s gender discrimination suit. [The Recorder; Bits / New York Times] * Ogletree Deakins has allegedly got 99 299 problems, and a b*tch ain’t one billing errors are all of ‘em. Arizona’s Maricopa County wants a refund, and it plans to debar the firm from additional work for the next three years. [ABA Journal] * Not everything’s bigger in Texas: attorneys for Lance Armstrong have refiled a shorter version of his lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after suffering a brutal benchslap at the hands of Judge Sam Sparks. [Los Angeles Times] * Screw your ban on non-lawyer investors, we’ll expand anyway! Jacoby & Meyers merged with Chicago’s Macey Bankruptcy Law to create a 300-attorney adventure in awful lawyer advertising. [National Law Journal] * The bell has not yet tolled for Florida lawyer Frank Louderback, who will now be able to attend the 32nd Annual Ernest Hemingway Look-alike Contest thanks to his client’s last minute guilty plea. [Tampa Bay Times] * “I don’t care what the law says, you’re getting a summons.” Sorry, officer, but you don’t mess with a Brooklyn Law student’s booze, because he’ll challenge New York’s open-container law. [City Room / New York Times]

By Staci Zaretsky