Morgan Stanley

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.10.18

* As they say, you can't buy class, but you can insure against it. There's actually a thing called disgrace insurance for celebrities behaving badly. [Law.com] * Barbara Jones has completed her privilege review of the Michael Cohen materials. In a shock to absolutely no one, only about half of the material designated as privileged was really privileged. [Courthouse News Service] * Michael Avenatti is really considering a presidential run and is making the requisite Iowa tour to prove it. [Bloomberg] * With E&Y getting into the legal game, will the clients follow. [Corporate Counsel] * Checking in on Christopher Garvey's retaliation case against Morgan Stanley. [National Law Journal] * Get ready for litigation! California has a law requiring pharmaceutical companies provide advanced notice before jacking up prices. Eli Lilly has decided to just spike the price on insulin with no warning anyway. [LA Times]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.08.18

* With NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigning, the negotiations to determine his successor are in full swing. Expect someone no one has ever heard of from some upstate DA's office who will then hold the job for a decade. [New York Law Journal] * Trouble in paradise? Donald Trump reportedly frustrated with Rudy Giuliani because Fox is starting to let him know that Rudy's completely screwing him. But is he? It may be embarrassing, but if he sells the story that Cohen paid off women all the time, then it may not be a campaign law violation because it's something he does in the ordinary course. Giuliani's may be crazy like a fox. Or just crazy. [Time] * GDPR = Y2K 2018? European regulators claim they aren't ready for the planned switch over to GDPR. The law is definitely more stringent than what most of Europe was used to, but it's not wildly out of sync with what some countries were already doing. Stop hyperventilating and get it together, people. [Reuters] * The SEC wants a completely open-ended opportunity to meet with Jay-Z. He says this is unreasonable and offered them a full day of testimony. Why are we wasting a judge's time with this? Give the SEC one whole day with the right to come back to make a request for more. It's an SEC investigation, it's not Bonnie & Clyde. [Law360] * The administration may have pardoned Sheriff Joe for his crimes, but that doesn't mean the county who elected him over and over can avoid paying for it. The Ninth Circuit determined that Maricopa County is on the hook for the illegal activity Sheriff Joe perpetrated behind his badge. [The Recorder] * Forget Amazon, drones are now delivering contraband and other smuggled goods. Ah, the future. [Futurism] * A financial technology firm claims Perkins Coie and Bracewell cost it millions of dollars by leading it into a contract with Morgan Stanley without protecting it from changes the bank made to the contract. Are you saying a major bank tried to screw someone over? [American Lawyer]

By Joe Patrice