Neil Eggleston

Morning Docket: 04.25.17

* Who says you can never go home again? Neil Eggleston, White House Counsel under President Obama, return to Kirkland & Ellis. [Law.com] * The Biglaw scandal that just keeps giving and giving and giving... The Dewey retrial nears its end. [New York Law Journal] * North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has opened up an investigation into the troubled Charlotte School of Law. We'll have more on this story later today. [Politico] * The Republican controlled North Carolina General Assembly is trying to mess with Democratic Governor Roy Cooper's ability to appoint judges to their state courts. But Judge J. Douglas McCullough -- a Republican -- has at least one trick up his sleeve to thwart the plan. [Slate] * The NRA is ramping up its legal strategy in California as they anticipate the future political direction of the courts there. [LA Times] * The excuse "the Russians did it" just doesn't fly in the world of tax law... not even if you are Sotheby's. [New York Times]

Morning Docket: 08.04.16

* Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father of a deceased Muslim soldier who offered a stern rebuke for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the Democratic National Convention, has taken his law firm's website offline in the face of incredibly harsh criticism from many of Trump's supporters. [RT] * This brings a whole new meaning to the term "gunner": Earlier this week, a campus carry law went into effect at public schools in Texas, and law students at UT Law, Texas Southern Law, Texas Tech Law, Texas A&M Law, U. Houston Law, and North Texas Law may now bring concealed weapons with them to school. [Law.com] * Yesterday afternoon, President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 214 prisoners, the most in a single act since at least 1900. According to White House counsel Neil Eggleston, the president's work is "far from finished," and he expects that clemency will continue to be granted through the end of his final term. [Big Law Business] * After a week of voter ID laws being struck down in battleground states, Texas has agreed to weaken its own voter ID law. Citizens without proper identification will now be able to present a government document with their name and address and sign an affidavit to vote. This will "open the door to voting" for many people. [New York Times] * In response to Freedom of Information Act requests, the Clinton Library has released more than 1,300 pages of files on Supreme Court nominee Chief Judge Merrick Garland. It's really interesting to see what people who refuse to hold a vote for him now had to say when they voted on his D.C. Circuit nomination almost 20 years ago. [POLITICO]