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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.06.16

* Roger Ailes hires Hulk Hogan and Melania Trump lawyer Charles Harder for a possible suit against NY Mag. [Huffington Post] * As expected, Haynes & Boone has merged with Curtis Davis Garrard [Texas Lawyer] * Berkeley's Sujit Choudhry still coming to work amid sexual harassment claims. [ABC 7] * An update on the revenge porn law that's seen over 200 prosecuted in England and Wales. [CNET] * Avvo defends its fixed-fee legal services after a South Carolina ethics ruling dinged the practice. [Corporate Counsel] * Sullivan & Cromwell tapped to make one lucky French fan base learn what it's like to have Frank McCourt as an owner. [The Am Law Daily] * Second Circuit throws procedural roadblocks in front of workers seeking back wages. Happy Labor Day! [Law360]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.06.16

* Roger Ailes hires Hulk Hogan and Melania Trump lawyer Charles Harder for a possible suit against NY Mag. [Huffington Post] * As expected, Haynes & Boone has merged with Curtis Davis Garrard [Texas Lawyer] * Berkeley's Sujit Choudhry still coming to work amid sexual harassment claims. [ABC 7] * An update on the revenge porn law that's seen over 200 prosecuted in England and Wales. [CNET] * Avvo defends its fixed-fee legal services after a South Carolina ethics ruling dinged the practice. [Corporate Counsel] * Sullivan & Cromwell tapped to make one lucky French fan base learn what it's like to have Frank McCourt as an owner. [The Am Law Daily] * Second Circuit throws procedural roadblocks in front of workers seeking back wages. Happy Labor Day! [Law360]

By Joe Patrice
Gay

Non-Sequiturs: 06.10.11

* New York magazine is on a roll: first the buzz-generating Paper Tigers piece, then the big Anna Nicole Smith story, and now this great profile of Paul Bergrin, “The Baddest Lawyer in the History of Jersey.” [New York Magazine] * When Elie read Megan McArdle’s response to his debt story, he screamed, “I said […]

By David Lat
Anna Nicole Smith

The Peculiarly American Anna Nicole Smith

During her short lifetime, Anna Nicole Smith managed to sell sex, jeans, weight-loss pills and, with her reality show, a sense of superiority to millions of Americans who could take some solace in the fact that they were not that messed up. She was voluptuous, then she was just plain fat, then she was voluptuous […]

By Juggalo Law
Politics

A Portrait of Georgia’s President as a Young Lawyer

Here is a short Intelligencer item we just wrote for New York Magazine, about the two years that Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia, spent in New York. It begins: Fifteen years before his country was invaded — or, perhaps, reinvaded — by Russia, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was learning about the American system of law […]

By David Lat