Northeastern

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.11.20

* Lindsay Lohan is being sued by a publisher for collecting her $365,000 advance and never writing an autobiography. When she writes the book, hope she explains why there was never a sequel to "Mean Girls"... [USA Today] * A Florida attorney was allegedly killed by his son earlier this week in an apparent murder-suicide. [New York Daily News] * Parents for a Northeastern University student who was suspended for breaking anti-COVID-19 measures have lawyered up. [Boston Globe] * Federal prosecutors are asking that civil cases against Ghislaine Maxwell be put on hold while the criminal prosecution moves forward. [ABC News] * A lawyer who falsely claimed he needed to have cancerous tumors removed to get discovery extensions may be suspended from the practice of law. As Arnold Schwarzenegger would say, "it's not a tumor!" [ABA Journal]

Drinking

Celebrating With Alcohol? Oh Noes!

I get that the legal profession has a drinking problem, if you will, but today we have an example of how a law school should not go about keeping young, would-be lawyers off the bottle. Imagine you are a 1L. You just finished your first set of finals of your first year of law school, […]