Overbilling

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.29.15

* It may have taken two years, but Lindsay Lohan finally completed her community service for her reckless driving conviction. In other news, for the first time in almost eight years, the Hollywood has-been is off probation. Yay! [Los Angeles Times] * A former staff attorney at Drinker Biddle was suspended from practice after overbilling his time doing doc review work by just a tad -- 418.5 hours, to be exact. He owes the firm $12,500 to be paid in monthly installments of $100. [Legal Intelligencer] * An ex-assistant dean and a professor at Cleveland-Marshall Law filed suit against Dean Craig Boise, claiming he retaliated against them after they assisted the faculty in unionizing. This, after they were offered raises of $0 or $666. [Northeast Ohio Media] * Someone's allegedly been a very bad boy: Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert was indicted by a federal grand jury for lying to the FBI in an attempt to conceal payoffs to a third party to cover up his "prior bad acts." We wonder what those "bad acts" were... [BuzzFeed News] * We bet you didn't know that if you get convicted for sex on the beach you'd have to serve jail time and register as a sex offender. Protip: Don't let 3-year-olds catch you doing the dirty in public. You'll regret it for life (or until you win an appeal). [Bradenton Herald]

By Staci Zaretsky
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 04.24.15

*Yeah, this happened in real life, not in a Philip K. Dick short story. [Time] *Oh burn! Cornel West responds (indirectly) to biting New Republic article. [The Root] *Justice for sale in Texas? Sounds about right. [KCBD] *Allegations of overbilling in Deepwater Horizon litigation. And -- this may be a shock to some of our readers -- turns out many of the firms involved made generous political contributions to the LA AG. [Louisiana Record] *Eliminating salary negotiations to combat the wage gap? Who knew Biglaw's lockstep approach to money would turn out to be progressive? [NPR] *Columbia University's rape problems deepen with new lawsuit about Emma Sulkowicz and her mattress "Carry that Weight" performance art. [Jezebel] *Update in the Alan Dershowitz sex case. Now with 100% more David Boies. [American Lawyer] *Attention New York: Prepare to swipe right. AG Eric Schneiderman is once again a bachelor. [Law and More] *Idaho refuses to come in line with multinational treaty obligations. . . yay federalism? [Dorf on Law]

By Alex Rich
Attorney Misconduct

Morning Docket: 10.16.13

* Stop bullying the judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. They don’t cave to just any government data request — they make changes to about 25 percent of them. But uh… they don’t like to talk about the other 75 percent. [Bloomberg] * Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the number of Biglaw firms with […]

By Staci Zaretsky