Peeping Tom

Associate Accused Of Secretly Videotaping A Colleague Undressing Agrees To Discipline

He's been suspended from the practice of law.

Bar Exam Horror Story: Woman Alleges She Was Secretly Filmed Showering During Bar Exam Hotel Stay

Well, this is absolutely horrifying.

Morning Docket: 10.20.16

* A law school peeping tom? Police have arrested and charged 30-year-old Yiyan Wang with 15 counts of voyeurism for allegedly videotaping women inside a bathroom in UConn Law's library. He allegedly placed his phone beneath the stall walls to film them. He is currently being held on $250,000 bond, and will face a judge in early November. [FOX 61 Connecticut] * "Walmart is the new marketplace. It's where people go. It makes sense to be there." Look out, Missouri, because The Law Store is coming to a Walmart Supercenter near you. The firm has three locations now, and COO Kurt Benecke says the firm is priced to compete with LegalZoom, charging flat fees without any hourly rates. [Springfield News-Leader] * Zucker Goldberg & Ackerman, a defunct New Jersey foreclosure law firm which laid off hundreds of its employees last year, is now suing Wells Fargo, with the bankrupt firm claiming that the bank's extreme delays in correcting its robo-signing problems and its refusal to pay $2.5M for work performed caused the firm to fail. [Wall Street Journal] * "Justice shouldn’t be about the money in your pocket. Justice has to be the same for everybody, no matter your station in life, color of your skin or resources in your pocket." Jonathan Lippman, who recently retired as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, will lead Fordham Law's new justice initiative. Congrats! [Big Law Business] * Judge Vicente Bermudez, a Mexican federal jurist who handled appeals in several cartel cases, including those of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the jailed leader of the Sinaloa cartel, and Miguel Trevino, the former leader of the Zetas cartel, was assassinated at his home on Monday. Descanse en paz, Su Señoría. [Reuters]

Non-Sequiturs: 09.06.16

* Britney Spears's lawyers are really quick to threaten lawsuits. Allegedly. [TMZ] * The only Harry Potter analogy to tax proposals you'll ever need. [TaxProf Blog] * The legal case to take down an alleged Hollywood Peeping Tom. [Perez Hilton] * EpiPen's maker, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, is in more hot water. This time it is of the New York Attorney General/antitrust variety. [Gizmodo] * Copyright troll caught in its own petard. [BBC] * An update on the minor-league baseball wage litigation. [Fangraphs] * Rating the sketch factor of Donald Trump's donation to Florida's Attorney General, Pam Bondi. [Slate] * The work of a jury consultant, Dr. Bull, will be coming to a TV near you. [Law360]

Morning Docket: 03.08.16

* This peeping Tom better have a big bankroll: A jury awarded sportscaster Erin Andrews $55 million in her case against a stalker who recorded unauthorized nude videos of her in a hotel. Defense attorneys seem peeved that she won since her "career skyrocketed" and wasn't completely destroyed by the incident. [NBC News] * "[W]e are sort of reaching the height of the most frustrating part of this process for those of you who are trying to cover it." Even if the judges purportedly being vetted for a Supreme Court nomination had visited the White House to speak with President Obama, the public would never know it thanks to the strict secrecy protocols involved. [CNN] * Despite the fact that most Supreme Court justices don't themselves read the numerous amicus curiae briefs filed in support of the cases being heard before the high court, according to a new study, it takes an "amicus machine" -- including amicus wranglers and whisperers -- and a lot of hard work to get them into shape. [New York Times] * Uh-oh... some 4-4 ideological splits may be in our future this Term. In the wake of Justice Scalia's death, Justice Alito and Justice Thomas seem to have decided to team up to stabilize the Supreme Court's conservative wing, joining in each other's dissents from the majority's unsigned opinions in otherwise routine matters. [WSJ Law Blog] * February may have been a great month for those with Leap Day birthdays, but it was pretty terrible for the legal profession. Per the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, 1,500 jobs were lost last month. In other news, we've not yet fully recovered from the recession in terms of employment numbers. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]