Biglaw Firm’s Mission To End Revenge Porn
The firm has billed 28,000 hours to the cause -- and counting!
Morning Docket: 11.17.21
* The CRT Parents™ don't want their kids taught suicide prevention and mental health in school now. Think Alabama is gonna follow suit? [NBC News] * Mayor gets charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn on Reddit. Let it be known that sharing isn't always caring. [Independent] * Environmental groups are doing a better job of recruiting folks of color. Let's see how well they do with retention. [Bloomberg Law] * You've been arguing for what feels like ages — finally, time for your closing argument. One problem, mask on or mask off? [ABA Journal] * Ghislaine Maxwell's trial for sex trafficking will be starting soon. Be on the lookout for jury details. [NPR]
Morning Docket: 12.24.19
* Corey Lewandowski is suing his lawyer for malpractice. Maybe he should ask his former boss for a list of lawyers he can use. [Boston Globe] * Attorneys for the House Judiciary Committee have hinted that more articles of impeachment may be filed against President Trump. [NBC News] * Am attorney who abandoned his client after receiving $8,000 in settlement funds has been disbarred. [Bloomberg Law] * Actor Edward Norton is set to be deposed in a case involving a deadly Harlem fire. He should be fine, he played attorneys on screen. [New York Post] * A Minnesota "revenge porn" law has been struck down on First Amendment grounds. This is definitely what the founders intended... [Pioneer Press]
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]
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]
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Lawyer Dates Daughter’s Roommate, Gets Disbarred
The set-up is skeevy. What happens next is downright troubling.
Original Revenge Porn Creator, Hunter Moore, Takes Plea Deal With Justice Department
"In one month, approximately half of the operators of dedicated revenge porn sites have been sanctioned, convicted, or are likely to be convicted."
Morning Docket: 01.30.15
* Next time on Nancy Grace: A recent graduate of Michigan State Law allegedly got a master's degree student from the school pregnant twice before he left the country. The woman allegedly murdered one of the babies, and the other is now missing. [Detroit Free Press] * I'll just leave this right here so I won't get fined. It looks like a partner from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton helped Marshawn Lynch trademark his nickname “Beast Mode" -- a trademark that may lead to Lynch getting a $100,000 fine from the NFL. [Am Law Daily] * In other trademark news, Taylor Swift got approval for catchphrases from her album. “Nice to Meet You, Where You Been?” Her IP lawyers “Could Show You Incredible Things,” but you could've been getting down to "This Sick Beat.” [WSJ Law Blog] * Gibson Dunn earned $459,000 for successfully challenging Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage, which was apparently a "sharp cut" in the fees the firm initially requested for star litigator Ted Olson's time. Poor Teddy. [National Law Journal] * According to Am Law's latest Lateral Partners Survey, there was a 7 percent increase in lateral moves -- 2,736, to be precise -- between Oct. 1, 2013 and Sept. 30, 2014. Guaranteed pay packages, though, seem to be a thing of the past. [American Lawyer] * The K&L Gates Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project, a clinic that's perhaps better known as the firm's revenge porn project, is assisting a California law student whose nude pictures and videos were allegedly put online by an ex. [DealBook / New York Times]
Morning Docket: 01.07.15
* Alan Dershowitz vowed to sue the lawyers who alleged he took part in a sex scandal for defamation, but it looks like he was too slow -- they sued him for defamation first. The Dersh, however, seemed pleased as punch by the news: "This makes my day.” [WSJ Law Blog] * Illinois passed some of the toughest anti-revenge-porn legislation the country has seen to date. With possible jail time and huge fines, maybe people will be inspired to be decent human beings... but we doubt it. [International Business Times] * Welcome to 2015: In what's being called the "running of the laterals," many Biglaw partners and associates are making their moves and taking their practices to different firms and businesses. We hope everyone collected their bonuses! [Am Law Daily] * You may be “troubled by a program where people at the bottom pay for the people at the top,” but it's happening at law schools across the country. Students with low LSAT scores are subsidizing their classmates' education. [National Law Journal] * Meanwhile, getting into law school with lower LSAT scores is easier than it's ever been before. From 2010 to 2013, nearly all of the nation's Top 20 law schools admitted students with lower test scores. Thank them for paying your tuition. [Businessweek]
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Morning Docket: 10.09.14
* Thanks to a partner from K&L Gates, victims of revenge porn will be able to rely upon the assistance of the Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project to guide them through the courts pro bono. [National Law Journal] * The latest Princeton Review rankings are out, and now you can find out if you attend a law school that has some of the best professors in the country. Spoiler alert: Yale Law isn’t No. 1. [Huffington Post] * Calling all lawyers and law students! If you bought a Red Bull in the past 12 years to get through an all-nighter, then you’ll be able to make some quick cash from this class action settlement. [BuzzFeed] * It seems that Madame Justice Lori Douglas, the Canadian judge whose nude pictures were leaked online, is no longer facing sexual harassment charges. That must be nice for her, all things considered. [CBC News] * Per federal prosecutors, if you’re not too high to suck at playing games on Xbox, then you’re not too high to forget about friends of the accused Boston bomber removing evidence from your room. [Bloomberg] * Adrian Peterson’s felony child abuse trial is supposed to begin in December, but it could be delayed because the judge may have to recuse. That’s what happens when you call lawyers “media whores.” [CNN]
Iggy Azalea Lawyers Up After Alleged Sex Tape Is Unearthed
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Non-Sequiturs: 09.09.14
* A website has been set up to collect stories, videos, photos, memories, and more, to share with slain Professor Dan Markel’s young sons. His memorial is scheduled for next Tuesday. [Prawfsblawg] * What would happen if lawyers gave out GPS directions? [Legal Cheek] * George Mason Law is looking for a new dean. Brush off that résumé, Elie! [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * Is it me, or do we need to buy Justice Kagan a new outfit? [Josh Blackman's Blog] * The scion of a Biglaw Bigwig (go ahead and guess which firm…) arrested for filming and distributing video of his sexual escapades with his girlfriend without her permission. It’s like revenge porn without the revenge element. [Law and More] * Don’t bring creeps with you to a jury trial. [What About Clients?]
Radical Right-Wing Lawyer Fights With Revenge Porn Site On Twitter — Everyone Wins
It's a legal conflagration that makes you want to cast a pox on both houses and curl up in the fetal position and pray for humanity.
Non-Sequiturs: 04.24.14
* 5 reasons why Northwestern football won’t really unionize. [The Legal Blitz] * Law grad who failed the bar arrested for claiming to be a lawyer. So much for Jimmy Malone’s advice… [Albany Times Union] * This morning we wrote about a lawyer turned babysitter. Jane Genova has some thoughts on how this story can have a happy ending. [Law and More] * This is why you don’t get tattoos. [The Independent] * Sitting judge should be on “high” court — listed as president of three different pot-related businesses. [Las Vegas Law Blog] * The Second Circuit is not pleased with the secrecy of the Obama administration. [The New Republic] * Corporette launches a new motherhood newsletter. She’s looking for guest bloggers too if you’re passionate about these issues. [Corporette] * Another argument for killing law school. [The Week] * Kash Hill looks at a Loyola Law grad who hunts down revenge porn sites. [Forbes] * Lorne Michaels has a new courtroom comedy webseries starring Bob Balaban. The first episode is embedded below…