Rex Tillerson
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GovernmentFormer U.S. Official Essentially Calls Trump A 'Moron' Who Tries To Do Illegal Things
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Morning DocketMorning Docket: 11.21.17
* Pro: The DOJ is finally taking the sort of antitrust action they should’ve been pursuing for decades in blocking the AT&T/Time Warner merger. Con: They’re only doing it because Trump hates CNN. [BBC]
* State Department officials formally accuse the Secretary of State of violating U.S. law. Things seem to be running smoothly over there. [CNBC]
* Husch Blackwell sheds 40 lawyers… zero associates. [Law.com]
* Bob Mueller’s team seems to be gearing up to get Rick Gates’s counsel disqualified. [National Law Journal]
* Inside the world of a Biglaw GC. [Corporate Counsel]
* We all were wondering what would happen to the FCPA under an administration that publicly claims businesses need to be able to bribe local officials. The answer? It now only applies to the Chinese and Africans. That makes sense. [Law360]
* Former Biglaw partner dies in around-the-world yacht race. [American Lawyer]
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Non-SequitursNon-Sequiturs: 03.14.17
* Firing 46 federal prosecutors may have unleashed 46 incredibly qualified Democratic candidates on the midterm elections. [Politico]
* This… isn’t even surprising. [Huffington Post]
* It seem incredibly unlikely this will ever happen, but it isn’t a half-bad idea. [The Hill]
* Whaddya know, actions have consequences. Blows my mind too. [Slate]
* And the North Carolina Democratic Party’s response is perfect. [The News & Observer]
* New York Attorney General Eric Scheiderman has Rex Tillerson in his sights. [Talking Points Memo]
* A look into Judge Gorsuch’s feelings on immigration. [AP]
* Really? I mean, really? The “Hearing Protection Act” will loosen laws on gun silencers. [The Slot]
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Justice, Politics
State Department Managers Resign En Masse; Justice Department, Your Move
The senior management at the U.S. State Department has seen enough in these six days to make their call. -
Morning DocketMorning Docket: 12.15.16
* The Supreme Court takes on an issue of major importance to the patent bar (and the Eastern District of Texas): where can an infringement suit be filed? [How Appealing]
* And SCOTUS also grants cert to a case raising the scope of what prosecutors must disclose to the defense under Brady v. Maryland and a case about a criminal lawyer’s erroneous advice to his client about immigration consequences of a guilty plea. [New York Times via How Appealing]
* Sheriff of Wall Street Preet Bharara loses another deputy to private practice: Katherine Goldstein, head of the S.D.N.Y.’s securities-fraud unit, will join several of her former colleagues — Adam Fee, Antonia Apps and George Canellos — at Milbank Tweed. [WSJ Law Blog]
* President-elect Donald Trump won’t take office for a few weeks, but he’s already inspiring new law school courses. [National Law Journal]
* And Trump might also trigger new lawsuits from state attorneys general seeking to rein in his administration. [New York Times]
* As for existing litigation between Trump and celebrity chefs José Andrés and Geoffrey Zakarian, both the real estate tycoon and his adversaries are repped by big Biglaw names: Seyfarth Shaw and Steptoe & Johnson. [BuzzFeed]
* Speaking of Seyfarth, it’s the firm representing ExxonMobil in litigation alleging anti-gay discrimination in its hiring practices — litigation that continues even as CEO Rex Tillerson prepares to leave the company to head the Trump State Department. [Washington Blade]
