Robert Mueller

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.01.19

* The New Jersey Supreme Court has disbarred an attorney who charged a widow $120,000 for work that should have cost no more than $15,000. This takes running the meter to a completely different level. [Bloomberg Law] * A judge has thrown out a conspiracy theorist's lawsuit against Robert Mueller. Looks like it ain't Mueller time anymore... [The Hill] * A Brooklyn pimp has argued in court that he did not kill his girlfriend, but merely chopped up her body. Sounds like a defense Robert Durst would make. [New York Post] * A former Manhattan Assistant U.S. Attorney is a main contender to be Rudy Giuliani's lawyer. [CNN] * NYC's new top lawyer says that going after Trump is a top priority. [New York Post] * Two Midwestern firms have merged to form a 400-lawyer firm. That's a lot of Midwestern charm! [ABA Journal]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.29.19

* The House Judiciary Committee has (finally) opened an impeachment investigation against President Trump, and has asked a federal judge to supply subpoenaed grand jury information related to Robert Mueller's probe. [Washington Post] * "I was OK this last term. I expect to be OK next term. And after that we'll just have to see." Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has no immediate plans for retirement, saying that she'll continue to take things "year by year" and "stay on this job as long as [she] can do it full steam." [CNN] * In case you missed it, here's what SCOTUS justices have done on their summer vacation thus far: they're allowing the Trump administration to use $2.5 billion of funds that were previously allocated to the Defense Department to start construction on the border wall. [New York Times] * Just as LeClairRyan finds itself gasping its presumptive last breaths, the firm finds itself on the wrong end of a gender pay discrimination case. [Big Law Business] * A federal judge has dismissed Nick Sandmann's $250 million defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post. This probably means that Sandmann's similar suits against CNN and NBC will be dismissed soon as well. [USA Today]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.25.19

* Jeffrey Epstein sent to the hospital and put on suicide watch. [USA Today] * "I take your question," the legal equivalent of "whatever, dude." [Quartz] * Firms hoping to connect with clients are best off selling their firm through media and the trade press rather than rankings and social media. So, it's time to pull the trigger on that ad campaign in Above the Law you've been considering. [American Lawyer] * While lazy hacks in the media talk about the "optics" of the Mueller testimony, the real discussion of optics should focus on Trump's frantic efforts to squelch release of his tax documents. Some moves just scream you've got something to hide. [Law360] * Eugene Scalia is already caught up in a conflict of interest problem, completing the traditional rite of passage for a member of this administration. [Washington Examiner] * Revisiting Milliken v. Bradley, the case that turned Brown v. Board into an FYI. [NPR] * Puerto Rico's governor announces resignation. [Courthouse News Service]

By Joe Patrice
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By Barbri
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.24.19

* Donald Trump seems particularly irritated that former special counsel Robert Mueller will be testifying today before the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees on the "witch hunt" that's plagued his presidency. Get ready for a tweetstravaganza! [CNN] * Professor Amy Wax of Penn Law has been professionally scolded by the dean of the school after condemning her recent comments as racist and "repugnant," and now comes news that she'll soon be taking a previously scheduled -- but awfully conveniently timed -- sabbatical. [Law.com] * But before you get too excited, Professor Wax says that she has "no plans" to leave Penn Law on a permanent basis. In fact, here's what she said about the speculation that she'd be leaving for good: "The students need me. When I’m gone, the place goes full North Korea. (It’s 95% there)." [Big Law Business] * Professor Bruce Hay of Harvard Law gets taken for the ride of his life after an alleged paternity trap left him homeless, out of work thanks to sexual harassment claims, and up to his eyeballs in litigation. [The Cut / New York Magazine] * This personal finance website wants to know: What is Biglaw, and what kind of salary should you expect? Very cute! If you want to know the real deal, you happen to be looking at the website that most closely tracks Biglaw salaries. [Nerdwallet] * Xi Chen, the bus driver who struck and killed Kimberly Greer, a law clerk at the Southern District of New York, took a no-jail plea deal earlier this week. He'll lose his license for six months and must pay $1K in fines. [New York Post]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.22.19

* In a series of wide-ranging interviews across the political spectrum — or “Fake News,” per President Trump — the commander in chief’s closest allies admitted that they didn’t think he had any idea what he’d done or what kind of havoc he’d wreaked with his racist tweets. [Washington Post] * According to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report contains "very substantial evidence" that the president is "guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.” Let’s see if Mueller’s testimony can change any minds on impeachment. [CNN] * After one scandal too many, it looks like Deutsche Bank has decided to hire someone new to look after its legal and regulatory affairs. [Corporate Counsel] * Students and alumni from Penn Law are calling for Professor Amy Wax’s ouster from faculty teaching duties following her latest foray into racism. [Big Law Business] * Aside from Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld and Clayton Kozinski, who else will be clerking for Supreme Court justices for the upcoming October term? In addition to these controversial choices, we’ve got the second blind person to ever clerk at the high court, and someone who was picked dead last in the 2010 MLB draft. [Associated Press] * Joan Bullock, former dean of Thomas Jefferson Law School, has decamped to become Dean at the Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Congrats! [National Jurist]

By Staci Zaretsky