Sam Bankman-Fried

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.03.23

* Ivanka Trump cited "undue hardship" because her testimony was scheduled during "a school week." The appellate court... disagreed. [CNN] * Sam Bankman-Fried is guilty. But Alex Kirshner's burning question is... why was the defense so bad? [Slate] * Rudy asks DC to please not disbar him. [Reuters] * Retiring Biglaw leaders have firms thinking about succession. Presumably multiple rounds of Boar on the Floor. [Bloomberg Law News] * George W. Bush judge declines seems disinclined to shut down NC Supreme Court’s probe of its only Black justice for saying the North Carolina court system isn't particularly diverse, which seems like more a statement of fact than a controversial claim. [Law360] * Survey finds that 17 percent of Biglaw attorneys feel emotionally depleted at work. An additional 83 percent have already had their capacity for human feeling permanently drained. [ABA Journal] * BLM -- the law firm, not Black Lives Matter or the Bureau of Land Management -- accidentally gave videos of a kid to a pedophile. [Roll on Friday] * Surge Pricing: Uber and Lyft to pay $328 million over wage theft probe. [Courthouse News Service]

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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.27.23

* Remember Morgan Lewis partner Sheri Dillon? She's the one who stood in front of a pile of -- for all we know empty -- folders and told everyone that they didn't need to see Donald Trump's taxes because they were fine. Well, the AG had some questions about that at trial yesterday. [Law360] * Pillsbury ends merger talks with Stroock as two of the most star-crossed potential merger partners in Biglaw fail to get together. [American Lawyer] * Today's the day for Sam Bankman-Fried testimony. [Reuters] * Bonus season is about a month away and likely to be a 2022 redux. [Bloomberg Law News] * Attorney for Clarence Thomas denies that the justice's RV loan was forgiven. Naturally, he refuses to provide any corroboration for this. [The Hill] * Maryland posthumously admits Black lawyer it denied 166 years ago. [Washington Post] * Legal tech prices are heading up. [Law.com]

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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.10.23

* Treat your significant other the way you'd want to be treated if they're called to testify against you in a multi-billion dollar fraud trial. [Reuters] * Chevron doctrine on the chopping block. Because what this country needs is every mundane detail of government in the hands of the laser-focused geniuses in the House of Representatives. [Bloomberg Law News] * Drew Magary calls for an end to the Supreme Court's soft dictatorship. [SF Gate] * A thorough analysis of Ken Chesebro's effort to overturn the 2020 election concludes that it doesn't seem like that's legal. [Just Security] * In bid to keep his law license, John Eastman testifies that there's been "200 years of dispute" over whether the vice president can unilaterally overturn elections. [Law360] * Biglaw firms weather economic jitters by showing up in midmarket deals. [American Lawyer] * Documentary profiles the attorneys who held Nazi groups accountable. [Daily Beast]

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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.22.23

* Somehow they've managed to find even more undisclosed private air travel. This time taking Clarence Thomas to a Koch brothers event in a level of impropriety that a former W. Bush judge said, "takes my breath away, frankly." [ProPublica] * Clifford Chance opts for permanent hybrid work model while other firms choose alienation and extortion. [RollonFriday] * Second Circuit decides Sam Bankman-Fried can wait in jail. [Law360] * North Carolina Supreme Court justice Anita Earls spoke publicly about implicit bias in the legal system. After the judiciary commission ordered her to pre-clear future statements with them, she sued over the prior restraint and the federal judge chastised her for making the justice system look bad by talking about bias out loud. [Balls and Strikes] * Having toppled admissions, right-wingers take aim at scholarships that might possibly help non-white people go to school. [Reuters] * Judge upholds the right of private investors to put their money toward companies that match their environmental and social goals. [Bloomberg Law News] * Profiling the folks chronicling the opaque Google antitrust case. [Wired]

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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.13.23

* Sam Bankman-Fried denied pre-trial release after arguing that his alleged witness tampering, not unlike the value of cryptocurrency, wasn't what it looked like on paper. [Reuters] * After opening door a crack to allow some transparency in proceedings during the pandemic, the federal courts look to curtail live audio access. [Law360] * Lawyer informs Texas Senate that Ken Paxton approved every bit of investigation at heart of impeachment. [Texas Tribune] * Trial to begin to decide constitutionality of "America's most extreme gun control law." The law just requires gun owners to get a permit and bans magazines over 10 rounds. Again, this is what passes for the "most extreme" law in the country. [Fox News] * Gibson Dunn alters diversity scholarship criteria as activists ramp up threats to sue law firms for pursuing initiatives to make the profession less white. [Bloomberg Law News] * Meanwhile, two law schools are back in compliance with ABA accreditors after improving faculty diversity and likely putting them out of compliance with these litigious activists (Another law school is back in compliance after improving its finances... which is less controversial). [Law.com] * Governor asks to change state's public records law to keep her travel under wraps. [ABC]

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