Potential Oakland Airport Name Change Is Begging For People To Get Lost
Definitely worth getting sued over.
Mergers And Office Openings: UK Firms Seek Growth In The US
UK 'Magic Circle' law firms are increasingly looking to the US for growth, as evidenced by the proposed merger of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling and the expansion of Clifford Chance into Houston.
Lexis’ CounselLink+™: A One-Stop Shop To Streamline Your Law Department
Recent CounselLink upgrades integrate the full in-house workflow with the broader suite of LexisNexis products.
Let’s Get Right To It!
An excellent, multi-location opportunity for a mid-level litigation associate.
California Market Update: Plentiful Office Openings, Strong Associate Demand
In the midst of the pandemic-fueled narrative about an exodus from California, a funny thing happened: several Biglaw firms took the opportunity to enter the California market for the first time.
Morning Docket: 01.08.20
* A donor connected to President Trump’s inaugural committee has plead guilty to obstruction of justice. [Fox News] * A Long Island lawyer has been charged with stealing 300k from a former client. That’s not even a lot of money for “Strong” Island. [Newsday]
Morning Docket: 11.11.19
* Settlement talks are underway to break up Cellino & Barnes into two separate firms. No news yet on which firm will keep the infamous jingle. [Buffalo News] * A winner has finally been declared in the close San Francisco District Attorney race. [Washington Post] * Woody Allen has ended his year-long lawsuit against Amazon involving Amazon canceling projects with Allen over MeToo allegations. [New York Times] * A North Carolina attorney has plead guilty to tax fraud for paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal expenses, including plastic surgery, out of his business account. Can't he argue that plastic surgery is a business expense? [Charlotte Observer] * Hundreds of Penn Law community members have voiced dissatisfaction with the school's new name honoring a donor. Hey, money talks. [Daily Pennsylvanian] * A Queens attorney has been sued over extremely lurid allegations of sexual harassment. This attorney must not practice employment law. [New York Post]
Why Better Financial Acumen is the Key to Law Firm Success in 2025
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Morning Docket: 11.08.19
* A lawyer caught up in the college admissions scandal has had his law license suspended. Maybe he also helped his kid get into law school... [New York Post] * The former top lawyer for a firm co-founded by Peter Thiel is suing her ex-employer for wrongful termination. [Los Angeles Times] * The San Francisco District Attorney race may be decided by only a few thousand votes. Never doubt that every vote counts. [San Francisco Chronicle] * A lawyer who claimed he missed a hearing due to his grandfather's death must supply proof to the court. This reminds me of an episode of Seinfeld... [ABA Journal] * President Trump has paid $2M to settle a lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General regarding the Trump Foundation. [CNN]
While Others Pretend To Be Colorblind, The San Francisco DA Office Acknowledges Implicit Bias And Begins Its Experiment In ‘Blind Charging’
Our implicit biases continue to tear at the fabric of our society. The question is, what are we as a profession going to do about it?
Book Of Business: Winston & Strawn’s Impressive Expansion In Energy Law
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The Hidden Threat: How Fake Identities used by Remote Employees Put Your Business at Risk—and How to Defend Against This
Reach out to continue the conversation on how to most effectively detect, prevent, and correct this or other types of fraud, cybercrime, misconduct, and non-compliance.
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Non-Sequiturs: 05.03.17
* Code Pink protesters found guilty of disorderly conduct during the Jeff Sessions hearings. One woman just laughed. I'll just wait here for the appellate courts to do something about this. [New York Times] * Non-citizens and people here illegally will be able to vote in local school board elections in San Francisco, if they have children in the school district. If the Hunchback of Notre Dame was written today, it'd be a musical about San Francisco. [NPR] * Trump canceling the White House Cinco de Mayo celebration is perhaps the most racially sensitive thing he's done. Not because Cinco de Mayo has turned into an embarrassing excuse for white appropriation of Mexican culture, but because Trump is physically incapable of eating a taco salad without insulting people. [The Hill] * The Fourth Circuit, preparing to hear a Muslim ban case, is down one conservative judge. Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III will be recused because his son [UPDATE: son-in-law, acting solicitor general Jeffrey Wall] is part of the case for the government. [Buzzfeed] * What is Cantor Fitzgerald really paying Obama $400,000 to do? Give a good speech, most likely. [Bloomberg View] * Mississippi funeral home refuses to cremate a corpse because the corpse was once alive-while-gay. How you gonna run a funeral home based on hate? [Slate] * I know most of our readers don't read white supremacist news. But when I do this link-wrap, I feel like I should start adding in one headline from the Alt-Right, just so all you good people don't get too comfortable in your bubble. These people ARE IN CONTROL OF AMERICA. What they think directly influences the President of the United States. So, here's your headline: "Creepy Kimmel Politicizes Infant Son’s Health Crisis" [Breitbart]
The Touchiest-Feeliest Law Jobs Conference Of The Decade
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Fitbit Is Banking On Corporate Wellness Programs, Digital Health Partnerships For Growth
Fitbit‘s acquisition of smart watch assets last year generated a lot of interest as to the direction of Fitbit.
Non-Sequiturs: 01.31.17
* Adam Feldman makes the case for Justice Neil Gorsuch. (Visit Above the Law at 8 p.m. for our live coverage of the Supreme Court announcement.) [Empirical SCOTUS] * Speaking of SCOTUS, a former shortlister and current feeder judge, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, has a new book out: All Falling Faiths: Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s. [Amazon (affiliate link)] * Is the "chaos" of the Trump Administration's early days really just the startup-like disruption of the established order? [Althouse] * Professor Ilya Somin analyzes -- and endorses -- San Francisco's lawsuit against President Trump's "sanctuary cities" order. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * Professor Eric Chiappinelli offers two recommendations for law schools to survive -- and even thrive -- in today's challenging environment. [PrawfsBlawg] * Is the hiring of lawyer turned journalist Megyn Kelly the first step in NBC's transformation into the next Fox News? [Instapundit]