Sergey Aleynikov

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.10.19

* Where does Gordon Caplan go from here? Maybe he goes back to school... I hear there are some folks out there who can help him get in. [American Lawyer] * Mitch McConnell's aide is running for Kentucky AG. The only problem? Kentucky has a law requiring candidates for the post practice law at least sometime in the past eight years. He's arguing that a federal clerkship should count as "the practice of law" as opposed to "one year Fed Soc externship." We've made a mockery of so many rules, why not this one? [Corporate Counsel] * Mark Zaid's daily adventures representing whistleblowers. [The Hill] * Bill Brewer heads to court to see whether or not his $177K benchslapping he received will stand up on appeal. [Texas Lawyer] * Matt Lauer's attorney pushing back against rape allegations, explaining that her former anchor client was involved in a completely mutual and consensual affair with someone on the lower end of a gross power imbalance. [National Law Journal] * Railroaded former Goldman Sachs coder Sergey Aleynikov lost his recent appeal. He'd argued that double jeopardy precluded his conviction, which of course is a non-starter in a dual sovereignty world. [Law360] * Freshfields partner resigns over accusations of "engaging in sexual activity with intoxicated junior colleague" [Legal Cheek]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.04.18

* Mueller requests 70 blank subpoenas! Which... actually doesn't seem like an inordinate amount in a case like Manafort's, but let's overreact anyway. [Courthouse News Service] * Ty Cobb absolutely demolishes Steve Bannon. [Vanity Fair] * Trump Place successfully won the right to drop Trump's name from the building. According to the Constitution, the building will now be called "Pence Place." [New York Times] * Wild lawsuit against the former president of Ohio Christian University, who allegedly pulled a Trump and fired the people investigating wrongdoing. That move seems to be coming back to haunt him. [Inside Higher Ed] * Young lawyers call for office overhaul. Ostensibly this is to make offices better suited to modern work styles, but it's mostly because law offices are generally all terrible and we're reaching for any excuse that might actually convince someone to renovate. [Law.com] * Firm plans IPO to raise $58 million. [International] * A copy of an intangible thing can be tangible rules NY Court of Appeals after, apparently, binging on edibles [Law 360]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.25.17

* Donald Trump is launching a "major investigation" into voter fraud because the rest of us pointed out that his popular vote claims were pure bull hockey. This is fantastic. We've known that voter fraud really isn't a thing for years but now there'll be proof. [CNN] * A deeper dive into the Dentons conflict check snafu. [Litigation Daily] * The original patent troll firm is no more. [Ars Technica] * Sergey Aleynikov's conviction reinstated. "The decision is a 'big victory' for Vance and helps to enhance his reputation as a 'no-nonsense' prosecutor who will aggressively prosecute financial fraud." Wasting years pursuing a conviction the federal courts threw out just to appease Goldman Sachs donors in their private vendetta... sure that's the kind of financial fraud everyone's looking to see aggressively prosecuted. [Bloomberg] * Deutsche out $110 million. [Law360] * Hughes Hubbard files trademark application for Trump's reelection slogan "Keep America Great." Which he stole from The Purge, if you're wondering what's next on his agenda. [The Am Law Daily] * Oh. And we have our first martial law sighting! [Salon]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.28.15

* Despite the fact that the 25/75 percentile LSAT range for many law schools has dropped precipitously, some schools still care about LSAT scores -- because they care about you (and their U.S. News rank). [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News] * Maryland Law and Baltimore Law are going to be teaming up to launch a solo practice incubator for their recent graduates, and BC, BU, and Northeastern will be doing the same thing in 2016. Full-time, long-term jobs where bar passage is required for all! [National Law Journal] * The Dacheng Dentons merger has the potential to completely change the legal profession as we know it, or fall flat on its face and be remembered as a good idea that went wrong. It's been six months, and we're all still waiting to see what happens. [Financial Times] * The criminal case against ex-Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov is like the Energizer bunny in that it keeps going, and going, and going, and going. Manhattan DA Cy Vance is appealing Aleynikov's overturned conviction. [DealBook / New York Times] * "The unfortunate scenario alleged in the complaint cries out for a legislative fix, not a judicial nix." As expected, terminally ill civil rights attorney Christy McDonnell's right-to-die lawsuit was dismissed by a California judge yesterday. How depressing. [AP]

By Staci Zaretsky
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 07.06.15

* Is Apple Music an antitrust violation, a second-rate streaming music provider, or both. Probably both. [Dorf on Law] * Former Goldman employee Sergey Aleynikov acquitted... again. Who would have thought Cyrus Vance's trumped up show trial would fail so thoroughly? [Dealbreaker] * Landmark cases reimagined as movie posters. [Res Ipsa Law Poster] * If you missed it, here's the New York Times Editorial about the "Activist Roberts Court" that everyone was talking about over the weekend. [New York Times] * In her defense, Sarah Palin may not be the dumbest person from Wasilla. [Legal Juice] * In the wake of Obergefell, will some holdout religious schools lose their tax-exempt status? [Tax Prof Blog] * Susman Godfrey's Steve Susman chats with Richard Hsu about distance cycling. [Hsu Untied]

By Joe Patrice