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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.23.23

* Remember when Donald Trump lost that defamation case to E. Jean Carroll and immediately went out and repeated the same claims about her being a liar? Because E. Jean Carroll does and she's seeking another $10M. [Law360] * Complaints against federal judges jumped 22 percent last year. You don't think this could be a knock-on effect from putting unqualified judges on the bench and blessing widespread financial ethical breaches, do you? [Legal Intelligencer] * Wells Fargo piling up NLRB complaints to go with the $1B they had to pay over the Fed, Treasury, and CFPB complaints. [Bloomberg Law News] * TikTok sues Montana over state's performative ban. [Reuters] * Federal judge temporarily blocks Mississippi law designed to give white state officials control over the court system but only in majority Black areas. This briefing is going to read like a timewarp. [AP] * Expect the rest of the Magic Circle to reevaluate their U.S. strategies in response to A&O merging with Shearman. [LegalCheek]

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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.18.23

* At Paul Hastings the client is always right and they'll move mountains for them... potentially including pushing past conflicts. [Corporate Counsel] * Could the reports of its death be greatly exaggerated? Shearman posts tidy Q1 M&A haul. [Bloomberg Law News] * Shaq served in FTX suit after initially avoiding process servers. How did they miss him? [Cleveland.com] * If Dominion and Fox delayed the trial to talk settlement, that seems to have fizzled with jury selection on deck this morning. Perhaps there's still more public embarrassment to dole out after all. [Reuters] * In light of the horrific Yarl shooting, the local paper tries to explain that the law doesn't allow people to just try to murder anyone who comes to the door. Which is true, but highlights the problem with these broad self-defense laws... they make ginned up gun nuts think they can and you can't really put the toothpaste back in the tube when they act on that misinterpretation. [Kansas City Star] * Second time's the charm: new NY Chief Judge pick rolling through the process. [NY Times] * EY to cut 3000 jobs after spinoff failed. [Law360]

By Above the Law