Simpson Thacher

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.15.19

* The economy is about to tank and cost 10,000+ lawyers their jobs. Maybe someone should step up and do something about it? [Slate] * Simpson and Skadden are advising WeWork on its IPO. Common sense is advising everyone else against it. [American Lawyer] * Latest Circuit Court nominee is 11 years out of law school, frighteningly making him a model of experience. [National Law Journal] * Recovering from Jeffrey Epstein's estate is going to be a hell of a mess. [New York Law Journal] * The short-sell attack on Burford Capital could spark more regulation... even if the whole thing was bogus. [Law.com] * The idiot in charge of Barstool Sports stumbles into NLRB violation then demands AOC "debate" him. It's not a debate dude. It's a law that you broke. There's not a gray area for contestation. [Variety]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.06.18

* Simpson Thacher isn't increasing associate salaries to the $190K scale (yet), but it is partnering with Columbia Business School to launch a new associate training program. We bet your incoming associates are "STBReady" ... for higher salaries. Click here to see all the firms that have raised salaries thus far . [New York Law Journal] * President Trump is appealing the decision that says he can't block people on Twitter based on their political views to the Second Circuit (because of course he is). He already had to unblock the seven plaintiffs in the case, and he likely wasn't very happy about it because of glorious follow-up tweets like this. [BuzzFeed] * After reportedly being rejected by several candidates for the associate attorney general position -- one that would oversee the Mueller investigation if Rod Rosenstein were to suddenly depart -- the Trump Administration is giving up on trying to fill the job for the moment, and focusing on other vacancies. [Wall Street Journal] * In the wake of allegations of sexual harassment against former Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, the federal judiciary's working group on sexual harassment has released 24 recommendations, specifying three areas that need change to make circuit courts an "exemplary workplace." [Big Law Business] * The American Bar Association wants out of this whistleblower suit, ASAP. ABA officials claim that former Charlotte Law professor Barbara Bernier only added the law school regulatory group to her suit against the defunct law school and its owner, InfiLaw, as a "last-ditch effort" to keep her action kicking in court. [Law.com]

By Staci Zaretsky