South Dakota’s Pilot Bar Alternative Switches Out Studying Outlines For Community Service
Great way to start off a legal career!
I Get The Feeling South Dakota’s Supreme Court Doesn’t Think Fondly Of Diploma Privilege
If only there were a way for law school to prepare us for the practice of law. Shame about that.
Do Law School Rankings Affect Your Choice?
Share your insights in this brief survey.
Morning Docket: 05.05.21
* Attorneys in the Gates divorce also worked on the Bezos split-up. Maybe Gates read a good online review of the lawyer written by Bezos... [CNN] * A Kevin Spacey accuser must reveal his name in order for his lawsuit to proceed. [Huff Post] * The military promotion of the South Dakota Attorney General has been blocked because of his involvement in a deadly car collision last year. [ABC News] * Coca-Cola is pausing its plan to incentivize the use of diverse attorneys after the general counsel that spearheaded the effort resigned. [New York Post] * Check out this interesting article about which judges get their opinions affirmed or overturned the most at the Supreme Court. [Juris Lab]
State AG Killed A Man And Told Cops He’d Hit A Deer, Will Only Face Misdemeanor Charges
That sound you hear is a wrist slap.
Morning Docket: 01.07.20
* The Florida Bar has disbarred an attorney for not responding to notices because she had passed away. Guess they don't want her practicing law in the afterlife.... [Miami Herald] * The leader of the NXIVM cult has hired a new lawyer who previously worked for Bill Cosby. [Times Union] * Former FBI Director James Comey believes that Joe Biden's incoming Attorney General should not investigate President Trump. [Fox News] * Kim Kardashian has apparently been consulting with a divorce lawyer since the summer of 2020. [US Magazine] * The South Dakota Bar Association is cautioning attorneys against counseling clients on cannabis-law issues. Their arguments seem "half baked"... [San Francisco Chronicle]
Morning Docket: 11.24.20
* Law enforcement personnel have filed a lawsuit to stop the legalization of marijuana in South Dakota. The Super Troopers would have never done this... [Hill] * The New York Attorney General is suing the Buffalo diocese for an alleged "sex abuse cover-up." [BBC] * New Jersey has passed a new law aimed at protecting home addresses and other information of judges and other public officials after the family of a New Jersey federal judge was attacked earlier this year. [NBC News] * The Attorney General of Indiana must pay around $19,000 in expenses related to a disciplinary investigation stemming from groping allegations. [Chicago Tribune] * A group of U.S. states is planning on filing another antitrust action against Google next month. Seems like there is a "googolplex" amount of antitrust litigation against Google... [Reuters]
State Attorney General Told Officers He’d Hit A Deer… In Reality, A Man Is Now Dead
Man killed while AG drove home from fundraiser.
Beware The Ides Of March (And LGBT Parental Roadblocks)
If you are LGBT and want kids, it’s time to call your local ART attorney, as well as your tax lawyer.
Country Lawyers Feeling Good About Their Life Choices
One way to pay off your debts, but is it worth it?
Morning Docket: 09.10.13
* Even at the top of the in-house food chain, women lawyers are still paid less than their male counterparts. But hey, at least they’re not being forced to cry poverty like their in-house staff attorney brethren. [Corporate Counsel] * Neil Barofsky, the former King of TARP in the United States, is making the move to Jenner & Block, specifically because as opposed to all other firms, “Jenner took the side of really getting to the truth of the matter.” [Reuters] * Luxury fashion is fun: four Biglaw firms, including Cleary Gottlieb, Cravath, Torys, and Proskauer Rose, all took Tim Gunn’s mantra to heart to make it work for the $6 billion sale of Neiman Marcus. [Am Law Daily (sub. req.)] * If you want to try some lawyer, we hear that they taste great when poached this time of year. Speaking of which, Troutman Sanders just reeled in three attorneys from Hunton & Williams. [Richmond BizSense] * Law schools in the Dakotas are renovating their buildings in the hope of enrolling more students. Luckily, South Dakota has that sweet indentured servitude plan. [Prairie Business; National Law Journal (sub. req.)] * If you’re thinking of applying to law school, here’s a plan of attack for the month of September. That’s right, friends, you can start gunning right now! [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report] * Are you ready for some tax law?! The NFL and other professional sports leagues might lose their nonprofit status if new tax reform legislation makes it through the House and the Senate. [Businessweek]
Skills That Set Firms Apart
Legal expertise alone isn’t enough. Today’s most successful firms invest in developing the skills that drive collaboration, leadership, and business growth. Our on-demand, customizable training modules deliver practical, high-impact learning for attorneys and staff—when and where they need it.
Need a Rural Lawyer? Why Not Use a Quasi-Indentured Servitude Plan?
Good plan or great plan? It depends on if you want to live in the middle of nowhere.
Morning Docket: 04.09.13
* Oh mon dieu, Justice Breyer was inducted as one of just 12 foreign members of France’s Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. C’est très chouette pour un Américain, non? [New York Times] * Man, for a four-seeded firm that got knocked out of our March Madness competition after the Sweet Sixteen, Davis Polk is looking great in 2013′s first quarter as far as legal advising in M&A deals goes. [Am Law Daily] * Brown Rudnick picked up a California boutique, and it’ll be doubled in size through lateral hiring. No layoffs are currently expected, but no one really advertises that as a merger selling point. [National Law Journal] * The New York Times: bringing you last month’s news, today! South Dakota is offering a subsidy for law school tuition to keep lawyers in the state. Here’s our post from two weeks ago. [New York Times] * Pace Law School’s “low bono” residency program was praised by New York’s Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, but if you’ve got other job offers, Dear Lord, take one of them. [New York Law Journal] * AIG wants to prevent Hank Greenberg from suing in its name, probably because it’d prefer not to be known as “the poster company for corporate ingratitude and chutzpah.” [DealBook / New York Times] * “[D]o I cover this really important story and maybe go to jail?” That’s the choice Jana Winter is facing after reporting on James Holmes’s massacre notebook and refusing to reveal her sources. [CNN]
Which State Has the Most Difficult Bar Exam?
You may be surprised when you take a look at the top 10 toughest tests.
State Comes Up With Quasi-Indentured Servant Plan For 16 Law Students
As long as we ignore Thirteenth Amendment concerns, this plan sounds great!
Morning Docket: 07.25.12
* Start spreading the fabulosity: Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has asked the Supreme Court to grant certiorari on a pair of cases challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. [BuzzFeed] * Lawrence Lessig wants groups of 300 randomly selected people to craft a constitutional amendment in response to Citizens United. He clearly expects a bit too much of our population. [National Law Journal] * In South Dakota, your abortion now comes with warnings about an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and suicide. Forget that medical certainty hooey, it’s not constitutionally misleading. [WSJ Law Blog] * “We do not arrest people because of the color of their skin.” Oh, of course not, Sheriff Arpaio. We totally believe you. But you might stop them, question them, and detain them because of it, right? [New York Times] * We’ve just got too much Dickinson up in here. And in other Penn State news, the school is now considering a move that may cause at least one of its two law school campuses to lose its accreditation. [Patriot-News] * Lady Gaga was sued by MGA Entertainment, the maker of Bratz dolls, over her alleged failure to approve a line of dolls made in her image. This is not a company you want to start a bad romance with. [Bloomberg] * And I am telling you, I’m not going — to grant you parole. William Balfour, the man convicted of murdering Jennifer Hudson’s relatives, was sentenced to three life sentences without the possibility of parole. [CNN]