Squire Patton Boggs

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.31.23

* Ron DeSantis rammed through massive tort reform in December to the delight of Florida residents who barely understand torts. They're about to find out what it all means when insurance companies refuse to pay up for Idalia. [Mother Jones] * Remember the Second Amendment exists to protect your right to hide guns in your belly fat. [People] * NY AG says Trump overinflated his net worth by upwards of $2.2 billion in a shock to absolutely no one. [CNN] * Texas GOP's "Death Star" legislation, designed to give the state legislature the power to strike down local laws and ordinances destroyed like all Death Stars because of tiny, yet fatal, flaw. In this case it's because it's entirely unconstitutional. Wow... that's much bigger than the womp rats I used to target in my T-16 back home. [Law360] * Alex Murdaugh loses phone privileges. [NY Post] * Squire Patton Boggs partner set to take break from violent, rough and tumble Biglaw world to referee Rugby World Cup. [LegalCheek] * In new phase of Hollywood strike, workers have filed comments with the FTC asking it to probe industry consolidation. And while fair compensation is a great reason to break up Hollywood, at least someone has to be mad about WarnerBrosDiscovery doing... any of the things it's done. [Bloomberg Law News]

By Above the Law
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.14.18

* Could it be? Will another Biglaw firm be dragged into this mess after Skadden? Michael Avenatti, lawyer to Stormy Daniels, thinks that special counsel Robert Mueller ought to take a look at Squire Patton Boggs, the firm that's been working hard to disavow its "strategic alliance" with Michael Cohen, the president's personal attorney. [Newsweek] * "[Y]ou can’t have one rule for Democratic presidents and another rule for Republican presidents." Chairman Chuck Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who recently suggested that any Supreme Court justice who was thinking about retiring do so right f**king now, claims that he won't hold any hearings or votes for a Supreme Court nominee during the lead-up to the 2020 election [Bloomberg] * The American Bar Association is planning to do away with its requirement that accredited law schools use a standardized admissions test to admit students. Will any law schools actually go so far as to admit students without any test scores at all? More on this later today. [Law.com] * The end of the latest Supreme Court Term is drawing near, and if you've been watching goings-on at the high court, you know what that means: justices seem to be more likely to injure themselves now than during any other time of the year. Cross your fingers and hope that no one else sustains any broken bones -- or worse -- before the end of June. [CNN] * Public law schools are usually cash cows for their associated undergraduate universities, but one law school is doing the complete opposite thanks to a dip in applications. But for a gigantic annual subsidy from main campus ($7.5 million), the University of Minnesota School of Law wouldn't be able to balance its budget -- and the school will need even more by 2020 ($12 million). Yikes! [Duluth News Tribune]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.11.18

* Senator Chuck Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee really, really, really wants any Supreme Court justice who's considering retiring any time soon to speed things up and retire immediately so their successor can be confirmed ASAP before the midterms. You hear that, Justice Kennedy? You apparently need to announce your retirement "now or within two or three weeks." [Reuters] * Quinn Emanuel may face an investigation from the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the agency responsible for overseeing attorneys in the United Kingdom, in the wake of allegations concerning a dismissed partner's inappropriate behavior. The firm reported itself to the SRA, because it takes the allegations "extremely seriously." [Legal Week] * Squire Patton Boggs is really trying to distance itself from Michael Cohen. Remember that strategic alliance they had? Psshtttttt, please, forget about that. Under the bus you go, my friend: "At all times, Cohen maintained his independence, was not an employee of the firm, and did not maintain files or bill clients through the firm." [The Hill] * The Federal Communications Commission is planning to kill net neutrality on June 11, one day before the Senate is set to vote on Congressional Review Act resolution that seeks to overturn the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules. [NPR] * Dr. Dre, the rapper, lost a trademark infringement fight against Dr. Drai, the gynecologist. These motherf**kers at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office act like they forgot about Dre. [Courthouse News Service]

By Staci Zaretsky