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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.16.20

* A Long Island City lawyer has been eliminated from The Bachelorette. Guess he needs to work on his advocacy skills... [Patch] * Michael Jackson’s estate has won an appeal over the HBO's series "Leaving Neverland." [NBC News] * A San Diego strip club is staying open and is vowing legal action despite California's stay-at-home orders. What patriots... [ABC News] * A Maryland lawyer is in hot water for allegedly padding expense reports. [Daily Record] * Since Above the Law has not had a "Lawyerly Lairs" segment in a while, wanted to relate that a Florida lawyer has sold his exquisite mansion for $13 million. [Real Deal]

By Jordan Rothman
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 11.19.12

* Should attractive women in the legal profession be offended when complimented on their appearance? Or should they instead engage in “the strategic use of their own sexuality,” to quote the New York Times (citing a federal judge)? [Shatter the Glass Ceiling] * Speaking of attractive women lawyers, what do people think of when they think of Megyn Kelly? [New York Magazine] * MOAR RANKINGS — this time of the most influential law reviews. Yeah, you know you wanna click. [Witnesseth via Tax Prof Blog] * Everything’s bigger in Texas — including the allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. [Dallas Morning News] * In other news of alleged government misconduct, a former member of the SEC’s inspector general’s office claims that the place was rife with sexual tension and professional backstabbing. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight] * Might a strip club be a more hospitable workplace than the SEC? Strippers just secured a $13 million settlement in a wage-and-hour class action lawsuit. [In House / Findlaw]

By David Lat
Animal Law

Morning Docket: 09.06.12

* Dewey know if Citibank is planning to sue other former D&L partners over their capital contribution loans? According to one court document filed by Luskin Stern & Eisler, the bank’s counsel, the fun has just gotten started. [Am Law Daily] * Unlike the voter ID laws in Texas and South Carolina, the Department of Justice has approved New Hampshire’s law of the same ilk. Apparently hippies from the “Live Free or Die” state are incapable of discrimination against minorities. [CNN] * Arizona, on the other hand, can discriminate against minorities all the live long day — for now. A federal judge ruled that the “show me your papers” provision of S.B. 1070, the state’s strict immigration law, may be enforced. [Bloomberg] * The latest argument raised in the case over the Mongolian Tyrannosaurus Bataar skeleton is that the bones are actually a “Frankenstein model based on several creatures.” This movie is getting boring. [WSJ Law Blog] * “[T]he state of New York doesn’t get to be a dance critic.” We’re sure that any man would gladly tell the New York Court of Appeals that lap dancing is a form of art, but should it enjoy a tax exemption? [Associated Press]

By Staci Zaretsky
American Bar Association / ABA

Morning Docket: 02.10.12

* “All My Justices” may soon be coming to daytime television station near you. In a close vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that calls for television access to Supreme Court proceedings. [Legal Times] * A former Cravath associate’s law license has been suspended as a result of a DV assault charge. For […]

By Staci Zaretsky
Biglaw

Biglaw Blind Item: A Partner Walks Into a Strip Club….

Our latest Biglaw blind item concerns the sighting of a partner at a strip club. Right now you're probably thinking: yawn. A law firm partner at a strip club? As they say, it happens every day (or night -- and often gets billed to "business development"). But there are a few more details that make this item noteworthy....

By David Lat