Tamara Wyche

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.29.17

* Justice Neil Gorsuch delivers a speech on civility in public life at a lunch held at the Trump International Hotel -- and meets with protests. [How Appealing] * Congratulations to Makan Delrahim, just confirmed as head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. [Bloomberg via Big Law Business] * MoloLamken adds another star federal prosecutor to its roster, bringing aboard Megan Cunniff Church in Chicago. [Law360] * Speaking of stars, the Supreme Court clerks from October Term 2007: where are they now? [Excess of Democracy] * Don't say we didn't warn you: the list of law schools with the highest loan default rates is dominated by staples of Above the Law's pages. [ABA Journal] * Harvard Law School graduate Tamara Wyche, who failed the bar exam twice and lost her job at Ropes & Gray, can proceed with parts of her federal lawsuit against the New York State Board of Law Examiners. [Law.com] * Shocker: lobbyists go into high gear to try and save some cherished tax breaks from the scourge of tax reform. [New York Times]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.16.16

* In keeping with our new morning ritual, we recap the firms that announced salary raises yesterday. We had Schulte Roth & Zabel, Robbins Russell, Arnold & Porter, Kramer Levin, Hughes Hubbard, McDermott, and Cadwalader. [Above the Law / 2016 Salary Increase] * Womble Carlyle is forming a "strategic alliance" with U.K. firm Bond Dickinson. If mergers are law firm marriages, then think of this as the law firm f**k buddy arrangement. [Legal Week / Daily Report] * This law school thinks the future of law is taking money to educate non-lawyers. [Newsworks] * Here, read Law360 describe how Law360 settled with the NYAG's office. It's very meta. [Law360] * Harvard Law grad suing NY State Board of Law Examiners for failing to accommodate her disability and causing her to twice fail the exam. [ABA Journal] * Amid criticism, Shannon Liss-Riordan agrees to cut her fee in half for negotiating a class action settlement with Uber on behalf of the drivers. Apparently she was 2x surge priced the day she secured the deal. * X marks the sanction: Attorney disciplined for hiding sunken treasure records. [Courthouse News Service]