UC Berkeley
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.18.22
* Here’s a snippet of what Yale Law thinks about race conscious admissions. [Yale Daily News]
* Will Cornell opt out a la Yale and Harvard? Your guess is as good as mine. [Cornell Sun]
* No need to be curious about UC Berkeley though. [WSJ]
* Brittney Griner has been transferred out of Moscow to begin her sentence. [NYT]
* Been looking for a way to study contracts without being bored to sleep? Consider this…religious angle. [Tampa Bay]
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Law Schools
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Law Schools, Rankings
New T14 Dean Thinks His Law School Will Crack The Top 5 In The U.S. News Rankings
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Deaths, In-House Counsel
UC Berkeley's Chief Counsel Killed In Hit-And-Run Crash
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.23.17
* Statues of Chief Justice Roger Taney may have been removed in his native Maryland, but don’t expect his bust to be removed from the Supreme Court’s Great Hall or his portrait to be taken down from the high court’s East conference room in the near future. The visage of the Dred Scott opinion’s author will remain. [National Law Journal]
* The Charlotte School of Law may be dead, but that doesn’t mean that former students’ proposed class-action lawsuits against the school have been put out to pasture. Though the bulk of the claims were dismissed, two such cases with allegations of unfair and deceptive trade practices have survived motions for summary judgment. Best of luck against Infilaw’s first fallen school. [Law.com]
* Much to his defense attorney Benjamin Bratman’s chagrin, the names of the jurors who convicted Martin Shkreli of securities fraud have been released. They’ve been talking to the press about the disgraced pharma bro, and one of them referred to him as “his own worst enemy.” [DealBook / New York Times]
* Meanwhile, Martin Shkreli’s ex-lawyer, former Kaye Scholer partner Evan Greebel, remains charged with wire fraud conspiracy, a charge on which Shkreli was acquitted by a jury. Greebel’s defense attorneys at Gibson Dunn have called this “a Kafkaesque scenario,” that is “frightening for every corporate lawyer in America simply doing their jobs representing clients.” [New York Law Journal]
* Berkeley Law is planning to launch a hybrid online/on-campus LL.M. program for foreign-educated attorneys. Students will be able to complete their fall and spring semesters online, but must attend classes on campus at the law school during the summer months. Tuition is a whopping $57,471. [The Recorder]
* Earlier this week, a California jury handed down the largest verdict thus far in a talcum powder cancer case against Johnson & Johnson. The plaintiff, Eva Echeverria, who had used J&J baby powder since the 1950s and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007, was awarded $417 million. [Consumer Affairs]
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Deaths, Labor / Employment, On The Job, Women's Issues
Managing My Expectations (And Reflecting On The Passing Of Herma Hill Kay)
The work of the late Herma Hill Kay, a crusader for gender equality in the legal profession, is far from done. -
Free Speech, Justice
Berkeley Republicans Exist, Sue Over Ann Coulter
The College Republicans have a point.