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Morning Docket

Morning Docket 05.21.15

* Modern Family star Ariel Winter wants to go to law school. Aw, that's a shame -- she seems so smart. [E!] * Five major banks will plead guilty to felony charges over allegations they illegally manipulated the dollar/euro exchange rate and pay over $5 billion in fines. Attorney General Loretta Lynch described the scheme as “brazenly illegal.” [National Law Journal] * Preet Bharara is making the rounds as a law school commencement speaker, find out why Lat calls him, "surprisingly entertaining for a prosecutor." [Wall Street Journal] * Despite release of several hundred pages of the report on CIA abuse and torture a federal judge will not require the disclosure of the full report citing evidence that Congress intended to "retain control" over it. [Legal Times] * Stay at home moms with JD are now commanding "bonuses" from their spouses --  at least on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. [American Lawyer] * Bail is set at $1 million for each of the bikers arrested in Waco after the deadly brawl. [CNN] * ConAgra Foods will plead guilty to criminal charges over a 2007 outbreak of salmonella that was traced back to peanut butter. [NPR]

Fabulosity

Lawyerly Lairs: A Cadwalader Castle in the Sky

Partners at high-powered Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where profits per partner in 2010 clocked in at almost $2.4 million, appreciate the finer things in life. Thankfully there are some CWT partners who are kicking it old school. They live in exclusive prewar coops on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Let's look at the Lawyerly Lair that a senior Cadwalader lawyer recently acquired -- on Park Avenue, one of the world's legendary thoroughfares -- for just a shade under $6 million....