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Defending The Indefensible

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A Vigilante Military

Don't let your partisanship cloud your vision.

Who Says You Have To Graduate Law School Before You Make A Difference?

Talk about having a conversation starter on your resume!

Morning Docket: 08.06.19

* The mail bomber, Cesar Sayoc, gets sentenced to 20 years in prison for sending 16 explosive devices to journalist, high ranking officials and former elected politicians. [New York Law Journal] * Roger Stone would really like the D.C. Circuit to lift the gag imposed last month by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson. [Law360] * In the wake of the latest round of mass shootings, the governments of Venezuela and Uruguay issue warnings for their citizens traveling in the U.S. [Huffington Post] * With the courts being the way they are, don't get too excited about the prospect of actual gun control. [Slate] * The legal ethics behind AI: An ABA proposal urges the legal profession to address the emerging use of the technology now, before it's too late. [Big Law Business] * The U.K. is lowering the standard of proof in lawyer misconduct ethics tribunals. Beginning in November, lawyers will be judged on "the balance of probabilities." [Law.com]

Columbia Law School Graduate Kidnapped In Venezuela

The kidnapping appears to be politically motivated, tied to Yon Goicoechea's non-violent advocacy for freedom.

Morning Docket: 07.11.16

* In case you haven't been keeping score like we have, these are the firms that recently raised salaries: Duval & Stachenfeld; Seyfarth Shaw; and Foley & Lardner. If you’re worried you’ve missed any of our coverage on pay raises, check out our omnibus 2016 salary chart where we collect these stories. [2016 Salary Increase / Above the Law] * Lawyers are "the best-paid writers in the world," so grammar god Bryan Garner suggests they emulate one of the greatest language snoots of them all: the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Garner identifies with Scalia's textualism because "[he] believe[s] that words have meaning, and that we should take them seriously." [Wall Street Journal] * According to constitutional law scholar Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Irvine Law, SCOTUS may be at a turning point since the next president will likely be able nominate up to four justices. "Whether you see yourself as conservative or liberal ... this affects all of us, our most intimate and important aspects of our lives." [Los Angeles Times] * Lawyers for Led Zeppelin are seeking about $800K in costs and legal fees for their defense of the seminal rock band in the "Stairway to Heaven" copyright infringement suit. Peter Anderson, the band's lead counsel in the case, claims that his $330 per hour rate is "actually below" the going rate for this caliber of high-profile work. [Ars Technica] * Venezuelan authorities have arrested a woman connected to Mossack Fonseca, the firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, for allegedly being "in charge of seeking customers to invest illicit funds in outsourcing-type business arrangements." She's been charged with illegally obtaining funds in violation of banking regulations. [Reuters]