Report Of Law School Active Shooter A ‘Cruel Hoax’
The 'cruel swatting incident' was directed at Villanova Law.
Morning Docket: 04.04.18
* Amal Clooney, the acclaimed lawyer who is working a side hustle as a visiting professor at Columbia Law, left her apartment while wearing clothes. This is apparently a very big deal. Oh, did we mention she's married to George Clooney? Because she is. [Daily Mail] * Both Microsoft and the Department of Justice have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a high-profile data privacy case even though oral arguments have already been heard due to the fact that a new law, the CLOUD Act, has made it moot. [Reuters] * Villanova Law students got the day off yesterday to continue celebrating the Wildcats' 79-62 win in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The team's chaplain who delivers a prayer before every game is a lawyer. [Legal Intelligencer] * "She’s created the impression that I’ve done something wrong and I haven’t even had final adjudication." Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea of DePaul Law has canceled Professor Donald Hermann's class in the middle of the semester after he used the N-word during a lecture. We may have more on this later. [Chicago Sun-Times] * In the lead up to the release of the 2018 Am Law 100, the American Lawyer has been publishing articles about firms' impressive financial feats. One of the latest articles is about Strasburger & Price's 9 percent jump in net income -- which likely means that Strasburger may have made it (at least into the Am Law 200). [American Lawyer]
5 Tips For Proving Your Legal Department’s Value
Join our expert panel on March 3rd at 1pm ET to explore actionable, emerging ways you can gather and proactively share the data that demonstrates the impact of your work.
Non-Sequiturs: 04.05.16
* Students at Villanova Law School got the day off to recover after Kris Jenkins's epic buzzer beater and the school's first NCAA men's basketball championship in 30 years. [NBC Philadelphia]
* University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law has a great plan to help students deal with stress: puppies! [Daily Utah Chronicle]
* Tracing Mahatma Gandhi's peace disobedience protests, which began 86 years ago this week, back to his roots as a lawyer. [Guile is Good]
* If you send a text, and the person you send it to reads it while driving, could you be found liable for an injuries they cause while driving distracted? This scenario, seemingly taken from a law school fact pattern, just might be true. [Personal Injury Attorney Blog]
* An in-depth look at how Zubik v. Burwell relates to other First Amendment free exercise cases. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Are there actually practice pointers you can pick up from watching Better Call Saul? [Reboot Your Law Practice]
Morning Docket: 02.02.16
* Carmen Electra filed a federal suit against a strip joint, alleging that the gentleman's club defamed her by using a scantily clad picture of her without her prior consent, thereby insinuating that she removes her clothing for money there or otherwise endorses its sexy services. [New York Daily News] * Happy anniversary to our favorite SCOTUS monk: If Justice Thomas sticks to his usual routine when the Supreme Court returns from its winter break, he'll have officially gone a decade without asking a question from the bench. [New York Times] * Aloha! Just one week after receiving a $25 million donation and changing the name of the school, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law is losing its dean to Hawaii Pacific University, where he'll serve as president. [Philadelphia Inquirer] * DLA Piper recently acquired Peltonen LMR, a Helsinki firm, bringing its grand total of Nordic offices to three. Unlike in the past, we hope that this time DLA Piper knows what country its new office is located in. Pssst... it's Finland. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg] * If you've been waitlisted by the law school of your choice, we hope that you're a particularly patient person, because you may be waiting to find out your academic fate until April, or worse yet, July. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
Morning Docket: 01.21.16
* Criminal defense attorneys have been painted so poorly by Hollywood for such a long time that Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, the defense attorneys at the heart of Making a Murderer, "never expected to be viewed as hero[es] for just doing our job." [WSJ Law Blog] * All in a day's work: When Ted Cruz wasn't busy “[making] a lot of people really angry” during his Supreme Court clerkship, he was watching porn with Chief Justice William Rennquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. [New York Times] * It seems like Ted Cruz has made prospective Biglaw donors angry as well. Although Sullivan & Cromwell hosted an event in his honor, his campaign contribution amounts from other firms are "humdrum," with only one Texas firm on his side. [The Careerist] * Thanks to a $25 million dollar donation from an alumnus, Villanova Law will now be known as the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. Hopefully a new name will make people forget about the school's scandal-plagued past. [Philadelphia Inquirer] * In light of last week's sexism sanction from a federal judge, the editors of the ABA Journal want to know if you've ever heard sexist remarks while working as a lawyer. We'd like to know too. Email us for inclusion in our series on the subject. [ABA Journal]