Water

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.16.21

*  A real world impact of Biden's $1T infrastructure bill could mean folks get clean water again. Let's hope so. [NPR] * Florida is trying to fight the power of protest with the power of the purse. [Tampa Bay Times] * University of Miami students and their professor help free a man who unjustly spent years behind bars. I hope each of them gets an A in criminal procedure! [News@TheU] * Folks across the pond might be making changes to the GDPR. Hope you mid- to large-sized firms are still in compliance! [SHRM] * Joe Madison will be going on a hunger strike to compel Congress to pass a new voting rights bill. Really hope he knows how to photosynthesize or something. [BET]

By Chris Williams
Biglaw

Which DLA Piper Office Operated Under Third-World Conditions?

You know how people make jokes about DLA Piper having offices in all sorts of random places and Third World countries -- er, developing nations? Well, if you like those jokes, you are going to love this story. At one DLA Piper office, they ran out of running water. No water to wash your hands, no water to flush the toilets. But the associates still had to show up for work. Can you guess which office?

By Elie Mystal
Barack Obama

Morning Docket: 11.21.11

* I guess it really doesn’t matter how much lawyers love Ron Paul if Biglaw firms keep emptying their seemingly overflowing coffers into Obama’s re-election campaign. [Washington Post] * Congratulations to Yale Law School graduate Ronan Farrow, son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. Ronan probably isn’t shallow and empty with no ideas and nothing […]

By Staci Zaretsky