Weil Gotshal

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.17.20

* The Supreme Court handed down an order yesterday that will make it very difficult for ex-felons in Florida to vote this year. It's not like there's an election coming up or anything... [Slate] * A lawyer for victims of Jeffrey Epstein is claiming that the estate of Epstein is withholding evidence and stonewalling the litigation. [ABC News] * A court is allowing Mo'Nique's discrimination lawsuit against Netflix to proceed. [Fox News] * Weil Gotshal was able to ink four merger deals in a single day recently despite the ongoing pandemic. [Reuters] * An attorney whose slogan was "been hit, call Flit" has surrendered his law license for withholding settlement funds from clients. Calling all lawyers with a last name that rhymes with "hit": the slogan is now open... [Daily Report]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.23.19

* The DOJ sent a newsletter to the nation's immigration judges including links to a white nationalist website. Bill Barr is running a real crackerjack organization. [Buzzfeed News] * A deep question and answer exchange with Penn Law's Amy Wax and she comes off just as loony as you'd expect. [New Yorker] * It looks like Michael Avenatti is going to put Nike on trial in his upcoming extortion suit. [Law360] * A Brad Pitt role holds the key to being a good prosecutor. It's not Tyler Durden and that's a little surprising. [ABA Journal] * Weil Gotshal may have cost investment bankers millions, leaving them mere multimillionaires. [NY Post] * Ed Whelan seems to have no idea how law review articles are written in this tortured effort to defend Trump circuit appointee Steve Menashi's reputation. Essentially, Whelan says because Menashi's controversial article was cited by real academics it must be real scholarship -- as opposed to a 2L randomly inserting Menashi into a string cite. [National Review] * Nicholas Sparks won that fight he's been having with the former headmaster of his vanity school. [Deadline]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.26.19

* Donald Trump won't stop tweeting about the Mueller report, most recently claiming that he "never told then White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller." Meanwhile, the president's allies would really like it if he just STFU about it. [POLITICO] * Federal prosecutors have charged Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph of Massachusetts with obstruction and perjury for allegedly allowing an undocumented immigrant to leave a courthouse through a back door to prevent immigration authorities from conducting an arrest. [USA Today] * Reed Smith, which represents Concord Management and Consulting, the Russian company indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, has asked that both Mueller and AG Bill Barr be held in contempt over the redacted release of the Mueller report. [National Law Journal] * The ugly side of fashion law: A senior in-house attorney at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc. has filed suit against the company, claiming that she was sexually harassed by a male coworker and punished for reporting it. [New York Law Journal] * Weil Gotshal is willing to pay big money to pre-law students who've been accepted at certain T14 schools for doing nonprofit work. The Biglaw firm is planning to fork over $1 million a year so these up-and-coming law students can work at public interest jobs. [Big Law Business]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.19.18

* "You were very busy. Wow. Wow. I always knew I liked him." President Trump posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom to the Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday and managed to crack a joke about the late justice's sex life when referring to his wife and their nine children. Wow. [USA Today] * Speaking about birth control... President Trump has proposed a new way for employers to get around the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate by creating a Title X loophole that would "hijack" programs that already have limited funding and send women to low-income family planning clinics to get their contraceptives. [New York Times] * Will Biglaw be the next thing that millennials kill? Not only has Weil Gotshal shortened its partner track in order to keep its youthful talent from walking out the door, but the firm that once made a big joke out of work/life balance is now allowing associates to work from home once a week. [American Lawyer] * The California bar exam results are out, and they're not anything to write home about -- except if you enjoy schadenfreude, that is. Nearly six in 10 failed the test, and the overall pass rate is historically horrible. More on this later. [The Recorder] * After having already been rejected by the ABA's House of Delegates, the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has sent its proposed 75 percent bar-passage rate within two years of graduation accreditation standard right back for another vote. Will it be approved this time around? We shall see. [ABA Journal] * Joel Sanders, the ex-CFO of failed firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, was jailed on Thursday for failing to pay a $1 million fine associated with his fraud conviction, but he was out by the wee hours of the morning on Friday thanks to his new firm, Greenspoon Marder, which paid the entire sum on his behalf. [American Lawyer]

By Staci Zaretsky