Morning Docket: 04.21.26
* Research suggests that most clients still expect a lawyer to dress up. [Legal Cheek] * Legal Eagle describes the present political landscape as "multiple Watergates per week,"...
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* Research suggests that most clients still expect a lawyer to dress up. [Legal Cheek] * Legal Eagle describes the present political landscape as "multiple Watergates per week,"...
* Memos reveal the origins of the Supreme Court's radical and previously unheard of embrace of the shadow docket. Short version: John Roberts cares a lot more about oil stocks than...
* Public confidence in the Supreme Court falls, which is significant because it didn't seem like it could go lower. [ABA Journal] * Losing key appellate lawyers unlikely to impac...
* Amy Coney Barrett targeted with possible swatting call. [NBC News] * CFPB is already undermining and bad-mouthing its own career attorneys, but its return to office plan might...
* Lawyer will stand trial over dog breeding facility break-in. Forget Fort Knox, try breaking into a place that's just wall to wall watchdogs. [ABA Journal] * Gavin Newsom's defa...
* It Ends With... Settlement. Lively and Baldoni reach terms ahead of trial. [NY Times] * Supreme Court issues exception to standard procedure and orders that Louisiana racial ge...
* On the phenomenon of right-wing legal academics trying to provide cover for the Supreme Court to do whatever they want. [One First] * Personal injury law firm with a $125 milli...
* The DOJ takes the fight against law firms that refused to bow to Trump's intimidation campaign to the appellate court. [National Law Journal] * Federal judge has concerns over...
* Former member of Watergate prosecution team explains how Trump's January 6 slush fund exposes DOJ lawyers to fraud charges down the road. Not if they all get pardons first... [Bl...
* Texas judge ordered a lawyer to appear in court for criticizing the judge for berating an IT worker in a viral video. The lawyer refused to show up himself, but his fellow lawyer...
* As we already covered, the new US News law school rankings are out and... they're wild. [US News] * Biglaw firms lend support to those fighting the Trump administration. [Reute...
* Claude launches legal industry blitz, announcing connectors across the legal tech industry. [LawSites] * Former DLA Piper associate sues firm alleging she was fired after revea...
* The Am Law 100 is out. Kirkland made a lot of money. [American Lawyer] * And with it, Kirkland snags Wachtell's top distressed-debt lawyer for a guaranteed $80 million over thr...
* SEC begs Congress for legislative action on crypto regulation. Congress nodded and held a press conference about using taxpayer dollars to build a ballroom instead. [National Law...
* Private equity looking to put its money into law firms. [Law.com International] * Judges embrace paralegal's suggestion for modernizing briefs. [Law360] * Legal academics ple...
* Government charges former DOJ lawyer with keeping a copy of Jack Smith's report on Trump criminal conduct. Maybe if she'd kept the report in her resort pool locker she'd be all r...
* DLA Piper prevails in former associate's pregnancy discrimination case. [New York Law Journal] * Perkins Coie and Ashurst partners approve merger. [Bloomberg Law News] * Clie...
* Republican county judge blocks Virginia's redistricting effort. The same judge already tried to block it before and keeps getting swatted down by the state supreme court. [Reuter...
* DOJ has dropped some 23,000 criminal cases -- including terrorism and drug cases -- to focus on deporting law-abiding roofers instead. [ABA Journal] * In an all-around bad day...
* Elon Musk gets into argument with OpenAI's lawyer during cross. So things are going great over there. [Law360] * Jeopardy! law student finally leaves show after hauling in $880...
* White House ballroom construction resumes for now. [Reuters] * Winston carries healthy profit growth into its merger with Taylor Wessing. [American Lawyer] * Fourth Circuit a...
* Supreme Court lifts order barring Alabama from redistricting away Black voting power, three years after rejecting the same proposed redistricting. [Washington Post] * ABA Commi...
* "A fake Mossad agent. Twin grifters. The nation’s top lawman. A head-spinning legal drama has attorney general Todd Blanche fighting off accusations of forgery, malpractice, and...
* "Law school ranking shakeup sparks calls to retire T-14." We've been doing that here since at least 2017. [Reuters] * John Eastman formally disbarred. [NY Times] * And so, ri...
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