Morning Docket: 08.11.26
* Biglaw firms hit with data breaches. [Law360] * Office of Legal Counsel takes position that executive privilege extends to unofficial, unconfirmed people the president talks to...
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* Biglaw firms hit with data breaches. [Law360] * Office of Legal Counsel takes position that executive privilege extends to unofficial, unconfirmed people the president talks to...
* Judge threatens DOJ with contempt in Epstein files coverup case. [All Rise News] * Holland & Knight brings in former partner to defend against $1.2B malpractice case. [Bloo...
* The DOJ subpoenas the Biglaw firms who surrendered to the Trump administration. It's almost as though cutting a deal with a bad faith actor was bound to cause trouble. [New York...
* Judiciary Committee pushes Blanche confirmation vote. [Politico] * Dr. Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at Senate perjury trap effort. [Reuters] * More on the fallout from the d...
* Federal judges call out government attorneys for the 3 "U"s: "unlawful,” “unethical” and “unseemly” conduct. [Pro Publica] * Gibson Dunn snags big litigation team from Wachtell...
* Jayden Daniels sends cease-and-desist claiming LSU violated his NIL rights by giving his number from three years ago to another player. [ESPN] * Journalist Katie Phang's latest...
* States take up antitrust challenge to Paramount-Warner Bros. deal after DOJ looks the other way in deference to presidential donors. [Deadline] * Fifth Circuit overturns earlie...
* John Roberts lets Trump continue spending millions and destroying national monuments without oversight. [NPR] * Courts continue ping-pong game about college athletic eligibilit...
* ABA votes to continue allowing law schools to seek variances to admit students without standardized test scores. A big deal if law schools need to care ABA accreditation anymore....
* Epstein victims urge Senate to reject Todd Blanche nomination because... well, because of the whole "using the DOJ to run interference for sex abusers" thing. [Washington Post]...
* Federal judge addresses still available online even though we passed a law to shield those. [ABA Journal] * New York's best dressed lawyers. [Business Insider] * Trump's effo...
* Even if the Senate rejects Todd Blanche, he's going to stay in the job indefinitely, no matter how questionably constitutional that may be. [Politico] * Judge seems to think Pe...
* New Mexico sued the Justice Department, accusing Todd Blanche of facilitating a cover-up of Epstein crimes in the state. [Courthouse News Service] * Trump attempts to block BBC...
* Holland & Knight sued for $1.2 billion by embattled client hit with multiple state AG cases. [Reuters] * Delaware adapting to future of AI managed companies. [Bloomberg Law...
* DOJ and SEC agree to freeze discovery in SEC's civil case over the Biglaw insider trading scheme, clarifying that the criminal case will be the main event. [Court Listener] * W...
* Proskauer associates in UK appalled by firm's approach to maternity leave. 'Murica! [Roll on Friday] * According to a lawsuit, which AI model was trained on child porn and why...
* Judge suspended for -- among other things -- not disclosing stepson's appearance in front of him. [ABA Journal] * "Parking Company Apologizes to Formerly Dead Woman for $80 Tic...
* Skadden and Kirkland fined $2 million after judge deemed firms engaged in “a widespread, long-running cover-up.” [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * Clients of Pogust Goodhead and...
* Chicago U.S. Attorney's Office self-reports wrongdoing to DOJ watchdog... where almost certainly nothing will end up happening. [Chicago Tribune] * ABA House of Delegates refus...
* Elon Musk won't be charged for offering $1 million dollars for people to vote in Wisconsin supreme court election. [Politico] * Lawyer's office turned into the coolest part of...
* Supreme Court uses shadow docket to lift injunction against Trump proposal to use Post Office to block votes from states that Trump doesn't approve. The majority ruled the injunc...
* SCOTUSBlog founder Tom Goldstein's sentencing set for today. Anyone want action on what he gets? [Reuters] * Plaintiff hired spies to extract intel about defendant's case from...
* Law firms secure big revenue gains in the first half of 2026... and yet those raises are still mostly on hold. [Law360] * Penn State frat caught running massive cocaine ring. T...
* Todd Blanche confirmed as Attorney General in the middle of the night. [NPR] * President's son-in-law intended to destroy villages to build luxury property on stolen Albanian l...
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