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Morning Docket: 07.27.12
* Dewey know whether this revised partner contribution plan will be well received? Well, from the looks of it, the firm’s executive committee members are being asked to repay a greater sum of money, so...
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Sports and the Law: Professor Edelman Explains Why Giving Penn State the...
For the past week, many sportswriters have focused on how lucky they believe Penn State University was to avoid the ‘death penalty‘ to their football program, especially after NCAA President Mark...
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Morning Docket: 08.09.12
* Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may be the oldest member of the high court, but she’s still one bad ass bitch. She broke two ribs in June, and still fulfilled all of her duties on the...
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Morning Docket: 08.14.12
* Looks like someone skipped professional responsibility class during bar prep: the Ninth Circuit denied attorney fees to McGuireWoods in light of an “egregious” ethics violation made in the BAR/BRI...
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Morning Docket: 08.23.12
* Little known fact of the day: the late comedienne Phyllis Diller apparently had a storybook romance with Paul Hastings name partner, Robert Hastings. She once said that her longtime Biglaw beau was...
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Why Write an Amicus Brief — When You Can Draw One Instead?
Any Tintin fans out there? How ’bout Frank Miller? No? Me neither. No matter, because we may have a new genre of graphic novels to add to the canon that will specifically appeal to attorneys: the...
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Quote of the Day: These Have Got to Be the Most Literary Case Files Ever
Poet Emily Dickinson makes an extended appearance in a major court ruling — a ruling about books, of course. Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Amazon,...
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Morning Docket: 09.18.12
* “We’re all from the Ivy League. That seems to be more relevant than what faith we are.” SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas really knows how to make Article III Groupie’s heart sing. [New York Times] *...
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Biglaw’s Most Underrated Firms by Practice Area
‘Standing with your arms folded is underrated.’ Hot air balloons, Ice Cube, new socks, Ray Guy, Uzbek food, Kevin Bacon, plus-size models, Pittsburgh… what do the items on this random list have in...
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Biglaw’s Most Overrated Firms by Practice Area
Around here, one can’t mention the concept of something being “overrated” without reference to one of the weirdest and most enduring ATL comment memes, a play on the late, great Hitch’s assertion that...
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Morning Docket: 01.02.13
* While Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts made a plea to keep funding for the federal judiciary intact, we learned that student loan default cases have fallen since 2011. You really gotta...
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Pennsylvania Governor and NCAA Go to Court to Cover Their Own Asses
Some post-Soviet states kept Lenin statues up longer than Penn State kept JoePa’s. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is about to do what the Southeastern Conference (the “SEC” that actually takes down...
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Non-Sequiturs: 01.31.13
* Rand Paul “doesn’t really understand” gay marriage. Let me help him out: it’s something that’s none of the government’s business. HTFH. [Huffington Post] * “Just how crippled is the legal job market?...
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Ed O’Bannon Might Kill the NCAA But Not The System
The Ed O’Bannon suit threatens to rattle the NCAA’s business model, but the ability of big-time college sports to bilk its athletes will likely go on. Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 02.13.13
* Antonin Scalia thinks the State of the Union is a “childish spectacle.” I mean, if it was so important, the Founders would have put it in the Constitution, right? [New York Daily News] * Does your...
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Morning Docket: 02.14.13
* She loves me, she loves me not: media darling Sonia Sotomayor used to be in favor of the use of cameras during Supreme Court arguments, but she’s done a complete about-face on the issue, just like...
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Morning Docket: 02.21.13
* Even though Obama wants to “make sure that [he's] not interjecting [himself] too much into this process,” the DOJ may still suggest that the Supreme Court overturn Proposition 8, California’s ban on...
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Morning Docket: 03.15.13
* “We are a teaching institution. We teach by not having television. We are judged by what we write.” Justices Kennedy and Breyer aren’t ready for their close-ups — they’re adamantly opposed to cameras...
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Morning Docket: 03.18.13
* Today is the 50-year anniversary of the SCOTUS decision in Gideon v. Wainwright establishing the right to counsel in criminal cases, but we haven’t got much to show for it except for a still broken...
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Non-Sequiturs: 04.04.13
* Roger Ebert has died at the age of 70. A great critic (his audio commentary track on the Citizen Kane DVD is amazing), whose work with the late Gene Siskel basically defined film criticism for a...
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