Tag: Crime

They put Al Capone away for less.

Ninth Circuit announces that it's going to have a look at judges traumatizing children.

* Law firms expect tougher fee negotiations. Have honestly lost count of how many times this was a headline and then nothing actually happened. [Financial Times]

* Cravath expands to London. The firm’s American-centric practice is dead, the firm lives. [Law.com International]

* Does Mayer Brown has an opening for a former partner? Asking for an ousted mayor. Maybe they could rename it MAYOR Brown. [CNN]

* Meanwhile in NYC, Eric Adams is over here seeking an end to the separation of church and state. Just an absolute clown show. [NY Daily News]

* LA County owes $29M over distributing horrific pictures of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash. [Law360]

* Jerry Jones assault case revived. [Dallas Morning News]

Frighteningly, there was still one vote in support of arbitrarily incarcerating children.

The collaboration, which was announced last week, is between Bicycle Health, Wellpath, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It will provide virtual opioid use disorder services to those living in the Bureau's residential reentry centers in 42 states.

Absolutely shocking abuse of authority.

He joked that the prospect of killing the prosecutors was 'tempting' because of course he did.

Sick burn by the charging prosecutor in this celebrity case.

It is thou shalt not kill, not thou shalt not kill unless, like, you are super-duper mad about it.

Prosecutors said he showed a 'lack of remorse, or even recognition that what he did was criminal.'

* Sam Bankman-Fried tried to contact the GC of FTX by encrypted text?!? How does he not understand how this works? [Law360]

* Judges increasingly use Wikipedia to write opinions. This is not an endorsement, but… ChatGPT looks pretty good by comparison. [Legal Cheek]

* The Harvard Law School attack suspect is now facing criminal charges. [10 Boston]

* “I’m gonna live forever” is a catchy lyric, but not a succession plan. And law firms can do good business scooping up smaller firms that never planned ahead. [American Lawyer]

* Joe Biden may have won the State of the Union by tricking Republican legislators into pledging not to cut Social Security or Medicare, but the Fifth Circuit has already cooked up a new theory to do it through judicial fiat. [Slate]

* We should’ve hit this story yesterday, but St. Thomas Law is naming itself after civil rights attorney Ben Crump. [Reuters]

Also, let's talk about Biglaw and cancel culture.

And five days of prison.

The charge stems from a June 2018 incident.

This isn’t To Catch a Predator, it’s the new spinoff, To Catch a Legal Secretary.

It's taken more than two years for this to happen. How much time will he serve?

* Sam Bankman-Fried objects to “overbroad” bail restrictions. Bail restrictions can be onerous and harassing but these boil down to “please don’t talk to possible witnesses against you or send automatically deleting communications,” which seems… reasonable. Next thing you know they’re going to be telling him he can’t pay fines with magic beans! [Reuters]

* When looking in the mirror in 2023, there’s one question we must all ask ourselves: Was I at Camp Lejeune? I don’t think so, but these ads have got me wondering if I might’ve been stationed there for 5 years and just forgot. [Bloomberg]

* Life Sciences work is going to stay busy. It seems there’s still plenty of money out there despite all the grumbling. [The Recorder]

* It took a Ninth Circuit opinion, but it turns out that, yes, the president can fire people who work for him. Glad we got that settled. [Law360]

* The Prenda Law saga continues as a federal court shuts down the latest attempt of the imprisoned lawyer to file more of the same lawsuits that landed him in prison in the first place. [Ars Technica]

But would you watch?

Bangers mashed.

He's changing representation for the appeal.