Morning Docket: 02.17.23 | investineu
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)* Fox doesn't own the Discovery Network, but discovery now owns Fox News! See... it's a Rule 26 joke. [Law360]* A lawyer
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(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)* Fox doesn't own the Discovery Network, but discovery now owns Fox News! See... it's a Rule 26 joke. [Law360]* A lawyer
* Report says Biglaw firms are more enthusiastic about merging this year. Shearman's wondering why y'all got to go rubbing salt on it. [Reuters]* Goldm
* Supreme Court will delve into whether lawmakers can probe Trump's hotel deal with the government. We'll see how Harlan Crow weighs in on this. [Politico] * It's becoming a mantra but, "Disney's lawyers are smarter than Ron DeSantis's lawyers." [New York Times] * Legislators press Navy to move faster on Camp Lejeune claims... so we know they've been watching late-night TV too. [Bloomberg Law News] * On the one hand, sleeping with your client while repping her in a divorce is an ethical violation, it did create a new ground for divorce so... getting clos...
* John Durham publishes report ripping all the wrongdoing that he could never substantiate during all the years taxpayers paid him to investigate. It's the legal equivalent of "look, I know she was into me... no I never asked her out, but I stalked her for awhile and I'm positive she'd have totally been into me if I had." In other words, the perfect document for the Fox audience. [Law360] * Biglaw attorneys have taken to TikTok and their employers are worried about their online personas. Take the moral panic Biglaw had over the internet, and then Facebook, and then Twi...
* LSAT lives to fight another day as ABA halts its new rule to make the exam optional in the admissions process. Nothing inspires confidence like an accrediting body that repeatedly changes its mind! [Reuters] * Britney Spears paid Greenberg Traurig over $4 million in the aftermath of her conservatorship. It seems as though people who care about her could've saved her a lot of money by ending the conservatorship without requiring lawyers get involved, huh? [TMZ] * Firms may be trying to push people back to the office, but the hybrid work experience is also fueling creative lateral recruit...