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Morning Docket: 04.26.24
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Morning Docket: 04.26.24

* FEC complaint against Donald Trump after Daily Beast flagged curious vendor payments that might be cover for hiding campaign payments to lawyers. [USA Today]

* The list of law schools dominating the federal clerkship market reveals the power of "affirmative action for conservatives" as law schools with no business being on the list at all skyrocket after Trump administration packing. [Reuters]

* The legal industry isn't rife with non-competes, but legal recruiting can be and the new FTC rule could open all that up. [American Lawyer]

* With Harvey Weinstein's conviction overturned, prosecutors prepare for retrial. [Law360]

* Law firm suggests earbuds as solution to its open floor plan issues. [Roll on Friday]

* Paul Weiss struggling to secure foothold in Houston as top targets decide to stay at their current firms. Forget it, Paul... it's H-Town. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Somehow we'd missed the release Liz Dye's latest Legal Eagle video breaking down Trump's beleaguered media company stock. [Legal Eagle]

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More than 33,000 Providence employees filed a class-action complaint against the health system in 2021, alleging that it had been withholding their wages by denying them breaks and rounding down their working hours. Last week, Providence was ordered to pay more than $200 million in damages — a decision that ‘sends a message to healthcare corporations,’ according to an attorney representing the workers.
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Morning Docket: 04.25.24
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.25.24

* Understanding this morning's oral argument over presidential immunity before Sam Alito just makes up something instead. [Dorf on Law]

* Over in the UK, a former judge proposes holding court in pubs to restore faith in the system. Clarence Thomas is down as long as one of the parties is buying! [LegalCheek]

* Chamber of Commerce sues over FTC's ban on non-compete agreements because why should there be a "free" market? [Law360]

* Breaking down the synergies of a Troutman-Locke merger. The best of which is obviously this dish. [American Lawyer]

* McKinsey staring down a criminal probe over its opioid work. Who'd have thought a business built on encouraging rich people to do whatever they want to make money might have created a moral catastrophe? [Reuters]

* Biglaw talks a lot about generative AI, but this firm actually seems to have a strategy. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Attorney makes the jump to the comedy club circuit. [ABA Journal]

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