Big-Law Lifers, Mueller Report Vote, Out of the House: The Morning Minute
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April 03, 2019 at 06:00 AM
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
|ROOTED - In today's hot lateral legal market, what would compel an accomplished lawyer to remain loyal to the same firm for decades? Considering that some 9,000 lateral partner moves occurred within Am Law 200 firms from 2014 through 2018, staying in one place is not in vogue. Reporter Dylan Jackson interviews lifers at big Florida law firms about what has kept them in one place.
ON THE AGENDA - The House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, is expected to vote on whether to authorize a subpoena for special counsel Rober Mueller findings and underlying evidence. AG William Barr has told Congress he would soon release a redacted version of the report, which is about 400 pages long.
SERIOUSLY - A D.C. federal judge today is set to hear from EEOC lawyers about the commission's plans to reinstate Obama-era pay-data collection rules that companies have fought as overbroad. You'll recall that last month Judge Tanya Chutkan scolded government lawyers for dragging their feet on reviving the rules, and she called on them to provide a timeline for complying with her previously issued order that requires employers to disclose new workforce compensation data on annual reports.
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EDITOR'S PICKS
|Fight Erupts Over Who Should Replace Michael Avenatti in Appeal of $454M Verdict
Krispy Kreme GC Returns to Kilpatrick in North Carolina
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
|CLOSING COLOMBIA - Norton Rose Fulbright has closed its second office this year in Latin America—this time in Bogota, Colombia. Dylan Jackson reports that the firm shuttered its Bogota location in February and closed its Venezuela office in January. The firm said that Bogota partner Leopoldo Olavarria has relocated to the Mexico City office, where he will continue to advise clients in Colombia.
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WHAT YOU SAID
“I never envisioned I'd be a tenure-track law professor at Georgetown with an office that's a block from the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.”
— SHON HOPWOOD, LAW PROFESSOR AT GEORGETOWN AND CONVICTED BANK ROBBER, WHO IS CREDITED WITH HELPING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ENACT A MAJOR FEDERAL CRIMINAL REFORM BILL.
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