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Reflections on Judging from Judge Gerard Lynch(And a defense of elitism in law clerk hiring.)

I’m an unabashed elitist. My clerks are largely liberal, big believers in due process. I tell them: there is no due process here. Nobody has a right to this job. We need to find someone who will do good work. If you’re Pete Sampras, you can afford to ...

From DAVID LAT, Above the Law,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Eminem,  U.S. Senate,  John Roberts,  Samuel Alito

Chief Judge Paul Michel To Retire Next Year

For the patent nerds out there, including me, Chief Judge Paul R. Michel of the Federal Circuit is retiring effective May 31, 2010. Just personally announced it at the FCBA annual dinner. Sent his resignation letter to Obama this morning. [H]e said ...

From DAVID LAT, Above the Law,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Morning Docket: 11.18.09

* Judge David Hamilton (S.D. Ind.), nominated to the Seventh Circuit, will (finally) be put to an up-or-down vote in the Senate today. [Christian Science Monitor] * A veto for Iraq’s election law means that elections might not happen in January as ...

From DAVID LAT, Above the Law,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  David Hamilton,  New York Times Company,  U.S. Senate,  Washington Post Company

The Federalist Society Annual Dinner: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

Justice Samuel Alito Jr. spoke to the Federalist Society [last Thursday] night, but photos of him doing so are hard to come by. That's because photographers other than the Federalist Society's own were barred from the event. Keith Appell, a spokesman ...

From DAVID LAT, Above the Law,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: ACORN,  Samuel Alito,  Ruth Bader Ginsburg,  Jon Stewart,  Victor Garber

Breakdown of the Public-Private Distinction: Implications for the Administrative State

Mr. David Berenbaum, Executive Vice President, National Community Reinvestment Coalition Mr. David G. Leitch, Group Vice President and General Counsel, Ford Motor Company Prof. J.W. Verret, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School ...

From DAVID LAT, Above the Law,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  U.S. Congress,  George Mason,  University of Pennsylvania,  FDIC

Regulation of Financial Institutions

Hon. Paul S. Atkins, Congressional Oversight Panel and Former U.S. SEC Commissioner Ms. Stephanie R. Breslow, Partner, Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP Dean Paul G. Mahoney, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, Arnold H. Leon Professor ...

From DAVID LAT, Above the Law,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Financial Institutions, Inc.,  Congressional Oversight Panel,  University of Virginia,  Barack Obama

Free Speech: The Fairness Doctrine

Prof. Thomas W. Hazlett, Professor of Law & Economics, George Mason University Mr. Seton Motley, Communications Director, Media Research Center Prof. Jamin Ben Raskin, Director, Law and Government Program, Washington College of Law, American ...

From DAVID LAT, Above the Law,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  George Mason,  American University,  David B Sentelle

Breaking: Rodge Cohen Drives a Subaru!

After [Cohen and his wife Barbara] had paid their [restaurant] check, they went to fetch the car, and Mr. Cohen, a Boston fan since his days at Harvard Law, glanced down at his BlackBerry to check on the Red Sox. He drives a Subaru, a humble ride for a ...

From DAVID LAT, Above the Law,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Harvard University,  Maybach,  Ben Bernanke,  Timothy F. Geithner,  J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

ATL Field Trip: The Heller Ehrman Art Auction

The most notable name in the Nov. 10 sale is probably the hip Canadian cartoon artist Marcel Dzama, represented by a set of four drawings in his child-like style (est. $4,000-$6,000). One of these, of a boy contemplating a Frankenstein monster made ...

From DAVID LAT, Above the Law,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Robert Kelly,  John Monks

The Sidley Brief in the McKinney Matter:Did It Cross the Line?

A court hearing on Tuesday in Chicago at which former Northwestern University journalism students planned to fight a subpoena for their records and grades turned into a judicial lambasting of their Sidley Austin lawyers. Assistant State’s Attorney ...

From DAVID LAT, Above the Law,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Northwestern University,  Diane Gordon

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