{"id":100760,"date":"2025-01-17T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/17\/morning-docket-01-17-25\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T06:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:02:44","slug":"morning-docket-01-17-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/17\/morning-docket-01-17-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 01.17.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Ethics rules limit aid L.A. judges can receive if victimized by wildfires. Too bad they aren&#8217;t Supreme Court justices so rich people could buy them RVs. [Bloomberg Law News]<br \/>\n* Rudy settlement lets him keep BOTH his Manhattan and Florida homes. The message &#8220;everything works out if you just show utter contempt for the court long enough&#8221; isn&#8217;t ideal. [Reuters]<br \/>\n* Legal trainee banned from practice after saying she was taking a relative to a hospital appointment, while actually going to court over her refusal to demolish a compound she claimed God commanded her to build.[Roll on Friday]<br \/>\n* Most lawyers aren&#8217;t really using AI right now. [ABA Journal]<br \/>\n* Another Biglaw China office closes. [American Lawyer]<br \/>\n* Amy Wax goes ahead and files her LOLsuit against Penn alleging that it&#8217;s &#8220;racial discrimination&#8221; if she can&#8217;t repeatedly espouse bigotry against Black and Asian people for years but other faculty aren&#8217;t punished for talking about Gaza once, which seems a&#8230; curious reading of the law. [Daily Pennsylvanian]<br \/>\n* DOJ takes $230 million from American Express. Presumably payable in Travelers&#8217; Checks. [Law360]<br \/>\nThe post Morning Docket: 01.17.25 appeared first on Above the Law.<\/p>\n<article id=\"post-1079937\" class=\"post-1079937 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-bp category-cyrus-vance category-deaths category-international-law category-morning-docket tag-morning-docket\">\n<div class=\"post__content single-post\">\n<div class=\"single-post__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"single-post__content-column\">\n<div id=\"single-post-content\" class=\"single-post__content\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-484137638-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dictionary Series \u2013 Ethics\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-743783\" title=\"\">* Ethics rules limit aid L.A. judges can receive if victimized by wildfires. Too bad they aren\u2019t Supreme Court justices so rich people could buy them RVs. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/fire-aid-for-l-a-judges-is-limited-under-ethics-rules-on-gifts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Rudy settlement lets him keep BOTH his Manhattan and Florida homes. The message \u201ceverything works out if you just show utter contempt for the court long enough\u201d isn\u2019t ideal. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/giuliani-defends-palm-beach-home-battle-over-defamation-payout-2025-01-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Legal trainee banned from practice after saying she was taking a relative to a hospital appointment, while actually going to court over her refusal to demolish a compound she claimed God commanded her to build.[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollonfriday.com\/news-content\/trainee-who-renamed-herself-adam-banned-law-holiday-fib\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Most lawyers aren\u2019t really using AI right now. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/most-lawyers-arent-using-ai-to-address-growing-workloads-report-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Another Biglaw China office closes. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/01\/17\/morgan-lewis-closes-shenzhen-office-after-less-than-two-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Amy Wax goes ahead and <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/01\/amy-wax-plots-racial-discrimination-suit-unless-penn-forgives-her-for-denigrating-students-bringing-white-supremacists-to-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">files her LOLsuit<\/a> against Penn alleging that it\u2019s \u201cracial discrimination\u201d if she can\u2019t repeatedly espouse bigotry against Black and Asian people for years but other faculty aren\u2019t punished for talking about Gaza once, which seems a\u2026 <em>curious<\/em> reading of the law. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2025\/01\/penn-amy-wax-sues-university-racial-discrimination-breach-of-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daily Pennsylvanian<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* DOJ takes $230 million from American Express. Presumably payable in Travelers\u2019 Checks. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2285352\/amex-inks-230m-deal-over-doj-fed-small-biz-sales-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Ethics rules limit aid L.A. judges can receive if victimized by wildfires. Too bad they aren&#8217;t Supreme Court justices so rich people could buy them RVs. [Bloomberg Law News] * Rudy settlement lets him keep BOTH his Manhattan and Florida homes. 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