{"id":135764,"date":"2025-10-24T06:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/24\/morning-docket-10-24-25\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:02:38","slug":"morning-docket-10-24-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/24\/morning-docket-10-24-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 10.24.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Elon Musk loses effort to claim he relied on attorney advice in Twitter investor case. Funny how <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2022\/07\/twitter-complaint-demonstrates-that-every-lawyer-everywhere-always-is-smarter-than-elon-musk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">famously leaking that you overruled key attorney advice during the deal<\/a> can come back to bite somebody. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2403104\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Jack Smith wants his testimony to be public. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jack-smith-asks-to-testify-publicly-before-congress\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Kannon Shanmugam discusses \u2014 generally anyway \u2014 the process that led to his firm\u2019s Trump deal. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/paul-weiss-top-scotus-lawyer-calls-trump-attacks-regrettable\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Meanwhile, a Columbia University group is suing for records behind those deals. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/columbia-university-group-sues-records-trumps-law-firm-deals-2025-10-23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cJudges Stress Coordination as Mass-Tort Litigation Expands Across Courts.\u201d Might be a good time to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/a-secret-weapon-for-young-lawyers-to-look-like-rainmakers-before-they-have-an-umbrella\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brush up on your MDL knowledge<\/a>! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2025\/10\/23\/judges-stress-coordination-as-mass-tort-litigation-expands-across-courts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Intelligencer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Diversity issues continue to plague Biglaw Brussels office. At least this one was awkwardly well-intentioned. Progress! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollonfriday.com\/news-content\/manager-sent-her-room-after-diversity-squabble-baker-mckenzie-dinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* TaxProf Blog finds a new home. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/dont-worry-taxprof-blog-fans-its-back\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/morning-docket-10-24-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 10.24.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Elon Musk loses effort to claim he relied on attorney advice in Twitter investor case. Funny how <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2022\/07\/twitter-complaint-demonstrates-that-every-lawyer-everywhere-always-is-smarter-than-elon-musk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">famously leaking that you overruled key attorney advice during the deal<\/a> can come back to bite somebody. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2403104\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Jack Smith wants his testimony to be public. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jack-smith-asks-to-testify-publicly-before-congress\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Kannon Shanmugam discusses \u2014 generally anyway \u2014 the process that led to his firm\u2019s Trump deal. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/paul-weiss-top-scotus-lawyer-calls-trump-attacks-regrettable\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Meanwhile, a Columbia University group is suing for records behind those deals. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/columbia-university-group-sues-records-trumps-law-firm-deals-2025-10-23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cJudges Stress Coordination as Mass-Tort Litigation Expands Across Courts.\u201d Might be a good time to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/a-secret-weapon-for-young-lawyers-to-look-like-rainmakers-before-they-have-an-umbrella\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brush up on your MDL knowledge<\/a>! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2025\/10\/23\/judges-stress-coordination-as-mass-tort-litigation-expands-across-courts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Intelligencer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Diversity issues continue to plague Biglaw Brussels office. At least this one was awkwardly well-intentioned. Progress! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollonfriday.com\/news-content\/manager-sent-her-room-after-diversity-squabble-baker-mckenzie-dinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* TaxProf Blog finds a new home. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/dont-worry-taxprof-blog-fans-its-back\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/morning-docket-10-24-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 10.24.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Elon Musk loses effort to claim he relied on attorney advice in Twitter investor case. Funny how famously leaking that you overruled key attorney advice during the deal can come back to bite somebody. [Law360] * Jack Smith wants his testimony to be public. [CBS News] * Kannon Shanmugam discusses \u2014 generally anyway \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}