{"id":146556,"date":"2026-03-20T04:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/20\/morning-docket-03-20-26\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T04:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:56:05","slug":"morning-docket-03-20-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/20\/morning-docket-03-20-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 03.20.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* James Comey subpoenaed in \u201cgrand conspiracy\u201d investigation. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/former-fbi-director-comey-subpoenaed-by-federal-prosecutors-us-media-reports-2026-03-19\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Simpson Thacher missed a deadline and now client\u2019s merger could collapse. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollonfriday.com\/news-content\/simpson-thacher-deadline-error-imperils-clients-merger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Non-equity partners aren\u2019t loving it. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/non-equity-partners-cite-pay-gaps-and-burnout-in-new-survey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* New Antitrust chief tells staff not to worry about criticism and just sit back and be the best rubberstamps for donors they can be. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2455452\/doj-antitrust-head-tells-staff-don-t-worry-about-criticism\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Epstein\u2019s lawyer claims he had no knowledge of criminal activity. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c79jw8dx1pqo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* DOJ sets up another fight over a phony prosecutor. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/milwaukees-ousted-us-attorney-general-gets-new-title-same-duties\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/morning-docket-03-20-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 03.20.26<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* James Comey subpoenaed in \u201cgrand conspiracy\u201d investigation. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/former-fbi-director-comey-subpoenaed-by-federal-prosecutors-us-media-reports-2026-03-19\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Simpson Thacher missed a deadline and now client\u2019s merger could collapse. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollonfriday.com\/news-content\/simpson-thacher-deadline-error-imperils-clients-merger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Non-equity partners aren\u2019t loving it. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/non-equity-partners-cite-pay-gaps-and-burnout-in-new-survey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* New Antitrust chief tells staff not to worry about criticism and just sit back and be the best rubberstamps for donors they can be. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2455452\/doj-antitrust-head-tells-staff-don-t-worry-about-criticism\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Epstein\u2019s lawyer claims he had no knowledge of criminal activity. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c79jw8dx1pqo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* DOJ sets up another fight over a phony prosecutor. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/milwaukees-ousted-us-attorney-general-gets-new-title-same-duties\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/morning-docket-03-20-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 03.20.26<\/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>* James Comey subpoenaed in \u201cgrand conspiracy\u201d investigation. [Reuters] * Simpson Thacher missed a deadline and now client\u2019s merger could collapse. [Roll on Friday] * Non-equity partners aren\u2019t loving it. [Bloomberg Law News] * New Antitrust chief tells staff not to worry about criticism and just sit back and be the best rubberstamps for donors [&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-146556","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\/146556","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=146556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}