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One year has passed since the launch of our newsletter the Daily Docket. Here’s a look into some of the most compelling stories that were covered since Aug.17, 2020 1/15

After his start date at @RopesGray got bumped, 2020 Columbia Law School graduate Danny Burns turned to TikTok to occupy his free time. His topic of choice? Law in the realm of wizards and muggles with his analysis of Harry Potter’s justice system reut.rs/3CYT6D4 2/15

Former President Donald Trump shared his nominee, conservative Amy Coney Barrett, to replace liberal U.S. Supreme Court icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Sept. 18, 2020 reut.rs/3gdhiHR 3/15

Former legal affairs journalist with the The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin, was suspended after ‘embarrassingly stupid mistake’ in which he reportedly exposed himself during a Zoom call involving the magazine’s staff and WNYC radio workers reut.rs/3iQTbQW 4/15

Harvard’s race-based admissions policies survived appeal in one of the most closely-watched cases from the past year, accusing the Ivy League school of discriminating against Asian-American applicants reut.rs/3gatgSI 5/15

Famed plaintiffs' lawyer Tom Girardi and wife, "Real Housewives" star Erika Jayne Girardi, were accused of misappropriating settlement funds that belonged to victims of the Lion Air crash in order to fund their "outrageous lifestyles” reut.rs/3iQ0rwy 6/15

Following the riot at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, major law firms started rethinking or suspending contributions made by their political action committees reut.rs/3gcBZ6N 7/15

Advising projects like the hit Netflix documentary series “Tiger King," here’s a brief look into the career trajectory of Davis Wright (@DWTLaw) partner Diana Palacios reut.rs/37SGsH8 8/15

As the #COVID cases continued to drop and vaccinations ramped up last spring, jury trials slowly resumed their activities starting with the first white collar criminal trial in over three months reut.rs/3k8ew8a 9/15

After Americans paused to watch the most anticipated verdict in a generation, former police officer Derek Chauvin’s lawyers sought to appeal his murder and manslaughter convictions, a request that was later rejected reut.rs/3yWW4FF 10/15

Bill and Melinda Gates tapped some big name legal talent for their $130 billion divorce reut.rs/2W248pO 11/15

Summer 2021 started off with a fierce market for junior lawyers when several law firms, including @MilbankLaw, kicked off a compensation war by bumping the starting salaries of their associates reaching $200,000 and more reut.rs/3ANpvKK 12/15

In early July, the Trump Organization and its CFO Allen Weisselberg were charged in ‘sweeping’ 15-year tax fraud reut.rs/3iTN2Uh 13/15

Big Law firms delayed their reopening plans and restricted access to their offices to only those vaccinated after concerns of the spread of the contagious Delta variant arose reut.rs/2W2jPgG 14/15

Those were some of our favorite stories out of over 200 editions of the Daily Docket from the past year. Let us know in the comments which ones resonated with you the most and any others you enjoyed 15/15 👇