1/ Ghislaine Maxwell, former companion to the disgraced (and deceased) Jeffrey Epstein, has been convicted in federal court of sex trafficking and four other charges.

#MaxwellTrialTracker #GhislaineMaxwellGuilty #ghislainemaxwell #ghislainemaxwelltrial
2/ The jury took the time to parse all the charges. Ghislaine Maxwell was acquitted on one count, enticing a minor to travel across state lines to engage in an illegal sexual act.

#GhislaineMaxwellGuilty #ghislainemaxwell #ghislainemaxwelltrial
3/ Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction doesn't come as a surprise to folks who were following the trial—e.g., former AUSA @MitchellEpner, whom I interviewed about the case.

bit.ly/3IQcjcT

#GhislaineMaxwellGuilty #ghislainemaxwell #ghislainemaxwelltrial
4/ Over at his own (excellent) Substack, @MitchellEpner recaps the #GhislaineMaxwellTrial and calculates her likely Sentencing Guidelines range.

His bottom line: #GhislaineMaxwell is likely to spend the rest of her life in prison.

bit.ly/318ph4C

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More from @DavidLat

15 Dec 21
1/ Interesting: @Cravath just withdrew as counsel in an antitrust case against Google, where Cravath was representing the liquidation trust for Unlockd, a startup that alleges that Google’s anticompetitive behavior drove it into bankruptcy.
2/ Cravath is being replaced by a @Cadwalader team led by Nicholas Gravante, Philip Iovieno, and Jack Stern. The three joined Cadwalader last year from Boies Schiller as part of CWT’s big push to grow its litigation practice.

bit.ly/3mu050b
3/ Fun fact: Nick Gravante, the high-powered litigator and Cadwalader partner who’s picking up the Unlockd case from Cravath, started his career as a Cravath associate.
Read 8 tweets
20 Oct 21
1/ Jeremy Rosen, a prominent (conservative) appellate lawyer, has this excellent piece in @TheAtlantic about John Eastman, the closest thing to a "brain trust" for Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

bit.ly/3pjKq5w
2/ Jeremy Rosen acknowledges—and criticizes—the attempts of some groups to "to silence anyone who thinks differently from them."

As he notes, these threats to free speech come from both the left AND the right—and deserve condemnation in both cases.
3/ Here is Jeremy Rosen's bottom line on John Eastman (with which I agree):
Read 6 tweets
19 Oct 21
1/ THREAD. ICYMI—it came out a while ago, I read it only recently—here's a fun article about "academic feeder judges" by Howard Wasserman for @DukeJudicature.

Which judges have the most former clerks who are now law professors?

bit.ly/3jgxF7U
2/ Howard Wasserman has a few different rankings.

Here are the top 20 academic feeder judges in the first ranking he does (Table 1 in his appendix), the judges who have sent the highest number of clerks into legal academia.
3/ As Howard Wasserman notes, "The political imbalance among feeder judges is striking."

You can see it in the top 20 judges, 15 of whom were appointed by Democratic presidents. And several of them are some of the leading liberals of the federal bench.
Read 4 tweets
19 Oct 21
1/ THREAD. @AaronSibarium of the @FreeBeacon, who last week broke the story of the Yale Law School email controversy, has this must-read follow-up about how the YLS community is responding.

bit.ly/3C6T5M8
2/ Two Yale Law School professors expressed displeasure with the initial statement released by YLS.

One of them is renowned corporate law scholar Roberta Romano (who Yale Law students and alums know is a badass—and I mean that as high praise):
3/ I tweeted some positive things yesterday about Marina Edwards's message, which seemed to sound some conciliatory notes.

Please see the new additions to the thread below. I've retracted those earlier comments of mine.

Read 16 tweets
18 Oct 21
1/ THREAD. I just left the Vaccine Center at @nyulangone, where I gave blood for a research study looking at #COVID19 immune responses.
2/ This blood draw is to establish a baseline reading before I get a #covid booster shot on 11/2.
3/ On 11/9, a week after the booster, they’ll take my blood again & see what’s changed.

The research could help figure out whether folks like me, who had #COVID19 and then got fully vaccinated (@pfizer for me), need boosters.
Read 5 tweets
17 Oct 21
1/ Here’s the statement about the Yale Law School email controversy that Marina Edwards, president of the Yale Black Law Students Association, posted to The Wall (the YLS listserv) earlier today.

I’m posting in two parts. This is Part I (four images).
2/ And here is Part II of the statement of Yale BLSA president Marina Edwards about the Yale Law email controversy (three images).
3/ I don’t agree with everything in Marina Edwards’s message, but I think it is a measured, thoughtful, and generally positive statement about this controversy.
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