December 23, 2020 at 12:25 PM
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The past year has been, for better or worse, a big year in legal news. So it should come as no surprise to see big names dominating our list of finalists for 2020 Lawyer of the Year. Thanks to everyone who responded to our request for nominations for 2020 Lawyer of the Year. We narrowed the many excellent nominees to a slate of
ELEVEN (yes, that’s how crazy this year was) fascinating lawyers distinguished, despicable, or debatable, depending on your point of view.
Here are the nominees, in alphabetical order, with a brief blurb about each:
Stacey Abrams: After losing her bid for Georgia governor in 2018 following a purge of voter rolls, the Yale Law graduate and former Georgia assemblywoman founded Fair Fight, an anti-voter suppression group, pledging to register as many disenfranchised voters of color as possible for the 2020 presidential election. Through her efforts, Abrams helped turn her state blue, allowing Joe Biden to become th
December 16, 2020 at 1:49 PM
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“The number of cases in which the claimant committed an irreparable, egregious act was not significant compared to the total number of cases she processed,” wrote the hearing officer in Jenna Ellis’s 2013 unemployment claim. High praise, indeed.
“Doctor” Ellis, a self-described constitutional law attorney who represents the president on his Elite Strike Force, began her legal career in the Weld County Colorado District Attorney’s Office in August of 2012. The 2011 graduate of University of Richmond Law School spent her time prosecuting low-level misdemeanors until she was fired after just six months “because she refused to bring a case to trial that she believed was an unethical prosecution,” according the Wall Street Journal.
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The only limit on legal research is your imagination! And maybe Rule 11.
As the Elite Strike Force recovers from the COVID they gave themselves to own the libs, Team Kraken is busy filing lawsuits in battleground states alleging foreign interference, or nefarious tabulators, or broken voting machines, or whatever on behalf of people who aren’t their clients on the basis of doctored documents.
In yesterday’s order dismissing her star-crossed Wisconsin suit on behalf of Bill Feehan, Chief Judge Pamela Pepper had to insert a passage that she surely never expected she’d need to write at least not outside the context of a pro se matter: