Sean Marotta @smmarotta Twitter profile

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

6 years

Hello, new pinned tweet.

Neal Katyal

@neal_katyal

6 years

@ecaughlaw @smmarotta This one is easy: @smmarotta is amazing

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

My current approach to COVID is that I don't want to be the guy in the war novel that gets shot right after the armistice is signed. Just need to hang in a little longer.

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ME, AS A LAWYER: "It's really important that you read and understand these documents before signing." ME, AS A HOME BUYER: "Just keep handing the papers across. I'll sign anywhere."

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Sean Marotta

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3 years

They never tell you in law school how much of your time as a practicing lawyer is spent figuring out why Word is adding an extra, blank page to your document.

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Sean Marotta

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2 years

When you accidentally leave comments in the as-filed pleading. There but for the grace of God.

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4 years

Guys? I just got home and THIS is my birthday cake. Blown away. #AppellateTwitter

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Sean Marotta

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1 month

BigLaw lawyer with Local solo that 50-page brief knows the judge

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Sean Marotta

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2 years

What's notable about this case is that it is the closest a Yale-educated lawyer has gotten to a jury trial.

Joyce Alene

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2 years

1/ Jury selection begins today in the case of leader Stewart Rhodes & 4 members of the Oath Keepers group, indicted on charges, the most serious is which is seditious conspiracy. The trial could have serious implications for Trump. Rhodes is a Yale-educated lawyer.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

[Enters time.] Nonbillable/General Administration. 7.0: Monitor armed insurrection; exchange messages regarding same.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

ME, AS A FIRST-YEAR ASSOCIATE: "I am so terribly sorry that I sent that last email without the document attached. I just realized after hitting 'send.' I will be certain to be more careful in the future." ME, NOW: "And this time with the document actually attached."

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Sean Marotta

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4 years

Thoughts and prayers with the parliamentarian staff writing procedural scripts for Wednesday's nonsense.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

3 years

If you come from a family where presents are distributed and opened one at a time, going to a family where everyone finds and opens their own simultaneously is utter barbarism.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

3 years

Somewhere, there's a second-year associate who is going to start litigating Suez Canal claims now and make partner litigating them and that will pretty much be her entire career. She will be the Suez Canal claims person.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

One think they don't teach you about in law school is how a case can get held up because only Terri in the clerk's office handles a certain thing and she's USUALLY in on Fridays but not today so maybe try back next week.

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2 years

Justice Breyer looking at Tom Brady thoughtfully.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

In the words of Marty Ginsburg, Doug Emhoff will be leaving DLA Piper because his wife "got a good job" in D.C.

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@lisahelem

4 years

DLAPiper partner @DouglasEmhoff , husband of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, will leave the law firm before President-elect Joe Biden and Harris are sworn in on Jan. 20, a campaign spokeswoman tells @BLaw . @ChrisOpfer has the story.

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Sean Marotta

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4 years

As you look at these rows of former clerks waiting to receive RBG's caskets, realize they are all tremendously accomplished attorneys, many with families, some that had to hop a plane in a pandemic, and all dropped their lives to come do this. It's always a powerful sight.

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Sean Marotta

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8 months

I try not to think about how much of the legal ecosytem relies on that Cornell site and the "Date Calculator" websites to work correctly and what would happen if they didn't.

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8 months

Do Cornell law students do anything other than maintain this website with statutes?

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@smmarotta

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"Sean, you need a vacation. Maybe a cruise. Someplace you can get away from the Administrative Procedure Act." My current view:

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Sean Marotta

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5 years

Wife is on step 18 of 50 of building kids' play kitchen for Christmas. They better make us eggs and toast tomorrow morning.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

Legal practice is saying "I just need to respond to a couple of emails" over and over again until you retire.

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Sean Marotta

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5 years

I favor free speech but people shouldn't be allowed to say "I want to talk to you tomorrow about something" without even telling you what it's about.

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Sean Marotta

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10 months

So, this seems bad for these attorneys. From

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Sean Marotta

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12 days

@BadLegalTakes Yes. There are varying legal opinions. Correct ones and wrong ones.

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2 years

I've never thought a lawyer can be murdered by minute order, but there's a first time for everything.

Chris “Law Dork” Geidner

@chrisgeidner

2 years

Breaking: Judge hearing Trump's challenge to the Aug. 8 Mar-a-Lago search asks the legal team to actually do legal work and provide her with explanations of why the court has jurisdiction, what Trump actually wants, what effect this has on the ongoing warrant matter, and more.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

Lawyers who write about how "in the pandemic, lawyers just need to be resilient and innovative" should be required to disclose (1) whether they have kids, (2) what ages, (3) whether their partner works outside the home, (4) whether they have a nanny or other childcare help.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

Judge Silberman's email to all Article III judges raises an important question: Who in their right mind at the Administrative Office of the Courts thought an all-Article-III-judges mailing list that any judge can send to was a good idea?

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

8 months

"I'm sure the case exists. You should be able to find it in a few minutes, no sweat."

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

Well, I know one piece of medical advice I won't be following in these times, and it is the American Academy of Pediatrics' guidelines on screen time.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

7 months

Looking forward to the tweets attacking Judge Curiam's decision from the D.C. Circuit today.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

3 years

ADMISSION TO U.S. COURT OF APPEALS: "Sign this paper and send us a check." ADMISSION TO U.S. DISTRICT COURT: "First. you must journey to our courthouse on the third day of the second month under the waxing gibbons. Then. you must answer questions three. And give us a check."

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

I got a hotel room for tonight so I can get a good night's sleep away from the little ones. 3YO, upon being told I was not going to be home tonight, told my wife that he'd stay up and wait for me. My heart.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

WHAT YOU THINK ADVERSE POSSESSION IS IN LAW SCHOOL: Hey, free house! WHAT ADVERSE POSESSION IS IN THE REAL WORLD: Is this stupid fence an inch over the line going to blow up this person's home sale or what?

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

Shoutout to the attorney that added a clause to our preschool's enrollment contract that the student's family pays the school's attorney fees for a suit arising out of the contract, "regardless of result." If you're going to go, go big.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

0.3 hours: Break up fight among brothers regarding iPad usage; text wife regarding same.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

3 years

Did it hurt? When you discovered the typo in the brief right after you filed it? #AppellateTwitter

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

Congratulations to all of the new Kirkland senior associates.

Law360

@Law360

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Kirkland & Ellis LLP has promoted 193 attorneys to partner across 15 offices nationally and internationally.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

I am so glad so many find us helpful, but I look forward to days when normal folks don't have to look to #AppellateTwitter for analysis on the Republic's future.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

Argument in your head v. Argument in the first draft #AppellateTwitter #LegalWriting

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

"The filing of amicus briefs in connection with emergency applications is strongly discouraged" sighs the #SCOTUS clerk's office as it dockets amicus briefs in connection with this Texas emergency application to overthrow the election.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

One of my favorite emails to send is bragging to the other partners about an associate who killed it. No matter how busy, taking a moment to send those emails will brighten the recipients' (and your) day. It extends to everyone else, too. Brag about people to their bosses.

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Sean Marotta

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1 year

@nycsouthpaw Three of them were given to the Fed, wonkiest, nerdiest of beings. Seven to the assistant secretaries of the Treasury, great balancers of the federal books. And nine, nine coins were gifted to the Justices, who above all else desire power. But they were all of them deceived.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

3 years

Even if you're fully vaccinated, the CDC still recommends not reading a brief immediately after filing it. #AppellateTwitter

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

At Conference today, the Chief will place two justices in separate offices. If one justice confesses but the other does not, the confessor goes free and the other gets 20 ERISA opinions. If both confess, each gets 5 ERISA opinions. If neither confess, each gets 1 ERISA opinion.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

"Hang on! We can't open presents until I get the trash bag for the wrapping paper!" I have become what I once despised.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

Things I, personally, would not do: Ask the Chief Justice if I can just go ahead and finish my sentence and his question can wait.

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Sean Marotta

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3 years

OSHA VACCINE MANDATE CASES GOING TO THE SIXTH CIRCUIT.

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Sean Marotta

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6 months

The case the partner thinks exists v. The actual case.

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Sean Marotta

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4 years

Respected former law professor. Former head of OIRA. Former #SCOTUS clerk. I guess attacking accomplished female judges who are the daughters of immigrants is okay when you think they won't rule how you want them to.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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4 years

Where you see Neomi Rao, you can expect a lot of Trumpy dirt to follow. She’s a cartoon of a fake judge. Watch this space.

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4 years

Soon, it will all end, not with a bang, but with a "The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied."

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

3 years

Man, I just came up with a devastating answer to an oral argument question . . . From last month. #AppellateTwitter

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

A little after 10 am today, I was supposed to stand at a podium and say "Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the Court." Instead, around 10 am today, I got this picture.

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Sean Marotta

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3 years

PACER without access fees is infrastructure?

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

Folks are talking hours, and I'll share my one oft-shared pieces of advice: The marginal cost of each hour after a certain point is higher and higher. The delta between 2000 and 2100 isn't 100 hours. It's nights, weekends, and holidays away. Judge firms accordingly.

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Sean Marotta

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3 years

Justice Kagan's first argument as Solicitor General (and ever) was Citizens United. Elizabeth Prelogar's first argument as Solicitor General will be SB8. Debut big or go home for the two women solicitors general. #AppellateTwitter

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

NEW: Acting Solicitor General files letter with #SCOTUS in the pending ACA case stating that the "United States no longer adheres to the conclusions in the previously filed brief of the federal respondents." #AppellateTwitter

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

My super power is being the person on the thread who changes the subject line on the email to what we are actually talking about now instead of what we were talking about twenty reply-alls ago.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

Law practice can be good. An associate who is lead counsel on an appeal had a baby right before a court dropped a briefing schedule on us. I ask for a significant extension to accommodate his leave. Everyone - clients, co-counsel and opp. counsel - send congrats and consents.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

6 years

Some personal news, as they say here on Twitter: I have been elected a partner of @HoganLovells . This is a milestone seven years in the making, so I hope you don't mind if I gush a bit about the people who got me here. /1

Hogan Lovells

@HoganLovells

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Congratulations to the 30 lawyers across our global network who have been promoted to partner effective 1 January, and to the 47 promoted to counsel.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

3 years

BREAKING: CA6 dissolves Fifth Circuit OSHA ETS stay.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

PROFESSORS: "Judges don't accept subpar work. Even a small mistake will get your brief thrown out!" ME TODAY: [Reads a a brief where the Table of Authorities is alphabetized by author's first name.]

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

Wow. This is surprising. Who could have possibly thought this would be the result?

Joshua Browder

@jbrowder1

2 years

Good morning! Bad news: after receiving threats from State Bar prosecutors, it seems likely they will put me in jail for 6 months if I follow through with bringing a robot lawyer into a physical courtroom. DoNotPay is postponing our court case and sticking to consumer rights:

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Sean Marotta

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11 months

Okay, I just checked the docket and this is even less than a clerical oversight. CADC issued this in response to the docketing of the notice of appeal, which is, of course, filed in the district court. So nothing has been filed in CADC for which admission is required.

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OMG, Trump's attorneys aren't legally allowed to practice law in the court they're defending him in. They knew it and tried anyway.

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4 years

I have a personal jurisdiction joke, but it doesn't arise out of or relate to anything.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

3 years

Defendant with Yale J.D. arrested on seditious-conspiracy charges. TWITTER LAWYERS: "So, the thing you need to understand about seditious conspiracy is . . ." ACTUAL LAWYERS ON TWITTER: "lol that's yale for you."

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3 years

Opposing counsel committing violence by filing their brief at 11 a.m. the day due.

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@smmarotta

3 years

Now calendaring things for 2022, which is wild since it is still March 2020.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

A remarkable 33K likes and 5k retweets based on a misunderstanding of how new cases are set up in PACER. Trust reputable courts reporters, folks. (Trump is not pro se.)

Tristan Snell

@TristanSnell

2 years

BREAKING: Trump is representing HIMSELF, with no lawyer at all, in his case against the United States regarding the search of Mar-a-Lago and recovery of government records. The legal term is “pro se” - for himself. He could not find anyone to represent him.

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2 years

I support free speech, but there should be uniform rules on whether there is a comma before an organization designation like Inc. or LLC and we shouldn't let companies choose for themselves. /1

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

3 years

"Should we overturn Chevron?" asks Justice Thomas in the first question of this argument, because might as well just go for it.

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@smmarotta

3 years

Merry Christmas to me. Merry Christmas to me. I'm not ever going back to the office again. Merry Christmas to me.

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@smmarotta

3 years

One thing we do in lawyering a lot is confuse the proxy with the thing it's a proxy for. Even if you think someone's LSAT (like someone's law school or clerkship) is a decent proxy of lawyer quality, it is no match for someone's track record of quality as a lawyer.

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3 years

ME: Well, the pandemic has been hard, but just keeping my head above water at work and my kids alive is an accomplishment. SIDLEY FIRST-YEAR ASSOCIATE MATT SIMPSON:

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

2 years

Hearsay is a relative concept! A document or statement isn't hearsay or not! It's hearsay or not with respect to particular purposes! A statement might be hearsay when offered for one purpose but not another! I love hearsay!

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

4 years

The Supreme Court of the United States (Telephonic Edition) #AppellatePlaces #AppellateTwitter

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@smmarotta

12 days

My favorite part of the Special Counsel's brief in the CA11 Trump appeal is the nerdy grammar lesson.

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Sean Marotta

@smmarotta

6 years

Marotta & Marotta is delighted to announce it has expanded to a four-person Firm. Senior partner and baby boy junior associate are doing well, and the newly promoted senior associate can't wait to start mentoring. #AppellateTwitter #PracticeTuesday

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3 years

@hannnahmmarie Well, sure, it's an unpaid district court clerkship, but SDNY is known for its low cost of living.

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3 years

PACER.

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@smmarotta

3 years

Regretting not doing more "when this is over, we should grab lunch!" lunches during the 5 days it was over enough that we could grab lunch.

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@smmarotta

9 months

The tradition of former clerks lining the stairs when their Justice's casket arrives remains one of the most moving #SCOTUS traditions.

Jimmy Hoover

@JimmyHooverDC

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Justice O’Connor’s casket arrives at #SCOTUS

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3 years

Gummy worms, Woodford Reserve, and Diet Coke: Post-oral argument Amtrak lunch of champions.

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@smmarotta

4 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Dr. Seuss books are long. If you agree to read your kid "one more book" and get conned into doing Dr. Seuss, buckle up. This is no Sandra Boynton board book. You're tackling environmentalism or growing old over 50 pages.

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4 years

This is a small thing, but RBG was very much the voice of civil procedure on the Court. When she talked civ pro, everyone listened. I'm so sorry I won't get the chance to talk to her about it.

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2 years

ME, SETTLING BACK DOWN AT MY COMPUTER AFTER PRESCHOOL PICKUP: "Oh, thank God Westlaw logged me out for my safety. I was terrified the kids' stuffed animals were going to run some ALLFEDS searches while I was out."

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2 years

One of my biggest victories in trial court was when I was an undergrad and had an theory for why campus tickets were unenforceable but the cop didn't show up and the judge asked if I wanted to move to dismiss for failure to prosecute and I said "yes." Let's see an A.I. do that.

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Certain partners giving feedback like.

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2 years

J. BREYER, SPECIAL MASTER: "So I have some documents here. Some people say they're privileged and some people say they're not. And you want me to go back and read the documents and I will, but my question for you is, what do I do about all the paper I have? That's my question."

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2 years

Do you think an attorney can stick a sick 5YO in front of CLE and train him to hit the button to confirm that I'm . . . he's . . . still watching? Asking for a friend.

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2 years

5YO: "What's a lawyer?" ME: "Sometimes if you need to know what the rules are or if you have a disagreement with someone, like you say I owe money and I say I don't, lawyers can help." 5YO: (Thinks). "I want to be more importaner! I'm going to be a firefighter!" Kids.

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4 years

Newest addition to the home-office wall.

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2 years

"See, e.g.," has the same energy in law.

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3 years

Given the Chief's question to Texas about whether Texas is bound by Supreme Court precedent, we will soon learn whether Mitchell arguing today is merely a bad idea or a very bad idea.

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8 years

I'm not going to watch the debate, but I am going to watch Twitter. Like one of those cardboard things you make to watch a solar eclipse.

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2 years

Corporate associates arriving to do due diligence on the deal.

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3 years

The really impressive part about this is that he was able to type out such a long and typo-free email from his iPhone.

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2 years

When the partner asks how the brief is coming and you've spent all day fiddling with the caption and signature blocks.

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4 years

John Roberts furiously writing a memo explaining that the Chief need not preside over the impeachment trial of a former president and he's really quite busy anyway and doesn't know when he could possibly fit it in.

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2 years

I've been in the office five days a week for the last two-and-a-half weeks, and, man, can you believe we used to do this every day for YEARS?

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@smmarotta

3 years

ME LAST NIGHT: "I'm just going to pull an all-nighter and bang out this draft, no problem." ME TODAY: "I am so tired and the draft is not done." It turns out I am older than I was when I began this job.

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4 years

My 3YO is ready to cross examine. HIM: "Can we go to the park?" ME: "Sure, we can." HIM: "Yes or no?"

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