Morning Docket 11.27.2019

* The New York Bar is helping attorneys reach “high profits” by allowing lawyers to advise clients on legal issues related to marijuana. [Bloomberg]

* A Michigan lawyer has been sworn in as an attorney by the same judge who sent him to prison two decades earlier. [Detroit Free Press]

* Looks like Elon Musk won’t settle a lawsuit about his imfamous “pedo guy” tweet and will testify in his own defense. Wonder what type of experts Musk plans to introduce at trial. [Reuters]

* A NYC man has won $280,000 against a lawyer who called him an “a-hole” and a “jerk” online. Never thought an NYC jury would award so much money for such insults. [New York Post]

* The Oregon State Bar has allegedly mishandled the cases of a disbarred Oregon lawyer who is accused of stealing from her clients. [The Oregonian]

* The DC Attorney General has joined the pile-on against Juul, the maker of electronic cigarettes, over allegations it illicitly advertised to minors. [CNBC]

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