Stop attacking Zimbabwe’s first family, Zanu-PF warns

Lay off President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family, Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF has warned the public and the media. Image: AFP/Jekesai Njiki Jikizana

Speaking during a press conference on Thursday, Patrick Chinamasa, the party’s acting spokesperson, said it was aware of an “unscrupulous” and “sponsored” agenda.

“Zanu-PF has noted with concern the systematic well-choreographed and sponsored attacks on the integrity of the first family. They need to stop forthwith.

“ … We warn the public and those writing these lies to stop,” he said.

The caution follows reports alleging a Covid-19 supplies scandal involving the president’s son Collins and Drax International, which invoiced the government about R17m. However, when documents of the transaction were leaked into the public domain, the government denied the deal.

Collins Mnangagwa issued a statement saying he had no ties with the firm while Drax International said it “has never met, communicated or done any business with any members of the first family”.

A series of pictures were then shared on social media featuring Collins and his mother, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, separately with Drax International’s Zimbabwe representative, Delish Nguwaya. One of the pictures was taken at President Mnangagwa’s inauguration after the November 2017 coup at the National Sports Stadium on November 24 2017.

Chinamasa said the president has pictures taken with people as a sign of goodwill, especially those who donate towards the Covid-19 fight, as well as business people locally and internationally, and that does not amount to him or his family being part owners of those businesses.

Prominent Zimbabwean lawyer arrested over ‘copied affidavit’

Advocate Thabani Mpofu was on Monday charged with defeating or obstructing the course of justice.

Chinamasa’s warning to Zanu-PF’s “detractors” drew the attention of Hopewell Chinono, a journalist who was singled out in the statement. Chinono said, “I’m only a detractor of corruption.”

Crisis Group’s senior consultant for southern Africa, Piers Pigou, said the threats on freedom of expression reflect the DNA of a ruling party which has failed to address corruption.

Meanwhile, appearing before a parliamentary portfolio committee on finance on Wednesday, the ministry of finance’s secretary George Guvamatanga said when it comes to procurement of supplies (chiefly medical) his ministry avails funds only after the parent ministry decides what is needed.

“Treasury does not procure on behalf of any ministry. We do not have expertise,” he said, distancing himself from the Drax International scandal.

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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!

According to data collected by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, for the Class of 2019, what percentage of July first-time bar passers from ABA-accredited law schools had full-time, long-term jobs where bar passage was required?

Hint: The number dipped ever so slightly from last year, but it’s still a very strong stat.

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Trump Hints At Pardon For Roger Stone Because WITCH HUNT

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“Roger was a victim of a corrupt and illegal Witch Hunt, one which will go down as the greatest political crime in history. He can sleep well at night!,” the president tweeted yesterday. Which is an odd way to describe a unanimous jury verdict and conviction secured by his own Justice Department, but Donald Trump’s commitment to logical consistency is spotty at best.

Trump was responding to a tweet by conservative agitator Charlie Kirk, who went to college for five minutes before dropping out to write books about the scam of higher education and practice the art of wingnut grifting full time.

The president duly RT’d. Which is probably not an official pardon.

Here on Planet Earth, Roger Stone was convicted of lying to congress, obstruction, and tampering with a witness. Because when the House Intelligence Committee asked him “So you have no emails to anyone concerning the allegations of hacked documents . . . or any discussions you have had with third parties about Julian Assange? You have no emails, no texts, no documents whatsoever, any kind of that nature?” Roger Stone said, “That is correct.”

In fact, he had multiple exchanges with conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi and shock jock Randy Credico exhorting them to use their connections to find out which stolen Clinton campaign emails Wikileaks had received from the Russians, and when they were going to be released.

“Get to Assange at Ecuadorian Embassy in London and get the pending Wikileaks emails . . . they deal with Foundation, allegedly,” he texted Corsi on July 25, 2016.

“Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps. One shortly after I’m back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging,” Corsi emailed Stone on August 2, 2016.

Then Stone tried desperately to throw the Intel Committee off the trail by leading them to believe that Credico was his connection to Assange, and Corsi was not, going so far as to threaten to kidnap Credico’s dog if he wouldn’t go along with the deception when he testified before congress. And he did it all by text, leaving a digital trail a mile wide. Which is why a jury of his peers found him guilty on all seven counts.

After an angry Trump tweet, Bill Barr leapt in to cut the legs out from under the Stone prosecutors, forcing them to walk back their own nine year sentencing recommendation in favor a mealy-mouthed statement that they’d rely on the court to be fair. This prompted four line attorneys to withdraw from the case, with one resigning from the DOJ entirely. But apparently this intervention for Donald Trump’s pal Roger, won’t cut it, because it still winds up with him serving time like any other criminal.

Without further intervention, Stone will have to report to serve his sentence on June 30. But, as Josh Gerstein at Politico notes, while Stone has appealed his conviction, he hasn’t moved postpone serving the sentence. Does he have it on good information that he can “sleep well at night” because he’ll never serve a night in jail?

We’ll have to watch Trump’s twitter feed to find out.

“LAW AND ORDER!” the president tweeted last night, without a hint of irony.

Indictment [U.S. v. Roger Stone, No. 1:19-cr-00018-ABJ (D.D.C. January 24, 2019)]


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In Shaky Economy, Polsinelli & UnitedLex Team Up To Help Companies Monetize Existing Assets

You know that great idea you had that just ended up languishing half-finished in your basement? The one that probably would be worth something if you just took the time out of your already busy schedule to get it done and show it off to the world?

Well, statistically speaking, your idea is probably worthless. But there are big companies out there with some actual expertise who live out the exact same scenario on a higher level. For these companies, it’s all about intellectual property amassed over the years that they never really leveraged or that they used for their own very limited purposes without considering how others could deploy it for their own applications. But with the economy mired in the rough, it might be time to take stock of what’s down in the proverbial basement and see if it has any value.

But that’s easier said than done for these companies, which is where a new joint venture between Polsinelli and UnitedLex comes in. The idea is to take the IP experience of an established law firm and partner it with the technological advantages of a legal services company, with the result being a new approach to IP investment, management, and, where necessary, enforcement capable of bringing new revenue streams to businesses with under-leveraged intellectual property.

From a press release announcing the venture:

Providing a synergistic approach to patent drafting and prosecution, the partnership of Polsinelli and UnitedLex provides many business-level advantages, including: the ability to handle large patent prosecution projects; a coordinated process that ensures issuance and the strongest possible patent coverage; strategic advice regarding patent filings, including identifying the most impactful markets to pursue; and, the development of a large patent portfolio without a need for extensive in-house resources.

Polsinelli Intellectual Property Department Chair Patrick C. Woolley explained that companies should reconfigure how they think about intellectual property. “IP should be considered a ‘real’ asset with many advantages compared to traditional real assets. Our goal is to enable companies to protect and develop new assets while establishing a new way of leveraging valuable IP assets for years to come.”

Like many of the tech advancements hitting the legal industry these days, it’s unfortunate that it takes a global pandemic to spur changes, but if this leads to a revolution in how companies understand their own assets it should return dividends for years to come.


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Partner Says Biglaw Opportunities Are Separate But Not Equal For Black Lawyers

Why am I not getting the same opportunities? I know how black people see and think. It is very similar to how my grandparents felt, my parents felt. How I feel. We’ve expressed that, so now I think other people need to do the hard work of challenging what they’re thinking and feeling and doing something about it.

How do non-black people address racial issues in their circle and their family? On the golf course? How do they respond to comments and statements and stereotypes? The rooms that black people aren’t in, those are the environment where people need to stand up and speak out and have the courage to speak out. Those backroom deals, the golf course, those are incredibly important for justice and equality.

Angela Crawford, co-founder of corporate compliance boutique Crawford & Acharya who previously spent time as a partner at both DLA Piper and Kirkland & Ellis, commenting on the inequalities black lawyers face in Biglaw. According to the latest data from ALM, while black lawyers make up 3.6 percent of the Biglaw community, only 2.1 percent of them have been elevated to the ranks of partnership within the Am Law 200.


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Juries Are About To Get A Lot More Corporate-Friendly Thanks To COVID

When the courts reopen and begin tackling their backlog of cases, the juries they manage to assemble are going to look a lot different. In a recent survey, nearly half said that they would not comply with a jury summons in the immediate aftermath of COVID. And while that may not be surprising, it turns out that there are some stark philosophical differences between those who would and would not comply.

Every week on our special ATL COVID Cast, we’re chatting with folks coming to the legal profession from different angles to reveal the unexpected ways the pandemic is changing the industry.

This week, we talked to Tom O’Toole, the president of Sound Jury Consulting about a survey the company conducted of 1,000 jury-eligible respondents about the post-lockdown jury pool and the results suggest a palpable impact on civil litigation in the near-term. It turns out that the 45 percent of respondents who said they wouldn’t join a jury in the near-term were significantly more likely to believe that large corporations put profits over safety (86 percent v. 65 percent) and significantly more likely to believe large corporations are more likely to break the law than smaller businesses (78 percent v. 58 percent).

If that holds, this is probably a good time to go to trial if you’re a tort defendant. 


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