* Let’s begin with the practical. If you took the Bar/Bri bar review course between 1997 and 2006, please click here, so you can find out how to claim $125 for yourself (unless you want to go it on your own and try to get more).

* Gay lawyer Aaron Charney and his former employer, Sullivan & Cromwell, had their day in court. We were on hand to jot down the money quotes and shoot lots of photos.

* Speaking of Aaron Charney, is he just another money-hungry plaintiff, rather than a crusader for justice for gay lawyers everywhere?

* Anna Nicole Smith, a prevailing party in the U.S. Supreme Court and the widow of a (very rich) former Yale Law professor — a prof who taught Trusts and Estates, of all things — passed away.

* Still more big law firms announced pay raises for their associates.

* Your stories about Shanetta Cutlar, the colorful chief of the Justice Department’s Special Litigation Section, are pleasingly novel to us. But to the DOJ’s front office, it’s all old news.

* Law students are good at squabbling amongst themselves.

* Judge Janice Rogers Brown is pretty cool.

* And Canadians are funny.