* I want to smoke so badly. Maybe tonight will be the night that I light up again, and then continue until I die. But if I do, that’ll be my fault, not the tobacco companies’. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Mike Tyson’s face tattoo artist is holding up the release of Hangover II. Surely the Hangover people have enough to pay this guy to go away. [Gawker]
* Strippers to Minimum Wage! [Suits & Sentences]
How LexisNexis State Net Uses Gen AI To Tame Gov’t Data
Its new features transform how you can track and analyze the more than 200,000 bills, regulations, and other measures set to be introduced this year.
* A wonderful visualization of law firm profitability and leverage. [Law.com]
* If you understand Lord of the Rings, you can understand legal technology. [Law & Technology/Forbes]
* Additional thoughts on the earlier NALP panel on law firm transparency, from Mary Kate Sheridan of Vault. [Vault’s Law Blog]