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Anyone Out There Want To Manage Davis Wright Tremaine?: Pete Johnson is covering in the meantime.

Kelly Clarkson’s Legal Team Doesn’t Play: $2.6m could be just the start.

Northwest Law Ain’t Perfect: There have been complaints of mismanagement, among other things, for years.

Right Wing Mad They Can’t Put Wrench In Legal Cogs As Easily: Sucks to suck, I guess.

Goodbye, License!: Pour one out for Richard Liebowitz.

Baker MacKenzie: Is laying off associates.

While Davis Wright Tremaine and Venable Are Laying Off Staff: And rolling back pay cuts.

Big Clerkship Bonuses: Will others join the trend?

Who Will Biden Put On the Supreme Court: Assuming, of course, he wins. Fingers crossed.

What’s Going On With The Texas Bar Exam? All the twist and turns.

* Attorney for accused poker cheat explains that he loses all the time, so people who win all the time must be possible too. These are the math students law school was built to serve. [Card Player]

* A Davis Wright Tremaine partner has resigned amid controversy that a board he served on covered up allegations against the non-profit’s founder. [American Lawyer]

* Comedy writer writes tale of what would have happened if he’d listened to his mother and gone into law instead of comedy. Having read this contribution to the New Yorker’s humor section… he should have listened to his mom. [New Yorker]

* Inmate seeks to intervene on R. Kelly’s behalf. He feels a kinship because the prisoner is… Trapped in the Jail Cell. [Yahoo]

* LST is looking to expand its board as part of its commitment to maintain a board reflecting a cross-section of the legal industry. [Law School Transparency]

* Lawyers overpay for less? Shocking! [Legaltech News]

* Irell & Manella may be suffering from failed merger exodus. [Business Insider]

* Judges are sick and tired of ICE busting into their courthouses and harassing people and they’re gonna… write a pointed letter about it. [Courthouse News Service]

* Microsoft’s innovative legal diversity program that hit Biglaw firms in their wallets if they didn’t diversify is now 10 years old. Davis Wright Tremaine was the top performer under the program this year. [Corporate Counsel]

* Michael Cohen’s plea deal reminds of Richard Nixon’s lawyer. [Time]

* Intellectual property laws are completely broken in the digital age and no one is doing anything about it. Well, the lobbyists for rights-holding entities are doing a lot about keeping it broken. [Law360]

* Firms are starting to consider new ways to accommodate the personal lives of their associates. Like making them bill 2700 hours on their own schedule. [American Lawyer]

* Majority of Americans would opt for alternative legal services providers over attorneys which is either great news for entrepreneurship and technology or incredibly bad news for the standing of the profession. Or probably both. [Legaltech News]

* Thank U, Next parody from soon-to-be attorney. [LegalCheek]

* In response to President Trump’s “relentless assault” against the press, more than 300 newspapers published editorials denouncing his attacks and defending the freedom of the press. In response, Trump said he wants “true” freedom of the press, but without the “FAKE NEWS.” Come on, even the Supreme Court wants the press to remain free. [National Law Journal]

* Gallery Books and Simon & Schuster, the publishers of Omarosa Manigault Newman’s White House memoir, are hitting back hard against President Trump’s attempts to silence her and stop its publication. this letter from Davis Wright Tremaine partner Elizabeth McNamara is freakin’ fantastic. [Deadline]

* According to prosecutors, an argument over family financial matters is allegedly what caused John Gately III to fatally shoot his brother-in-law, Mayer Brown partner Stephen Shapiro. The Supreme Court star reportedly died in an attempt to protect his wife. Gately has been denied bond and plans to plead not guilty. [American Lawyer]

* ICYMI, two judges were just confirmed to the Fourth Circuit by margins we haven’t seen in a while. Meet Julius Richardson, a federal prosecutor who once worked at Kellogg Huber (81-8), and Judge Marvin Quattlebaum, a former Nelson Mullins partner who’s been a a federal judge for six months (62-28). [Courthouse News]

* Law firm merger mania: Stinson Leonard Street will be merging with IP boutique Senniger Powers to add some extra oomph to the firm’s “market-leading IP services.” The merger is expected to close on October 1, bringing Stinson Leonard’s total headcount to almost 500 attorneys. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

* Trinity Western University wants to open a law school so badly that the administration is now willing to drop the “community covenant” that would have forbidden gay students from having sex. That rule will now be optional for the student body at the Christian school. Would you want to enroll? [StarMetro Vancouver]