Morning Docket: 10.24.25
* Elon Musk loses effort to claim he relied on attorney advice in Twitter investor case. Funny how famously leaking that you overruled key attorney advice during the deal can come back to bite somebody. [Law360]
* Jack Smith wants his testimony to be public. [CBS News]
* Kannon Shanmugam discusses — generally anyway — the process that led to his firm’s Trump deal. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Meanwhile, a Columbia University group is suing for records behind those deals. [Reuters]
* “Judges Stress Coordination as Mass-Tort Litigation Expands Across Courts.” Might be a good time to brush up on your MDL knowledge! [Legal Intelligencer]
* Diversity issues continue to plague Biglaw Brussels office. At least this one was awkwardly well-intentioned. Progress! [Roll on Friday]
* TaxProf Blog finds a new home. [ABA Journal]
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