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Legal technology allows agencies to review and produce documents quickly and efficiently. So why is the EPA so bad at this?

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If you don’t take your vacation that means there’s something your business person does better than you do. The business wins.

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Does sentence spacing really matter? This law professor thinks so, and is leading the double-spacing rebellion.

There is a vulnerable population hungry for IP advice, and law students can offer valuable pro bono service to the community.

* A full 85 percent of companies aren't ready for the GDPR implementation deadline later this week, meaning... well probably nothing, but let's freak out about it anyway. [Corporate Counsel]

* Jones Day's Dana Baiocco tabbed by Trump administration to the Consumer Product Safety Commission to end Democratic leadership on that board. So get ready for exploding bottles and nails just sticking out of stuffed animals... because "freedom." [National Law Journal]

* DOJ tests new investigative tactic of just telling suspected criminals everything before interviewing them. [Huffington Post]

* We're deregulating banks again because that's historically worked out so well. [Wall Street Journal]

* South Carolina has repealed its "disturbing school" law, which was really just a vague catch-all provision to allow cops to harass and imprison black kids. [ACLU]

* Paul Manafort looks to suppress more evidence. Hey it's worth a shot. [Courthouse News Service]

* In sad news, groundbreaking attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree has passed away at 104. [Washington Post]

THE FAILURE RATE ON THE CALIFORNIA BAR WAS RIDICULOUS: Only 27% of test takers passed the February 2018 administration of the California bar exam. I hope clients everywhere appreciate that California is trying to keep them safe from people who probably shouldn't have gotten into law school in the first place.

THIS WAS A BAD LAW SCHOOL EXAM QUESTION: I concur in Joe's judgment here, but I might write separately on the dangers of quizzing law students about Brown v. Board of Ed.

THE MARIACHI BAND WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT: They sent a mariachi band to play outside of racist Aaron Schlossberg's house, and it paid off.

THIS GORSUCH OPINION IS BRUTAL: But cutting off access to justice is one of the many reasons the GOP stole a Supreme Court seat.

MMM... TECH STIPEND: Simpson Thacher upped their tech stipend from $500 to $2,000.

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