Above the Law

* Amal Clooney, the acclaimed lawyer who is working a side hustle as a visiting professor at Columbia Law, left her apartment while wearing clothes. This is apparently a very big deal. Oh, did we mention she's married to George Clooney? Because she is. [Daily Mail]

* Both Microsoft and the Department of Justice have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a high-profile data privacy case even though oral arguments have already been heard due to the fact that a new law, the CLOUD Act, has made it moot. [Reuters]

* Villanova Law students got the day off yesterday to continue celebrating the Wildcats' 79-62 win in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The team's chaplain who delivers a prayer before every game is a lawyer. [Legal Intelligencer]

* "She’s created the impression that I’ve done something wrong and I haven’t even had final adjudication." Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea of DePaul Law has canceled Professor Donald Hermann's class in the middle of the semester after he used the N-word during a lecture. We may have more on this later. [Chicago Sun-Times]

* In the lead up to the release of the 2018 Am Law 100, the American Lawyer has been publishing articles about firms' impressive financial feats. One of the latest articles is about Strasburger & Price's 9 percent jump in net income -- which likely means that Strasburger may have made it (at least into the Am Law 200). [American Lawyer]

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