Above the Law

This may be the closest some students will ever get to a Supreme Court case.

New civil rights lawsuit brings fresh allegations about Weinstein and his company.

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Lawyers who embrace the opportunity to learn more about blockchain technology will be more effective advisors in the coming years.

Justice Ginsburg also touched on collegiality at the high court, the #MeToo movement, and the role of sexism in the 2016 election.

In-house folks are correct to look for trial experience in their trial lawyers as a matter of self-defense.

* "The chief justice, in particular, doesn’t like the court to be a disruptive force," but that might change this spring as the Supreme Court considers reversing at least three of its longstanding precedents. Trashing precedents could potentially become much easier now that Justice Gorsuch is here. [USA Today]

* Berwin Leighton Paisner and Bryan Cave partners are voting on their proposed transatlantic merger, and the results are expected by the end of the month. If the tie-up is approved, BCLP -- the combined firm's new name -- will be a billion-dollar firm with 1,500 lawyers and 32 offices in 12 countries. [Law.com]

* Charles Harder, the lawyer who brought down Gawker and now represents Donald Trump and members of his family, is experiencing some growing pains at his firm thanks to his presidential representation. Name partner Douglas Mirell just quit because of his "pledge to protect the First Amendment." [The Recorder]

* New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a civil rights suit against the Weinstein Company and its founders, alleging that they "repeatedly and persistently treated female employees less well than male-employees through gender-based hostile workplace harassment, quid pro quo harassment, and discrimination." [Variety]

* In an effort to increase diversity, LSAC will be awarding a total of $1.5 million to five law schools so they can hold Prelaw Undergraduate Scholars programs on their campuses. Akron, Alabama, Duke, Houston, and St. John's will each receive these grants to convince college students to enroll. [Black Enterprise]

* Congratulations to Charleston Law's National Tax Moot Court team, which just clinched its seventh championship title in a row. It's nice to know that students were able to rise above the school's designation as one of the "least selective law schools in the country" to create a tax law dynasty. [Post and Courier]

* Remember the former Ulta employee who accused the beauty retailer of reselling used products as new? Now a concerned customer has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit over the store's "widespread and surreptitious practice" of allegedly repackaging and selling returned products. [Chicago Tribune]

* Uber and Waymo settled, so now we can have flying cars. Or something. [Corporate Counsel]

* New charges in the Dan Markel murder case. [U.S. News]

* Trump can pretty much get away with anything, so why not talk to prosecutors and just take the Fifth? [The Hill]

* A look at the difficult work of navigating a romance at work. [Law and More]

* A week in the life of a mom working as a solo practitioner. [CorporetteMoms]

* An excellent new podcast for aspiring trial lawyers, from McKool Smith and Benchmark Litigation, kicks off by interviewing legendary litigator Evan Chesler of Cravath. [McKool Smith]

DENTONS PARTNER OUT AFTER ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT: Drip by drip, firms are going to start pushing out sexual predators.

WOMEN AT LINKLATERS WERE RECEIVING 40% LESS THAN MEN AT BONUS TIME: Maybe we could get the pay gap some kind of hashtag?

THIS SEEMS LIKE A GOOD TIME TO MENTION THAT WE'RE DOING A WOMEN'S NETWORKING EVENT: And since I have nothing else to add, this seems like a good time to tell a story. When I was in law school, I got an invitation to a "women in law school" event in my student mailbox and I went because I support "women" "in law school." Turns out, it was an event "for" women in law school, not "about" women in law school. I was the only guy there. I received the invitation in error because I have a girl's name. Anyway, join Kathryn in Chicago.

I DON'T THINK ROBERTS WOULD RESPOND KINDLY TO A SUBPOENA FROM CONGRESS: But it'd be hilarious to see Devin Nunes try.

PRO BONO = GOOD: But for selfish reasons.