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We are looking for underrepresented voices, new voices, and influencers who want to publish across a broad range of topics.

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Though, in fact, it's going to be a lot easier than all that.

It's been a while since we've seen you in D.C.

MedCity's annual health innovation conference should be very interesting this year.

We're going to grill people and that will be fun for us.

If you're well-versed in legal operations and law department management, we'd like to hear from you.

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Change is necessary and good -- for institutions, individuals, and Above the Law.

THOUGHT AND PRAYERS: For Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s family and all the people in Puerto Rico.

STRONG MEN ALSO CRY: And strong women. Kathryn Rubino argues that crying isn’t a sign of weakness. I wouldn’t know — I’m a man, so stomping and challenging people to fight me in real life is totally acceptable professional behavior for me. Read the defense of crying here.

AH, REDUNDANCY, THE MOST SOULLESS WAY TO LAY PEOPLE OFF: Dentons is preparing to merge with Maclay Murray & Spens and, well, that always means somebody is about to take a long walk off a short plank. Read the details here.

LAW FIRMS ARE HIRING: It’s always nice when Biglaw firms agree to help law students pay off their debts while learning the ins-and-outs of legal practice. You know: how to reserve a conference room, how to input the billing code in the copier, how to appropriately thank people for the “opportunity” to work all night. Yay, first-year associate hiring.

PENN LAW ALUMNI HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT BIAS: Perhaps Penn Law professors could consult some of their former students before waxing poetic about “bourgeois values”? Read the alumni letter here, it’s pretty great.

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DEAR GOOD ATTORNEYS, THANK YOU FOR NOT WORKING FOR TRUMP: At some point, we have to realize that Donald Trump receives such shoddy and borderline unethical legal representation because quality, ethical lawyers simply refuse to work for him. No really good attorney would talk about client confidences over lunch in a public restaurant. Even most mediocre attorneys wouldn’t talk about undisclosed documents pertinent to an ongoing investigation that are locked in a safe! But Trump attorney Ty Cobb… he did those things. Read here, and thank you for your lack of service.

I MEAN, WE HAVE A STAFF ATTORNEY WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO CHILD PORN TODAY: And yet I’m still somehow more disgusted by Ty Cobb. Cobb was in SIDEWALK SEATING. ANYBODY could have walked by. And he’s talking about responsive documents locked in a safe? Maybe Trump should hire this Paul Weiss staff attorney next. At least he TRIED to distribute kiddie porn IN SECRET. Read the gross details here.

MOTEL 6 LEAVES THE LIGHT ON FOR ICE AGENTS: Franchises in Arizona have been sending the names of its guests to ICE just in case they don’t have their papers. I’d say, “I’ll never stay in a Motel 6 because of this.” But, like, I’ll never stay in a Motel 6 because there is no where I need to go so badly that it’s worth staying in a Motel 6. “Would you like to come see Jesus in concert?” Sure! “Only rooms available are at the Motel 6.” I’ll catch it when it comes on Netflix. But, if you needed another reason, read it here.

AN INTERVIEW ON ORIGINALISM: David Lat interviews author Ilan Wurman, who wrote A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism. Read the interview here.

I DON’T THINK COPS WILL READ THE ORIGINALISM BOOK THOUGH: Originalism presupposes a set of rights and responsibilities agreed to at the founding of this country. Cops, for the most part, don’t acknowledge those kinds of textual restraints on government power. I bet they’d read The Leviathan, though. The raw power of the state of nature is what the cops are always trying to bring us back to. Read about St. Louis PD here.

SUDDENLY RETIRED JUDGE RICHARD POSNER HAS BEEN DISHING IT TO HIS FORMER COLLEAGUES: In case you missed our “uncensored” interview with him, read it here. But the Seventh Circuit doesn’t seem to want to take it anymore. Chief Judge Diane Wood has… a counter-narrative. Somebody bring out the Octagon.

IT’S LESS FUN WHEN PEOPLE ARE PICKING ON THOSE WEAKER THAN THEMSELVES: But, since it’s just a law firm pranking its summer associates, it’s still pretty fun. Read the tricks and japes here.

IT’S NOT FUN AT ALL WHEN THE STATE IS FIGHTING WITH POWERLESS CITIZENS: A cop shot another black man and the cop was acquitted. Read the all too familiar report here.

JESUS, GRANDPA, WHY’D YOU EVEN TELL ME THIS STORY: Honestly kids, try not to kill yourselves.

LET’S BRING IT BACK TO GOOD WITH SOME NEXT-LEVEL POACHING: Quinn Emanuel, always an innovator, is rethinking how it steals talent from its competitors. Read about it here. No, I said read about it, not “click the link to apply.”