Bar Exam

* The ethics probe into Scott Pruitt gains steam. [Huffington Post]

* Elon Musk thinks we need to regulate AI now, before it’s “too late.” Yeah, we should probably listen to him, but we won’t. [Recode]

* What’s left after you lose Andrew Napolitano? [Salon]

* Taking the New York bar exam? You’d better be on top of your  lunch plans. [Custom Gourmet]

* If you were in a deposition or otherwise occupied all day today, you missed the rise and fall of another vain attempt by Republicans to score a healthcare win. [The Hill]

* Oh good, the constitutional crisis could get worse. [Salon]

* Shedding the semi-retired label. [Law and More]

Start preparing yourselves now for your impending doom.

The bar exam is two weeks away -- so we'll keep this short and sweet, because you should be studying.

Hint: they have nothing to do with memorizing the law.

* Try not to let the irony overwhelm you. [Deadspin]

* If you are going to fail the bar exam, do it like a champion. [Excellence in Law School]

* Impeachment may not be everything it is cracked up to be. [Huffington Post]

* The Fox New investigation gets broader. [Law and More]

* An opportunity to donate in memory of Trinh Huynh. [North Georgia Community Foundation]

* Hope you weren’t counting on Don McGahn to tell President Trump “no.” [Slate]

* This is a much better reason to go to law school. [The Family Center]

* The secret to Syracuse Law’s bar success. [TaxProf Law]

* Tips for keeping your practice from getting stale. [Reboot Your Law Practice]

* A look at the attorneys arguing before the Supreme Court this Term. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Get up to speed on all the legal issues brought about by the Trump administration in this new podcast. [Planet Lex]

* The legal implications of the definition of “food.” [LawSci Forum]

* This should infuriate you. [New Republic]

More than 90 law school deans have asked their accreditor to halt new standards that would hold schools accountable for very low bar passage rates. Last October, the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar approved two new standards to stop exploitative admissions and retention practices. At a time […]

Test-taking skills will play an even greater role in passing the bar exam.

* What, exactly, did it take for Donald Trump to evade avoid the draft? [PrawfsBlawg]

* The Supreme Court just temporarily blocked a court order allowing a transgender teen to use the bathroom according to their identity. [CNN]

* Just in time for your $180K scale… Eric Schneiderman loses a talking point, and New Yorkers can all go back to making a killing at DraftKings. [Associated Press]

* FBI arrests DC law enforcement officer for helping ISIS. If he was as good a terrorist as DC is at policing, then maybe we should have left him out there. [ABC News]

* The battle over tougher bar passage standards rages on. [WSJ Law Blog]

* And the Tim Kaine love letter about law school. [ABA Journal]

* A good website really is key to a thriving, modern law practice. [Reboot Your Law Practice]

* The ten-year anniversary of the tragic murder of Robert Wone. [Who Killed Robert Wone?]

Hopefully bodily functions didn't knock test takers too far off their game.

Everyone loves a good bar exam horror story.

* Taking the bar exam tomorrow? Some tips for instant calm. [Health.com]

* Thought experiment: How would the world be different if the federal government had bailed out Lehman Brothers? [Bloomberg Odd Lots]

* This British legal recruiter would rather see applicants with lesser qualifications because otherwise they are too arrogant. [Legal Cheek]

* Attorneys with SCOTUS experience are in high demand. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Potential upside of law firm mergers? Cybersecurity. [Law.com]

* Mike Sadler, the former Michigan State punter who was heading to Stanford Law in the fall, died in a car crash this weekend along with Nebraska punter, Sam Foltz. [Michigan Live]

* Insiders claim Megyn Kelly has told stories of sexual harassment at the hands of Roger Ailes to attorneys from Paul, Weiss. No wonder it looks like Ailes is on his way out. [New York Magazine]

* Be careful you don’t accidentally tweet your political opinions from your employer’s Twitter account, especially if you work for the Department of Justice. [Gizmodo]

* 5 tips to rebound when your legal game is considered “has been.” [Law and More]

* Taking the New York bar? Do yourself a favor and minimize your stress on test day — order your lunch ahead of time. [Custom Gourmet NY]

* There’s going to be a new season of Making a Murderer. [Slate]

* Restrictions on reproductive freedom are more than just a political talking point, there are real women who have to make tough choices as a result of the burdensome laws. [Huffington Post]

* Law professor is after blood, or at least disbarment, over the prosecution of the Freddie Gray case. [Washington Post]

* An article advocating why we should prioritize free expression over intellectual property laws, and why the Led Zeppelin case is important. [Katz Justice]

* Gay marriage is legal, but that doesn’t mean it is easy for gay couples to have children. [Esquire]

* The best tips for dealing with bar exam stress. [Law.com]

* Why is it that conversations about the future of legal education turn into flame wars? [Medium]

* Evidence now suggests that the murder of Dan Markel was the second attempt on his life. [Tallahassee.com]

* Looking for a new job, or even a new career? Some great advice. [Law and More]

* The real hidden cost to Brexit? Brits can’t look down their nose on dumb Americans anymore. [New Yorker]

* In keeping with our new morning ritual, we recap the firms that announced salary raises yesterday. We had Schulte Roth & Zabel, Robbins Russell, Arnold & Porter, Kramer Levin, Hughes Hubbard, McDermott, and Cadwalader. [Above the Law / 2016 Salary Increase]

* Womble Carlyle is forming a “strategic alliance” with U.K. firm Bond Dickinson. If mergers are law firm marriages, then think of this as the law firm f**k buddy arrangement. [Legal Week / Daily Report]

* This law school thinks the future of law is taking money to educate non-lawyers. [Newsworks]

* Here, read Law360 describe how Law360 settled with the NYAG’s office. It’s very meta. [Law360]

* Harvard Law grad suing NY State Board of Law Examiners for failing to accommodate her disability and causing her to twice fail the exam. [ABA Journal]

* Amid criticism, Shannon Liss-Riordan agrees to cut her fee in half for negotiating a class action settlement with Uber on behalf of the drivers. Apparently she was 2x surge priced the day she secured the deal.

* X marks the sanction: Attorney disciplined for hiding sunken treasure records. [Courthouse News Service]

* Gawker asks judge to reduce or set aside the $140.1 million Hogan verdict. That’s nice to offer the judge avoid a humiliating reversal on appeal. And yet I’ve seen Wrestlemania, so expect the doomed judge to hit Nick Denton over the head with a chair while he isn’t looking before this gets better. [Capital New York]

* Ramon Fonseca assures the world that all of its operations were legal. Sure. I mean, cockfighting is still legal in Panama so this might not be the most ringing affirmation. [NBC News]

* The Stoli trademark battle may be headed to the Supreme Court. That’s absolut-ly crazy. [Law360]

* There’s an unauthorized Walking Dead theme restaurant out there in case you had a hankering for some possum and cheese whiz and there’s no Carl’s Jr. nearby. [Litigation Daily]

* Which Biglaw firms are making big bucks off baseball season? [The Am Law Daily]

* Eric Conn, dubbed “Mr. Social Security” arrested on federal charges that his immense success is due less to his legal acumen than “paying a doctor and a judge to rubber-stamp false disability claims using phony medical evidence.” Remember when he hired Miss Congeniality USA as a PR flack? Those were happier days. [ABC News]

* North Carolina releases its February bar exam results. So we know of at least 201 people who couldn’t let the championship game spoil their high. You may say, “well Duke students weren’t going to be devastated by the game.” Silly rabbit, Duke kids aren’t taking the February exam. [Bar Exam Stats]