Biglaw

Maybe firms should value certain things for which the firm is not paid. But firms don't. And corporations do.

* Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is a little worried about President Trump’s flair for hyperbole, saying that Trump should never “walk into that room with” special counsel Robert Mueller, because when you make “false statements to federal agents, that’s a crime, that can send you to jail.” [The Hill]

* This is not an April Fools’ joke. On April 1, Foley & Lardner finalized its Tex-Mex merger with Gardere Wynne Sewell. We repeat, this is not an April Fools’ joke. Foley will maintain its headquarters in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Best of luck to the combined firm! [Texas Lawyer]

* Long Island Judge Robert Cicale was arrested after allegedly breaking into a former intern’s house to steal a pair of her panties. At his arraignment, he admitted that he’d done it before, and in his confession, he said “he has urges to steal women’s underwear.” We’ll have more on the alleged panty thief later. [NBC New York]

* According to a new report by Fairfax Associates, law firm mergers are set to meet (or perhaps beat) 2017’s record. Twenty tie-ups have been completed in 2018 thus far, with another 13 announced mergers set to close later this year. [American Lawyer]

* New York firm Morrison Cohen recently launched the “MoCo cryptocurrency litigation tracker,” a tool investors can use to monitor when doing due diligence on crypto assets. There are currently 63 cases in the U.S., and some of the industry’s biggest players have been named as defendants. [Brave New Coin]

More data on the Biglaw gender pay gap.

When organizations are using forced-arbitration provisions as a sword instead of a shield to cut civil rights protections, then its peers and employees should call bullsh*t.

He's already lost his Biglaw career, isn't that punishment enough?

This is an outrageous story.

He has an important message to convey to all other attorneys with mental health issues of their own.

He was also set to work in Biglaw, but I don't think that's going to happen now.

Ten years have passed since the Great Recession, and our profession is forever changed.

In essence, a non-equity partner is a non-partner partner, and the existence of a non-owning partner in said partnership renders it a non-partnership.

Is this the beginning of a new era of transparency in Biglaw for sexual harassment claims?

Some of the worst (and best) law firm websites.

She was quite the trailblazing young woman.

Bye-bye, Biglaw.

Donald Trump has somehow turned POTUS into a dog of a client self-respecting lawyers do not want to touch.

This is absurd. Time's up, Biglaw.

* As it turns out, Joe diGenova — the lawyer who’s convinced that the Justice Department is trying to frame Trump with its Russia investigation — won’t be joining the president’s personal legal team after all due to conflicts of interest. DiGenova’s wife, Victoria Toensing, has been conflicted out as well. Oopsie! [New York Times]

* President Trump tweeted this weekend that “[m]any lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case,” and that his difficulty in finding lawyers to join his defense team is “Fake News.” Meanwhile, at least four defense attorneys at separate Biglaw firms have been approached, and most have turned down the offer. [CNN]

* In her 60 Minutes interview, Stormy Daniels says she was once physically threatened to keep quiet about her affair with Donald Trump and was later pressured into signing a false statement denying the affair because she believed that Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney, would “make [her] life hell.” Cohen has denied threatening Daniels. [Washington Post]

* In the summer of 2014, Bracewell & Giuliani warned Cambridge Analytica that foreign citizens shouldn’t have “substantive management” roles running U.S. election campaigns, and yet, that’s exactly what the company did in its work with the Trump campaign, and now Robert Mueller is on the case. [Washington Examiner; TIME]

* Some law firms in the U.K. have started including information on partners’ salaries in their mandatory gender pay gap reporting. The first firms to do so were Norton Rose Fulbright, with a 27 percent pay gap for all employees (including partners), and Reed Smith, with an 8 percent pay gap among only partners. [Financial Times]

* Law student Jordan Crewe has already filed suit against the soon-to-be-closed Savannah Law School, accusing the school of committing fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty. She’s requesting punitive damages from the school, and wants a jury trial too. [WSAV]

* Baker Hostetler has a new chair. By that we mean a new leader, not new furniture. [American Lawyer]

* Now that they’ve settled, Chadbourne is a big fan of Kerrie Campbell. [New York Law Journal]

* Cox witness thinks AT&T merger would be “horribly ugly.” Well at least it’s an unbiased source. [National Law Journal]

* Ogletree Deakins slapped with punitives in malpractice trial. I’ve said it before… someone over there needs to figure out labor law. [Daily Report Online]

* Some people don’t pass the bar. [Inside Higher Ed]

* GE signed a multiyear contract with UnitedLex. A conversation with William Deckelman, general counsel of DXC Technology. [Corporate Counsel]