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* Cravath closing in on an office move, potentially returning the firm to civilization after years on 8th Avenue. [New York Law Journal]

* The moral of the story is: if you’re going to pretend to be a lawyer, have a name that’s easy to spell. [KMOV]

* The blockchain and cryptocurrency industries are begging for some regulatory guidance but what they’re getting instead is about as empty and worthless as a cryptocurrency. [Corporate Counsel]

* Kirkland hires a new “director of well-being.” That seems like a great gesture but if that person can’t initiate core changes to the law firm model this doesn’t seem like much of a solution. Thankfully, Kirkland employees are already pretty satisfied. [American Lawyer]

* The intellectual property tussle over Iron Man’s suit continues. [Law360]

* Across the pond, Boris Johnson is facing prosecution over his Brexit shenanigans. Here’s an explainer. [Legal Cheek]

* Julian Assange too sick for court. [NBC News]

* Trump’s DOJ now asking courts to overturn the entire ACA including ban on discrimination against pre-existing conditions in bid to capture the eugenics constituency. [NY Times]

* Mayer Brown alum mayoral candidate proposes higher taxes on Biglaw. [Chicago Sun-Tribune]

* Artists claim Marvel ripped off their Iron Man design claiming “Stan Lee’s original Iron Man was clad in spandex and ‘minimal armor.'” Someone actually filed a suit based on that theory. [Law360]

* Coming as a shock to no legal observer, Jay Sekulow doesn’t understand basics of law. [MSNBC]

* Michael Flynn owes around $5 million in legal fees. [New York Mag]

* The Los Angeles lateral market is hopping. [The Recorder]

* Someone’s finally suing Facebook for making every dumb media company think they needed to “pivot to video.” [Delaware Business Court Insider]

* Whistleblower accomplishes what UCF could not and makes Duke pay. [Corporate Counsel]

* The past and future of law reviews. Somehow whenever I think of the future of law reviews, I think of this. [The Faculty Lounge]

* Has anyone else noticed Trump’s lawyers sound a lot different all of a sudden? [Vanity Fair]

* Lisa Bloom’s got a lawsuit against Usher over supposedly giving women herpes. Frankly, that’s not the worst thing Usher’s unleashed on an unsuspecting populace. That’s what he has to answer for. [Jezebel]

* The marijuana crackdown may be coming soon. [Slate]

* This reads like a New York City government scandal, but then you read the details and it’s just… not. [New York Daily News]

* This guy really doesn’t like legal AI. [Legal Cheek]

* It’s been a few days, but here’s a recap of The Legal Geeks’ presentations at SDCC. [The Legal Geeks]

* You know who no one talked about at that convention? Merrick Garland. Here’s a theory as to why… [Lawyers, Guns & Money]

* Steven Avery is not pleased with Dean Strang and Jerry Buting and he’s got a handwritten screed about it. [USA Today]

* Law professor has bats in her belfry. [Tax Prof Blog]

* Jury nullification in the murder of Bruce Banner. [The Legal Geeks]

* Professor Orly Lobel on the prisoner’s dilemma of reporting sexual harassment. [Fortune]

* This is how easily a Supreme Court vacancy is handled in a civilized country. [Legal Cheek]

* French court says Lockout was plagiarized from Escape From New York. I thought it was a little suspicious that Lockout followed the adventures of Lizard Flissken. [io9]

* What is the proper choice of law for space crimes? Um, pretty sure it’s Judge Dredd, but you write up your little piece anyway. [Seeker]

* Becoming addicted to Biglaw power. [Law and More]

* Kate Middleton’s famous wedding dress by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen is now the subject of a lawsuit, with designer Christine Kendall claiming it is a knockoff. [Fashionista]

* This lawyer, Helene Goodin, after 22 years in the legal profession, left it all to open her own bakery. [Huffington Post]

* The rest of the world discovers Delaware’s a haven for holding companies; lawyers everywhere shrug. [Gawker]

* When humanitarian aid actually caused more economic hardship for the very people we are supposed to be “helping.” [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* Can Indian start-ups render the Biglaw firm structure unnecessary? [Law and More]

* Richard Hsu talks with Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert cartoon strip. [Hsu Untied]

* The Constitutional Accountability Center is holding an event this Thursday, April 28th at the National Press Club in D.C. on the Supreme Court’s docket this Term, previewing decisions yet to be handed down and discussing key themes from the Term. [Constitutional Accountability Center]

* Speaking of SCOTUS, if you’re interested in Supreme Court lit, check out this televised panel of authors, including Irin Carmon of Notorious RBG and ATL editor David Lat of Supreme Ambitions (affiliate links). [C-SPAN]

* Cops arrest a stormtrooper in Massachusetts. See, J.J. Abrams! This is what happens when you have a black stormtrooper. [Lowering the Bar]

* Litigation finance crosses a new threshold: Gerchen Keller announces that it now has $1.4 billion in assets. [Am Law Daily]

* Understanding how humans cocoon makes you a better lawyer. But cocoons apparently can’t cure Wilford Brimley’s “dia-beet-us.” [Katz Justice]

* Deep look at Rob Billot whose career as a corporate lawyer took a wild turn when he decided to take on DuPont for the last 16 years. [New York Times Magazine]

* The law of using submarines to spy. That damn caterpillar drive again. [Lawfare]

* Are you going to San Diego ComicCon? Are you willing to cosplay to participate in a mock trial? These folks want to talk with you. [The Legal Geeks]

* Americans lost their minds — one way or the other — over President Obama’s tears yesterday, but they’re a well-established part of advocacy to be handled lightly. Or you could just bawl over everything and see if that works. [Law and More]

* Let’s check in at the AALS Conference. Yep, everything seems perfectly normal over there…

That’s the CALI.org booth if you’re visiting the show (photo grabbed off Twitter).

Ed. note: Due to the Labor Day holiday we will be on a reduced publication schedule today, and observing the holiday on Monday. Hope everyone has an enjoyable, restful and long weekend.

* Oh yay! An attorney hits something with his car, doesn’t stop, and uses the “I’m an attorney!” line, complete with F-bombs. And he was drinking, because of course he was. [Legal Profession Blog]

* You shoot for the stars Utah! Utah Law announced a new initiative to have 100 percent bar passage and 100 percent professional employment. [Tax Prof Blog]

* Burn! Not only did the Ninth Circuit overturn Judge Robert Jones’s decision, they reassigned the case. [Election Law Blog]

* A war between Harvard Law professors! Okay, it’s just a war of words, but Cass Sunstein really takes it to former Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren and law prof turned presidential candidate Larry Lessig. [American Thinker]

* Lessons on being a lawyer you can get from watching Peggy Olson. [Careerist]

* Here’s a horrifying fact: “Defendants who can’t make bail, regardless of their crime, are four times more likely to be sentenced to time in prison.” [Pacific Standard]

* This is fun! A 1947 anti-union propaganda comic put out by General Electric. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* Food in exchange for legal advice. Seems like a good deal. [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]

* Moving ever closer to the day when a marriage license for a same sex couple is just a matter of paperwork — even in Kentucky. [Huffington Post]

* TSA officials in Houston are checking hundreds of sorority girl bags because the convention book — that all of them have — keeps raising red flags. Now, Underhill thinks TSA should have figured this out and stopped checking. But that’s just what those girls from ΙΣΙΣ are banking on. [Lowering the Bar]

* Don’t recommend people on the grounds that they “don’t have enemies.” It’s not a compliment unless you immediately follow it with, “… anymore.” [What About Clients?]

* The ABA tries to make it harder to game the U.S. News rankings. That doesn’t sit right with law schools. [TaxProf Blog]

* The tech industry doesn’t understand labor law. Which is weird, because you can Google that s**t. [PrawfsBlawg]

* Venable not liable for alleged puffery. The firm is just glad it can go back to being the greatest lawyers on the face of the Earth. [The Blog of the Legal Times]

* The intellectual property concerns of cosplay. Remember if you get sued, the people dressed like Daredevil and She-Hulk aren’t actually able to help you. [IP Watchdog]

* Elie discusses the Samuel DuBose killing and Pell grants. [Legal Broadcast Network via YouTube]

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* If you think the federal government is preparing a military takeover of Texas… you might be a redneck. And you might also be Governor Greg Abbott. [Forbes]

* Elie says it’s time to end the expansive powers of arrest, for the good of everyone. [New York Daily News]

* Most of the 2016 presidential hopefuls are breaking the law. It’s good practice for if they win. [LFC 360]

* Not to dismiss the important point made in this article about substandard housing and the dangers of lead paint, but I think there may be other lessons to learn from Freddie Gray. [Washington Post]

* Satanic Temples are taking this RFRA thing and running with it. [Jezebel]

* Over in the EU, Louis Vuitton failed to win back the trademark it claims on its checkerboard pattern. [Fashionista]

* I’ve not read this yet, but here’s a collection of Legal Notices To Superheroes. Per the description, “A Letter to Superman from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services” has a lot of promise. [Amazon (affiliate link)]

* And remember to vote for the winner of the 2015 ATL Law Revue contest. Voting concludes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. EST. [Above the Law]

* A California judge sentenced a man to 53 years in prison and then officiated his wedding. So she gave him 53 years followed by a life sentence? Hey ho! [CBS News] * Jersey Shore’s The Situation suffers the indignity of a legal defeat. I mean, if he has dignity left. [South Florida Lawyers] * Who would make a better juror: a non-citizen or Charlie Sheen? I’d prefer to have Sheen… I don’t know if there are many crimes he wouldn’t understand. [The Atlantic] * The results are in from Kaplan’s just completed 2013 survey of law school admissions officers. The headline is that 54 percent of law school admissions officers report cutting their entering law school classes for 2013-2014 and 25 percent plan to do so again next year. Time to build another law school! [Kaplan Test Prep] * A comprehensive list of the crimes committed by Batman in Batman Begins. And I’m not entirely sure everything he did in his hostile takeover of Wayne Enterprises was on the up-and-up either. [Salt Lake Tribune] * Here’s a list of online resources for new attorneys. Here’s another helpful one. [Associate's Mind] * An attorney bit his 3-year-old son. Hurray for bath salts! [KRQE] * A record label threatened to sue a guy. Unfortunately for them they threatened to sue Professor Lawrence Lessig. [NPR] * Student loan default rates are at the highest level in 20 years. Seems like a sustainable model. [Chronicle of Higher Education] * The recycling of policy debaters into litigators brings good and bad habits to the legal profession. On the plus side, there’s the refined research skills. On the other hand, stenographers have a hard time keeping up. [Houston Law Review] * The new song “Lady Justice” by lawyer-artist DNA (featuring Zoha). He’s already figured out that all the good songs these days have to be “featuring” someone. Song after the jump…

* “Almost anything associated with him is necessarily of concern.” Thanks to the D.C. Circuit, Osama bin Laden’s death photos may never see the light of day, no matter how many FOIA requests you file. Sorry, you’ll have to settle for the Oscar-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty. [McClatchy Newspapers]

* Some would argue that the opinions written by Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit are like Lex Luthor’s ring in that they keep the heirs of Superman’s co-creator at bay like kryptonite. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]

* Ay dios mio, al parecer esta es una gran noticia para la escuela! Yale Law has hired Cristina Rodríguez, an expert in immigration law, as its first Hispanic professor in a tenured position. [National Law Journal]

* Prosecutors established probable cause in the Aurora movie theater shooting case and James Holmes has been ordered to stand trial, but his lawyers aren’t ready to enter his likely NGRI plea yet. [Bloomberg]

* Everyone saw this coming, but that doesn’t mean they have to be any less disgusted by it: Jerry Sandusky filed a motion to get a new trial just three months after being sentenced for his sex abuse conviction. [CNN]

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