Fashion Law

* The Super Bowl is coming up, try to stay out of jail. [Versus Texas]

* In their great new legal podcast, Dan Epps and Ian Samuel take a deep dive into Judge Gorsuch’s decisions and judicial philosophy. [First Mondays]

* Making sense of the Trump Administration’s legal maneuvers surrounding the immigration executive order. [Slate]

* My body, everyone else around me’s choice. [Jezebel]

* Judge Gorsuch’s past includes “Fascism Forever.” [Salon]

* The $500 million judgment against Oculus VR (now owned by Facebook). [Law and More]

* A primer on how the Dems should react to Gorsuch’s nomination. [Washington Post]

* J. Crew’s legal fight. [The Fashion Law]

* The ACLU has joined the Y Combinator community. [Y Combinator]

* I choose to believe Judge Gorsuch did this as part of a small effort to rise above the political morass he finds himself in. [The Hill]

* Anne Gorsuch Burford, Neil’s mom, and her controversial time at the EPA, which sound eerily familiar to what we are likely to see again in the next few years. [The Slot]

* If you’re a lawyer that opposes Trump, what should you be doing? [Law and More]

* Judge Gorsuch’s record on LGBTQ rights. [Slate]

* Designers and patents and trade dress, oh my! [The Fashion Law]

* When all strategies for dealing with Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court are flawed. [Rewire]

* How to find the best opportunities to network. [Reboot Your Legal Practice]

* True confessions of a Biglaw partner. [Law Practice Today]

* If you could prevent one person on Trump’s shortlist from getting on the Court, who would it be? [Slate]

* Will President Trump, or in the alternative, Congress, do anything about the bane of lawyers’ existence: discovery? [The Hill]

* Tim Kaine had some pretty cool alternate plans on inauguration day. [Huffington Post]

* The Netherlands’s safe abortion fund. [The Slot]

* Forever 21’s fighting infringement. [The Fashion Law]

* If you’ll be in Philly on Monday the 30th, please come to “Fred Korematsu Day: A Conversation,” featuring Kermit Roosevelt, author of Allegiance (affiliate link), and our very own David Lat. [Japan America Society]

* Department of Justice lawyers dish on the prospect of working for Jeff Sessions. [GQ]

* The red carpet is as good a place as any for issue spotting. [The Fashion Law]

* After being bullied by Donald Trump, Khizr Khan is using his notoriety to rail against Jeff Sessions. [Huffington Post]

* Some people have their panties in a knot over the letter 1,000+ law profs sent opposing the nomination of Jeff Sessions. [TaxProf Blog]

* Advice for older lawyers searching for new work. [Law and More]

* California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on what you really need to know before practicing before the state’s high court. [Daily Journal]

* Using Whole Woman’s Health against attacks on voting rights. [Rewire]

* Is imagination more important than logic in legal reasoning? [Guile is Good]

* Tips for texting your client. [Reboot Your Law Practice]

* The latest legal loss for Gucci. [The Fashion Law]

* If you’re in New York, consider checking out Solitary, a new documentary about the problem of solitary confinement (before it airs on HBO in February). [Cinema Village]

* Fox Rothschild partner Murray Shusterman, 104, has passed away. [Fox Rothschild]

* Fanfic come to life! Allison Janney handles the White House press corps as C.J. Cregg. Can you catch all the West Wing references she throws out in under a minute? [The Decider]

* Sure, people want a “sleep revolution,” but it is only likely to garner ridicule in the legal profession. Aren’t we lucky? [Law and More]

* Salon’s latest HOTTAKE suggests Bernie or Bust folks should vote for Donald Trump. Yes, it is that stupid. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* Behind the IP fight that killed a fashion house revival. [The Fashion Law]

* Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is really pissed at the Southern Poverty Law Center because they filed an ethics complaint against him. I mean all he did was tell probate judges not to marry same-sex couples… [Wonkette]

* U.S. military says U.S. military is not guilty of a war crime for bombing a Doctors Without Borders hospital. [Huffington Post]

* The impact an eight-justice Supreme Court may have on climate change. [Green Biz]

* Bob McCulloch, the prosecutor who handled (mishandled?) the Michael Brown / Darren Wilson case in Ferguson, Missouri, was recently named as “Prosecutor of the Year” by the Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys. This probably wasn’t a good idea. [Slate]

* American Apparel filed for bankruptcy, and rather than Biglaw firms representing the embattled clothier, they’re trying to snatch up fees. Skadden, White & Case, and Paul Hastings are each owed quite the pretty penny. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg]

* Which law school dean was just named as senior counsel at Dentons, the largest law firm in the world? That would be Nicholas Allard of Brooklyn Law School. Perhaps this law dean’s academic cash flow wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be. [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]

* “Unless the industry cleans itself up, we can expect more lawsuits like this in the future.” In an interesting turn of events, the marijuana industry is now seeing its first product liability suit. A protip for growers: No one wants to smoke fungicide. [Los Angeles Times]

* Just when you thought patent trolls couldn’t get any worse, they started to harass members of the fashion industry. Copyright trolls (i.e., Stephen Doniger and Scott Alan Burroughs) are suing over textile prints left and right, and that’s so last season. [Fortune]

* Hillary Clinton is making a mad dash for Biglaw bucks to support her presidential run. This week, she’ll be at an event hosted by Sullivan & Cromwell, and next week, she’ll be at an event hosted by a Chadbourne & Park partner. Ooh la la, fancy schmancy! [Bloomberg Politics]

* Dewey know why this firm failed? Back before D&L declared bankruptcy, the firm’s most successful rainmakers were asked to give up half of their gigantic salaries in an attempt to stave off the worst… but they didn’t want to. We suppose that’s the way the cartel crumbles. [Am Law Daily]

* Bickel & Brewer, the fearsome Texas litigation boutique, recently broke up, and now it’ll simply be known as Brewer. John Bickel, who invoked the firm’s partnership retirement clause, is now ensconced as senior counsel at Fish & Richardson. [Texas Lawbook]

* This career services dean is here to tell you a tale about law school job stats. You see, law schools don’t have an unemployment problem — instead, they have a “J.D. Advantage” problem (aka, jobs they took because they couldn’t get lawyer jobs). [Huffington Post]

* This is yet another reason why people are considering Fordham’s Fashion Law LL.M.: “Every designer should have a minimum degree of legal literacy, if only to know when to seek a legal opinion — and to avoid being sent to sit at the kids’ table.” [New York Times]