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* Paul Manafort is the Energizer Bunny of lying and he’d now botched his own plea deal. [Huffington Post]

* Apple attorney in charge of insider trading compliance charged with… insider trading. [Law360]

* John Roberts declared himself the First Amendment’s most passionate defender at the Supreme Court, which is absolutely true if you limit the First Amendment to political bribery and bigots with cake shops. [National Law Journal]

* EU adopts new copyright law! It’s… not good. [EFF]

* The Harvard admissions case — the Trojan horse action about gutting affirmative action programs — is now in the hands of Judge Allison Burroughs for the perfunctory first act on the road to a 5-4 Supreme Court opinion. [Law.com]

* Proskauer inches toward the $1B revenue mark. [American Lawyer]

* A review of Biglaw cafeterias in the UK. If any firms out there want Above the Law to duplicate this story here in America, feel free to give us a call. [Legal Cheek]

What are the key issues in the case, and when can we expect a ruling?

* Lawyer for Hughes Hubbard partner wants the other side to whip it out. [Law360]

* What if Martindale and Avvo came together into one website that no one looks at? [American Lawyer]

* Court says Michael Avenatti stiffed a contractor on the same day he’s kicked out of his office for being a deadbeat, further solidifying his position as the “liberal version of Trump.” [LA Times]

* Speaking of Trump, insurers can now kill your coverage over the pre-existing condition of “acne.” [NY Times]

* Justice Department advising agencies to lie about FOIA requests. Cool. [Courthouse News Service]

* In case you were wondering, the Mueller probe is not a witch hunt. [CNN]

* The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is now the number one IPO market in the world. Great job for the #MakeAmericaSecondRateAgain crowd! [International]

* Lawyer forcefully argues for Harvard admissions to reflect socioeconomic diversity. If this wasn’t a lawsuit bankrolled by white grievance they might be onto something. [Politico]

* A sneak peek at Am Law 200 reports. [American Lawyer]

* Two lesser charges against Tex McIver shot down. [USNWR]

* The Waffle House sextortion case ends in acquittal. Defendants celebrate at IHOP. [Daily Report Online]

* Four Thomas clerks are behind the new “HAWA” legal challenge to make Harvard All White Again. [National Law Journal]

* A quick look at Robert Khuzami, the former SEC Enforcement honcho who most likely fulfilled the SDNY USAO’s role in ordering the Cohen raid. [Courthouse News Service]

* JP Morgan decided to join the cryptocurrency revolution by declaring that customer purchases of cryptocurrencies were really “cash advances” instead of regular transactions… a move that allowed them to charge higher fees. Now cryptoheads are suing. Look, you can’t have it both ways. [Law360]

The former Supreme Court nominee would make a perfect leader for the great university.

* Commuting to work counts as “work,” according to the European Court of Justice. I think five-year-olds everywhere would agree. [Independent]

* Harvard College rescinded the offers of 10 prospective students for trading sexually explicit memes and messages targeting minorities. When reached for comment, the Alt-Right First Amendment brigade decried the school’s lack of “intellectual diversity” probably, before masturbating to Birth of a Nation. [Harvard Crimson]

* Adam Feldman Empirical SCOTUS breaks down how the Court can avoid the stupid Travel Ban. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Bill Cosby walked into his trial with Keshia Knight Pulliam. Pulliam played “Rudy” on the popular television show “The Cosby Show,” which has now been ruined forever. [The Root]

* Everybody is enjoying the Real Press Sec Twitter bot. [The Hill]

* Flint is one of those places where white people are winning the race war. [New York Daily News]

* Trump’s support didn’t predominately come for the white working class. It came from the white stupid class. [Washington Post]

* Since the Nazis have won anyway, sure, I’m ready for some football. I guess. Who cares. I envy the dead. [Deadspin]

It's not surprising that lawyers are with Her, but the margin is kind of amazing.

Columnist Laurie Lin sizes up the latest featured couples: no tackiness here, just limitless love and legal prestige.

Please, hate this lawyer -- it's what he deserves.

* It’s fun to keep suing the Redskins over their racist nickname. It’s also fun to watch the Washington Football Club get the snot beat out of them. [ABA Journal] * Legal aid… for inventor seeking venture capital. Everybody needs lawyers, folks. Nobody wants to pay for them. [San Jose Mercury News] * Goldman picks […]

How does law student satisfaction compare with the broader population?

What weight should be given to solo practice and to "JD Advantage" jobs in law school rankings?

Oliver Goodenough recaps Harvard's workshop on Disruptive Innovation in the Market for Legal Services.

* The Woody Allen-Mia Farrow custody findings were pretty damning. But for legal geeks, the important point is footnote 1, where the opinion shouts out then-clerk, now federal judge Analisa Torres for her role in drafting the opinion. [Huffington Post] * Um… you shouldn’t do that with a sea anemone. [Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals] * Judge Stanwood Duval presided over the criminal trial of a BP engineer arising from the BP oil spill. He forgot to mention that he was a plaintiff in a suit against BP arising from the BP oil spill. Oops.[New Orleans Times-Picayune] * Maybe Harvard needs some new tax lawyers. [Chronicle of Higher Education] * Apparently, the Brits aren’t too thorough with their background checks. A lawyer got exposed for lying about having two Harvard degrees. It only took bar authorities 9 years to figure it out. [Legal Cheek] * Elie weighs in on the McGruff the crime dog story from last week. [ATL Redline] * And part of the problem with the background check may start at the law school stage — the U.K. doesn’t consider criminal convictions for fraud in the U.S. as “relevant” for future practitioners of law. One tipster wonders if Stephen Glass should try his luck outside America? [New York Times] * UNLV Professor Nancy Rapoport offers some mixed thoughts on the Santa Clara professor’s “Local Rules.” [Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot] * Mathew Martoma’s conviction probably doesn’t mean all that much. Except to him, of course. For him it means some quality time in federal prison. [Dealbreaker]

Some fun facts about the just-concluded trial of Mathew Martoma.

Which D.C. Circuit judges almost hired Mathew Martoma, defendant in the biggest insider trading case ever, back when he was a Harvard law student?

* Is Scandal the best TV lawyer show? No, that’s Matlock. But here’s a bunch of arguments for Scandal’s worthiness. [Life of the Law] * Lawyers face financial and emotional depression, says most obvious study ever. [TaxProf Blog] * Paralyzed man achieves dream of being a lawyer. Great, so now he’s added crippling debt to his struggles. Seriously though, this is an actual feel good legal story. [MyFoxDC] * “ALWAYS assume every Wall Street guy is snorting coke and screwing hookers. That’s Journalism 101.” [Gawker] * The lawyer for the accused Harvard bomb threat guy says his client was under pressure. I mean, it’s scary to think about botching the final and maybe getting an A- or something. [Associated Press via Boston.com] * Renisha McBride’s killer — who shot her in the face because she was asking for help and its his God-given right to shoot first and ask questions later — will stand trial. [Jezebel] * Teaching lawyers to be more entrepreneurial. [Huffington Post]

Where did Derrick Wang come up with the idea for his "Scalia/Ginsburg" opera?