Kirsten Gillibrand

She's taking a clear step to put women at the center of her campaign.

Life in Biglaw isn't so grand.

Davis Polk shows its support for an alum.

* Michael Cohen is suing Buzzfeed over publishing the Trump intelligence dossier. He says the Russia collusion allegations are “not legitimate” but to paraphrase Judge Judy, “don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s a Russian prostitute.” [Bloomberg]

* Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz is embroiled in boring, plodding lawsuit which actually sums up his offense pretty well. [Deadspin]

* The IRS is getting into the Bitcoin game. Maybe they can explain blockchain in terms that don’t involve magic. [Forbes]

* Justice Sotomayor bluntly confronted Noel Francisco over the administration’s 180 on voting rights. Francisco didn’t have a clear, straightforward  answer ready which is weird because “we managed to slip in the back door of the White House so we’re basically the Allstate Mayhem guy but for the Constitution” would’ve been a perfectly acceptable and honest answer. [National Law Journal]

* Meanwhile, a federal judge threw out a challenge to Alabama’s strict voter ID law finding the state had an important regulatory interest in combatting the voter fraud crisis that they can’t string together any evidence of. Jeez, maybe Brett Talley would have actually improved the Alabama federal bench. [NPR]

* For your daily reminder that Texas is a jerkweed backwater, the woman accused of drunkenly destroying hundreds of thousands of dollars in art faces a possible life sentence because Texas couldn’t figure out how to put the death penalty on it. [Texas Lawyer]

* Kirsten Gillibrand will use her blue slip to block the nomination of Greenberg Traurig’s Geoffrey Berman for the SDNY U.S. Attorney post. Or, more accurately these days, Kristin Gillibrand will use her blue slip to do absolutely nothing to slow down the nomination of Geoffrey Berman for the SDNY U.S. Attorney post. [New York Law Journal]

* Skadden avoids sanctions in Vijay Singh suit. Remember when the PGA was accusing people of doping… in golf? [Law360]

Lawyers represent 14 percent of the list. Which legal eagles soared into the Time 100 this year?

What is gained by saying that rape in the military is on par with rape in the civilian world?

When Congress sends the message that a woman would be safer from rape if she went to the average university than if she served her country in our armed forces, it maligns the military and gives women a false fear.

And yet the government seems unwilling or unable to remedy the situation.

A former Second Circuit clerk speaks quite highly of his co-clerk after her reelection as a New York senator. We mean that sarcastically, of course.

Oh, I kid the grammar nazis because I’m really bad at it and making jokes is easier than contemplating my own shortcomings. But even I can acknowledge that some typos are distracting. Give me another sentence and I’ll show you — or maybe I have already (that’s an honest question: I’ve got no damn clue […]

In today’s New York Times, there’s an interesting profile of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who replaced Senatrix Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate. To be honest, despite my weakness for high-powered women with gold-plated credentials — Gillibrand’s résumé features Dartmouth, UCLA Law, a Second Circuit clerkship, Davis Polk, and Boies Schiller (where she was a partner) […]

* This “Kirsten Gillibrand as MILF” thing makes me vaguely uncomfortable. She’s blond. Okay. And…? I’m not sure she is/was attractive enough to work at the hottie haven of Davis Polk, much less be in Vogue. [Law Shucks] * As I tried to explain on Twitter, going shooting with Antonin Scalia sounds like a bad […]

* Governor Patterson has chosen Kirsten Gillibrand, a 42-year-old New York congresswoman, to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate. [Reuters] * On the 36th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade protestors gather for the annual March for Life on the National Mall. [The Los Angeles Times] * The Senate has confirmed six members of Obama’s cabinet […]