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Morning Docket: 03.26.18

* 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]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.22.18

* The First Law Student is single. People reports Tiffany Trump broke up with her longtime boyfriend as part of her law school transition. [People] * Jeffrey Toobin and Alan Dershowitz clash on television when Toobin points out that Dershowitz's cable appearances these days are less legal analysis than auditions for Sarah Huckabee Sanders's job. [Daily Beast] * Charles Cooper says Jeff Sessions is not currently under investigation for false statements or perjury. Update your scorecards accordingly. [USA Today] * Ninth Circuit rules in favor of the Gaye family in the Blurred Lines lawsuit. Wait, that's still going on? [Courthouse News Service] * Former Florida State deputy general counsel arrested in child sex sting. [Tallahassee Democrat] * In-house counsel are very concerned about GDPR. [Big Law Business] * Some people have some entirely understandable problems with Lindsay's new ad. [Ad Age] * CSM believes the Austin bomber case shows off law enforcement's deep surveillance powers. Yeah, they were so deep they pretty much did nothing for weeks. [Christian Science Monitor]

By Joe Patrice