Mount Everest

* A Michigan lawyer, who allegedly gave his adversary the middle finger during a virtual court hearing, has purportedly been fined $3,000. That’s one expensive bird… [Detroit Free Press]

* Unvaccinated workers at a Houston hospital are suing over their employer’s vaccination mandate. [Washington Post]

* A Philadelphia-area attorney passed away last week hours after he was pulled from a bay in Longport, New Jersey. [Fox News]

* Johnson & Johnson is asking the Supreme Court to hear an ovarian cancer case that resulted in a $2 billion judgment against the company. [NBC News]

* A retired attorney is now the oldest person to have scaled Mount Everest. [Chicago Tribune]

He found his passion outside of the law.

* This is not a metaphor — John Quinn takes on Everest. [Big Law Business]

* A DOJ staffer got the ball rolling on the Mike Flynn investigation. [Wall Street Journal]

* Get your popcorn ready for next week’s Comey testimony. [Huffington Post]

* Financial advice just in case you get laid off. [Law and More]

* Paul Caron starts his term as Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law. [TaxProf Blog]

* Internet surveillance isn’t the future, it’s the present. [Katz Justice]

Our Lawyer of the Day is pretty awesome. She climbed Mount Everest this weekend. No big deal.