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* Brexit is going to be a real problem for law firms. [Law.com]

* Former paralegal sues firm alleging it “fosters a ‘party culture’ rife with drug use and sexual harassment.” [Philly Voice]

* Law firms are feasting on the Sears bankruptcy. [NY Post]

* 2020 could be a monster year for Biglaw fundraising. [American Lawyer]

* What happens to intellectual property when artificial intelligence starts inventing things? [The Recorder]

* Even the Second Circuit doesn’t want to fly Spirit. [Law360]

* SEC targets investment fund that allegedly preyed upon brain-damaged NFL players to enrich themselves. Team owners, meanwhile, face no repercussions. [Daily Business Review]

* The DOJ makes secret laws? Super. [Politico]

* Law firm diversity score cards are here, and…. African-American lawyers are still not being represented. Yikes. [Law.com]

* Judge Kozinski may be gone from the Ninth Circuit, but it is still hard work to change the culture there. [Big Law Business]

* Oakland is the second city looking to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms. Plan your vacations accordingly. [The Hill]

* In a continuing embarrassment to NYC, Rudy Giuliani wants a new role in the 2020 Trump campaign. [Politico]

* 5 firms have been cut out of the NFL concussion case. [Law360]

* Ted Wells for the defense, in New Jersey tax incentives case. [National Law Journal]

* Will New York strengthen sexual harassment laws? Well, maybe. But at least they’re having hearing on the issue. [New York Law Journal]

* In case you missed it (the news broke on Friday night), Judge Reed O’Connor (N.D. Tex.) held that the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare is unconstitutional, in the wake of last year’s tax reform that reduced the ACA’s “shared responsibility payment” for lacking health-care coverage to zero. [MedCity News]

* Josh Blackman agrees with Judge O’Connor the constitutionality of the individual mandate, but disagreed with his severability analysis. [Reason / Volokh Conspiracy]

* Meanwhile, fellow Volokh Conspirator Samuel Bray is glad that the court didn’t issue a national injunction. [Reason / Volokh Conspiracy]

* Adam Feldman takes a closer look at the Federal Circuit’s relationship to the Supreme Court — including which members of the Federal Circuit are most frequently vindicated by SCOTUS. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Carrie Severino shares the disappointment of her former boss, Justice Thomas, in Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh voting against certiorari in Gee v. Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast. [Bench Memos / National Review]

* Eric Turkewitz calls out members of the media for misreporting on a routine trip-and-fall case because they don’t like the plaintiff’s famous father. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog]

* Oakland is going on the offensive against the NFL, firing off a 49-page complaint signed by James Quinn of Berg & Androphy, among others. [The MMQB / Sports Illustrated]

* Speaking of Berg & Androphy, name partner David Berg offers expert insights on what it takes to win as a trial lawyer. [YouTube]

* Colin Kaepernick’s lawsuit against the NFL alleging collusion between NFL teams will be allowed to go forward, at least to a full hearing. [Slate]

* A former NBC exec says the network threatened to smear Ronan Farrow if he kept investigating Harvey Weinstein. [Daily Beast]

* Proskauer settles lawsuit over the work the firm did for convicted Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford… to the tune of $63 million. [New York Law Journal]

* A Mueller bombshell to drop by 5pm today? We’ll be watching. [Mediaite]

* Inside the fight to deregulate the U.K. legal market. [The Financial Times]

* Microsoft is doubling down in making sure its outside law firms (and other suppliers) provide paid parental leave for their employees. [Corporate Counsel]

* Bank of America is facing backlash after freezing accounts of people they suspect as being non-U.S. citizens. [Huffington Post]

* The NFL is going to ask Jerry Jones to reimburse legal fees spent on Roger Goodell’s contract negotiations because Jones — prudently and responsibly — argued that the league had an obligation not to rubber stamp a multi-million dollar extension to this idiot. You’ve got to hand it to Goodell… he’s made Jerry Jones a sympathetic figure. [NPR]

* Tim Kaine is leading a handful of Democrats in an effort to make it harder to enforce anti-discrimination laws in the housing market. Oh. [Huffington Post]

* Kirkland & Ellis is out there doing crazy stuff to bolster revenue… and it’s working. [Law.com]

* SEC reportedly issuing subpoenas in crackdown on fraudulent ICOs. Apparently, the agency is concerned that some companies handing out magic beans may not be on the up and up. [Bloomberg Markets]

* Alston & Bird tagged by jury as 32 percent liable for its role in enabling millions in ill-gotten gains. [Daily Report Online]

* Harvey Weinstein’s carrier refuses to cover his legal bills. Apparently “Chubb” doesn’t cover horny men accused of misconduct which seems ironic. [Variety]

* A dive into just how badly the Supreme Court kneecapped detained immigrants and their attorneys this week. [VICE News]

* The first editorial from the American Lawyer’s Young Lawyer Editorial Board tackles sexual harassment in the legal industry. [American Lawyer]

* Colin Kaepernick’s lawyers have requested emails and texts from a number of teams as part of the quarterback’s collusion claim. They’ve also asked to speak to Texans owner Bob McNair, 49ers owner Jed York, and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. [CBS Sports]

* So, you want to write a white paper. Best practices for law firms to make the most of the marketing opportunity. [Law and More]

* Bad news for in-house lawyers. Those sexual harassment trainings probably don’t work. [Mother Jones]

* Yeah, you best believe Anita Hill has some thoughts about what’s been going on. [New Yorker]

* It’s apparently Global Love Your Lawyer Day, so get out there and give your lawyer a hug! [ABA Journal]

* As Trump (slowly) nominates U.S. Attorneys, just how important is it that prosecutors have ties to the states they serve? [Baltimore Sun]

* So now we’re going to save DACA? Honestly, watching a White House with no coherent vision is exhausting. [Los Angeles Times]

* Trump’s FEC nominee raises eyebrows because his Twitter feed includes linking to articles explaining that “Protestantism is poison.” That’s an unexpected wrinkle in 2017, but then again… nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! [National Law Journal]

* Do the Big 4 accounting firms pose a threat to Biglaw? Um, yes! [Am Law Daily]

* Squire Patton Boggs isn’t entitled to squirepattonboggs.net according to an international arbitration panel. Put aside the merits of this decision and spend a few minutes cruising squirepattonboggs.net. It’s kind of hilarious. [Asian Lawyer]

* A new online program promises to help women get out of Biglaw. [Law.com]

* Yesterday, jurors heard that employees of payday lender AMG Services were fed weather reports so they could make small talk without revealing that they weren’t really on the tribal lands that offered them legal cover. You’ve got to appreciate how thorough they were. [Law360]

* Attorney sentenced for orchestrating a scheme that swindled NFL players. [Chicago Tribune]

* Now Ivanka Trump’s hired Abbe Lowell. Hey, at least she doesn’t think she has any potentially adverse interests to her husband. Yet. [National Law Journal]

* Elon Musk may be looking for in-house counsel for the burrowing company he claims has a government deal to start building underground highways and super trains. First step for this new attorney? Explaining that, no, he does not have a government contract to start building underground highways and super trains. [Law.com]

* NFL cheerleaders can’t pursue antitrust action against entity that’s already lost an antitrust action. Remember that? When Donald Trump bankrupted a football league because he’s comically incompetent? [Courthouse News Service]

* Wells Fargo inadvertently released a bunch of client data and they want it back. One presumes these are real Wells Fargo clients and not the millions of fake ones. [Law360]

* ABA warns against weakening Medicaid. I’m sure that’s going to do the trick with this crew. [ABA Journal]

* Has R. Kelly hired Bill Cosby’s attorney? [Complex]

* An argument for Jeff Sessions keeping his job. [Litigation Daily]

* Happy Comey Day! [Huffington Post]

* Legal operations teams are rampant, proving no one trusts Biglaw billing. [Corporate Counsel]

* Sessions ends DOJ settlements that give money to charitable causes — a common tactic in matters where identifying all specific victims would be difficult or impossible. This is played off as “helping victims” because nothing helps victims more than making sure the perpetrator feels no penalty for their wrongdoing. [ABA Journal]

* The “Mansfield Rule” tries to bring NFL thinking to a Biglaw problem. Now if we could just address all those junior associate concussions…. [Law.com]

* The American Immigration Lawyers Association is relocating its upcoming convention to get out of Texas. So the state has successfully built itself a wall — against tourism dollars. [Texas Tribune]

* DOJ asking Second Circuit to consider what Escobar means for Wells Fargo. In other words, it’s time to circle the wagons at Wells Fargo. [Law360]

* Norton Rose Fulbright considering merger. [Legal Week]

* Are federal authorities investigating Fox News? [Law360]

* Has Trump made law school “cool again”? No. Law school was never cool. [Quartz]

* What do you know? Looks like some firms are finally waking up to the fact that they didn’t have good years and really couldn’t afford to jack up associate salaries. [ABA Journal]

* That said, Davis Polk just had its self-described “best year ever.” Did nobody tell these people Bowie died? [Am Law Daily]

* Judges say they understand technology, but contradictory rulings about discovery and “the cloud” may say otherwise. [Law.com]

* The litigation finance industry is leery of class actions. Should they be? [The Recorder]

* Then again, maybe it won’t matter because this Congress is trying to gut class actions by making it next to impossible to find lawyers willing to take on these cases. [Forbes]

* Hofstra Law is opening a clinic to serve immigrants dealing with deportation. [Newsday]

* Nobody actually likes the Rams or Chargers. That’s why Biglaw is in deep with a gaggle of antitrust suits brought by the people of Los Angeles over having to buy NFL Sunday Ticket. [Law.com]