Ron Klain

* Biglaw continues to grow despite lagging demand. Is it bad planning or do the firms realize that this recession-that-isn’t is never going to arrive? [American Lawyer]

* The good news: Congress remembered that jurisdiction stripping is a real power that they have! The bad news: they’re using it to clear the deck for one of Joe Manchin’s pork barrel projects. [American Prospect]

* Ninth Circuit swoops into ongoing sex trafficking trial before judge could allow defense lawyers to ask victims about prior prostitution arrests. Look at those go-getters on the Ninth Circuit refusing to procrastinate until there’s a final judgment! [Legal Affairs and Trials]

* Judge Ho wrote a whole separate opinion about the grave injustice of forcing him to use a thesaurus. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Diddy sues liquor giant alleging that it squelched his brands by marketing them exclusively to Black consumers. [Law360]

* An interview with Ron Klain as he transitions back to the private side of the spinning door. [ABA Journal]

* Danny Masterson convicted on two counts of rape. [Reuters]

* Dominion’s defamation trial against Fox delayed at the last moment, raising speculation that Fox may be trying to settle approximately a two years too late. [CNN]

* US News delays release of law school rankings following freak out from schools worried about what their own stupid boycott caused. [Reuters]

* Clarence Thomas is amending his old financial disclosures to include the shady revelations of the past few weeks. He claims this is all unnecessary because he lost money on these deals despite the statute being very clear that profit and loss are irrelevant to disclosure. But who really believes in holding people to the explicit text of a statute, huh? [Huffington Post]

* Federal Circuit is investigating the fitness of one of its 95-year-old judges. Not that there’s really much they can do about it. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Is it bad when your lawyer is recusing himself because he had to testify to the grand jury about you? That seems bad. [Washington Post]

* Ron Klain heads back to O’Melveny. [Axios]

Ron Klain speaks to the important of a representative judicial system.

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* Congratulations (and good luck) to our nation’s new ebola czar — who happens to be a high-profile lawyer. [ATL Redline] * An update on the Charleston Law/InfiLaw drama. [Post and Courier] * If they had only taken the pink underwear off the patient before he woke up, he wouldn’t have his panties in a bunch. [Huffington Post] * Getting people to read law review articles is hard enough; why put them behind a wall? [TaxProf Blog] * It’s funny that Floridian lawyers are having such a bad reaction to Bad Judge, since the show could actually be reality TV down there. [Daily Business Review (sub. req.)] * Career advice: if you aspire to the federal judiciary, try to avoid writing blog posts about biting girls in the butt. [Missouri Lawyers Weekly (sub. req.)] * Congrats to lawyer Lisa Smith on winning the Pitch Week book competition at the When Words Count Retreat! [Street Insider]