Seyfarth Shaw

* To answer the question posed in Morning Docket today… no. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner Miguel Estrada will not be the next Solicitor General. [Law.com]

* Elena Kagan is finally getting some meme love. [Huffington Post]

* The Texas Supreme Court is hearing arguments about rolling back spousal benefits for same-sex couples. No, you didn’t imagine Obergefell in a fever dream, it’s just Texas. [Slate]

* Can legal remedies be effective against age discrimination? Or will that take too long? [Law and More]

* RIP Barbara Lundergan the first woman to be partner at Seyfarth Shaw. [Crain’s Business]

* How does Neil Gorsuch fare on the issue of abortion? [Constitutional Accountability Center]

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* The Supreme Court takes on an issue of major importance to the patent bar (and the Eastern District of Texas): where can an infringement suit be filed? [How Appealing]

* And SCOTUS also grants cert to a case raising the scope of what prosecutors must disclose to the defense under Brady v. Maryland and a case about a criminal lawyer’s erroneous advice to his client about immigration consequences of a guilty plea. [New York Times via How Appealing]

* Sheriff of Wall Street Preet Bharara loses another deputy to private practice: Katherine Goldstein, head of the S.D.N.Y.’s securities-fraud unit, will join several of her former colleagues — Adam Fee, Antonia Apps and George Canellos — at Milbank Tweed. [WSJ Law Blog]

* President-elect Donald Trump won’t take office for a few weeks, but he’s already inspiring new law school courses. [National Law Journal]

* And Trump might also trigger new lawsuits from state attorneys general seeking to rein in his administration. [New York Times]

* As for existing litigation between Trump and celebrity chefs José Andrés and Geoffrey Zakarian, both the real estate tycoon and his adversaries are repped by big Biglaw names: Seyfarth Shaw and Steptoe & Johnson. [BuzzFeed]

* Speaking of Seyfarth, it’s the firm representing ExxonMobil in litigation alleging anti-gay discrimination in its hiring practices — litigation that continues even as CEO Rex Tillerson prepares to leave the company to head the Trump State Department. [Washington Blade]

A number of these partners were current or former practice chairs.

These allegations are stunning.

After all that, they offer raises anyway.

The firm that told associates it wanted to hold off on raises inspired a lot of discontent.

Firm gives the associates some unpleasant news.

How can attorneys begin to work with their inner critics? Here's some advice from a Biglaw partner.

Columnist Monica Bay discusses two upcoming law-related events in the San Francisco Bay Area, which should offer many delicious predictions and prognostications.

* Has the dearth of law school applicants finally pinched Harvard Law? [Bloomberg Business]

* Meanwhile, New York Law School is doing just fine… thanks to its savvy real estate moves. [Crain’s New York Business]

* Amal Clooney sighting in D.C. [Washington Post]

* For those keeping score, only Scalia, Thomas, and Alito skipped the State of the Union last night, which was not really surprising. [CBS News]

* Former Cravath attorney Robert Miranne talks about the movie “Joy,” chronicling the life and times of his mother, Joy Mangano. [The Am Law Daily]

* In July, China arrested Wang Yu, a top women’s rights lawyer for creating a disturbance. They got around to notifying her mother of this… on Monday. In fairness, they’ve really been swamped over there with the sabotaging the global economy thing. [Reuters]

* FLSA class actions expected to hit record high this year. “I keep waiting — because I’ve been studying it for 15 years — for the number of wage-and-hour lawsuits to crest or go down” said Seyfarth’s Gerald Maatman Jr. And I keep waiting for companies to dutifully pay employees the money they actually owe them, yet here we are. [Law 360]

* “[F]irms have increasingly turned to mergers in hopes that rubbing two coins together might create a third.” Per the chairman of Seyfarth Shaw, Biglaw firms that are facing stagnant growth must change ASAP or suffer the consequences. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]

* Given the recent terror attacks in Paris, many U.S. governors have threatened to stop accepting Syrian refugees within their states’ borders — whether they have the legal authority to actually refuse them, however, is another question entirely. [ABC News]

* The Department of Homeland Security will publish rules governing privacy protections concerning the use of drones. The world can’t wait to see the “best practices” the government recommends for spying on citizens without a warrant. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Mississippi College School of Law has decided to freeze its tuition for students entering in the fall of 2016. Incoming students will get to pay the low, low price of $32,040 (seriously, that’s low for tuition at a private school) for all three years. [National Jurist]

* If you want to put together a compelling admissions package when applying to law school, then during your college summers, you should work at a law-related internship instead of drinking all day and having fun. Sorry! [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]

What is the fate of Bingham after Morgan Lewis's "mass lateral hire" of 226 Bingham partners?

According to the ATL Insider Survey, these practice groups deserve more (or less) acclaim.

* Congrats to Diane Humetewa, the first Native American woman to serve as a federal judge in United States history. You’d think this achievement would’ve already been reached. [Arizona Daily Star]

* When your case is compared to a law school exam, and the judge uses the number “bazillion” to describe the problems that could happen, it sucks to be you, Detroit. [DealBook / New York Times]

* Dewey know when this failed firm actually went belly up? It’s liquidating trustee says D&L was insolvent in 2009, and wants $22.5 million from ex-international partners in his latest clawback suits. [Am Law Daily]

* The managing partner of Seyfarth Shaw refers to his firm as the “Costco of corporate legal services” because it’s a place where you can “get more for less.” What’s the membership fee? [Chicago Tribune]

* The Buffalo Bills filed a motion to dismiss the wage and hour suit put forth by the disgruntled members of its cheerleading squad, the Buffalo Jills. You better hope that motion survives the “jiggle test.” [CBS Sports]

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Some thoughts on the lateral market for "counsel," from Michael Allen of Lateral Link (sponsored post).

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