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* At Paul Hastings the client is always right and they’ll move mountains for them… potentially including pushing past conflicts. [Corporate Counsel]

* Could the reports of its death be greatly exaggerated? Shearman posts tidy Q1 M&A haul. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Shaq served in FTX suit after initially avoiding process servers. How did they miss him? [Cleveland.com]

* If Dominion and Fox delayed the trial to talk settlement, that seems to have fizzled with jury selection on deck this morning. Perhaps there’s still more public embarrassment to dole out after all. [Reuters]

* In light of the horrific Yarl shooting, the local paper tries to explain that the law doesn’t allow people to just try to murder anyone who comes to the door. Which is true, but highlights the problem with these broad self-defense laws… they make ginned up gun nuts think they can and you can’t really put the toothpaste back in the tube when they act on that misinterpretation. [Kansas City Star]

* Second time’s the charm: new NY Chief Judge pick rolling through the process. [NY Times]

* EY to cut 3000 jobs after spinoff failed. [Law360]

Folks... we need to come to grips with the fact that Donald Trump is going to be our next president.

If Shaq went to law school, Elie thinks that he would be a gunner... a gunner who doesn't make his free throws...

* With a $10 million donation, it looks like UCLA School of Law can afford to stop playing it fast and loose with its employment statistics. [New York Times] * In light of Facebook’s “smoking gun” evidence of fraud, Paul Ceglia didn’t skip town. He skipped the entire country. [Los Angeles Times] * You can […]

* A jury found Warren Jeffs guilty of sexual assault, confirming that just because there’s grass on the field, it doesn’t mean that you should play ball. [CNN] * John H. Ray III finally sued Ropes & Gray for treating him like the “token black associate.” That’s only funny on an episode of South Park. […]