Simpson Thacher

* The economy is about to tank and cost 10,000+ lawyers their jobs. Maybe someone should step up and do something about it? [Slate]

* Simpson and Skadden are advising WeWork on its IPO. Common sense is advising everyone else against it. [American Lawyer]

* Latest Circuit Court nominee is 11 years out of law school, frighteningly making him a model of experience. [National Law Journal]

* Recovering from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate is going to be a hell of a mess. [New York Law Journal]

* The short-sell attack on Burford Capital could spark more regulation… even if the whole thing was bogus. [Law.com]

* The idiot in charge of Barstool Sports stumbles into NLRB violation then demands AOC “debate” him. It’s not a debate dude. It’s a law that you broke. There’s not a gray area for contestation. [Variety]

* Simpson Thacher isn’t increasing associate salaries to the $190K scale (yet), but it is partnering with Columbia Business School to launch a new associate training program. We bet your incoming associates are “STBReady” … for higher salaries. Click here to see all the firms that have raised salaries thus far . [New York Law Journal]

* President Trump is appealing the decision that says he can’t block people on Twitter based on their political views to the Second Circuit (because of course he is). He already had to unblock the seven plaintiffs in the case, and he likely wasn’t very happy about it because of glorious follow-up tweets like this. [BuzzFeed]

* After reportedly being rejected by several candidates for the associate attorney general position — one that would oversee the Mueller investigation if Rod Rosenstein were to suddenly depart — the Trump Administration is giving up on trying to fill the job for the moment, and focusing on other vacancies. [Wall Street Journal]

* In the wake of allegations of sexual harassment against former Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, the federal judiciary’s working group on sexual harassment has released 24 recommendations, specifying three areas that need change to make circuit courts an “exemplary workplace.” [Big Law Business]

* The American Bar Association wants out of this whistleblower suit, ASAP. ABA officials claim that former Charlotte Law professor Barbara Bernier only added the law school regulatory group to her suit against the defunct law school and its owner, InfiLaw, as a “last-ditch effort” to keep her action kicking in court. [Law.com]

The American Bar Association needs some new blood! A new report from Law School Transparency and the Iowa State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division recommends adding some younger members to the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. [Law.com]

Partisan gerrymandering challenges may be making their way through the court system, but don’t expect them to be a deciding factor in the midterm elections. [Big Law Business]

It’s never a great start to a trial when the judge has to explain the case isn’t about whether your client is “evil.” [Law360]

Another day, another looming “constitutional crisis.” [Washington Post]

Everyone is out at USA Gymnastics. It is the absolute least they could do. [CNN]

Stephen Cutler may be moving from JPMorgan Chase to Simpson Thatcher, but he says his practice will still focus on internal and government investigations, corporate governance matters and crisis management. [Law.com]

Hank Greenberg of Greenberg Traurig is the president-elect designee of the New York State Bar Association. [New York Law Journal]

* Judge George B. Daniels (S.D.N.Y.) dismissed a suit alleging that President Trump violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause when his hotels and restaurants did business with foreign governments during his time in office. The reason for dismissal? A lack of standing. [Washington Post]

* Speaking of the president, past vetting (or lack thereof) concerns be damned, because he recently announced his latest round of judicial nominations. Thus far, Trump has had a record number of circuit judges confirmed in his first year. [CNN]

* Simpson Thacher and Kasowitz Benson are being sued for malpractice by the former CEO of Patriot National, who claims the firms are the reason why his company went under and is on the brink of filing for bankruptcy. [Daily Business Review]

* Co-conspirator or victim? That’s what jurors will have to decide when it comes to former Katten Muchin partner Evan Greebel, who once represented pharma bro Martin Shkreli. [New York Law Journal]

* UCLA Law School is creating the Chris Cornell Scholarship, named for the late Soundgarden/Audioslave singer, endowed with a $1 million gift from a coalition led by his widow, Vicky Cornell. This is a wonderful way to remember an amazing artist who was an amazing human being. [Los Angeles Times]

* It’s finally here, a listing of the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2017. Topping the list is the woman who sued because she claimed she was “deceived” by amount of sugar in jelly beans. [U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform]

* Ted Cruz predicts another Supreme Court vacancy this year based on absolutely nothing but his desire to see his name in stories reporting his baseless ramblings. [ABA Journal]

* Hope you didn’t dump your private prison stock, because look who’s back in the business of abusing prisoners! [Mother Jones]

* Stanford’s student senate joins the calls to reinstate the lawyer dropped from the school’s referral program for sexual assault victims after she criticized the school. [Law.com]

* Covington posts double-digit growth. [National Law Journal]

* Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is suing Simpson Thacher over real estate. [National Law Journal]

* Revenue recognition rules are changing… what’s that going to do to M&A? [Law360]

* Securities lawyer gets in juicy lawsuit over sports journalism. [Business Insider]

* Law professors file ethics complaint against Kellyanne Conway. For good measure let’s rephrase that: Law professors file first ethics complaint against Kellyanne Conway. [Washington Post]

* “Voters deserve to know that personal priorities will never take precedence over the national interest.” Thanks to President-elect Donald Trump’s unwillingness to release his tax returns, a New York lawmaker has introduced the Tax Returns Uniformly Made Public (TRUMP) Act, which would require presidential and vice presidential candidates to disclose their income tax returns going back five years to appear on the ballot in New York. [Big Law Business]

* In what’s being considered a blow to college athletes, the Seventh Circuit has ruled that they are not employees deserving of a minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Fortunately, there may be a bright spot of hope in a concurring opinion because it shows that “[t]he nature of the relationship between kids who play FBS football and their schools, leagues and the NCAA … is a business relationship.” [Huffington Post]

* Weil Gotshal snagged a prominent antitrust partner from Simpson Thacher, and it just so happens that he’s already great friends with the attorney with whom he’ll work alongside of as co-head of the firm’s antitrust practice. Congrats to Kevin J. Arquit (and to Steven A. Newborn, who’ll be reunited with a friend). [DealBook / New York Times]

* President-elect Trump may turn to another prosecutor turned Biglaw partner to lead the SEC following the departure of Chairwoman Mary Jo White. It looks like Debra Wong Yang, chair Gibson Dunn’s crisis management practice, may become Wall Street’s “top cop” under the Trump administration. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]

* If you thought that the American Bar Association had learned its lesson after the closure of Indiana Tech Law, then you thought wrong, because the ABA has granted the UMass Law School full accreditation. Feast your eyes upon these glorious bar exam passage statistics from the last two July administrations of the test. [Lowell Sun]