Stanford Law School

* A white substance sent to Stanford Law School turned out to be harmless, but the school remains concerned based an accompanying threat. [Stanford University News]

* This prolonged malaise in the legal sector? Yeah, that’s not normal. [Law.com]

* Fifth Circuit agrees that the bail system employed in the Houston area is unconstitutional. But, you know, didn’t go so far as to actually release anybody. [Courthouse News Service]

* Selendy & Gay opens for business today after striking out on their own from Quinn Emanuel. [American Lawyer]

* Playboy’s suit against Boing Boing — which sounds funnier than it is — was dismissed for failing to state a copyright claim. Playboy had sued Boing Boing for reporting on a website that contained copyrighted material in a certainly felt like a wild overreach. [EFF]

* Partner’s son admits to embezzling $827K from firm. Whenever one of these office manager embezzling stories comes up I’m always left wondering how people manage to miss the first $826,999.

* “Stanford Law School is spreading its brand through a SiriusXM weekly show.” Oh good, because they’ve really been struggling in anonymity. [The Recorder]

* District judge is tired of this DOJ’s bullshit and decided to write the Supreme Court about it. [National Law Journal]

* Another sexual enterprise suit filed going after K&L Gates and Boies. [American Lawyer]

* “Stanford Law School is spreading its brand through a SiriusXM weekly show.” Oh good, because they’ve really been struggling in anonymity. [The Recorder]

* Oh Fahrvergnügen! VW compliance chief gets 7 years. [Corporate Counsel]

* IT Department testify against criminal defendant in hilarious own goal. [Law360]

* Patagonia suing over Trump’s decision to trash a bunch of national monuments. [Corporate Counsel]

* Lawyers Lawyers! Big Caesar’s hands Kirkland $77 million. [American Lawyer]

* Jenna Greene at Litigation Daily points out that there’s a lawsuit over Froot Loops not containing any fruit. Right… but it’s chockfull of “Froot.” [Casemine]

* President Donald Trump will reportedly visit the Supreme Court later this week for Justice Neil Gorsuch’s official investiture ceremony. Based on the president’s prior behavior, it may only be a matter of time before he refers to his appointee as an “absolute disaster” whose “mind is shot.” [USA Today]

* Former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, who was fired by President Trump after he was asked to remain in his post, says phone calls he received from Trump made in an effort to “cultivate some kind of relationship” made him uncomfortable. In response, a spokesman for Marc Kasowitz called Bharara a “resistance Democrat,” and said “he deserved to be fired.” [Washington Post]

* In other news, Marc Kasowitz, who will likely be setting up an office on White House grounds where he can run President Trump’s defense, has reportedly told White House aides to hold off on hiring their own lawyers — a move that would only be in his client’s interest, and against their own. [New York Times]

* In defense to a lawsuit, the Justice Department has likened President Trump to George Washington (yup!), alleging that Trump isn’t violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution by accepting payments for goods and services like hotel bills and golf club fees from foreign governments. [Bloomberg]

* In the wake of former FBI director James Comey’s tell-all appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will now have to testify himself on the ongoing probe into Russian’s election interference. Hmm, what will the recused AG have to say for himself? [New York Times]

* “It was really disgusting and really scary.” Joseph Amico of Las Vegas was arrested after he allegedly called New York lawyer Douglas Wigdor a “n**ger lover” and threatened to blow up his firm. Wigdor is representing plaintiffs in a racial discrimination lawsuit against Fox News Channel. [New York Daily News]

* Miguel A. Méndez, Stanford Law’s first Latino professor, RIP. [Stanford News]

* I climbed the Republican presidential nominee’s building using suction cups and all I got were these lousy handcuffs: Stephen Rogata, the Virginia teenager who attempted to scale Trump Tower earlier this week, has been criminally charged with reckless endangerment and trespassing. [New York Times]

* “We adopt policy that will be beneficial to all lawyers — we don’t adopt things just to be politically correct.” Many attorneys are up in arms about the new ABA professional conduct rule which prohibits discriminating against and harassing colleagues during the practice of law, but it was something that needed to happen. [Big Law Business]

* Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid has predicted “with some degree of credibility” that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will nominate Judge Merrick Garland if she wins the White House this fall. He doesn’t think Clinton will “rock the boat” with a new pick for Donald Trump’s “minions” to block. [Associated Press]

* Given the fact that 36.4 percent of lawyers surveyed qualified themselves as problem drinkers, attorney-counselor Patrick Krill has opened a consulting firm that will cater specifically to law firms, providing assistance for lawyers dealing with addiction and mental health issues. If you need help, please seek it out. [Law.com via ABA Journal]

* Who are 11 of the most successful graduates of Stanford Law School? Two are SCOTUS justices, one is a former Ninth Circuit judge, one is the executive director of the ACLU, four are business executives (one of whom invented “revenge litigation finance” to sue Gawker into bankruptcy), and the rest are public figures in politics. [Business Insider]

* Taking the bar exam tomorrow? Some tips for instant calm. [Health.com]

* Thought experiment: How would the world be different if the federal government had bailed out Lehman Brothers? [Bloomberg Odd Lots]

* This British legal recruiter would rather see applicants with lesser qualifications because otherwise they are too arrogant. [Legal Cheek]

* Attorneys with SCOTUS experience are in high demand. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Potential upside of law firm mergers? Cybersecurity. [Law.com]

* Mike Sadler, the former Michigan State punter who was heading to Stanford Law in the fall, died in a car crash this weekend along with Nebraska punter, Sam Foltz. [Michigan Live]

* Fifty-six years ago today, a group of African-American students sat down at the whites only section of a lunch counter. Can you even imagine the BS talking heads and think pieces would spew if that event happened today? [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* University of New Mexico Law School is ranked number 1… for public defenders and prosecutors. [Daily Lobo]

* Stanford Law Professor Barbara van Schewick is going after T-Mobile “Binge On” service, which allows users to watch streaming content from approved providers without using their data plan, saying it violates net neutrality. [Tech Times]

* Oyez, oyez! Anyone got a million-plus to buy a multimedia history of the Supreme Court? [Wall Street Journal]

* All the Iowa caucus coverage making you excited? You’d probably enjoy Wonkette’s Game Of US America Elections: The Game. [Wonkette]

* Utah State Senator Todd Weiler wants to do something — anything, really, — to stop the terrible moral decline caused by PORN. [Popehat]

* Lawyers are stuck in a rat race, and it could kill you. [Law and More]

* Get updated on the best in the legal tech world, before the Legaltech conference. [CodeX]

* If you’re going to be in San Diego for the ABA Midyear Meeting, come out Friday to “Blawgs and Listservs: Legal Publications in the Digital Age” to see Craft Beer Attorney Candace Moon, bankruptcy and fraud litigator Kathy B. Phelps, and our own Joe Patrice discuss the state of legal publishing and social media, with moderator Jordan Maglich of Ponzitracker. [American Bar Association]

* Ugh, you throw one stinkin’ party that infringes on the Pokemon copyright and the lawyers shut you down. Buzzkills. [Vice]

* You know what Ryan Phillippe loves to do? Run around without his shirt on and talk about how his Stanford Law girlfriend is awesome. Dontcha love it when a piece of man meat has respect for the T-14? [Daily Mail]

* Are you gambling in Vegas attending the ILTA conference today? Come Hear Legal Bytes play favorites of the legal industry like Old Technology Blues and Lawyers Love Lexis. [Business of Law Blog]

* Just in time for OCI season — what should you do if your Biglaw dreams go pop? [Underdawg Law]

* You’re not alone feeling the Biglaw burnout after a few years, but maybe technology can help? [Bloomberg BNA]

* Greeeeeaaaat… Now employers can deny employees birth control for non-religious reasons. [Think Progress]

* Opening lines to opinions can really set the tone. Take a look at this forceful start from an old Ninth Circuit decision. [Volokh Conspiracy]

* Podcast with the curmudgeon of the legal profession, Mark Herrmann. [Hsu Untied]

Ed. note: Above the Law will have a reduced publishing schedule today and we’re off on Friday, July 3, in observance of whipping those English wankers a couple centuries ago.

* After the German robot ran amok and killed a worker in a VW plant, prosecutors are struggling to figure out whom to charge in this violation of Asimov’s First Law. [Josh Blackman’s Blog]

* Dean Erwin Chemerinsky thinks Ted Cruz is right about the Supreme Court. [The New Republic]

* In the wake of Obergefell, Bloomberg chats with Margaret H. Marshall, the former chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, who wrote the opinion making that state the first to legalize same-sex marriage. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]

* California February bar exam results. A couple of schools got a 100 percent passage rate. Stanford was not one of them. [Bar Exam Stats]

* Love wins. The Chamber of Commerce wins more. [Constitutional Accountability Center]

* A not-entirely-partisan argument that Justice Scalia should retire. He may be slipping into William O. Douglas circa 1975 territory. [Dorf on Law]

* Did you know that David Lat was supposed to play Quentin Tarantino’s role in Pulp Fiction? I didn’t either until I saw this video (at 0:48). [ClickHole]

* It’s the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta. Have you ever read it? Because it includes some stereotypically troubling thoughts on Jews. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

* The lawyer from the Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial is 100 years old. So… take that, “clean living.” [Daily Mail]

* Tennessee Law Review hosted a Third Amendment Symposium. Professor Reynolds waxes philosophic on whether the Third Amendment might limit government intrusiveness into domestic affairs in areas as diverse as computer spyware, “affirmative consent” laws, and childrearing. Sounds like one of them pinko commie “non-Originalist” readings to me. [Instapundit]

* In a sign of the times, there’s a new information service providing analysis of critical legal issues related to cybersecurity, data protection, and data privacy challenges. But since most lawyers still think “banning personal email” is the height of cybersecurity, it may be a bit advanced for you. [The Cybersecurity Law Report]

* Davis Polk associate Elyssa Friedland has a new book titled Love and Miss Communication (affiliate link) about a Biglaw associate fired for sending too many personal emails at work. As we just wrote before, that won’t be a problem at a lot of firms anymore. [Amazon]

* We talked about lawyers meditating, so now let’s talk about lawyers and taijiquan. [Katz Justice]

* Kudos to Lucosky Brookman LLP for raising over $155,000 for Save a Child’s Heart with its Second Annual Charity Golf Outing. [Lucosky Brookman LLP]

* Richard Hsu chats with Mark Lemley, Stanford Law professor and founder of Lex Machina, about playing video games. Something we understand here at ATL. [Hsu Untied]

* If you thought Squire Patton Boggs would be able to meet its projection of $1 billion in combined revenue after its merger, you’d be wrong. If you thought the firm would be able to meet its projection of having more than 1,500 lawyers after its merger, you’d also be wrong. [National Law Journal]

* Use this slideshow to compare how California law schools are doing in terms of job placement. Stanford was on top, and Golden Gate was dead last. Bonus: If you strip out school-funded jobs, the numbers look even worse. [Sacramento Business Journal]

* Uh… oops? Keila Ravelo, the ex-Willkie Farr partner who was accused of stealing millions of dollars from two of her former firms, is now at the center of questions over settlements in credit-card cases she worked on. [New York Law Journal via ABA Journal]

* “Please help us heal.” David Messerschmitt’s widow is begging for information about the DLA Piper associate’s death. The case is being actively investigated, and police believe the person of interest who was seen on surveillance footage is a woman. [Legal Times]

* In case you missed it yesterday, U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. The first charge could result in up to five years in jail, while the second could result in a life sentence. Yikes! [WSJ Law Blog]