Trevor Potter

* Today is Festivus. For the rest of us. [PrawfsBlawg]

* “Law Schools Shouldn’t Despair: If History Is Any Guide, the Legal Profession Will Be in Vogue Again Before Too Long.” It’ll be a Festivus miracle. [TaxProf Blog]

* CNN lawyers and Cosby lawyers are sniping at each other and it’s getting ugly. They all need a nice Rohypnol-flavored Jell-O pudding pop to calm down. [Maynard Institute]

* Should law clerks betray their bosses? The ethical dilemma of Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link). [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]

* Toy guns… not so much a holiday staple these days. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]

* Stephen Colbert’s lawyer, Trevor Potter, talks about life after the Report. [Legal Times]

* Mark your calendars: Court to decide if it’ll hear marriage equality cases on January 9. [BuzzFeed]

* If you’re looking for fashion advice and one-stop shopping, Corporette just compiled her favorite posts of 2014. [Corporette]

* They are livestreaming the misconduct case against Judge Wade McCree. [Detroit Free Press] * GW Law professor John Banzhaf is calling upon the D.C. City Council to bar local broadcasters from using the term “Redskins.” Two decades after the real emergence of “political correctness,” the “Redskins” name has held out against that all-out assault almost as long as the actual Native American society did against Phil Sheridan. [Huffington Post] * People are still talking about the Yahoo!/Tumblr deal, but the most important deal for the legal profession has slid under the radar. Seamless and GrubHub are merging to make all your “3 a.m. and still haven’t had dinner at the office” dreams come true. [Wall Street Journal] * Vivia Chen of The Careerist got some flack for suggesting that women taking their husbands’ names was a regressive trend. In (tongue-in-cheek) fairness, here are the good reasons to take your husband’s name. Example: “When you’ve been indicted or convicted.” [The Careerist] * U. Chicago Law scheduled finals during Memorial Day weekend… while Chicago is closing Lake Shore Drive and cutting back on public transit. UChiLawGo responds. [UChiLawGo] * A gospel singer is suing McDonald’s because she lost her voice. Normally I’d make fun of this, but she sounds like she has a good argument. [The Inquisitr] * A review of the legal issues surrounding the DOJ/AP scandal. [Volokh Conspiracy] * Elie explains why the racist, nasty comments we receive don’t faze us at all. [Paidcontent.org] * Well this is a novel use of fundraising: Speculation that Tim Lambesis (who we covered yesterday) used crowdfunding for a new Austrian Death Machine Schwarzenegger tribute album as the down payment on a hitman to murder his wife. Maybe this new album was going to have a Total Recall theme? [Metal Sucks] * Stephen Colbert sits down with Caplin & Drysdale’s Trevor Potter to discuss the fact that Colbert’s SuperPAC has never been approved by the IRS. Video after the jump…

* Listen up, internet pirates: if your license plate says “GUILTY,” it’s almost like you’re doing the DOJ’s job for them. More on this later. [Blog of Legal Times] * Say cheese, because you’ll want to catch this first on camera. Sullivan & Cromwell is serving as lead counsel on Kodak’s bankruptcy case. [Am Law […]