* Let’s begin with the practical. If you took the Bar/Bri bar review course between 1997 and 2006, please click here, so you can find out how to claim $125 for yourself (unless you want to go it on your own and try to get more).
* Gay lawyer Aaron Charney and his former employer, Sullivan & Cromwell, had their day in court. We were on hand to jot down the money quotes and shoot lots of photos.
* Speaking of Aaron Charney, is he just another money-hungry plaintiff, rather than a crusader for justice for gay lawyers everywhere?
* Anna Nicole Smith, a prevailing party in the U.S. Supreme Court and the widow of a (very rich) former Yale Law professor — a prof who taught Trusts and Estates, of all things — passed away.
* Still more big law firms announced pay raises for their associates.
* Your stories about Shanetta Cutlar, the colorful chief of the Justice Department’s Special Litigation Section, are pleasingly novel to us. But to the DOJ’s front office, it’s all old news.
* Law students are good at squabbling amongst themselves.
* Judge Janice Rogers Brown is pretty cool.
* And Canadians are funny.

* Howard K. Stern, attorney to Anna Nicole Smith, ‘fesses up to servicing his client — in more ways than one.
* The HP leak investigation disaster gets worse and worse, with each passing bad hair day for Patricia Dunn.
* This IS America, people — where the rich get richer. And put their $30 million mansions up for sale.
* Move over, Charlie’s Angels. The women of NSD are in the house!
* Some high-profile Yale Law professors are thinking about leaving New Haven. Yes, the pizza’s tasty; but we can’t say we blame them.
(Feel free to debate Sally’s vs. Pepe’s in the comments. We’re slightly partial to Pepe’s, due to the heavenly white clam pizza.)
* Trivia about New Haven pizza establishments is just the kind of thing you’d expect to find on Judge Danny Boggs’s clerkship application trivia quiz.
* We took off on Friday for Portland, Oregon — from where we’re currently blogging, before hopping on the red-eye — to attend a fabulous judicial celebration. Last month, Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain celebrated twenty years of service on the Ninth Circuit. Congratulations, Judge O’Scannlain!
* But we left you in good hands during our absence. Our deepest gratitude to Ted Frank for keeping you so entertained while we were gone!
(For the record, and because we’ve received some “get well soon” emails, Ted’s quip about our Thailand hospital visit was a joke. As you can see, we are in decent health (and hopefully will stay that way). But if you happen to be in the market for elective surgery — although not of the gender-bending kind — we recommend these fine doctors. Be sure to ask for the special ATL Reader Discount!)