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* Credit where credit is due: Attorney General Jeff Sessions wins qualified praise for his forceful condemnation of the Charlottesville violence. [New York Times]
* Donald Trump needs all the legal help he can get — so he’s surely pleased and proud about daughter Tiffany Trump starting up at Georgetown Law this month. (More on this later.) [Washington Post]
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* And wouldn’t it be incredibly awkward interesting to have Tiffany as a classmate in your Con Law class this semester? [New York Times via How Appealing]
* The ABA will reconsider its controversial, much-criticized changes to how law schools report graduate employment data. [Law.com]
* Taylor Swift prevails in her lawsuit countersuit accusing DJ David Mueller of groping her during a photo op. [UPDATE (6:55 p.m.): Read the full Law360 story for more background on this litigation, which Mueller initiated.] [Law360]
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* Merger mania spreads — from Biglaw to boutiques. [Law.com]
* Tech company DreamHost will resist — a Justice Department effort to acquire information about visitors to an anti-Trump website set up to coordinate Inauguration Day protests. [Washington Post]
* An investors’ lawyer claims that his lawsuit against Duane Morris “could bankrupt that firm.” [Law.com]
* There are reasonable arguments for and against splitting up the Ninth Circuit, but the ABA’s position is clear: firmly opposed. [ABA Journal]
David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].