* While associate bonuses held steady this year, Biglaw’s final 2017 numbers are still up in the air… firms have an inordinate amount of unpaid bills out there. Time to start cracking some heads! [New York Law Journal]
* Prince Harry is apparently marrying a TV lawyer. [Independent]
* The squeaky wheel gets the cert. The Supreme Court routinely runs to the rescue of on a few key judges in dissent. [Empirical SCOTUS]
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* Looks like PTAB’s IPR rules are safe. I could go into more detail but the people who care about that already know what it means based on the first sentence. [Reuters]
* Looks like Michael Flynn really is edging toward a plea deal. [ABC News]
* Tech GC weighs in on the plan to repeal net neutrality. For some reason, he doesn’t think a half-baked plan based on shoddy, self-serving research makes much sense. Weird. [Corporate Counsel]
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* Interesting analysis of the “commodification” problem in the legal industry. [Forbes]
* For anyone who attended a for-profit school and got the shaft, the Project on Predatory Student Lending is out there looking to help. [Legal Services Center]