* M&A lawyers see a banner year ahead as companies feel flush with cash and eager to spend it on flashy deals. Relatedly, bankruptcy lawyers should start gearing up for a monster 2019. [American Lawyer]
* Army filed a challenge to the Las Vegas Golden Knights alleging it’s being harmed by people confusing the NHL hockey team with Army’s parachute team. With this filing, the three different “Tigers” in the SEC all start eyeing each other warily. [Washington Post]
* Attorneys file fresh legal challenge on behalf of 11 men still detained at Gitmo since Trump’s been consistently Tweeting that they should be categorically held there indefinitely. [Huffington Post]
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* Some prominent Nazi-wing personalities are planning to sue privately owned social media companies for discriminating against their content. Because free enterprise should allow companies to not make cakes for immutable minorities but should not allow companies to choose how they present ideological content on their platforms. Yeah, that makes sense. [Hollywood Reporter]
* Find yourself a job where you can not work for 500 days and still get paid. [New Jersey Law Journal]
* Dean’s position gets $5 million endowment. [Duke Chronicle]
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* New Mexico toying with complete legal immunity for law enforcement. Because no one’s been arbitrarily killed by a cop in this country in, like, a whole two weeks. [Courthouse News Service]
* If in-house work is outsourced is it really in-house work? Mind. Blown. [Law360]