Judge James C. Ho (via YouTube)
* Joel Cohen makes the case for appointing a special master to review the attorney-client privilege claims in the case of Michael Cohen (no relation). [Law and Crime]
* A fun profile of Judge Kimba M. Wood (S.D.N.Y.), who’s presiding over the Cohen case — and who “doesn’t need to eat the whole barrel to know it’s not a pickle.” [Politico]
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* Circuit judges can play it safe, in the hopes of making it to the Supreme Court someday, or they can be bold (which might help their SCOTUS chances, or might hurt them); Judge James Ho is going for the second approach. [U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit]
* Professor Eugene Volokh: “What is this, Mean Girls: Supreme Court Edition?” [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
* Still on SCOTUS, which leading appellate lawyers (according to Chambers & Partners) have the most active practices before the high court? [Empirical SCOTUS]
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* What’s the best new legal-information product out there, and what’s the best new product feature or function? Survey says…. [Dewey B Strategic]
* Because having a law school named after him wasn’t enough, Philadelphia trial lawyer Thomas R. Kline is now honored by a giant marble statue. [Philly.com]
* The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide an important case about academic freedom (and Above the Law gets cited in the amicus brief of the National Association of Scholars — see footnote 29). [Badger Pundit]
* Congratulations to former Miss America winner Deidre Downs Gunn and attorney and writer Abbott Jones on their recent nuptials! [People]
* And congratulations to the recipients of 2018’s Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 Awards! [LGBT Bar]
David Lat is editor at large and founding editor of Above the Law, as well as 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].