* As Alex Acosta just digs himself in deeper, he’s dragging Kirkland & Ellis with him as more people begin to ask questions about Jay Lefkowitz’s role in setting up Epstein’s sweetheart deal. [American Lawyer]
* Ja Rule gets some good news in Fyre Festival suit. [NY Daily News]
* Judges are — finally — starting to drop the hammer on copyright trolling. [Law360]
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* There’s a fine line between well-reasoned regulation and backdoor efforts to squelch an industry and litigation finance increasingly worries that it’s getting pushed to the latter side. [Law.com]
* The rise of the legal engineer. [Fast Company]
* Love Island may be new to America, but the Brits already have a legally themed translator for the show courtesy of the chief of the criminal bar. [Legal Cheek]
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* FCC tries to kill San Francisco ordinance encouraging broadband competition because they’ve completely given up pretending that their job isn’t to protect ISP monopolistic behavior. [Ars Technica]