* Ivanka Trump cited “undue hardship” because her testimony was scheduled during “a school week.” The appellate court… disagreed. [CNN]
* Sam Bankman-Fried is guilty. But Alex Kirshner’s burning question is… why was the defense so bad? [Slate]
* Rudy asks DC to please not disbar him. [Reuters]
The Fifth-Year Dilemma: Do I Stay Or Do I Go (In-House)?
How to make the right decision, and why there might be another way to shape a fulfilling legal career on your own terms.
* Retiring Biglaw leaders have firms thinking about succession. Presumably multiple rounds of Boar on the Floor. [Bloomberg Law News]
* George W. Bush judge declines seems disinclined to shut down NC Supreme Court’s probe of its only Black justice for saying the North Carolina court system isn’t particularly diverse, which seems like more a statement of fact than a controversial claim. [Law360]
* Survey finds that 17 percent of Biglaw attorneys feel emotionally depleted at work. An additional 83 percent have already had their capacity for human feeling permanently drained. [ABA Journal]
* BLM — the law firm, not Black Lives Matter or the Bureau of Land Management — accidentally gave videos of a kid to a pedophile. [Roll on Friday]
The Hidden Threat: How Fake Identities used by Remote Employees Put Your Business at Risk—and How to Defend Against This
Based on our experience in recent client matters, we have seen an escalating threat posed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) workers engaging in sophisticated schemes to evade US and UN sanctions, steal intellectual property from US companies, and/or inject ransomware into company IT environments, in support of enhancing North Korea’s illicit weapons program.
* Surge Pricing: Uber and Lyft to pay $328 million over wage theft probe. [Courthouse News Service]