* TikTok hires Noel Francisco to get ban struck down. [Lawyer Monthly]
* Pro se Rudy is the most entertaining Rudy. [Law360]
* Gibson Dunn hires senior SEC enforcement official. Oh no! Did they miss the news that the crypto industry would boycott firms hiring from the SEC? [American Lawyer]
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* Collusion by algorithm is still, you know, collusion. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Wife convicted of murdering managing partner husband says her son did it. [ABA Journal]
* Former power lawyer Tom Girardi looking at possibility of 14 years. [Reuters]
* New lawyers don’t need to master AI… yet. [LegalCheek]