* Pro Bono Payola: Capitulating firms will be tasked with defending police from excessive force claims. Exactly as they planned, no doubt. [White House]
* An account of Susman Godfrey’s decision to fight back. [Business Insider]
* Government begins probe of Harvard Law Review over article selection. [Bloomberg Law News]

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* DOJ attacks Mansfield Rule. Obviously. [American Lawyer]
* Immigration lawyers being told to self-deport despite, you know, being American citizens. [ABA Journal]
* America’s economy more or less hangs on the Supreme Court. [Reuters]
* Supreme Court gets testy with Lisa Blatt when she accuses opposing counsel of lying. [Law360]