* Michael Cohen is publicly attacking Trump over being a Russian stooge. So much for earning a pardon. [NY Daily News]
* Speaking of Cohen, his adversary Michael Avenatti is now fighting for immigrant kids. I guess hating Trump makes strange bedfellows. [Daily Beast]
* Hogan Lovells is tasked with saving Papa John’s in the post-Papa John world. But can they make that awful stuff edible? [American Lawyer]
* Kushner family under investigation for harassing tenants hardly surprising anyone. [Law360]
* Tesla’s stock takes a hit as the guy Elon Musk randomly called a pedophile threatens to sue. [CNBC]
* The Brexit campaign succeeded by breaking election law. A massively disastrous electoral result brought on by improper electoral meddling? Welcome to the club. [TechCrunch]
* Town finally gets rid of its Footloose law. Spoiler alert: the town is in the South. [Allentown Morning Call]
* Hooooo boy, this just got even better! President Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen plan to file a motion to stay the Stormy Daniels suit on the grounds that in the wake of the FBI raid on Cohen’s office and the ensuing criminal investigation, continuing the Daniels litigation could violate Cohen’s right not to incriminate himself under the Fifth Amendment. [THR, Esq. / Hollywood Reporter]
* In other news, President Trump is set to pardon Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney‘s former chief of staff, who was convicted in 2007 of lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice in the investigation into the leak of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity. [ABC News
* When the AP was investigating a $30K payout that American Media Inc. made to a doorman to keep quiet about a rumor involving President Trump’s love child with a former employee, reporters had some trouble with a Biglaw firm that was recently involved in another sexual misconduct case — Boies Schiller. [American Lawyer]
* HoLove learning to show love? The firm is ditching its “broken” associate performance review system for its new “Pathways” program, which will provide them with “flash feedback” from partners about how they’re doing on a year-round basis. [National Law Journal]
* Your tuition dollars actually at work: Georgia State Law is using predictive modeling and data analytics to identify students who may be at risk for failing the bar exam after their first year of studying law. Administrators at the school want to be able to help students before it’s too late. [Daily Report Online]
* Savannah Law School may not be closing after all? It seems that talks are underway to donate the law school’s charter to another college or university, like Savannah State and Georgia Southern. Savannah Law’s new owner would get everything but the law school building itself. [Fox 28 Media]
* Someone keeps sending pizzas to this German lawyer. He wishes they would stop. [BBC]
* While the Big 4 threaten to invade Biglaw, one possible solution to keep firms relevant is a corresponding invasion of the alternative legal provider space. Like Hogan Lovells partnering with the 1500 lawyer Elevate. [American Lawyer]
* Not content to profit off of unpaid labor for decades, the NCAA is challenging the attorney fees awarded in the O’Bannon case. [Courthouse News Service]
* Where people are most and least likely to follow the law. Apparently, the Vikings have this all worked out. [Forbes]
* The evolving world of lawyer fashion. [ABA Journal]
* Second Circuit upheld a NY law requiring tax-exempt entities to reveal their donors. Citizens United had argued that this would quell speech and that we should just trust entities enjoying tax-emempt status to not engage in fraud. Reality prevailed… so assume this gets overturned. [Law360]
* On her way out the door, Rachel Brand decided to let us all know that the Department of Justice is considering intervening in more class action settlements so the government can undermine private justice too. [National Law Journal]
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University of Miami, JD
