* Big verdicts — like the $8B Johnson & Johnson award — are forcing in-house counsel to reconsider how they approach litigation and settlement. Apparently rethinking “committing torts” isn’t on the table. [Corporate Counsel]
* Investigation suggests an “endemic” culture of sexual harassment and bullying at Jones Day’s London office. Try with all your might to put on a surprised face. [American Lawyer]
* Bill seeks to give Supreme Court justices international protection. It’s all coming together for the Marshal of the Supreme Court power grab. [National Law Journal]
* Panama Papers principals sue to stop Netflix movie based on their exploits. [Hollywood Reporter]
* New York removes the loophole that would have ended state criminal prosecutions based on federal pardons. [NBC News]
* Exxon will face a bench trial on claims that it defrauded the public over the risks of climate change. [Law360]
* Mayer Brown partner tells Chambers to add more ranked women or to leave him off their list. [Legal Cheek]
* With numerous contempt of Congress charges swirling thanks to the inaction of Trump administration officials, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has declared that the nation is in the midst of a constitutional crisis. It was only a matter of time before this happened. [New York Times]
* Meanwhile, in the wake of Speaker Pelosi’s comments, President Trump now says that he’ll leave it up to AG Bill Barr to determine whether special counsel Robert Mueller will be permitted to testify before Congress. Frankly, he’s more concerned about Don Jr. now. [New York Times]
* C. Allen Parker, former Cravath presiding partner turned Wells Fargo GC turned Wells Fargo acting CEO, has done something very wise in his short time leading the troubled bank: He created a regulatory and compliance group. Smooth move! [Corporate Counsel]
* “I want my life back.” Jessica Crutcher has come forward as the formerly anonymous Mayer Brown partner behind the $20 million suit where she alleged that a bartender at a Houston restaurant raped her. [Texas Lawyer]
* Paul Manafort has officially been disbarred in D.C. after his conviction for “tampering with witnesses while on pre-trial release,” a crime of moral turpitude. This poor crook lost everything thanks to his association with Donald Trump. [Big Law Business]
* Conan O’Brien has settled a lawsuit that accused him of copyright infringement through joke theft, writing that he “decided to forgo a potentially farcical and expensive jury trial in federal court over five jokes that don’t even make sense anymore.” [Variety]
* Gordon Caplan showed up in court. At least he didn’t hire someone else to do his appearance for him. [Hartford Courant]
* Mueller people think the report might be worse than the four-page summary written by Trump’s stooge might suggest. [CNN]
* Wait, Jones Day may be a terrible place to work? [American Lawyer]
* In-house counsel needed in the Bay Area. [Corporate Counsel]
* Facebook user records just left laying around in public. Red angry face. [Law360]
* The mayor from Mayer. [American Lawyer]
* Australia to go after social media companies that don’t rapidly deal with violent content. [NY Times]
* Trump’s DOJ now asking courts to overturn the entire ACA including ban on discrimination against pre-existing conditions in bid to capture the eugenics constituency. [NY Times]
* Mayer Brown alum mayoral candidate proposes higher taxes on Biglaw. [Chicago Sun-Tribune]
* Artists claim Marvel ripped off their Iron Man design claiming “Stan Lee’s original Iron Man was clad in spandex and ‘minimal armor.'” Someone actually filed a suit based on that theory. [Law360]
* Coming as a shock to no legal observer, Jay Sekulow doesn’t understand basics of law. [MSNBC]
* Michael Flynn owes around $5 million in legal fees. [New York Mag]
* The Los Angeles lateral market is hopping. [The Recorder]
* Someone’s finally suing Facebook for making every dumb media company think they needed to “pivot to video.” [Delaware Business Court Insider]
* Whistleblower accomplishes what UCF could not and makes Duke pay. [Corporate Counsel]
Jon D. Van Gorp, Chair
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, JD
Jeremy Clay, Managing Partner
University of Oxford, Law