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Morning Docket: 04.17.18

* The Incredible Shrinking Biglaw Partnership: Who’d have thought the idea of making more money by sharing it with fewer people would be so popular? [Law360]

* Mayer Brown has a new managing partner. [American Lawyer]

* In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the president just fired 256 judges for, by and large, not having law degrees. That’s so weird, over here our judging problem are all the unfit hacks with law degrees. [Al Jazeera]

* How do you expeditiously sort through millions of pages of documents in a wide-ranging criminal investigation? That’s a question Robert Mueller’s team has, and one that legal technology can actually answer. [Legaltech News]

* Merely threatening frivolous defamation claims can be big business. Charles Harder made $93,000 off Trump’s fear of Fire and Fury. [CNBC]

* Neil Gorsuch seems to understand diversity in practice better than his colleagues. [Slate]

* Sheppard Mullin sets up a new lateral-fueled Dallas office. [Texas Lawyer]