Dewey & LeBoeuf
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* Michael Cohen resigns his RNC position in an email sharply criticizing the administration’s child separation policy. So now we’ve reached the point where Michael Cohen is a sympathetic figure. [CNBC]
* Supreme Court justice arrested on 22 criminal counts and faces 395 years in prison. Obviously it’s a state supreme court, but try to guess which state! [Courthouse News Service]
* Former Dewey & LeBoeuf CFO Joel Sanders was disbarred yesterday. Dewey know who needs a new career? [Law360]
* Forcibly administering drugs to children is bad and the only downside of the royal whupping these jackboot thugs will eventually receive in the courts is that we’ll here another decade of false comparisons from the anti-Vaxxer crowd. [HuffPost]
* Allen & Overy partners fly to America for their annual meeting where they are definitely not talking about merging with O’Melveny because they’ve all denied that and law firms wouldn’t lie to us. [International]
* Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer closing in on a settlement in the long-running $214 million malpractice suit against them.
* Europe pondering a law that would screw up the Internet. Obviously. [WIRED]
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* Amazon is struggling to protect law enforcement from turning the Echo into a permanent wiretap. Maybe they should ask Alexa if she can find some caselaw. [Law.com]
* Is this the next Solicitor General? [National Law Journal]
* In case you missed it, a bunch of whiny snowflakes are complaining that law schools don’t respect their opinions. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* If you’re wondering what life might be like in a totalitarian version of America, consider this profile of Jones Day. [American Lawyer]
* Kellogg Huber is now Kellogg Hansen for those keeping score at home. [Kellogg Hansen]
* Summer Associate hiring hit a wall last year. Not a good sign for the fragile 3-hour lunch industry going forward. [Am Law Daily]
* Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Stephen DiCarmine has gotten the government’s documents surrounding the Frank Canellas plea deal. [Law360]
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