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* Good news for Holland & Knight, who successfully escaped a $34.5 million malpractice rap. [American Lawyer]
* Wisconsin passes a law requiring disclosure of litigation financers because juries should be gravely suspicious of anyone who can afford to seek legal redress from a corporation. [National Law Journal]
* Cleary Gottlieb partner loses battle over rent-stabilized penthouse. While that sentence doesn’t make him sound particularly sympathetic, he’s actually the good guy here. [New York Law Journal]
* Executives and board members should be more involved in cybersecurity efforts according to the Department of Obvious Things. [Corporate Counsel]
* Sexual assault defendant pleas down to charge of “seduc[ing] and debauch[ing] any unmarried woman.” That’s offensive on so many levels. [Detroit News]
* Workers comp can’t cover paralegal injured playing for firm softball team. [ABA Journal]
* Law firm conducting use-of-force review simultaneously representing deputy accused of shooting and killing two men while on duty. Foxes, hen houses, etc. [KOB 4]
* Did you know some law schools are now accepting the GRE? Because the Times just figured that out. [New York Times]
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* Very interesting piece by Mark Joseph Stern on Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s dissent in Pavan v. Smith (aka the “LGBT parents on birth certificates” case). It seems to me that Justice Gorsuch’s statement is technically correct — the Arkansas Department of Health (1) was okay with giving the named plaintiffs their birth certificates and (2) conceded that in the artificial-insemination context, gay couples can’t be treated differently than straight couples (see the Arkansas Supreme Court opinion, footnote 1 and page 18) — but it’s either confusing, at best, or misleading and disingenuous, at worst (the view of Shannon Minter of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, counsel to the plaintiffs). [Slate]
* Speaking of Justice Gorsuch, Adam Feldman makes some predictions about what we can expect from him in the future, based on his first few opinions. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Professor Rick Hasen has made up his mind on this: “Gorsuch is the new Scalia, just as Trump promised.” [Los Angeles Times]
* The VC welcomes a new co-conspirator: Professor Sai Prakash, a top scholar of constitutional law and executive power. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* Now that Harvard Law School will accept GRE scores in lieu of LSAT scores, what do law school applicants need to know about the two tests? [Law School HQ]
* And what do Snapchat users need to know about the app’s new “Snap Map” feature? Cyberspace lawyer Drew Rossow flags potential privacy problems. [WFAA]
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