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Rob Lowe’s Son Mercilessly Mocks His Dad’s Legal Acumen On Instagram
Rob Lowe’s sons are hilarious.
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The Lawyer Holiday Gift Guide: The Best Gifts For The Attorney In Your Life
Only a few shopping days left!
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Warner Bros. Turns Harry Potter Fan Events Into Events For The Franchise That Must Not Be Named
By all means, alienate your own fan base.
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* This weekend, Sheppard Mullin — and Lankler Siffert & Wohl for that matter — will be pulling for Abacus: Small Enough To Jail, the stellar documentary about the only bank prosecuted for the housing crisis that starred the lawyers who represented Abacus and its family owners. [New York Law Journal]
* In the first year of its merger, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer earned 1 percent over its legacy firm totals. Firm chairman Richard Alexander describes the firm as “generally… pleased.” But not pleased enough to keep Kaye Scholer on its branding. [National Law Journal]
* Robert Schulman is hoping the Second Circuit can get him out of his drunken insider trading conviction. [Law360]
* Texas Wesleyan is looking for a new baseball coach after firing the last one for rejecting a Colorado recruit and telling the kid the school wouldn’t recruit from states with legal weed. [VICE News]
* Now we have sovereign cryptocurrency which kind of defeats the whole point, but whatever. [Bitcoinist]
* Your daily reminder that white supremacists are bad people. [ABA Journal]
* Speaking of white supremacists, FSU Law students have started to notice that their main academic building is a tribute to a segregationist and that maybe that’s a bad thing. [Tallahassee Democrat]
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* Trump’s people want a new Special Counsel to investigate the Special Counsel over a potential conflict that has nothing to do with the first Special Counsel. Things are going well. [Huffington Post]
* Boutiques give out big bonuses and they can do it because handing out big bonuses is barely any skin off their noses. But, that won’t stop some Biglaw firms from trying to screw over their associates. [American Lawyer]
* Public companies, by and large, aren’t identifying cybersecurity as a risk on their SEC filings. That’s… likely a problem. [Corporate Counsel]
* It’s possible that Biglaw has come around on litigation finance. [Law360]
* Obama alums are flocking to elite law schools. I have a feeling that’s not going to happen with this administration’s refugees.
[National Law Journal]* Are we looking at a hot lateral market next year? [American Lawyer]
* With Star Wars about to drop, let’s check in on Kylo Ren’s insanity defense. [The Legal Geeks]
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* Roberta Kaplan and Boies Schiller’s Karen Dunn are suing Nazis for the violence that erupted in Virginia. [Slate]
* Filers didn’t seem to care as much about getting an extra year of design patent coverage as policymakers thought. [Patentlyo]
* How to you repair your reputation after a bad performance review? [The Muse]
* What do we want? Justice for Frankenstein’s Monster. When do we want it? Now. [Legal Geeks]
* The Dutch say Microsoft 10 violates local privacy laws, which is pretty bad news when you remember GDPR is about to make those laws way more strict. [TechCrunch]
* What you really need to know about Friday the 13th. [IBT]
* Law firms: get ready for the crushing pressure from PwC… [Law and More]
* Everyone can have a bad week at work. Check out the tips for bouncing back. [Corporette]
* Who wants to watch Marshall the Movie?
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What In-House Legal Groups Can Learn From ‘The Godfather’
Corporate counsel must be strategic partners and advisors to the company’s executive team and board.