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* Todd Blanche confirmed as Attorney General in the middle of the night. [NPR]
* President’s son-in-law intended to destroy villages to build luxury property on stolen Albanian land he bought from suspected gang lord. We are running out of unique English sentences so fast. [WSJ]
* Fake US Attorney Bill Essayli hires his former senior aide into the office despite facing jail time over battery and grand theft charges. Only the best people in this administration. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Trump judge decides she can’t see anything vindictive about Justice Department’s prosecution of Southern Poverty Law Center for paying informants to infiltrate hate groups. [CBS News]
* Investigation launching into Jeanine Pirro’s ultimately fruitless Reflecting Pool prosecution. [The New Republic]
* Author of “How to Kill A Federal Judge” convicted for… threatening a federal judge. How ironic. [Reuters]
* Harvey raising another $500 million. [The Information]
* Trump tries to fire Lisa Cook again. [Law360]
* Judge Judy’s son now has a court show. [ABA Journal]
Just Pretend You Won: After raging over his loss in the birthright citizenship case, Trump issued new executive orders asserting that he actually won.
Just When You Thought The Paul Weiss Surrender Couldn’t Get Worse: The New York Times dug into the first Biglaw capitulation and it’s even more cowardly than we thought. Dropping a client to keep the administration happy and internally considering running management decisions by Stephen Miller.
Til Disgorgement Do Us Part: Jackson Walker will pay $15 million to end the U.S. Trustee’s suit over its former partner’s undisclosed romance with the bankruptcy judge hearing her cases.
Lateral Thinking, In Bulk: Brown Rudnick picked off a massive lawyer intellectual property litigation team from HSF Kramer, the largest group hire in the firm’s history, and opened a Silicon Valley office to put them in.
Too Big To Hire: Firms of more than 500 lawyers are now the single largest employer of new law graduates, taking more than one in five members of the Class of 2025. Those same firms hired 7.5 percent fewer of them than the year before, the first drop in Biglaw entry-level hiring since 2014.
Come Early, Stay Late: Milbank is offering its incoming first-years the chance to start three weeks ahead of schedule on the strength of “exceptionally strong client demand.”
When You’re A Star: Donald Trump bitterly complained about losing the birthright citizenship cases. Yesterday, he issued executive orders asserting that he won.
Collins No. Murkowski No. McConnell Absent. Cassidy: Sure, Fine. Todd Blanche is going to be Attorney General of the United States. but it’s closer than anyone expected.
The Bar Exam Waiver Comes For Washington’s Grads. Just Not All Of Them. First-timers who got shut out are being waived in. The ones who ground through the broken exam are stuck with their scores.
Pay Me What You Owe Me: Raises for Biglaw associates are still MIA. Firms need to stop waiting for Cravath.
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