* If you thought demand for legal services couldn't get worse... [Corporate Counsel]
* We just talked about the best cities for lawyers. One area that's not on that list is Silicon Valley and basically here's why. [The Recorder]
* We're in the midst of a Biglaw salary war... just not in the U.S. [Legal Cheek]
* Facebook examined its cadre of counsel and crowned this firm the tops in diversity. The prize was some sticky video showing pictures of Zuckerberg and firm attorneys over some warmed over pablum about the power of friendship. [American Lawyer]
* Speaking of Facebook, the Cambridge Analytica bankruptcy has officially let Schulte Roth off the hook. [Law360]
* Sidney Powell wants security clearance so she can rant about classified documents that have nothing to do with the case against her client. [NY Times]
* Strength in numbers we can get it right/One time/We are a part of the Biglaw nation. [Los Angeles Times]
* As it turns out, Joe diGenova -- the lawyer who's convinced that the Justice Department is trying to frame Trump with its Russia investigation -- won't be joining the president's personal legal team after all due to conflicts of interest. DiGenova's wife, Victoria Toensing, has been conflicted out as well. Oopsie! [New York Times]
* President Trump tweeted this weekend that "[m]any lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case," and that his difficulty in finding lawyers to join his defense team is "Fake News." Meanwhile, at least four defense attorneys at separate Biglaw firms have been approached, and most have turned down the offer. [CNN]
* In her 60 Minutes interview, Stormy Daniels says she was once physically threatened to keep quiet about her affair with Donald Trump and was later pressured into signing a false statement denying the affair because she believed that Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney, would “make [her] life hell.” Cohen has denied threatening Daniels. [Washington Post]
* In the summer of 2014, Bracewell & Giuliani warned Cambridge Analytica that foreign citizens shouldn't have "substantive management" roles running U.S. election campaigns, and yet, that's exactly what the company did in its work with the Trump campaign, and now Robert Mueller is on the case. [Washington Examiner; TIME]
* Some law firms in the U.K. have started including information on partners' salaries in their mandatory gender pay gap reporting. The first firms to do so were Norton Rose Fulbright, with a 27 percent pay gap for all employees (including partners), and Reed Smith, with an 8 percent pay gap among only partners. [Financial Times]
* Law student Jordan Crewe has already filed suit against the soon-to-be-closed Savannah Law School, accusing the school of committing fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty. She's requesting punitive damages from the school, and wants a jury trial too. [WSAV]
* Brad Karp and Christopher Boehning of Paul, Weiss make the case in favor of stripping gun manufacturers and sellers of their statutory immunity from suit in most negligence and product liability actions. [New York Times]
* Remember the Moonlight Fire case? Ten state AGs have filed an amicus brief in support of the cert petition. [U.S. Supreme Court]
* It's almost time to file your taxes -- and the Supreme Court just made it a little bit easier to cheat on them. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
* In other SCOTUS news, the Court is taking its sweet time in handing down opinions this Term, as Adam Feldman observes. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* And speaking of Adam Feldman, he's now working with SCOTUSblog -- congratulations to both parties! [SCOTUSblog]
* Leading media lawyer Charles Glasser looks at the challenges that corrections pose to the media (both print and digital). [Daily Caller]
* Vineeta Vijayaraghavan points out that gun violence doesn't spare the elite, noting that firearms killed three of her Harvard classmates (including Professor Dan Markel). [USA Today]
* Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics consulting firm, has been widely condemned for its work on the 2016 Trump election campaign -- but it's not clear that its conduct violated data-protection laws or even Facebook policies, according to Tim Pullan of ThoughtRiver. [Artificial Lawyer]
* Professor Michael Dorf remembers lawyer, author, and editor Julie Hilden, who passed away earlier this month. [Dorf on Law]
