France

The firm is reportedly hoping to staff the office with attorneys from rival firms.

Sources say profitability factored into the firm's decision to shut down the office.

A good first step, but there's still more to do.

Using legal analytics to predict how judges might rule on a given issue is now illegal in France.

A worthy moonlighting gig for this attorney.

Try as she might, this trusts and estates attorney couldn't escape her practice area while she was on vacation.

France is trying to learn how to better censor the platform.

His escape sounds more like an action movie than real life.

This is like an awful exam hypothetical -- except a real couple's parental rights are at stake.

Celebrate Bastille Day with this tidbit.

More individuals and couples around the world are being given the opportunity to have the family they dreamed of.

You and your goddamn eagle v. freckleface and his stupid toy.

France continues to get surrogacy rights wrong.

The American solution to this "problem" isn't government regulation.

A debate on religious freedom and the burkini.

The Burkini Ban might be on the way out. A French Court just said "Zut! Ceci idée est très imbecile!"

* As a teenager, Richard Posner was fond of the phrase “The Poze knows.” In other news, Richard Posner was an insufferable teenager. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Layoffs are coming! At least that’s what this analyst thinks. [Am Law Daily]

* Law school dean beats charges that he beat professor. Or “squeezed” him anyway. [Law.com]

* The evolution of the Fourth Circuit. [MSN]

* Alabama passes a law requiring students to learn cursive. Tough educational stance for a state that continues to call evolution controversial. [NPR]

* France’s top court will hear the stupid Burkini ban case. [Yahoo!]

* Another day, another humiliating loss for unpaid interns. [Courthouse News Service]

* Some Biglaw firms, like Orrick, are now going to help young associates by making monthly contributions to their student loan payments. At $100 a month for 18 months, it’s not a very large contribution, but it’s something. We’ll have more on this debt repayment plan later. [DealBook / New York Times]

* Uh-oh… If you thought law firms were going to be alright in Brexit’s wake, you may want to think again. Berwin Leighton Palmer — a firm that almost merged with Greenberg Traurig — has frozen raises and bonuses until November, citing “political and financial uncertainty in the UK.” [Reuters]

* As part of Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s study-abroad program, Justice Clarence Thomas (who was filling in for the late Justice Antonin Scalia) was in Nice, France, last week teaching students about constitutional law. He left the city before the deadly terror attack during the Bastille Day parade. No law students were hurt. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Prior to accepting his position as Donald Trump’s running mate on the Republican ticket, and even prior to becoming the governor of Indiana, Mike Pence had a very short-lived career as a lawyer at a small firm. He worked there for only two years before deciding to pursue a career in politics and radio programming. [Big Law Business]

* “Our clients have been under siege the last eight years by the federal government in terms of policies toward corporate America.” Cleveland firms like Jones Day and Squire Patton are pulling out all the stops to host ritzy, invitation-only, business-oriented panel discussions during the Republican National Convention. [Crain’s Cleveland Business]

* To excel as a lawyer you need to compete against yourself while still keeping your eye on the prize. [Katz on Justice]

* High school debaters around the country are debating U.S. domestic surveillance with more depth and nuance than Congress. Maybe they should set the bar just a little bit higher than that. [The Intercept]

* You want to organize against Airbnb? Get ready for some strange bedfellows. [Cityland]

* Judge Posner sees the bullsh*t behind Republicans’ strategy for (not) filling Justice Scalia’s seat. [Washington Post]

* Maryland Court of Appeals set a potentially dangerous new precedent in the case against the police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray. [Slate]

* A noteworthy ruling giving the green light to litigation financing. [Burford Capital]

* The growing movement to amend France’s self-defense laws to include domestic violence. [Jezebel]

* Even some Republicans are calling Indiana’s new abortion law overreaching, not that the statement stopped the bill from passing the legislature. [Huffington Post]

Legislators should think carefully about the possible unintended consequences of laws they pass, according to columnist Mark Herrmann, and legislatures should act quickly to amend laws that may, instead of fixing social ills, actually compound them.