Kasowitz Benson

* “I am managing partner Clifford Chance and I just need your help and bank account to move my book of business out of the country.” [Legal Cheek]

* Biglaw age discrimination suit moves forward. [New York Law Journal]

* Teddy Cruz sues to challenge law to prevent the kind of campaign from doing the entirely shady thing his campaign wants to do. [Courthouse News Service]

* Even GOP lawyers think killing Obamacare is a terrible idea. [Huffington Post]

* Law school deans stepping down all over the place. [Law.com]

* The Mueller investigation may be over, but we can still have fun playing “Guess the Mystery Subpoena!” [National Law Journal]

* Kasowitz losing real estate partners but insists there’s nothing to see here. [American Lawyer]

* Racist algorithms in the crosshairs. [Law360]

* In case you missed it, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh refused to condemn President Donald Trump’s attacks on the judiciary (specifically, his insults of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg), refused to say whether he believed same-sex marriage was a constitutional right, and once again denied discussing the Mueller probe with anyone at Kasowitz Benson. What will happen today? [Washington Post]

* President Donald Trump has reportedly called Attorney General Jeff Sessions “a dumb Southerner” and an “idiot” without an Ivy League law degree who “couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.” This Alabama Law professor wonders what’s so bad about a degree from Alabama Law. [New York Times]

* Per a new study from the American Bar Association, the sky is blue and women and minorities continue to face racial and gender bias within the legal profession. But, here are some tools to fight these problems. [DealBook / New York Times]

* Allen & Overy has published its 2018 gender pay gap figures, and it’s the first U.K. firm to include data from its “overwhelmingly male” partners in its disclosures. A&O’s median gender pay gap is 39 percent, a slight improvement. [Financial Times]

* It seems that the Justice Department no longer thinks that employers should be forced to consider job applicants with criminal histories, going against Obama-era guidance that the EEOC has been following since 2012. [National Law Journal]

* In an historic opinion, India’s Supreme Court ruled that gay sex between adults is not a crime, casting aside an “irrational, arbitrary, and incomprehensible” colonial-era law that made the act a punishable offense within the country. [Times of India]

* Fire alarms sounded at Miami Law as smoke poured through vents into a student lounge, and some students evacuated their classrooms, but others ran back in to save their laptops. Well, obviously — they’re law students, after all. [Miami Hurricane]

* Judge George B. Daniels (S.D.N.Y.) dismissed a suit alleging that President Trump violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause when his hotels and restaurants did business with foreign governments during his time in office. The reason for dismissal? A lack of standing. [Washington Post]

* Speaking of the president, past vetting (or lack thereof) concerns be damned, because he recently announced his latest round of judicial nominations. Thus far, Trump has had a record number of circuit judges confirmed in his first year. [CNN]

* Simpson Thacher and Kasowitz Benson are being sued for malpractice by the former CEO of Patriot National, who claims the firms are the reason why his company went under and is on the brink of filing for bankruptcy. [Daily Business Review]

* Co-conspirator or victim? That’s what jurors will have to decide when it comes to former Katten Muchin partner Evan Greebel, who once represented pharma bro Martin Shkreli. [New York Law Journal]

* UCLA Law School is creating the Chris Cornell Scholarship, named for the late Soundgarden/Audioslave singer, endowed with a $1 million gift from a coalition led by his widow, Vicky Cornell. This is a wonderful way to remember an amazing artist who was an amazing human being. [Los Angeles Times]

* It’s finally here, a listing of the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2017. Topping the list is the woman who sued because she claimed she was “deceived” by amount of sugar in jelly beans. [U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform]

* Tiffany Trump attends Justice Ginsburg lecture because in the coming dystopian FedSoc hellscape, Tiffany will be the enigmatic hermit charged with remembering the long-long-ago when judges spoke of “interstate commerce” and “checks and balances.” [Washington Post]

* PwC is set to launch a U.S. law firm, but Biglaw is just fine because the Big 4 law firm can’t offer domestic legal advice… yet. [Law.com]

* Meanwhile, from the massive understatements department: “Kasowitz Benson Adjusts Management Team Amid Tumultuous Year.” [New York Law Journal]

* Looking for solutions to the problems plaguing patents? Here’s some insight direct from the Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit. [Law360]

* You can now legally dance in New York bars. I’m not sure why you’d want to, but you can. [NPR]

* You probably knew that bail was discriminatory and awful, but it’s always jarring to see exactly how discriminatory and awful. [The Guardian]

* Sex trafficking fight may torpedo Section 230. [Wired]

* As we continue to reel from Judge Posner’s retirement, here are some of his best quips. Unfortunately lists like these will always miss something. Like my personal favorite: “Yeah, but, you know, the problem with the balancing test is there’s nothing on your side of the balance!” [National Law Journal]

* The high price of becoming a partner. [American Lawyer]

* Top Kasowitz Benson partner jumps ship… could this be more fallout from the ill-fated attempt to defend Trump? [New York Law Journal]

* The government’s been in a slump at the Supreme Court. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* A deep dive into the Chadbourne discrimination suit. [Bloomberg Businessweek]

* If you’ve not followed the phenomenon of running payday lending from tribal lands, here’s an in depth look at a $2B lawsuit over the practice. [Law360]

* Some predictions about the upcoming law school application cycle. Here’s another one… a bunch of people will end up in debt for no good reason. [US News]