LeClair Ryan

* Does the First Amendment protect criticizing a public school softball coach? Yes. Of course it does. How is this case still going? [Law.com]

* A study of law students using AI on exams found that low performing students did better, high performing students did worse. [Reuters]

* UK judge receives “formal advice” after falling asleep during trial. Presumably the advice was to blame the English accents for lulling him to sleep. I mean… has anyone ever actually finished that Stephen Fry story? [LegalCheek]

* There’s chutzpah and then there’s a company that declared bankruptcy in a dubious bid to avoid liability asking permission to pay its leader a $1.5 million salary. [Bloomberg Law News]

* What’s the appropriate alternative term for “nonlawyer” that we’re supposed to use? Because there’s some pretty important ethical reasons to make that distinction clear to firm outsiders. [ABA Journal]

* When the Obama DOJ walked away from probing right-wing terror groups, it set the stage for racially motivated attacks like the one in Jacksonville. [Revolving Door Project]

* LeClair Ryan founder inching closer to a deal in bankruptcy fight. [Law360]

* The LeClair Ryan dissolution enters a new chapter. But will it be Chapter 7? [American Lawyer]

* Alex Jones set to find out if it’s really defamation to tell the world that grieving parents are lying about their dead children. [Connecticut Law Tribune]

* America has the RBG Jabot-Watch, the UK has the Lady Hale Brooch-Watch. [Legal Cheek]

* Judge Preska did not seem convinced by the latest Dershowitz arguments. [The Careerist]

* Racist voting laws in the South are to be expected by everyone but Chief Justice Roberts, but usually they’re more subtle than this provision that Mississippi’s had for over a century. [NPR]

* Banks one step closer to actually cashing in on the marijuana economy. [Courthouse News Service]

* While everyone got distracted by impeachment, there are still “not qualified” judges streaming through the system. [Law360]

* Bill Cosby has to fork over some hefty funds to Quinn Emanuel. [The Recorder]