Loyola Law School – Chicago

* Congratulations to newly appointed Loyola Chicago dean Michael Kaufman. [Law.com]

* Department of Justice is set to announce today charges in the case revolving around the hack of Yahoo accounts. Of course, it’s probably your fault if you use Yahoo for anything but fantasy sports. [CNN]

* One contract attorney racked up 6,905 hours (and $1.5 million in billables) on a single shareholder lawsuit. Too bad he was disbarred in the 80s. [Wall Street Journal]

* Wait for it… wait for it. Nope, Rachel Maddow’s scoop on Donald Trump’s taxes, wasn’t really worth it. [New York Times]

* White nationalist group, the National Policy Institute — that’d be Richard Spencer’s think tank, has been stripped of its tax-exempt status. [Washington Post]

* The European Court of Justice ruled a workplace headscarf ban might not be discriminatory. Ummm, okay? [BBC News]

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Are graduates of elite law schools "too good" for Biglaw? Interestingly enough, they tend not to stick around large law firms. Grads of many lower-ranked schools make partner at higher rates than grads of certain top law schools.

Every now and then, you'll come across a colorful farewell message penned by a partner. One such email, sent out last Friday by a longtime partner leaving a major law firm, is now making the rounds. Here's a teaser: "I have realized that I cannot simultaneously meet the demands of career and family. Without criticizing those who have chosen lucre over progeny, let me just say that I am leaving the practice of law." Wow. So who's the partner in question, which firm did he just leave with such flair, and what's he planning to do next?

Hofstra Law School will be renamed the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, according to the New York Law Journal. But Hofstra isn't the only law school to accept big dollars in exchange for naming rights. As this trend continues, you wonder if any of this money being thrown around will benefit the actual students....

We have the makings of a trend: inappropriate contacts between participants in jury trials. These contacts can be problematic because a jury trial constitutes a delicate ecosystem, in which contacts and communications between actors are regulated strictly to ensure the fairness of the proceedings. Now we bring you news of, er, more intimate contact between a witness and a lawyer -- which culminated in a mistrial....

You'd think that even a city government would realize that offering attorneys jobs 780 miles away from home and then revoking those offers a week and a half later would be life-ruining. But apparently, that's not how things work in upstate New York....