* A lawsuit over a house that looks out of the Flintstones has been settled, and the home can stay as it is. Yabadabadoo! [NBC News]
* Trump lawyers have purportedly been warned of potential forthcoming charges against the Trump Organizations and its officials. [CNBC]
* A class-action lawsuit has already been filed over the building collapse in Surfside, Florida last week. [CBS News]
* Johnson & Johnson has settled opioid litigation with the State of New York for $230 million. [Hill]
* A prominent Chicago-area attorney was found dead in his home last week. [Chicago Tribune]
* The management firm that represents Connor McGregor is suing Manny Pacquiao over breach of contract and other claims. Seems like a knockout... [ESPN]
* Partners at this law firm tried a threesome, but it didn't exactly work out as expected, so now they're scaling it back to just one at a time. (And by this, we of course mean that Porter Scott's three co-managing partners plan was a no-go.) [Sacramento Business Journal]
* More than 40 class-action suits have been filed since the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, with many litigants alleging that they were "duped" into its purchase. Maybe one of them will pack a better punch than the so-called "Fight of the Century." [National Law Journal]
* Just because one Biglaw firm went under, in part, because of its brand-spanking new administrative hub, that doesn't mean your firm shouldn't consider opening one. The risk might be worth the reward of saving millions in expenses. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg]
* Concordia Law launched a media campaign to attract students, touting the fact that it's been kind of provisionally approved by the ABA as its selling point. It's new slogan is likely "Meh, we're good enough for the ABA, so we're good enough for you." [Idaho Statesman]
* Here's some good news for the people who are actually considering taking the D.C. bar exam instead of just waiving in like the rest of civilized society: the D.C. Court of Appeals will finally allow you to type the essay portion of the exam on your laptops. [Legal Times]
* Manny Pacquiao is headed to court after a pair of Nevada fans sued him for failing to disclose his torn rotator cuff before entering the ring. They feel this was dishonest, but Manny is a politician, so... [Bloomberg Business]
* Trial of man who knocked out his lawyer delayed after he... attacked his new lawyer. [Post Star]
* What are the lyrics to "Louie, Louie"? It's a question that stumped our "top men" back in the day. [The Legal Satyricon]
* Tort reform advocates talk a big game, but the harms they try to cure are mostly non-existent. [LFC 360]
* Could this be another Indiana lawyer behaving badly? [Indianapolis Star]
* Lat will be chatting about his unusual career path -- in case you hadn't heard, he has a book, Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link) -- in Denver on May 13. [Federalist Society]
* Speaking of Colorado, a prisoner there serving a life sentence wrote Above the Law the other day explaining that his pro bono lawyer had died and asking us for legal help. We don't do that kind of work, but if you're an interested criminal defense lawyer in Colorado, let us know.
* Floyd Mayweather's lawyer says that his client will post Suge Knight's insanely high $10 million bail if he wins his fight against Manny Pacquiao. Suge says he was "really going to pull for him to win, but now [he's] going to have to pray for him to win." [Los Angeles Times]
* Northwestern University School of Law is launching a first-of-its-kind loan repayment assistance program to help grads in "modestly salaried private sector jobs" -- that is, if you make less than $85,000, the school will pay your loan interest for up to a year. [National Law Journal via CBS]
* If you haven't heard, the class of 2014 was much more employed than the class of 2013 by a factor of a few percentage points. Apply to law school right now! (No, don't do that. The class of 2014 was smaller, so it looks like the job stats were better.) [ABA Journal]
* "[T]he jury is out and the only sane thing you can say about Dentons is check back in three years.” Hot on the heels of the announced merger between Dentons and McKenna Long, many lawyers are running for the exits. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
* If you're interested in going to law school on the east coast, then you may want to take a look at this list of schools, ranked by total employment of the class of 2014. We'd shudder to see what this list would look like if only long-term, full-time jobs were used. [BostInno]
* A lawyer who's suing former U.S. Representative Aaron Schock on behalf of a campaign donor says he's been unable to locate the disgraced politician to serve him. What will happen now? We bet you can find out on the next episode of Downton Abbey. [ABC News]
(affiliate link) -- in Denver on May 13. [