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* Been trying to wrap your head around what geopolitics means for firm life? This is a really good start. [Law.com]

* More than potholes: an in-depth analysis of President Biden’s infrastructure bills. [CNN]

* Wish your contracts outline had more sports involved? Here’s some specific performance for your studying. [The News Gazette]

* Can I get a doggie bag to stay? New Hampshire law lets you bring your pups to outdoor dining. [AP]

* Cluttered space: A space-bound future is gonna need to regulate our galactic litter. [Sun Journal]

* A lawsuit filed by a former college basketball player against Adidas has been dismissed. Maybe he should take Adidas’s slogan “impossible is nothing” to heart if filing an appeal… [Oregonian]

* A man accused of shooting a New Hampshire pastor has pleaded guilty to assaulting his own lawyer. [AP]

* The University of Miami has fired the dean of its law school, and members of the law school community are reportedly not pleased. [Miami Hurricane]

* Alan Dershowitz is reportedly suing Netflix over a docuseries about Jeffrey Epstein. [Fox Business]

* A judge has lowered a sentence after a defendant alleged “shady shenanigans” by a federal prosecutor. Surely, the lawyer didn’t use the word “shenanigans” lightly… [ABA Journal]

* The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. Don’t get it, people still use Ask Jeeves, AOL Keywords, and Prodigy, right…? (I’m really dating myself here!) [Wall Street Journal]

* Lawyers at Jones Day have purportedly donated far more money to Joe Biden than President Trump, even though the firm is working on President Trump’s re-election campaign. [Reuters]

* The Los Angeles District Attorney and her husband are being sued over an incident earlier this year in which the husband of LA’s district attorney allegedly pointed a gun at protesters. [Fox News]

* President Trump has requested that Attorney General Barr investigate Hunter Biden for alleged improprieties. [Bloomberg Law]

* New Hampshire is suing Massachusetts in the Supreme Court of the United States for taxing New Hampshire residents even though they are working remotely. This is going to be a “wicked” interesting case. [Fox News]

* Three New Hampshire hospitals are suing Vermont over Medicaid reimbursements. Maybe they’ll accept payment in maple syrup… [Keene Sentinel]

* The Kansas Supreme Court has ordered a suspended attorney to serve a 30-day jail sentence for practicing law while his license was revoked. [Kansas City Star]

* The Justice Department is asking to defend President Trump in a defamation lawsuit over sexual assault allegations. [CNN]

* An Iowa lawyer has been suspended from practice for accepting a settlement offer that his client rejected. [Bloomberg Law]

* President Trump is expected to announce a new list of potential Supreme Court picks as soon as today. The former reality show host should know some interesting ways to make the announcement… [Guardian]

New Hampshire is the 17th state in the country to pass insurance mandates for fertility treatment.

This state is vying to become the next to provide support to residents facing infertility.

* Slater & Gordon, the world’s first publicly traded law firm, claims that it isn’t planning to conduct any layoffs in the wake of its latest operations review. The firm, which once found itself on the verge of insolvency and is now owned by a hedge fund, is no stranger to conducting massive layoffs. [The Australian]

* Andrews Kurth continues to lose lawyers left and right, with a group of up to 25 attorneys from its public finance group in Texas soon expected to defect to Orrick. How’s that merger talk with Hunton & Williams going these days? [American Lawyer]

* Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein will be delivering the commencement address at Campbell Law’s graduation ceremony this spring. At this rate, given how much the president likes him, let’s see if he’s still Deputy AG come May. [News & Observer]

* ASU Law is on track to receive a record-breaking number of applications for the upcoming academic year. According to LSAC, ASU is one of only four law schools in the country to have seen an increase in applications of 50 percent of more. [ASU Now]

* “Jane Doe,” the New Hampshire woman who won the $560 million Powerball lottery last month, has filed suit against the state’s Lottery Commission in an attempt to remain anonymous. Now that she’s a multimillionaire, she doesn’t want to risk the “significant invasion of privacy” of her name being released. [USA Today]

* “The ballot-selfie prohibition is like ‘burn[ing down] the house to roast the pig.'” Just in time for Election 2016, the First Circuit has struck down New Hampshire’s ballot selfie ban as unconstitutional, citing the fact that it curtailed voters’ free speech, and on top of that, the state was unable to identify any complaints of vote buying or intimidation. [POLITICO]

* Suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who instructed probate judges to adhere to the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, even after the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling, says the ethics charges he faces are “ridiculous” since he never “encourage[d] anyone to defy a federal court or state court order.” [WSJ Law Blog]

* Wiley Rein lost two practice group leaders to DLA Piper this week. The firm, known for its media, telecom, government contracts, and IP practices, no longer has partners in charge of its telecom group or its wireless group, but it claims these departures were anticipated, and the practice groups were merged ahead of time. [Big Law Business]

* Cha-ching! The Caesars bankruptcy is ending, which means the “fee frenzy” for lawyers who were working on the case is about to dry up as well. Nine law firms have been involved in the case since the company first filed for bankruptcy in January 2015, and hundreds of millions of dollars of legal fees have already been assessed. [Am Law Daily]

* Many jurisdictions adopted the Uniform Bar Exam for the July 2016 administration of the bar exam, and it seems like it may have had the opposite effect on test-takers than what was intended. Graduates of this law school saw their bar exam passage rate drop by 13 percent since last year. We’ll have more on this later today. [Albequerque Journal]

Money, Politics, Dirty Tricks, we talk with an Election Law expert about all of it.

* If you’re searching for a city where women lawyers elbow out men when it comes to leadership positions, then Chicago may be the place for you. Eight women serve as office managing partners there, more than any other city. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg]

* Conservative advocacy group Citizens United is back in the news, but this time it’s in search of correspondence between Chelsea Clinton and State Department officials during her mother Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Sometimes all it takes is a Tweet: After being referred to as a “slave” by a law firm partner, this African-American woman took to Twitter to vent about needing to start her own law firm, and she ended up meeting her new law firm partners as a result. [ELLE]

* A widow of an American who was killed during a terror attack in Jordan is suing Twitter because she claims the social networking site has given ISIS “unfettered” means to spread its hateful messages in violation of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Retweet? [Reuters]

* “18 year olds have nearly every burden and privilege of adults… except the right to drink alcohol.” That’s why three states — New Hampshire, California, and Minnesota — may soon lower their legal drinking ages, through legislation or ballot initiatives. [MTV]

Politics can get really ugly.

* Gibson Dunn released the records for all interviews it conducted in order to clear Gov. Christie’s name in the Bridgegate scandal. They all said he was too busy working out to know. [New Jersey Star-Ledger]

* Maryland Law named Donald B. Tobin its new dean. We hope he’ll assist in not jumping the gun on mourning the death of civil rights leaders before they’ve actually died. [Baltimore Business Journal]

* “You understand that you can’t have two defenses?” The prosecution is accusing Oscar Pistorius of changing his testimony mid-trial, and it seems at this point he’s got no leg to stand on. [Bloomberg]

* If you’re still thinking about going to law school, you should probably brush up on the logical reasoning section of the LSAT… because you’re not very good at it now. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]

* If you feel like stepping out on your spouse, you might consider moving to New Hampshire. The state is about to repeal its adultery law which makes the act of cheating a Class B misdemeanor. [Post-Standard]

* Bankruptcy blues: “No one is getting a free pass.” Howrey going to start clawing back all of that money from our former partners and their new firms? Dewey even want to get started with this failed firm’s D&L defectors? [Am Law Daily (sub. req.)]

* Way to show that you’ve got some Seoul: Ropes & Gray, Sheppard Mullin, and Clifford Chance were the first Biglaw firms to receive approval from the Korean Ministry of Justice to open the first foreign firm offices in South Korea. [Legal Week]

* This is supposed to represent an improvement? Pretty disappointing. The percentage of women holding state court judgeships increased by a whopping 0.7 percent over last year’s numbers. [National Law Journal]

* Throw your birth control pills in the air like confetti, because a judge tossed a lawsuit filed by seven states that tried to block the Affordable Care Act’s mandatory contraception coverage provision. [Lincoln Journal Star]

* “[S]omewhere along the way the guy forgot to tell the seller that he was working with the buyer.” Duane Morris was sued for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty for more than $192M. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]

* Please don’t Google me, bitches. Brandon Hamilton, Louisville Law’s ex-assistant dean for admissions, resigned Monday after overpromising $2.4M in scholarship money to incoming law students. [Courier-Journal]

* A New Hampshire college is offering free tuition to students in their junior year if they combine their senior year with their first year at the Massachusetts School of Law. The catch? Mass Law is unaccredited. [NHPR]

* Dewey have some novel issues for our bankruptcy lawyers, or what? As we noted last night, now that D&L has filed for Chapter 11, they’ll have to deal with bank debt, and bondholders, and possible criminal proceedings, oh my! [New York Law Journal]

* And did we mention that Dewey’s defectors and their new firms might get screwed out of millions thanks to the recent Coudert decision? You really should’ve tried to finish up your business before the firm flopped. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Our SCOTUS justices’ summer plans don’t include debating the results of their landmark health care and immigration cases. They’ll be off to fabulous destinations to teach by the first week of July. [Associated Press]

* A federal judge in Brooklyn doesn’t like what seems to be happening in the “game of grams” when it comes to mandatory minimum drug sentencing. Perhaps the DOJ will heed his call for reform. [New York Times]

* Facebook’s IPO was an epic fail, but it’s been great business for plaintiffs lawyers. Twelve securities class action firms are gathering leads and getting ready to sue, and two have already sued. [National Law Journal]

* This wasn’t exactly well planned: if you’re involved in state politics, it’s probably not a good idea to fake a legal internship with a state representative so that you can graduate from law school. [Concord Monitor]

* In happier news, a New York Law School graduate walked across the stage to receive her diploma with the help of her seeing-eye dog. The pooch hasn’t lifted a leg on her law degree… yet. [New York Daily News]

* “Brothels are never going to be a vote winner.” But even so, if you’re looking to get it in down under, a plan to build Australia’s largest cathouse may soon gain approval if lawyers are able to do their work quick and dirty. [Bloomberg]

* Thanks to this case, stupid teenagers in New Jersey who send texts to others that they know are driving can now revel in the fact that they can’t be held liable for injuries that may occur thanks to careless driving. [New Jersey Law Journal]

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