* Law professor thinks he's cracked the code to determining the results of the election. And it involves the Philadelphia Eagles. [Washington Examiner]
* Feeling a little antsy about the election? [fivethirtyeight]
* The Rolling Stone libel verdict won't turn into a Gawker situation. [Law and More]
* Refresh. [fivethirtyeight]
* The intellectual property war over jeans. [The Fashion Law]
* Nope, nothing's changed. [fivethirtyeight]
* How to focus on the clarity of your message. [Reboot Your Legal Practice]
* It's going to be a long night. [fivethirtyeight]
* Keys to success: remove your ego from the battle. [Katz Justice]
* Yeah, this answer was pretty perfect. [Slate]
* Russia is full on trolling the United States over election 2016. [Salon]
* "Trains racing at unsafe speeds with volatile, difficult-to-contain oil is incredibly dangerous." Indeed. [Occupy.com]
* Update from the Rolling Stone defamation trial over the magazine's now-retracted story about sexual assault at University of Virginia. [Jezebel]
* What will Jones Day (the Trump campaign's lawyers) do after the election? [Law and More]
* Tips for writing the all important chronology of events. [Law Prose]
* An analysis of Judge Garland's rulings on the D.C. Circuit -- what type of judge he is, who has he been historically, and what he might be like as a Supreme Court justice. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Ex-Skadden lawyer Charles Bennett, who pled guilty to running a Ponzi scheme, got sentenced to 5 years in prison. [Law360]
* Some of the most damning evidence in the lawsuit against Rolling Stone over its (since retracted) UVA rape story may be a law firm's involvement. [Gawker]
* Super. One of Donald Trump's delegates was just indicted on child porn and weapons charges. I'm fascinated to know how that will lead to a bump in Trump's polling numbers. [Law Newz]
* This criminal defense attorney actually enjoys his job. I thought a lawyer that was fulfilled by their job existed only on TV. Nicely done, sir. [Katz on Justice]
* Securities lawyer is getting two years in jail for tax evasion. You should really know better, dude. [Daily Business Review]
* An attorney faced disciplinary action for letting her deadbeat boyfriend do illegal s**t in her basement. [Legal Profession Blog]
* A cool opportunity in legal journalism: full-time editor of SCOTUSblog. [SCOTUSblog]
* The deal to combine drug giants Allergan and Pfizer in an inversion was called off after the US Treasury announced new rules to limit the tax benefits of moving the corporate headquarters overseas. [Quartz]
* Should the IRS be going after the Pittsburgh Penguins for letting Sidney Crosby live in the owner's house? [Bloomberg / BNA]
* Pretty sure Vivia Chen has covered all the options in her latest article exploring the benefits of having women leaders at law firms. [Careerist]
* Corporations may be taking an active role in opposing the recent spate of anti-LGBTQ legislation, but that still doesn't make them people. [Reuters]
* "Jackie" from the Rolling Stone UVA rape article, which is now the subject of litigation, will have to testify in the pending action, despite her lawyer's claim that revisiting the incident would be traumatizing. [Gawker]
* Is the Bible about to become the official state symbol of Tennessee? [NPR]
* Claiming to be a sovereign citizen is silly, and it certainly won't insulate you from charges of chid sex abuse and kidnapping. [Jezebel]
Even after the Rolling Stone debacle, many dubious beliefs persist about women who allege that they have been sexually assaulted, the men those women accuse, and how the media reports on it.
* “Take it from me, dealing with the complex criminal legal system can be difficult and intimidating for most people." This ex-Troutman Sanders partner may be facing nine felony charges, but who cares? He's starting his own firm. [Am Law Daily]
* It's kind of cute when law school deans lie to themselves to make themselves feel better. For example, the dean of Oregon Law says now is "excellent" time go to go law school, and he doesn't make decisions “based on what moves the rankings needle.” [Daily Emerald]
* Per the latest Altman Weil survey, the first quarter of 2015 was one of the best ever for law firm mergers. The pace with which law firms merged was the second-quickest since the company started tracking mergers to begin with in 2007. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* The Rutgers Board of Governors has approved of the proposed merger between Rutgers-Newark and Rutgers-Camden Law. Now they just have to wait for the ABA's rubber stamp, which they'll obviously get -- the ABA would rubber stamp a shoe. [NJ Advance Media]
* "[T]he law is a noble profession – but it’s also an oversubscribed one, due in large part to excessive federal lending." Maybe if the government stopped handing out student loans like candy, law schools would be forced to lower their tuition rates. [Washington Post]
* The University of Virginia's chapter of Phi Kappa Psi is definitely going to try to sue Rolling Stone over its fraternity gang-rape story, but the question is whether "bad journalism [will] amount to legal liability." What do you think about this? [WSJ Law Blog]
A Biglaw firm accidentally released an unredacted version of documents it had previously spent lots of time and money intentionally trying to keep sealed. Oops!
