Sally Yates

Here are the 24 individuals who will be holding down the fort at the Justice Department for the Trump Administration.

* Is there a constitutional right to smoke weed? This defendant says he was prescribed medical marijuana to help him kick an opioid addiction, and his bail conditions must be revised to allow him to keep smoking it, lest his Sixth Amendment right to participate fully in his own defense be impaired. How high were the Katten Muchin lawyers who thought up this creative defense? [Reuters]

* Baker Donelson plans to merge with Ober Kaler to create one of the largest Biglaw firms in the country. Effective January 1, the firm will have more than 800 attorneys, and one of the largest health law practices in America. The $400+ million in revenue expected to be brought in by the merger isn’t too shabby, either. [Big Law Business]

* “[N]o one is dragging their feet here. The Justice Department is committed to working with the FBI to move the case forward.” AG Loretta Lynch and Deputy AG Sally Yates are trying to get FBI Director James Comey to wrap up his renewed interest in the Hillary Clinton email probe as quickly as possible before the election next week. [Politico]

* “You haven’t been able to do it with trademark law. You haven’t been able to do it with patent designs. We are now going to use copyright law to kill the knockoff industry. I don’t know that that’s bad. I’m just saying.” Differing opinions about the fashion industry emerged during oral arguments in the Star Athletica case. [New York Times]

* “We are all feeling a little less confident. … [T]here is an incredible amount of uncertainty that comes with this.” Some U.S. firms with offices in London and Europe are contemplating what Brexit’s effects will be on their business — or if Brexit will have any effect on their business at all. At this point, no one knows. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

* Dentons launches a “global referral network” because hiring a lawyer should be as much like eHarmony as possible. [The Am Law Daily]

* In-house counsel shouldn’t be too friendly with the business-side. Too bad the trend is pointing the exact opposite direction. [Corporate Counsel]

* Judge Brian Cogan may have provided a little gasoline for the political fires yesterday when he released a bulk of records to the Associated Press detailing “Donald Trump’s business dealings with a real estate developer, who had mob connections and a hidden criminal record in his past.” If the rest of this campaign is any indication, this revelation will… probably boost Trump 5 points. [WiseLawNY]

* Yesterday at the White Collar Crime Institute conference, Deputy AG Sally Yates fleshed out the ramifications of the Department of Justice’s focus on prosecuting individuals for corporate crime. So now we know what will happen to all those overly friendly in-house counsel. [Law360]

* Lawyers in goofy hats. [The Careerist]

* Congress passes bill changing all the racist terms populating the U.S. Code. Send it on to a president half of them refuse to believe is American. [The Hill]

* Minnie Driver’s neighbors accuse her of throwing paintbombs at their house in a lawsuit. The lawsuit is obviously frivolous… Minnie Driver hasn’t left a significant mark on anything in years. [People]

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Fortunately for Clinton, criminal indictment will likely never happen because she has a "get out of jail free" card from her Constitution-shredding bedfellow.