Steven Menashi

* Immediately after John Bolton lost his job, a true genius tweeted that he’d signed with the Patriots. It looks like he might return to Kirkland which is basically the same thing in legal circles. [National Law Journal]

* Supreme Court decides government can circumvent international law while asylum rules get litigated. Cool. [NY Times]

* Dentons just added five firms across Africa in one day. [American Lawyer]

* “Chief Counsel of Digital Citizenship” is an actual title a major company came up with for a lawyer presumably after spinning the buzzword wheel. [Corporate Counsel]

* Latest appellate judge pick was so mealy-mouthed and evasive that even the Republicans snapped at him before they’ll ultimately vote down the line to give the racist myth peddling jackhole a lifetime job. [Huffington Post]

* Former Big 4 partner gets a year for fraud. [Law360]

* What exactly would happen if California stood up for college athletes? [Sports Illustrated]

* John Hinckley seeks sentence adjustment so he can move to California and get into the music business which is a sentence no one ever expected. [AP]

* The DOJ sent a newsletter to the nation’s immigration judges including links to a white nationalist website. Bill Barr is running a real crackerjack organization. [Buzzfeed News]

* A deep question and answer exchange with Penn Law’s Amy Wax and she comes off just as loony as you’d expect. [New Yorker]

* It looks like Michael Avenatti is going to put Nike on trial in his upcoming extortion suit. [Law360]

* A Brad Pitt role holds the key to being a good prosecutor. It’s not Tyler Durden and that’s a little surprising. [ABA Journal]

* Weil Gotshal may have cost investment bankers millions, leaving them mere multimillionaires. [NY Post]

* Ed Whelan seems to have no idea how law review articles are written in this tortured effort to defend Trump circuit appointee Steve Menashi’s reputation. Essentially, Whelan says because Menashi’s controversial article was cited by real academics it must be real scholarship — as opposed to a 2L randomly inserting Menashi into a string cite. [National Review]

* Nicholas Sparks won that fight he’s been having with the former headmaster of his vanity school. [Deadline]

* The economy is about to tank and cost 10,000+ lawyers their jobs. Maybe someone should step up and do something about it? [Slate]

* Simpson and Skadden are advising WeWork on its IPO. Common sense is advising everyone else against it. [American Lawyer]

* Latest Circuit Court nominee is 11 years out of law school, frighteningly making him a model of experience. [National Law Journal]

* Recovering from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate is going to be a hell of a mess. [New York Law Journal]

* The short-sell attack on Burford Capital could spark more regulation… even if the whole thing was bogus. [Law.com]

* The idiot in charge of Barstool Sports stumbles into NLRB violation then demands AOC “debate” him. It’s not a debate dude. It’s a law that you broke. There’s not a gray area for contestation. [Variety]