Strip clubs

* Changes to the gig economy may be impacting your favorite California strip club(s). [Wired]

* Just in case the wage gap isn’t enough, you’ve gotta be aware of the race gap too. [Reuters]

* New York’s AG wants to prevent the sharing of killing spree videos. There probably should have been a law against helping killers get famous ages ago. [Bloomberg Law]

* New San Jose gun law could result in fines for violators. Better mind your Ps and Mac 11s! [MSN]

Perhaps her billable hour put him to shame?

* Carmen Electra filed a federal suit against a strip joint, alleging that the gentleman’s club defamed her by using a scantily clad picture of her without her prior consent, thereby insinuating that she removes her clothing for money there or otherwise endorses its sexy services. [New York Daily News]

* Happy anniversary to our favorite SCOTUS monk: If Justice Thomas sticks to his usual routine when the Supreme Court returns from its winter break, he’ll have officially gone a decade without asking a question from the bench. [New York Times]

* Aloha! Just one week after receiving a $25 million donation and changing the name of the school, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law is losing its dean to Hawaii Pacific University, where he’ll serve as president. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

* DLA Piper recently acquired Peltonen LMR, a Helsinki firm, bringing its grand total of Nordic offices to three. Unlike in the past, we hope that this time DLA Piper knows what country its new office is located in. Pssst… it’s Finland. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg]

* If you’ve been waitlisted by the law school of your choice, we hope that you’re a particularly patient person, because you may be waiting to find out your academic fate until April, or worse yet, July. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]

Strippers use certain techniques to grab their clients’ attention and to get their money -- and some of these techniques can apply to the legal profession, as columnist Shannon Achimalbe explains.

Everything really is bigger in Texas, including the lengths lawyers will go to bring shame to the profession.

What are the latest juicy revelations in Alexandra Marchuk's lawsuit against her former firm and one of its partners?

To the Judge: I see what you did there...

Don't skip over the footnotes. That's where all the fun is!

* In light of Chief Justice Roberts’s historic vote to uphold Obamacare, should we expect JGR to be more liberal going forward? According to Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Oath (affiliate link), “Do not expect a new John Roberts. Expect the conservative he has always been.” [Talking Points Memo via How Appealing] * Law firm staff layoffs: they’re not just an American thing. Slaughter and May is dropping the ax on 28 secretaries. [Roll On Friday] * “[A]ny robot or high school graduate can calculate numbers in a matrix to arrive at the highest possible sentence. But it takes a Judge — a man or woman tempered by experience in life and law — to properly judge another human being’s transgressions.” [Justice Building Blog] * Professor Dershowitz’s $4 million Cambridge mansion? Robert Wenzel is not impressed: “if I lived in that house, I would want to attack Iran and most of the rest of the world, also.” [Economic Policy Journal] * A man sues a strip club, alleging that a stripper ruptured his bladder when she slid down a pole and onto his abdomen. Ouch. [Legally Weird / Findlaw] * Still on the subject of Torts, two attractive blonde sisters walk into a bar — and discuss who can be held liable if a man suffers a heart attack during a threesome. Video after the jump….

Our latest Biglaw blind item concerns the sighting of a partner at a strip club. Right now you're probably thinking: yawn. A law firm partner at a strip club? As they say, it happens every day (or night -- and often gets billed to "business development"). But there are a few more details that make this item noteworthy....

Dating sucks sometimes -- especially when it's a date set up by a legal blogger with no particular aptitude for matchmaking. Last week, Kashmir Hill thought she had actually done a decent job. She sent two Washington, D.C. lawyers out to Eighteenth Street Lounge on a Thursday night. Halfway through the date, the dude sent her an email, "Going really well so far." She thought she finally set up a date that was going well....