* A Wisconsin woman has filed a lawsuit against the maker of bagel bites pizza snacks alleging that they do not contain real mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce. Must be a true "Cheesehead"... [KIRO]
* Brittany Spears is asking for some facetime with the judge overseeing her conservatorship. [New York Daily News]
* A lawyer has been suspended from practice for five years for firing several bullets into a colleague's law office. [ABA Journal]
* A New York City lawyer has seemingly vanished leaving clients and their money in the lurch. [Haute Living]
* Donald Trump has lost his effort to avoid sitting for a deposition in a lawsuit filed by protesters who were allegedly assaulted outside of Trump Tower. Not a first for the Donald... [New York Post]
* I climbed the Republican presidential nominee's building using suction cups and all I got were these lousy handcuffs: Stephen Rogata, the Virginia teenager who attempted to scale Trump Tower earlier this week, has been criminally charged with reckless endangerment and trespassing. [New York Times]
* "We adopt policy that will be beneficial to all lawyers -- we don't adopt things just to be politically correct." Many attorneys are up in arms about the new ABA professional conduct rule which prohibits discriminating against and harassing colleagues during the practice of law, but it was something that needed to happen. [Big Law Business]
* Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid has predicted "with some degree of credibility" that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will nominate Judge Merrick Garland if she wins the White House this fall. He doesn't think Clinton will "rock the boat" with a new pick for Donald Trump's "minions" to block. [Associated Press]
* Given the fact that 36.4 percent of lawyers surveyed qualified themselves as problem drinkers, attorney-counselor Patrick Krill has opened a consulting firm that will cater specifically to law firms, providing assistance for lawyers dealing with addiction and mental health issues. If you need help, please seek it out. [Law.com via ABA Journal]
* Who are 11 of the most successful graduates of Stanford Law School? Two are SCOTUS justices, one is a former Ninth Circuit judge, one is the executive director of the ACLU, four are business executives (one of whom invented "revenge litigation finance" to sue Gawker into bankruptcy), and the rest are public figures in politics. [Business Insider]
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