White-Collar Crime

* IP professors swear IP cases are going to be interesting this time. Of course they say that… it’s their trademark response. [National Law Journal]

* Chris Collins resigns from Congress in advance of pleading guilty to abusing his board position. [Law360]

* California has fired the first, serious shots at the NCAA’s student-exploitation model. Where do we go from here? [Sports Illustrated]

* Forever 21 enters Chapter 11, learning exactly what 32 feels like. [USA Today]

* Law firm merger market remains relatively quiet. [American Lawyer]

* Companies hiring GCs increasingly consider candidates based on potential to move into executive leadership someday. [Corporate Counsel]

* Faster lawyers don’t necessarily mean better lawyers sounds like something a client would say just before demanding an overnight answer. [Law.com]

* Jurists rallying behind judge charged with obstruction for not letting ICE demean the judicial system by turning it into stakeout location. [National Law Journal]

* Prosecutors seek 15 year sentence for Manafort’s former son-in-law. Maybe Skadden can write a report justifying his actions? [Politico]

* Shenzhen is coming and Biglaw has a new market to figure out. [American Lawyer]

* JP Morgan traders accused of 8-year racket. This is in contrast to the more broadly defined 220-year racket the company’s been up to. [Law360]

* White House ordering more people to ignore subpoenas, so that’s a super development for the rule of law. [Courthouse News Service]

* While the UK endures a constitutional meltdown, here are fun facts about their Supreme Court. [Legal Cheek]

* 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]

* Redaction comedy: filings in the Roger Stone case inadvertently gave out Trump’s phone number. [National Law Review]

* Law firm growth has slowed but we’re going to pretend that’s not a troubling sign. [American Lawyer]

* California’s going to war with the NCAA and they stand a better chance than this year’s UCLA team. [KTLA]

* Former Penn State GC faces discipline hearing before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. [Law.com]

* Insider trading trial begins with argument that banker didn’t intend to go in on an insider trading scheme with his dad. [Law360]

* FDA sends warning letter to Juul over its claims to be “safer than cigarettes” being potentially false as opposed to its claims to “not make you look like a douche” which are demonstrably false. [Corporate Counsel]

* New evidence proves what everyone already knew: the citizenship question on the census was intended to suppress minority representation. Maybe Kavanaugh can get angry about it until everyone ignores it? [National Law Journal]

* More abuse charges for R. Kelly. [USA Today]

* Addressing mental health issues in the legal world probably requires rethinking what “the legal world” really means. But that time isn’t billable so it probably won’t happen. [Law.com]

* HSBC avoids Ponzi scheme suit. Having personally represented HSBC in a Ponzi scheme case before, kudos. [Law360]

* It behooves young lawyers to learn how the firm makes its money because it’s actually a lot more complex than “make you keep working.” [American Lawyer]

* You can legally carry brass knuckles in Texas now. [CNN]