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* Children’s lawsuit over climate change moves forward. [Courthouse News Service]

* If you’re an armed terrorist organization, AstraZeneca may be able to help. [Corporate Counsel]

* In “dog bites man” news, profitable partners accused of sexual harassment can easily get new jobs. [Wall Street Journal]

* “We’ll Get You And Mangle You” takes on new meaning as Weil holds attorney to a six month waiting period before he can lateral to Kirkland. [American Lawyer]

* Maybe cyberinsurance isn’t really insurance at all. [Slate]

* North Carolina awards man $8.8 million because his wife doesn’t love him anymore. Apparently being a loser can be profitable. [KCRA]

* Cleary’s in-house outsourcing company slapped with another sexual harassment suit. [Law360]

* A conversation with Michele Coleman Mayes, general counsel for the New York Public Library and former GC at Allstate and at Pitney Bowes about the persistent bias against black women lawyers. [Law.com]

Which top-tier law firm is conducting staff layoffs due to outsourcing -- and could this be a good thing in the end, for both the firm and the employees?

According to the suit, a supervisor penned some fine works of erotic poetry to impress a subordinate.

* Size matters when it comes to hourly rates. Because when you work in Biglaw, it’ll be all the more odious for your poor clients when you “churn that bill, baby.” [Corporate Counsel]

* Would you want this Cadwalader cad, a former mail room supervisor, at your “erotic disposal”? The object of his affections didn’t want him either, and she’s suing. [New York Daily News]

* In the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, the NAACP is pressing for federal charges and a civil suit may be in the works. This trial isn’t over in the court of public opinion. [Bloomberg]

* This experience inspired George Zimmerman, fresh off his acquittal, to go to law school to help the wrongfully accused. If it makes you feel better, when he graduates, he’ll be unemployed. [Reuters]

* Here’s the lesson learned by Prop 8 proponents: If at first you don’t succeed at the Supreme Court, try, try again at the state level and base your arguments on technicalities. [Los Angeles Times]

* You do not want this patent troll — one of the most notorious in the country — to “go thug” on you. Apparently this is just another danger of alleged infringement in the modern world. [New York Times]

* Asiana Airlines is considering suing the NTSB and a California television station over the airing of “inaccurate and offensive” information (read: wildly racist) about the pilots of Flight 214. [CNN]

* Ariel Castro was slapped with an additional 648 counts in the kidnapping case against him, bringing the total to 977. Prosecutors are not yet seeking the death penalty. [Cleveland Plain Dealer]

Another law firm is sending its Records Management functions to an outside provider, resulting in staff layoffs. Which firm?

Emotional responses to the Dewey & LeBoeuf debacle have ranged from sadness to anger to... the just plain weird and funny.

What is the latest news and rumor about Dewey & LeBoeuf? Not good, for starters....

Over the summer, we wondered: what can law firms do to prepare for a possible double-dip recession? One obvious answer: firms can “right-size” themselves, by making sure that they are as lean and as mean as they can be. And this seems to be what has been happening over the past few months. We haven’t […]

The big news from yesterday morning was bad news for the staff at O'Melveny & Myers. News started leaking out Monday night that the firm would be laying off 75 support staffers. Approximately half the of the laid off O'Melveny staffers will be cut outright. The other half will have the opportunity to be relocated to scenic West Virginia....