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* Marijuana use cannot impair gun rights. I mean, if being on the terror watch list isn't an obstacle, there's no reason weed should be. [Reuters] * Jay-Z and Bacardi have settled bringing the running count of problems to 98. [Law360] * Proposal to require three judges to issue a national injunction. That may not be enough to stop some of this nonsense, but sure. [Bloomberg Law News] * Litigation finance thrives in rough economic waters. These aren't really rough economic waters, ...

* Just because the law determines that someone is a dangerous threat to others, the Fifth Circuit rules that court orders still can't take away their guns because that's a fundamental right. You know, walking around as a free person is a fundamental right too... can the justice system still put criminals in prison? [Reuters] * Lizzo is now officially 100 percent that bitch. [Law360] * Baker McKenzie office managing partner steps aside amid investigation into office-wide discrimination ...

* Law firms don't appreciate associates building their own brand through social media. Because "professional development" only flows one direction. [Legal Intelligencer] * Hunter Biden seems to have found lawyers who are aware that ripping private data off a computer is generally a crime. [Washington Post] * Real Criminal Defendants Of Beverly Hills. [Reuters] * Andrew Tate's got a new lawyer. He's probably mansplaining how the law works to her right now. [Rolling Stone]...

* Demand for legal services dropped in 2022. Which you already knew, but now there's a report! [Reuters] * Look to your left, look to your right... one of these law firms won't be here next year. [Law.com] * Federal Circuit strikes down Quinn Emanuel's class action fees as "excessive." Quinn Emanuel had sought FIVE percent. [Law360] * Looks like Trump finally realized Alina Habba isn't the answer to... well any question worth asking. [Business Insider] * The Wooly M...

* Trump sues Bob Woodward claiming copyright on all the stuff he told Woodward during interviews Trump granted for the purpose of letting Woodward write a book. This is not going in the magical "Trump keeps winning cases" bucket his lawyer talks about. [Courthouse News Service] * Johnson & Johnson tried the "Monopoly Man turns out his pockets" routine and failed. [Law360] * Hey Siri, explain labor law. [MacRumors] * Speaking of labor law, a look at the upcoming Supreme Co...

* Sam Bankman-Fried objects to "overbroad" bail restrictions. Bail restrictions can be onerous and harassing but these boil down to "please don't talk to possible witnesses against you or send automatically deleting communications," which seems... reasonable. Next thing you know they're going to be telling him he can't pay fines with magic beans! [Reuters] * When looking in the mirror in 2023, there's one question we must all ask ourselves: Was I at Camp L...

* There's a lot to say about Brett Kavanaugh's speech at Notre Dame Law School, but he used the opportunity to bash the US News rankings blasting the idea that the publication's reputation survey can capture the quality of an education. His clerks this Term all went to Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. [CNN] * Shearman & Sterling used to be a top 5 earning firm. Now it's banking on a merger -- that feels more like a takeover -- to save it. What happened? [American Lawyer] * Fo...

* ChatGPT "passes" law school exam. Which is not really how law school works, but cool. Congrats on your below market salary, debt-laden hellscape Johnny 5! [CBS] * Lawyer threats avert robot legal apocalypse. I'm still pretty sure this is a stupid temper tantrum from lawyers who think they're special snowflakes, but here we are. [NPR] * Madison Square Garden's lawyer ban may violate bias laws. Reality continues to lag about 4 weeks behind what I say. Are people not watc...

* Google doesn't think much of the government's antitrust action. It might want to try a quick Bing search on antitrust law. [Reuters] * Asking ChatGPT to write a poem about being a law student. [LegalCheek] * Insiders may find it a little sketchy, but Goodwin coupling layoffs with a big lateral hire may be the norm in a market where the "recession" is only hitting specific groups. [Law.com] * A deep dive into Sullivan & Cromwell's cryptoexchange adventure. [Financia...

* Expectation: Am Law 100 firms excited about moving West in 2023! Reality: Your firm has died of dysentery. [American Lawyer] * Remember in 2016 when the FBI was leaking about how it couldn't find any connection between Donald Trump and Russia? Entirely coincidentally, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI just got indicted for taking money from a Putin ally. [NY Times] * Supreme Court punts critical attorney-client privilege case designed to settle thorny issues surrounding l...