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* When you constantly admit to elements of a crime, it shouldn't really be a surprise when you get indicted for that crime. [CNN] * Julian Assange loses bid to avoid extradition to the United States. His camp says he has another appeal coming, but maybe he and Trump can soon reminisce about classified documents and Russian misinformation campaigns. [Reuters] * Baker Botts eyes merger and five of its partners eye the leadership chair. It's Game of Thrones except with more financial spre...

* Supreme Court justices issue annual financial disclosures as required by statute (in case anyone's confused) except Thomas and Alito. Can't be caught making material omissions on financial disclosure forms if you don't file any financial disclosure forms! [Reuters] * We haven't checked in on Lin Wood in a while... now even QAnon allies are suing him. [Daily Beast] * Prosecutors inform Donald Trump that he's a target in the classified documents investigation in one of A...

* Department of Justice likely to get involved in PGA/LIV merger. Weird how spending major Biglaw dollars calling one of them a monopoly might backfire when you try to merge with them. [Law360] * After inviting thorough mocking of their legal acumen, Harlan Crow's lawyers at Gibson Dunn back away from original "let's just do contempt" offer and suggest a meeting with Senate staffers. [NBC News] * Speaking of... comparing Clarence Thomas to the "lowliest" federal wor...

* Law school admissions return to normal. Law school regrets to return to normal in about 3 years. [Reuters] * Trump wants judge recused over $35 political contribution. Yeah... that oughta do it. [Law360] * Not sure "Why Alex Murdaugh is a disgrace to lawyers everywhere" is a headline anyone needed, but go on. [MSNBC] * Associates don't have much control over their hours, so why make that the primary metric for layoffs? Um... it's easy? [American Lawyer] * Disbarment doesn&#...

[photo1]* Leonard Leo had Kellyanne Conway funnel tens of thousands of dollars from a non-profit to Ginni Thomas without a paper trail and with the explicit dir

(Photo by Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images)* Judge Luttig joined the chorus calling for stricter Supreme Court ethics -- a

* Science confirms that legal writing is terrible. [AAAS] * Maryland judge benchslapped for using Beowulf and Whistler's Mother to import racist stereotypes into an opinion. As racism goes, it's a very erudite version. Much more National Review than Daily Caller. [ABA Journal] * House Oversight Committee is probing FTC Chair for pursuing the policies she said she would pursue before getting the job. Really scrounging the bottom of the barrel these days... go back to Hunter Biden's...

* Biglaw continues to grow despite lagging demand. Is it bad planning or do the firms realize that this recession-that-isn't is never going to arrive? [American Lawyer] * The good news: Congress remembered that jurisdiction stripping is a real power that they have! The bad news: they're using it to clear the deck for one of Joe Manchin's pork barrel projects. [American Prospect] * Ninth Circuit swoops into ongoing sex trafficking trial before judge could allow defense lawyers to a...

* When the Supreme Court tried to deflect the heat from Clarence Thomas taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts, the justices signed an ethics pinky swear. Alito breached it within the month. [Slate] * Corporate legal departments are hiring smaller law firms to save money. I swear we wrote this exact same story... the last time there was a whiff of rate hikes only to have everything return to normal in a year. [Corporate Counsel] * Sam Bankman-Fried preparing to blame Fenwick & West...

* LSAT lives to fight another day as ABA halts its new rule to make the exam optional in the admissions process. Nothing inspires confidence like an ac