* "Murdaugh Committed Murders As Career Spiraled" should be every attorney's defense to a rough month... "I know I just considered taking my book of business to Jones Day, but I could've done a double murder." [Law360]

* Biden administration plans to shift the liability for hacks to software manufacturers. This policy seems stupid but at least the president is trying to address the harms of massive data breaches instead of having public fever dreams about drag story time. America is broken. [Bloomberg Law News]

* After securing abortion restrictions, the new right-wing legal mission is advocating for strict voting restrictions. [ProPublica]

* Legal technology made the national news! Our coverage was better. [MSNBC]

* Let the battle for AI supremacy in Biglaw begin! [Legaltech News]

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* Cravath expands to London. The firm's American-centric practice is dead, the firm lives. [Law.com International]

* Does Mayer Brown has an opening for a former partner? Asking for an ousted mayor. Maybe they could rename it MAYOR Brown. [CNN]

* Meanwhile in NYC, Eric Adams is over here seeking an end to the separation of church and state. Just an absolute clown show. [NY Daily News]

* LA County owes $29M over distributing horrific pictures of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash. [Law360]

* Jerry Jones assault case revived. [Dallas Morning News]

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* Law firms get conservative on legal technology amid recession fears. I guess this means they aren't trying to bring in tech to reduce attorney ranks. [Legaltech News]

* Rupert Murdoch acknowledges in testimony that Fox News lied about the election. Did these people even have in-house counsel in 2020? [Law360]

* Merrick Garland's appearance on Capitol Hill tomorrow will very much suck for him. [Esquire]

* The ongoing Neil Gerrard scandal will go to court next week to find out just how much Dechert owes one of its former clients. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Florida court denies the habeas petition a pregnant detainee filed on behalf of her fetus. As always "Life Begins At Conception... Some Terms and Conditions Apply." [The Guardian]

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* Reddit stories are always a little suspect, but could this law student have lost a job over "bofadeez nutz" greeting? [LegalCheek]

* A pair of siblings have barricaded themselves in a room at their mom's house and taken to TikTok after a Utah judge ordered them returned to their father AFTER the state child welfare agency concluded that the father sexually abused the kids. A lot of people just shouldn't be allowed to be judges, y'all. [ProPublica]

* FTC ends its challenge to the Meta-Within deal. Remember this when we're all stuck in Zuckerberg's Metaverse hellscape in a few years. [Law360]

* Texas prosecutors can't go after people for offering financial aid to women seeking abortion care in other states, which for some reason required a court ruling to clarify. [Reuters]

* States sue FDA over moves to limit abortion pill access, which the administration is limiting right as states crack down on reproductive health care. [Courthouse News Service]

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* Congratulations to Sidney Powell, who dodged an ethics complaint when a Greg Abbott-appointed judge tossed the case. Aileen Cannon is an inspiration to so many out there... [Reuters]

* DOJ seeks sanctions against Google for deleting employee chats. Why delete them? Just leave them on the Google chat platform and literally no one will ever be able to find them again. [Law360]

* The legal luminary who convinced Mike Pence not to participate in a coup hopes to convince the former Veep to do the right thing again. [NY Times]

* Trump has MORE classified documents now? [CNN]

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* Shocking absolutely no one, when faculty met to discuss an effort by some Christian law students to get official recognition for new clubs to exclude LGBTQ students, the meeting was recorded and leaked to Fox News. Because the whole point for these initiatives is to get on Fox News. But now police are involved and students are getting a crash course in the difference between one- and two-party consent states. [NHPR]

* Alex Murdaugh's lawyer pulled a gun on the prosecutor? Meh, seems par for this course. [Intelligencer]

* Even if Section 230 survives, it won't shield ChatGPT. [Lawfare]

* Regulators are starting to think billion-dollar crypto deals might be a problem. Welcome to the party. [Reuters]

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* The Supreme Court may still want to blow up the internet, but they don't seem like they want to do it over this case. [SCOTUSBlog]

* Delaware lowers bar passage score. Apparently global climate change has made hell freeze over. [Reuters]

* Hogan Lovells net income down 13 percent. Starting to see why they might be in the merger market. [American Lawyer]

* Put aside four days in the office... could we really operate on a four-day work week? Yes, reports obvious study. [Courthouse News Service]

* Law firms band together to oppose SEC request for the names of Covington clients targeted in cyberattack. [Law360]

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* Kim Kardashian has a new update on her legal studies. [LegalCheek]

* After full body shot it down, ABA Council votes again to end the mandatory admissions test requirement. Just like with the LSAT: if at first you don't succeed... [Law.com]

* Supreme Court will hear argument on whether or not to blow up the internet. It's an issue with a lot of nuance that will absolutely be decided by the majority deciding "the Framers didn't have broadband access, so...." [Reuters]

* Schlitz is the beer that made Milwaukee famous, and now it's the beer that makes judicial elections deeply problematic. [The Guardian]

* New York public interest attorneys plan strike after failing to get a favorable contract. Access to justice is only as good as the legal team it can recruit and sustain. [The City]

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* A lawyer who represents themselves may have a fool for a client, but it's possible that a lawyer hired to represent another lawyer over the handling of Trump's classified documents case also has a fool for a client. [Reuters]

* There's a lot of panic that the Supreme Court will fundamentally destroy the internet as we know it, just because they've already destroyed voting rights, reproductive rights, and the Second Amendment as we knew them. But everyone is forgetting that the Supreme Court needs to refill its Mana meter before it can obliterate another cornerstone of society. [CBS]

* NBA team hires Weil partner to head up in-house efforts. [Bloomberg]

* Another Republican governor pushing to get the data period-tracking apps into the hands of law enforcement because unlike periods, the fascism train is never late. [Washington Post]

* Jeremy Clarkson tells a lawyer with dyslexia to "learn to spell," because Jeremy Clarkson is a dick. [Legal Cheek]

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* Allen & Overy becomes first firm to go all in on ChatGPT style tech announcing that it's working with Harvey. [Legal Futures]

* NBA great George Gervin sues Ralph Lauren for releasing a retro-styled shoe called the "Gervin Mid." So... apparently Ralph Lauren thought George Gervin was dead. [Law360]

* New York Governor Kathy Hochul fought hard for her right to be publicly humiliated, and officially succeeded as the NY Senate that attempted to offer her basic political dignity caved and officially rejected Hector LaSalle nomination to serve as chief judge. Crackerjack politicking! [Politico]

* Litigation financing spent $3.2B last year. It would be nice if justice didn't need speculators to function, but if this is the system we're sticking with, it's nice that they're there. [Reuters]

* Kari Lake's lawyers get slapped with bar complaints because... obviously. [NBC]

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