Cornell University Law School

It is very on brand for a law school to make a statement by not changing a tradition they've had for decades.

* What is free speech again? The definition may be changing. [NY Mag]

* Winter is coming: Here’s some relationship advice from a divorce lawyer just in time for the holidays. [Forbes]

* You’ve gotta fight for your right to NOT party! [Business Insider]

* Turns out, Cornell is actually cool with US News. [Cornell Sun]

* I know that law school can be expensive and risky but this is outrageous. [Business Insider]

* One of the good things about weed being legal in some places? You can now sue if it isn’t loud enough. [CBS News]

* Been wishing you could shave a year off the K-JD pipeline? Yet another reason to think about Cornell. [Cornel Sun]

* Go play ball: A MLB’s antitrust case has recently been dismissed. [The Athletic]

* Bikesharing in California is threatened by a new law. [Biking in LA]

Soon the campaign trail will just be Texas and Mississippi, as The Founders intended.

Also, what to get for the lawyer that has no time for anything.

It's 2020, so of course final exam snafus are even worse.

Cornell professor thinks faculty, alumni, and students are out to get him. Dude, maybe it's just you.

Deans think this is a good time to make some needed long-term changes.

Pass/fail won't help everyone.

This happens every year....

Just write a new exam.

A worthy moonlighting gig for this attorney.

'It felt like we had done something larger than what we originally expected.'

Proving that women can be gunners too.

When the same crap is happening at two law schools in the same week -- a week when issues surrounding sexual assault and harassment are in the national spotlight -- you have to wonder: what the hell is going on?

The only thing FedSoc thinks was 'too soon' was desegregation.

Cornell gets in on some of that sweet, sweet GRE and GMAT action.

* Guess which Biglaw firm has decided to bring back on-campus recruiting for its summer associate program? Here’s a hint: You’re going to need a pair of flip flops. We’ll have more on this later today. [American Lawyer]

* With an estimated $11 million annual salary, Sandra Goldstein, who recently left Cravath for Kirkland & Ellis, may be the highest paid female partner in all of Biglaw. You go, girl! [The Careerist]

* Speaking of female Biglaw partners, Bracewell partner Barbara Jones’s $700 per hour rate as special master in the review of materials seized from Michael Cohen’s office has added up to a pretty YUGE bill for just one week’s worth of work: $47,390. [New York Law Journal]

* The Justice Department approved a merger between Bayer and Monsanto, but only after the companies agreed to dump $9 billion in business assets. “Today’s news makes it clear that our antimonopoly laws are completely worthless,” said one farm group that’s just thrilled by the news. [Washington Post]

* Eduardo M. Peñalver, the first Latino dean of an Ivy League law school, has been reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of Cornell Law after achieving quite a few milestones for employment and bar pass rates at the school. [Cornell Chronicle]

* Briana Williams, a single mother who requested an epidural while she was in labor so her contractions wouldn’t interfere with her completion of a final exam, recently graduated from Harvard Law School. Much respect from one law mama to another. Congratulations and best of luck in all that you do! [Yahoo!]

Did your law school make the list?

* “I’m guessing they have had a number of long days and potentially sleepless nights.” The government lawyers behind the efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with the American Health Care Act have had a rough go of things. Who are they, which law schools did they attend, and which Biglaw firms did they work for before becoming Hill lawyers? [National Law Journal]

* Don’t forget about Merrick: A third of Democratic senators have pledged to vote against confirming Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch. At this time, it remains unclear as to whether there will be a united effort by Democrats to oppose his confirmation when the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on April 3. [Reuters]

* Guess who isn’t boycotting Hawaii? People who apparently have a vendetta against this federal jurist. Judge Derrick Watson of the District of Hawaii has been receiving death threats ever since he blocked President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban on March 15. He is now receiving 24-hour protection from the U.S. Marshals Service. [The Hill]

* The Second Circuit has upheld New York’s ban on non-lawyers investing in law firms. Personal injury firm Jacoby & Meyers argued that the state’s prohibition on non-lawyer investment violated lawyers’ First Amendment right to associate with clients, but the court found that connection to be “simply too attenuated.” [New York Law Journal]

* Ithaca may be gorges, but it can’t compete with the Big Apple with it comes to hands-on learning about issues dealing with cutting-edge tech. Cornell Law is launching a semester-long Program in Information and Technology Law at its Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City that’s slated to begin in Spring 2018. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Judge Edward J. McManus, the longest serving of any incumbent judge in the United States (and third-longest servng in the history of the United States), RIP. [N.D. Iowa]