Steptoe & Johnson

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* A former top lawyer of a financial regulator is accused of drinking heavily, using marijuana, and visiting strip clubs while on work trips. Maybe he was doing market research? [Bloomberg]

* A woman is suing a lawyer for redrafting her husband’s will and allocating millions of dollars to a foundation with which the lawyer was involved. [Grand Forks Herald]

* A new antitrust lawsuit is alleging that college textbook publishers and campus bookstores are making students pay above-market rates for course materials. [Yahoo News]

* An attorney for the sister of Robert Durst’s first wife is accusing Durst’s second wife of bigamy. [New York Post]

* The University of Michigan has dropped Steptoe & Johnson from a investigation of an accused molester since the firm has represented perpetrators of sexual assault. [ABC News]

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* When trying to credibly disavow past comments making light of sexual assault victims, try to do it sometime before your entire career hinges on pantomiming remorse. [National Law Journal]

* Steptoe the latest firm to unveil a new strategy to promote diversity. [American Lawyer]

* In the latest ABC News “The Investigation” podcast, John Dowd describes the Mueller investigation that’s tripped up 30+ actual and alleged wrongdoers “a terrible waste of time.” [The Investigation]

* EU has logged 59,000 data breaches since GDPR came online. So that’s working out great. [Corporate Counsel]

* Pierce Bainbridge continues its hiring spree, nabbing an IP litigation star from McKool. [The Recorder]

* Soccer officials appeal red cards to Second Circuit. [Law360]

* Trump commissions Cyberdyne Systems. [Courthouse News Service]

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* Both Quinn Emanuel and Kirkland & Ellis are moving into Boston. Is this going to be a trend? Is there enough extra work laying around up there for this to be a trend? [American Lawyer]

* Look forward to hearing more about machine learning in 2018! It’s good to know it won’t all be vague conversations about blockchain next year. [Legaltech News]

* Jeff Sessions opens door to debtor’s prisons, because of course he does. [New York Times]

* And… here come the lawsuits over Apple’s newly uncovered practice of slowing down old phones. There’s a lot of ill will about these types of suits, but this is a pretty good example of how out of hand things can get without the threat of litigation. [Daily Business Review]

* Texas Lawyer put together a top 10 list of the troubled lawyers and judges of 2017. [Texas Lawyer]

* Steptoe’s John Nolan Jr., who negotiated the Bay of Pigs prisoner releases, has passed. [National Law Journal]

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* Antonin Scalia’s papers donated to… Harvard, obviously. What did you expect? Did you seriously think it was going to be ASSLaw or Ave Maria or something? [Harvard Gazette]

* What state is looking to legalize dachshund racing? Because daddy needs a new pair of shoes! [Lowering the Bar]

* The surprise dismissal of the Gavin Grimm case complicated the struggle for transgender rights, but it was far from a death knell. [Rewire]

* Professor Tribe thinks accusing Obama of illegal wiretapping is grounds for Trump’s impeachment. Somewhere, Mike Pence is putting together a nice little scrapbook of all these articles. [Raw Story]

* On that note, John Dean is back in the news to explain Watergate to Trump. [The Hill]

* With TaxProfBlog’s Paul Caron taking over as dean of Pepperdine, here are some changes we expect to see. [PrawfsBlawg]

* Sex and the Constitution (affiliate link) is not just a book, it’s also peak 3L course name. [Concurring Opinions]

* Discussing cybersecurity and our new Russian overlords. [Lawfare]

* Law student raps about bar prep to the tune of Gangsta’s Paradise. Most of the Anglo-centric jokes go over our heads, but it’s some good stuff. [Legal Cheek]

* The Supreme Court takes on an issue of major importance to the patent bar (and the Eastern District of Texas): where can an infringement suit be filed? [How Appealing]

* And SCOTUS also grants cert to a case raising the scope of what prosecutors must disclose to the defense under Brady v. Maryland and a case about a criminal lawyer’s erroneous advice to his client about immigration consequences of a guilty plea. [New York Times via How Appealing]

* Sheriff of Wall Street Preet Bharara loses another deputy to private practice: Katherine Goldstein, head of the S.D.N.Y.’s securities-fraud unit, will join several of her former colleagues — Adam Fee, Antonia Apps and George Canellos — at Milbank Tweed. [WSJ Law Blog]

* President-elect Donald Trump won’t take office for a few weeks, but he’s already inspiring new law school courses. [National Law Journal]

* And Trump might also trigger new lawsuits from state attorneys general seeking to rein in his administration. [New York Times]

* As for existing litigation between Trump and celebrity chefs José Andrés and Geoffrey Zakarian, both the real estate tycoon and his adversaries are repped by big Biglaw names: Seyfarth Shaw and Steptoe & Johnson. [BuzzFeed]

* Speaking of Seyfarth, it’s the firm representing ExxonMobil in litigation alleging anti-gay discrimination in its hiring practices — litigation that continues even as CEO Rex Tillerson prepares to leave the company to head the Trump State Department. [Washington Blade]

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