Hunton & Williams

Professional Responsibility committee recommends against his reinstatement to practice law.

After 20 years on the run, his retirement account is the least of his concerns...

There is life after Biglaw.

The injury caused the 'smart, young, up-and-coming attorney' to leave the legal profession entirely.

* Roger Stone’s heading to court today. That should be a scene, man. [National Law Journal]

* Corrupt legislatures… not just for U.S. Congress anymore! The ABA House of Delegates bails out for-profit law schools again. [Law.com]

* The New Yorker has a deep dive into Plessy v. Ferguson as “The Case That Enshrined White Supremacy.” Dude, let me introduce you to Shelby County. [New Yorker]

* Texas is pretending thousands of “illegal” immigrants have voted over the years. The methodology is basically “they were once not citizens… then years later they voted!” I only highlight this story because in 6 months when it gets unceremoniously dropped by ACTUAL CRIMINAL DEFENDANT Texas AG Ken Paxton it’s worth remembering how completely insane this all is. [Courthouse News Service]

* Fugitive ex-Hunton attorney gets 7 years… or over 61,000 billable hours. [Law360]

* Not to defend Harvey Weinstein, but should we really be using a human trafficking law here? [Time]

* Now they want to make animal cruelty a federal felony. Could we maybe start with making a federal case out of “shooting unarmed kids in the back”? [WECT]

Since the 1990s, this former Hunton partner has been dogged by allegations of illegal financial schemes.

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* This weekend, Sheppard Mullin — and Lankler Siffert & Wohl for that matter — will be pulling for Abacus: Small Enough To Jail, the stellar documentary about the only bank prosecuted for the housing crisis that starred the lawyers who represented Abacus and its family owners. [New York Law Journal]

* In the first year of its merger, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer earned 1 percent over its legacy firm totals. Firm chairman Richard Alexander describes the firm as “generally… pleased.” But not pleased enough to keep Kaye Scholer on its branding. [National Law Journal]

* Robert Schulman is hoping the Second Circuit can get him out of his drunken insider trading conviction. [Law360]

* Texas Wesleyan is looking for a new baseball coach after firing the last one for rejecting a Colorado recruit and telling the kid the school wouldn’t recruit from states with legal weed. [VICE News]

* Now we have sovereign cryptocurrency which kind of defeats the whole point, but whatever. [Bitcoinist]

* Your daily reminder that white supremacists are bad people. [ABA Journal]

* Speaking of white supremacists, FSU Law students have started to notice that their main academic building is a tribute to a segregationist and that maybe that’s a bad thing. [Tallahassee Democrat]

After months of speculation, two firms with complementary energy practices merge.

Neither firm has commented on their reported trip down the aisle.

* She’s going to be 85 in just a few months, and like a fine wine, she just keeps getting better with age. No one should count on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg retiring any time soon. [Associated Press]

* Speaking of Justice Ginsburg, you’re going to have to change up your State of the Union drinking games this year, because she won’t be in attendance. She’ll be on a Northeast law school tour instead — and she’ll be wide awake. [The Hill]

* The president wants “[his] guys” at the “Trump Justice Department” — but not Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, he wants Rosenstein out — to make public a classified memo on the Russia investigation, an act that the DOJ said would be “extraordinarily reckless.” [Washington Post]

* Don McGahn may have threatened to quit his job as White House counsel last summer, but because he decided to stick around, he’s been instrumental to the Trump administration in reshaping a much more conservative judiciary. [CNN]

* Just a few months ago, merger talks between Andrews Kurth and Hunton & Williams seemed pretty tepid, but now they’re heating up. We can tell because AK partners are being picked off by other firms like crazy. [American Lawyer]

* Justice is blind — and cheap: Stephen McAllister was recently sworn in as U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas, and he’s taking a humongous pay cut. The former Kansas Law dean earned more than $1 million by working three jobs, and his new gig pays more than $800K less. [National Law Journal]

That was weird.

Three years later and we have a guilty plea.

Neither firm has commented on their reported trip down the aisle.

This judge showed real courage.

* Corporate Counsel asks “how much money will Uber’s next general counsel make?” Duh, it depends on surge pricing. [Corporate Counsel]

* Law firm merger rumors!!! [Law.com]

* Supreme Court takes another opportunity to laugh in the face of people who care about government transparency. [National Law Journal]

* A “so-called judge” strikes again! [The Guardian]

* Would you share your cyberthreat assessments with the government? [Law360]

* It’s time for some standards in the FCPA industry. [FCPA Professor]

* People are not agricultural products. Somehow this is something we needed an opinion on. [Lowering the Bar]

* It’s Long Conference Day. For the unaware, this is arguably the most important day of the year for Supreme Court hero-worshippers, as the Court reads and evaluates around 2000 petitions and doesn’t at all phone it in (no matter what the statistics say) because they’re MAGIC! [Constitution Daily]

* Months into his new job — a job that requires a public financial disclosure — Ty Cobb hasn’t yet figured out if he made $5 million or $25 million at Hogan Lovells. Maybe Don McGahn is hiding that information from him too. [Law.com]

* Lawyer accused of flashing girl’s basketball teams. This is all just a big misunderstanding — if his buddies had shown up, it would have been obvious he was just they’d spelled out “Go Team!” on their balls. [Indy Star]

* Jared Kushner apparently used his private email for some White House business. It doesn’t sound like a big deal at all, but that’s not going to prevent everyone from freaking out about it. [Huffington Post]

* Convicted Hunton partner seeks probation in securities fraud case. The government is asking for 51 to 64 months in prison so at least the two sides are pretty close here. [Law360]

* NBC is developing a Supreme Court show following the clerks. It’ll be like The West Wing, except with standing and patent disputes! [Law.com]

* Speaking of the Supreme Court, in what ways are the top law firms making it to the Supreme Court? [Empirical SCOTUS]

When they really, really, REALLY don't want you...

Uh-oh! Trouble in paradise? It looks like Martin Shkreli’s lawyer — who also happens to be his co-defendant — has turned on him.

* Florida has released the results from its administration of the February 2017 bar exam, and they were not pretty. The percentage of those who passed dipped a bit since 2016, but students at both Orlando law schools were more likely to have failed. But which law school did the worst of all? We’ll have more on this later. [Orlando Sentinel]

* Trouble in paradise? Martin Shkreli’s former lawyer, Evan Greebel — who also happens to be his co-defendant — has turned on him, accusing the pharma bro of submitting false documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and engaging in illegal stock trading. Greebel, of course, now wants to be tried separately from Shkreli. [Bloomberg]

* “I never in my wildest dreams imagined I would be back.” Five women who once worked at Davis Polk and had been gone for at least two years to raise their families have returned to the firm for one-year stints with a program called “Davis Polk Revisited.” If all goes well, they may be able to return for a longer period of time. [WSJ Law Blog]

* A former Hunton & Williams partner who spent 20 years on the lam as a fugitive has finally been caught. Scott Wolas, who was disbarred in 1999, was most recently accused in a $1.5 million real estate investment fraud scheme. Over the course of his alleged criminal career, Wolas reportedly assumed a number of other aliases. [Am Law Daily]

* Each year around Easter, the ABA Journal hosts a Peeps in Law diorama contest. It’s time to cast your vote for your favorite, and this time around, the competition is pretty stiff. We’re particularly partial to the entry that’s been dubbed “State of Peepington v. Trump,” but “Peepsburg and Sugarmayor” is also very cute. Vote! [ABA Journal]

Per the prosecution, the partner got drunk on wine before spilling the beans.