King & Spalding

Great news!

The Biglaw investigation revealed a troubling environment for players.

It ain't easy.

Now I know who to ask to borrow $15 from.

May the donation match cycle be as robust as the salary match cycle.

Yes, the world is in turmoil but that doesn't mean your career has to be.

The wait for raises is over at another firm!

Plus some offices are getting raises.

Updated with images from the protests.

The money is still flowing in Biglaw. Who gets it is the real question.

Law students and laterals take note.

* King & Spalding expended a lot of effort to make the Super Bowl the most soulless corporate event of the year. [Daily Report Online]

* “Iowa prison porn” is a three-word phrase I never thought I’d have to string together. [Courthouse News Service]

* Trump lays out more appellate nominees with paper trails full of racist stuff about voting rights, so 2019’s off to a rousing start. [National Law Journal]

* Bar Association to seriously study litigation funding. [Law360]

* Defense Distributed gets smacked around by federal courts. [Ars Technica]

* El Chapo wants your sympathy. [Time]

A leading dealmaker shares some secrets of his success.

Their client may have been feeding them tainted funds.

Today, the expected announcement came.

At her new Biglaw firm, she'll be handling situations where 'the allegations are egregious and the public and press are involved.'

* If you were wondering how the tax bill would screw over attorneys, here it is. [Law360]

* Neil Gorsuch appeared at the Federalist Society dinner and made jokes about the “frozen trucker” case because a lifetime appointment means never having to say you’re sorry. [National Law Journal]

* Jared Fogle tried the old “sovereign citizen” trick. Unfortunately for him, admiralty courts have jurisdiction over subs. [ABA Journal]

* Does the media’s prophylactic use of “allegedly” to avoid libel contribute to a culture that dismisses women’s stories of harassment? An interesting Al Franken-inspired case study. [Washington Post]

* Don’t kill Section 230 just because some websites don’t take the time to manage their trolls. [Slate]

* Robert Hays secured a fifth term as chair of King & Spalding. Woe to those who oppose his glorious reign. Dilly dilly. [American Lawyer]

* The Washington Supreme Court has finally ruled that former Skadden Fellow Tarra Simmons can take the bar exam. [KING5]

* When you’re paying $160 million in bribes, you’re doing something wrong. [Law360]

The timeline puts Equifax Chief Legal Officer John Kelley in an uncomfortable bind.

* Yes, it’s true: Jeff Sessions came thisclose to resigning as attorney general, after Donald Trump berated him following the appointment of special counsel Bob Mueller in the Russia probe. [New York Times]

* Bye-bye to blue slips? It wouldn’t exactly be “nuclear,” since their treatment has varied greatly over the years. [BuzzFeed]

* The State Bar of California tries to cut down the arguments in favor of a lower cut score on the bar exam. [ABA Journal]

* Technology platforms are driving an increase in transparency that’s having profound consequences for the employer/employee relationship (as I recently discussed on the podcast of Akerman employment-law partner Matt Steinberg). [Akerman]

* Embattled Equifax has turned to Phyllis Sumner and King & Spalding for much-needed legal help in the wake of its massive data breach. [Law.com]

* Statutory interpretation question: can you be both the victim and the perpetrator in a child pornography case? [How Appealing]

* The ranks of nonequity partners continue to grow; has this trend gone too far? [Big Law Business]

* Prosecution of individuals in cases of corporate wrongdoing (aka the Yates Memo), and Justice Department policy on enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states where it has been decriminalized — both are “under review” at the DOJ, according to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. [Law.com]