Dorsey and Whitney

The firm is being mighty transparent about how associate raises happen.

No, it's not New York associates getting the love.

Even high billers will wind up below market.

The firm's come a long way since attorney layoffs.

George Floyd's death is forcing the firm to rethink exactly what programs it supports.

Am Law 100 firm makes more austerity cuts.

So far, salary cuts and layoffs are off the table.

Another improvement for the family friendly firm.

This firm is hoping to make diversity in the workplace a reality.

Some bosses are tough. Deal with it.

Raises reach a new market.

* Trump’s reportedly close to selecting outside counsel. According to these reports, the top contenders are Robert Giuffra Jr., Marc Kasowitz, Theodore Olson and Reid Weingarten. [The Hill]

* Speaking of Trump, he’s asking the D.C. Circuit to delay a ruling on health care subsidies because throwing markets into chaos is the new normal. [NY Times]

* Sessions suggests that sanctuary cities will lose Justice and Homeland Security funds if they don’t affirmatively prove that they’re deputizing themselves to federal immigration officials. That really puts in the proper perspective exactly how committed this guy is to actually keeping people safe from crime. [USA Today]

* La La Anthony has hired a top-notch divorce lawyer. “Carmelo is still in denial and thinks he can fix his marriage.” Well, he still thinks he can fix the Knicks too so…. [Page Six]

* Dorsey & Whitney is out and Proskauer is in, much to the judge’s dismay. [Law360]

* DOE releases some loan money to Charlotte Law students. [ABA Journal]

Your loan servicer doesn't care about you. Shocker!

* North Carolina really wants to keep its voter ID law alive. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* RIP Gawker. [Gawker]

* Even Biglaw firms know Martin Shkreli is toxic. [Law360]

* Which SCOTUS cases from this past term are already getting cited by lower courts? [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Breakdown of how Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane wound up a convicted criminal. [Vice]

* Northwestern Law professor Deborah Tuerkheimer discusses sexual assault on campus. [Legal Talk Network]

* Donald Trump and Roger Ailes are teaming up, but maybe it isn’t Hillary Clinton who should be worried. [Law and More]

There's a new most prestigious firm in town.

The FBI continues to investigate a disturbing plane crash at a Biglaw office.

Some more salary movement in mid-sized markets, but is the bidding war for talent off to the races or limping out of the gate?

* “Do you know which state has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African American voter turnout? Massachusetts.” Sorry, Chief Justice Roberts, but the Bay State’s top elections official begs to differ with your assessment. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]

* This retired SCOTUS justice — the first woman to ever serve on the nation’s highest court — now refers to herself as “an unemployed cowgirl.” We wonder what Justice Scalia will refer to himself as in interviews after he retires. [Sacramento Bee]

* Mayer Brown wasn’t the only Biglaw firm that had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. Dorsey & Whitney’s 2012 revenue was also at a six-year low, but firm leaders think they can turn it around. [Star Tribune]

* Billion-dollar patent verdicts, so hot right now: 2012 was a “banner year” for for Biglaw firms representing winning clients, with K&L Gates leading the pack for the highest monetary award. [National Law Journal]

* “I wouldn’t want to be coming out of law school now.” Oh my God, you guys, the legal job market is still really tough for brand-spanking new law grads. This is new information that no one’s heard before. [Buffalo News]

* “I’ve been a restaurant waitress, a hotel hostess, a car parker, a nurse’s aide, a maid in a motel, a bookkeeper and a researcher.” This SCOTUS wife was well-prepared to give a graduation speech at New England Law. [Huffington Post]

* Sniffling over lost profits is the best way to get a court to take your side. Biglaw firms have asked the Second Circuit to consider reversing a decision in the Coudert Brothers “unfinished business” clawback case. [Legal Intelligencer]

* James Holmes, the alleged Aurora movie theater gunman, is being evicted from his apartment. Guess he didn’t know — or care — that booby-trapping the place with bombs would be against the terms of his lease. [Denver Post]

* The ABA has created a task force to study the future of legal education, and its work is expected to completed in 2014. ::rolleyes:: Oh, good thing they’re not in any kind of a hurry — there’s no need to rush. [ABA Journal]

* Indiana Tech, the little law school that nobody wants could, has hired its first faculty members. Thus far, the school has poached law professors from from West Virginia, Florida A&M, and Northern Illinois. [JD Journal]

* When divorces get weird: is this lawyer’s soon-to-be ex-wife hacking into his law firm email account and planning to publish privileged communications online? Yep, this is in Texas. [Unfair Park / Dallas Observer]

* Breast-feeding porn: yup, that’s a thing, so start Googling. A New Jersey mother is suing an Iowa production company after an instructional video she appeared in was spliced to create pornography. [Boston Globe]

* If someone from your school newspaper asks you for a quote about oral sex, and then you’re quoted in the subsequent article, you’re probably not going to win your invasion of privacy lawsuit. [National Law Journal]