* Fantasy football is back and while you’re gaming out the best trades to improve your team, American Lawyer fantasized about the best Biglaw mergers. [American Lawyer]
* Kids make video and write law review article about appellate practice after interviewing members of the Texas Supreme Court. They even talked to Justice Devine, which is a real coup since he usually doesn’t even bother to show up to his job. [ABA Journal]
* There was a minor freakout after Trump’s attorneys said Clarence Thomas “directed” them to make certain arguments in yesterday’s immunity hearing, but it’s not anything we didn’t already know: Thomas used his separate opinion to write an advisory playbook for getting Trump out of criminal liability. Which is also ethically dubious, but not as ethically dubious as managing a trial strategy. [Newsweek]
* The judge who paused the Biden administration’s immigration policy got his job by… being a lawyer who sued the Obama administration to block immigration policy. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Trump set to appeal defamation award in sexual assault case… or more accurately the smaller $5 million defamation award for defaming the victim long after the defamation that resulted in the much bigger $83 million award. So much defamation, you’re going to be sick from all the defamation. [Reuters]
* Johnson & Johnson talc settlement appears to have improved by around $1.1B. [Law.com]
* DOJ charges a Russian-backed 2016 Trump adviser for violating sanctions and money laundering. [NBC]
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