Paul Weiss

* Keep track of who’s who in the latest indictment. [Politico]

* Meanwhile, Abbe Lowell and Winston & Strawn have stepped up their collective role in the Hunter Biden case, arguing that the original plea agreement included binding government promises that didn’t evaporate just because the judge rejected the deal. [Law360]

* CFPB going after data brokers selling people’s personal data. Yet again, the government agency making the most direct, tangible impact for people is the one that still worries that every election might be its last. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Justice Department urges Supreme Court to deal with unconstitutional social media laws out of Texas and Florida. [Reuters]

* Has “flexibility” lost all meaning when it comes to law firm office scheduling? No. Just because some law firms try to engage in flexibility newspeak, doesn’t actually change its meaning. [American Lawyer]

* AI may not be ready to replace lawyers, but the California Innocence Project is leveraging the tool to assist in pursuit of justice. [ABA Journal]

* London Kirkland team headed to Paul Weiss resigned on a Sunday in a power move. [LegalCheek]

* Six of Donald Trump’s co-conspirators go unnamed in the federal indictment against him for crimes related to the January 6th coup attempt. Five of them are attorneys. Let’s speculate on who they all are. [Washington Post]

* Former Attorney General/current Paul, Weiss attorney Loretta Lynch to investigate allegations of hazing on the Northwestern football team. [Law360]

* A look at the judge assigned to the Donald Trump January 6th case. [Huffington Post]

* The family of Henrietta Lacks settles lawsuit over her stolen cells. [Law & Crime]

* If you can even believe it, America’s gun laws could get even more lax. [Vox]

* Corporate Counsel names the finalists for its best legal department awards. Come see if FTX made the list! [Corporate Counsel]

* Taylor Swift hires Venable attorney as general counsel. [Minute Mirror]

* Tom Cotton doesn’t actually legislate, but he does write letters like an elderly shut-in complaining to the local paper about the weather. His latest attempt at making a pen pal involved writing 51 law firms to warn them that he thinks hiring diverse attorneys violates the Supreme Court’s college admissions opinion. [Law360]

* Senate panel poised to pass Supreme Court ethics package that will die on the vine after this. [Reuters]

* Government unveils new merger guidelines to replace the old guidelines that encouraged bigger and bigger mergers. When people say the government keeps losing antitrust cases, a big part of that is the pre-existing pro-merger guidelines that the government just made up decades ago. [New York Times]

* A profile of retired Judge David Tatel as he heads to Hogan Lovells to work on pro bono matters. [Bloomberg Law News]

* The other day we featured a story about a lawyer leaving the job to cycle through the Americas so it’s only fair to balance that with a two-time Olympic cyclist who became a lawyer representing injured cyclists. [ABA Journal]

* While others talk layoffs, Paul Weiss announced it’s still looking at first-year applicants. And when it comes to job security, Paul Weiss has a strong reputation. [Intuitive Career Coaching]