Selendy & Gay

* The Am Law 100 left $4.4 billion on the table last year. Or… maybe. Biglaw offered $4.4 billion in discounts which could mean the industry undercut each other for an overall loss of value. Or it could mean the market gravitated toward what legal services are really worth. An interesting walk through the finances of Biglaw work. [American Lawyer]

* Some Selendy & Gay partners are headed to arbitration Quinn Emanuel over a provision in their agreement that Quinn’s exercising seeking a portion of their profits on ported business. So much for my wishful thinking that the two firms would come to let bygones be bygones. [New York Law Journal]

* Litigation funders are hiring lobbyists to push back against a new push by Senate Republicans to require more transparency — something those same Senate Republicans spend a lot of time fighting against when it comes to… lobbyists. The circle of life. [American Lawyer]

* March Madness continues in court with testimony about Arizona paying players. It’s at this point that we recall that Arizona wasn’t even the best college basketball team in Arizona this season. [Law360]

* EY continues its overseas legal build-out. [Law.com]

* Twitter’s chief legal officer made $11 million last year to tell everyone that they can’t do anything about Nazis. [Corporate Counsel]

* Supreme Court crushes class victims again! [Courthouse News Service]

* Supreme Court looks to further cripple class actions by killing off cases that chasten corporate misconduct but can’t feasibly reimburse every individual victim. So, if you’re planning to injure a bunch of people, make sure to do it in a small and difficult to track manner! [National Law Journal]

* Brexit comes to Biglaw as Kirkland moves its European hub to Paris. [International]

* Biglaw associate suing USA Gymnastics for all the reasons USA Gymnastics is getting sued these days. [American Lawyer]

* Tribes are suing North Dakota over its naked effort to disenfranchise Native Americans. [National Law Journal]

* Shocking absolutely no one, the EEOC finds that the #MeToo movement has not resulted in a surge in false allegations. [Law.com]

* This lawsuit against Spirit Airlines uses a lot of fast food analogies but misses the most apt: flying Spirit Airlines is like willfully going to the dirtiest Sbarro you can find and being shocked. [Law360]

* The legal battle over Selendy & Gay’s billings following the departure from Quinn Emanuel pits contractual obligations against legal ethics. [New York Law Journal]

* Avenatti is no longer trying to get in on the Michael Cohen case… because he says they’re already going to get all the documents they need. [CNBC]

* Weil Gotshal shortening its partnership track in bid to keep young talent around. [New York Law Journal]

* Former K&L Gates business development manager charged with threatening a professor who had written that Trump voters were violent racists. A point underscored when… violent racists started making threats against him. [American Lawyer]

* Ethics experts weigh in on Quinn Emanuel’s forfeiture-for-competition clause. They… don’t like it. [Law360]

* We’ve talked about White & Case’s decorating chops before. Now they’ve got themselves a new Silicon Valley look. [The Recorder]

* California passes a strict net neutrality bill. I guess they weren’t compelled by Ajit Pai’s stupid video. [Courthouse News Service]

* National Law Journal names the DC litigation departments of the year. Do we have a name for this? Like “The Deecees” or something? [National Law Journal]

* Legendary internet commenter “Loyola 2L” has dropped his mask. [American Lawyer]