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Just how worried should global law firms be about The Big Four accounting firms’ push into the legal market? Reporter Dan Packel breaks it down with ALM Legal Intelligence Analyst Nicholas Bruch in this week’s Legal Speak podcast.https://trib.al/wVd1rpO 

BREAKING NEWS about former Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski.https://trib.al/Iw1k6Gh 

"I am happy I can continue to do what I like doing: working on sophisticated, market-leading matters in a truly collaborative culture." - Ramya Tiller, @Debevoisehttps://trib.al/I70ami7 

Cantil-Sakauye was one of the last Republicans holding a statewide, albeit nonpartisan, office in politically blue California. Her views, however, have at times put her at odds with the increasingly conservative GOP.https://trib.al/fPMvgwL 

The announcement comes as Walmart prepares to settle its lingering, seven-year FCPA investigation with the SEC and DOJ.https://trib.al/XxU4Ion 

Gig economy companies have successfully convinced courts to enforce arbitration agreements, and now plaintiffs lawyers are testing just how willing companies will be to keep collective actions out of court.https://trib.al/11vyhvy 

According to founder Andrew Klein, Renyen Court’s aim is to provide law firms with a single platform to manage the procurement, deployment and management of third-party apps, providing faster and more secure access to third-party software.https://trib.al/34Ofu9k 

BREAKING NEWS about law school enrollment.https://trib.al/fhw7EwS 

Although LexField Law Offices, the IP firm that helped Qualcomm secure two preliminary injunctions against iPhone sales in China, may be a relative unknown outside China, the firm has a track record of helping multinationals fend off infringement in China.https://trib.al/iMgtJGa 

“This has been a long time coming. The market has become so much more diverse. This one-size-fits-all set of standards doesn’t work.” —James Leipold, director of @NALPorghttps://trib.al/3jErhlQ 

Debevoise & Plimpton can’t catch a break. The firm, along with Covington & Burling, is under scrutiny for its handling of confidential witnesses in CBS’s sexual misconduct probe of former CEO Les Moonves, reports Scott Flaherty.https://trib.al/nlVH555 

Does posting an email address on public listings open up lawyers to hacking and other cyber shenanigans? Well yes, but the business generation benefits outweigh the drawbacks, experts tell Victoria Hudgins.https://trib.al/LnDIhzI 

The American Bar Association will release national figures on law student enrollment any day now, revealing how many aspiring lawyers showed up on campus this fall.https://trib.al/yqkLgo1 

From @lawcareerist: There's some encouraging news for women in the 2018 Vault/MCCA Law Firm Diversity Study...at least for white women.https://trib.al/cSK9aLB 

Lawyers were particularly pithy this year: "Truth isn't truth." "I like beer." "I have just signed your death warrant."https://trib.al/rKG67q2 

Several male partners in K&L Gates' Pittsburgh headquarters in the 2000s through the mid-2010s allegedly engaged in misconduct ranging from affairs with subordinates to unsolicited advances and, in one instance, a sexual assaulthttps://trib.al/xHD7IoQ 

Not all of them were as headline-grabbing as the resignation of Latham chair William Voge, sparked by what the firm described as “communications of a sexual nature,” but it was a busy year of leadership changes among Am Law 200 firms.https://trib.al/kbex5bz 

Debevoise and Covington are under scrutiny for the way the firms handled confidential witnesses amid an internal investigation into sexual misconduct at CBS.https://trib.al/2Z8t0RP 

“One cannot overstate the concern we should all have over what is going on in this country in respect to the undermining effects” of criticism of judges by Trump and others, said retired 4th Circuit judge Andre Davis at the National Judicial College forum.https://trib.al/nxQD3VM 

"Taking the lawyer’s expertise as the base, Lean Law offers a way to set up and manage any assignment as a project." #LeanAdviserhttps://trib.al/Mo580pg