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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

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CROSS EXAMINED - The U.S. Supreme Court today is set to hear a major case testing the constitutionality of a cross-shaped memorial on public land in Maryland. Jones Day's Michael Carvin and Hogan Lovells' Neal Katyal will defend the constitutionality of the 93-year-old World War I “peace cross” memorial, and they'll get amicus support from U.S. Justice Department acting solicitor Jeffrey Wall. Monica Miller of the American Humanist Association will argue the monument violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment.

YEAR ONE - What's a year-in-the-life of a Big Law spinoff look like? Scott Flaherty chronicles the path that Selendy & Gay has traveled since Philippe Selendy and Faith Gay decamped from the New York office of Quinn Emanuel to form their own boutique about a year ago. Such moves happen less often than you might think, and they require finesse from firm leaders in balancing the heavy administrative load of launching their own startup, landing clients and, oh yeah, practicing law.

SPOTLIGHT - Michael Cohen is expected to testify publicly today before the House Oversight Committee on a variety of topics, including President Trump's compliance with tax and campaign finance laws, potentially fraudulent practices by the Trump Foundation and conflicts of interest. Cohen has implicated Trump in a series of hush-money payments made to women who were alleging sexual relations with the then-presidential candidate. Cohen, who agreed to testify voluntarily, was sentenced to three years in prison in December after pleading guilty to charges related to campaign-finance violations tied to those payments.

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EDITOR'S PICKS

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Perkins Coie's Eric Miller Approved for 9th Circuit, Despite Blue Slip Flap

Stay or Go? When a Crisis Approaches, a General Counsel's Next Move is Complicated

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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

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BUDDIES - U.S.-based Hinshaw & Culbertson has teamed up with the U.K.'s Reynolds Porter Chamberlain to work on transatlantic insurance matters as an alliance. Andrew Messios reports that the two firms will now work together on client marketing and pitching and will use split teams on transatlantic insurance matters focused on directors and officers liability, complex coverage, professional indemnity, medical and marine insurance lines.

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WHAT YOU SAID

“Because they grew up with all of this technology and social media since they were in elementary school, they're used to going into a room and being on their social media platforms and getting all their work done individually and independent of others.”

— COURTNEY DREDDEN CARTER, ­ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AT JENNER & BLOCK, ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GENERATION Z BIG LAW ASSOCIATES, THOSE BORN AFTER 1996.

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