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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

MISSED – With his trademark bow-tie, mild manner and unfailingly polite questions on the bench, Justice John Paul Stevens will be remembered for triggering a revolution in criminal sentencing and curbing government overreach in the war on terror, Marcia Coyle writes. Of the 99-year-old retired U.S. Supreme Court justice, who died on Tuesday evening, Chief Justice John Roberts said, “He brought to our bench an inimitable blend of kindness, humility, wisdom, and independence.

QUESTIONS PERSIST – Civil rights groups suing over the Trump administration's efforts to ask about citizenship on the 2020 U.S. Census filed a motion Tuesday evening to impose sanctions on the DOJ for allegedly providing false testimony about the origin of the question. Dan M. Clark reports that the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union and Arnold & Porter filed the motion on behalf of the New York Immigration Coalition. They allege that two witnesses from the Trump administration falsely testified about why the federal government wanted the question on the census.

A STEP CLOSER – Halil Suleyman Ozerden, one of President Trump's picks for the Fifth Circuit, is expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. The nomination of Ozerden, appointed to the federal bench in Mississippi by President George W. Bush, has proven controversial within conservative legal circles, where there's concern about how often he's been reversed by his would-be colleagues on the New Orleans-based federal appeals bench of the Fifth Circuit, among the most conservative circuits.

FROTHY – More than five years have passed since Brazil unveiled Operation Car Wash—a probe into the construction firm Odebrecht that signaled a crackdown on corruption, and, as Amy Guthrie reports, law firms are cleaning up on compliance work. “It's been huge,” says Michael Fitzgerald, head of the Latin America practice at Paul Hastings.

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EDITOR'S PICKS

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Law Firms Play Host as 2020 Presidential Candidates Make Their Pitch

Wedbush Securities Hires First General Counsel

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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

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MORE IN MILAN – Herbert Smith Freehills has added to its Milan energy and infrastructure practice with the hire of two partners and four associates from Paul Hastings' Milan office. Meganne Tillay reports that partners Lorenzo Parola and Francesca Morra will head the firm's energy and infrastructure practice in Milan. Parola joined Paul Hastings in 2013 and was most recently the chair of its EU energy and infrastructure practice. Morra also joined Paul Hastings in 2013 and advises on contractual, regulatory and competition matters in the energy sector.

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WHAT YOU SAID

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“There's nothing in the world of technology that ever works perfectly, but, boy, we were close.”

—  KELLYE TESTY, PRESIDENT OF THE LAW SCHOOL ADMISSION COUNCIL, ON THE ROLLOUT THIS WEEK OF THE FIRST DIGITAL VERSION OF THE LSAT, WHICH HAD JUST A FEW TECHNICAL WOES DUE TO LOW TABLET BATTERIES AND NETWORK CONNECTION ISSUES.

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