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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

NOT SO FAST – The University of California Board of Regents has pumped the brakes on a proposal that would significantly increase law school tuition at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine and UCLA. The board was due to take action on the increase Wednesday but delayed the vote to give students more time to weigh in. At Berkeley, for example, tuition would increase to $75,000 for nonresidents, by 2023.

ON THE DEFENSE – Hotshot California lawyer Howard Weitzman, who is representing Greenberg Traurig partner Joel Katz, has come out swinging against newly filed sexual harassment claims made against Katz by ousted Grammys chief Deborah Dugan, Meredith Hobbs reports. In a filing this week with the EEOC, Dugan alleges she was put on leave from her position after complaining that Katz, who has served as GC for the Grammy organization, harassed her, specifically at a business dinner. Among other things, Weitzman, who says Dugan's claims are false, says the dinner meeting was more than two months before Dugan started her job and that her complaint comes seven months after the dinner took place.

POWER GC - USAA general counsel Deneen Donnley has become senior VP and general counsel at Consolidated Edison Co. of New York. Dan Clark reports that Donnley, who also served in general counsel positions at ING Direct, replaces Elizabeth Moore, who retired from ConEd after serving as general counsel for 10 years.

EDITOR'S PICKS

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Easily Distracted? Maybe You Shouldn't Be a Lawyer.

DC Attorney General Alleges Inaugural Committee Misused Nonprofit Funds to Enrich Trump Hotel

Why Is the Justice Department Knocking Harder at Apple's Backdoor?

Tenth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment in Favor of Federal Bureau of Prisons

 

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

BRACED – Herbert Smith Freehills has transferred its German business into its U.K. limited liability partnership ahead of the U.K.'s departure from the European Union next week. Varsha Patel reports that the law firm, which is based in the U.K. and Australia, joins Eversheds Sutherland and Simmons & Simmons which have made similary structural moves recently.

WHAT YOU SAID

"There's sort of this image of the person who doesn't have access to food as someone who is down on their luck, but this is something that a lot of members of our community face."

— Emily Franco, third-year law student at University of Minnesota Law School, which, like several other schools, has opened a food pantry for cash-strapped and hungry law students.

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