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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

GONE - Big departures at Boies Schiller. Kathleen Hartnett, co-leader of the firm's San Francisco office, has jumped to Cooley as a partner, Jack Newsham reports. At the same time, Lee Wolosky and Dawn Smalls, two high-profile partners in the firm's New York office are moving to Jenner & Block. The departures follow those of two other groups of Boies Schiller partners who struck off in January to launch their own firms in Florida and New York.

FEE FIGHT – The Federal Circuit is set to hear arguments this morning that the chunk of change the judiciary rakes in from PACER fees is illegal. The challengers in the case contend that the money the court system receives from the 10-cent fees for electronic records far outweigh the costs of keeping the platform up and running. Gupta Wessler's Deepak Gupta will argue for the nonprofit plaintiffs, in National Veterans Legal Services Program v. United States, and Alisa Klein of the DOJ will defend the judiciary's position that Congress did not intend to limit PACER fee expenses to the costs of hosting the database.

SLOW GOING – It's been five years since Dentons' big merger with Chinese firm Dacheng Law Offices, and integration of the two legacy firms still lags, Anna Zhang reports. At the time, the firms said they needed three years to solidify the marriage, which paved the way for Dentons to become the world's largest law firm. Now in what it calls Phase 2, Dentons says it will be fully integrated by 2023. A big part of the challenge in the tie-up has been China's economic disparity and the big gap between major legal markets and the rest of the country.

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EDITOR'S PICKS

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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

LATERALS – Australian law firm Mills Oakley has expanded its commonwealth government practice with the hire of two lawyers from DLA Piper. Christopher Niesche reports that Melbourne-based Lenny Leerdam and Michelle Stone join the firm as partners and add to the existing Mills Oakley practice in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, which covers immigration, regulation-related litigation, privacy, overseas investment and more.

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WHAT YOU SAID

"I consider myself tremendously fortunate to have been alive and a lawyer when society finally was ready to recognize women as equal in stature to men."

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, after a ceremony in which she received the LBJ Liberty & Justice for All Award.

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