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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

GONE – U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia, who was publicly reprimanded last year for workplace misconduct claims, including sexual harassment, has announced his resignation from the federal bench in Kansas. Mike Scarcella reports that his resignation comes amid new scrutiny from U.S. House lawmakers about how effectively the courts were combatting judicial misbehavior. Murguia said in a letter to President Trump that he will resign effective April 1. 

EXERCISED – A group of federal judges is expected to hold an emergency meeting today in response to the Trump administration's interference in politically sensitive cases, Jacqueline Thomsen reports. Leading the meeting, which the independent Federal Judges Association called for after Main Justice's intervention in Roger Stone's sentencing, is U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee serving in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 

HELP – With the coronavirus spreading in China, Law.com International Hong Kong bureau chief Anna Zhang reports that many large Chinese law firms there have organized efforts to buy medical supplies for Wuhan and other places. Zhang, who was visiting family in mainland China in January and has been unable to return to Hong Kong because of travel restrictions, reports that Jingtian & Gongcheng was among the first to organize firm-wide donations and purchased medical supplies for hospitals in Hubei, the province where Wuhan is located. On a more personal note: "I literally don't remember the last time I left the apartment," Zhang reports. 

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EDITOR'S PICKS

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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

BALANCE – The number of lawyers at U.K.-based Linklaters enrolled in the firm's fixed-hours, reduced-pay career path has more than doubled in less than three years and won praise from partners. Simon Lock reports that 20 lawyers have now taken up the offer to work under the alternative career path called YourLink, which launched in 2017 and is available in the firm's German offices.

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WHAT YOU SAID

"What the Boy Scouts want to do is, they want to shield the locals. Our position is that those [local chapters] should be part of the bankruptcy and their assets should be part of the bankruptcy."

|— Kenneth Rothweiler, a lawyer at Eisenberg Rothweiler, which is representing clients seeking to sue the Boy Scouts over alleged sex abuse, on the Chapter 11 strategy for the organization, which has hired Sidley Austin as bankruptcy counsel. 

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