Wake Up Call: Harvard Prof Faces Twitter Backlash After Trump Tweet

• Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe defended himself on Twitter after he revealed Donald Trump once sought his legal advice . (National Law Journal)

• Female attorneys privately complain about unequal compensation and promotions but rarely file lawsuits against specific firms. (Crain’s Chicago Business)

• Why a former Deutsche Bank risk officer is declining an $8 million whistleblower award from the Securities and Exchange Commission: the revolving door. (Big Law Business)

• Perkins Coie worked with its client Google on a search tool aimed at helping voters get to the polls in November. (National Law Journal)

• Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is set for a big lateral hire in New York bringing onboard John Pollack, co-chair of the M&A and securities group at Schulte Roth & Zabel. (Big Law Business)

Legal Market

• China National Chemical Corporation has received a green light from a U.S. regulator for its $43 billion acquisition of Syngenta, a giant in farm chemicals and seeds, the Chinese state-owned company said. (New York Times DealBook)

• Pfizer is closing in on a deal worth some $14 billion to acquire California biotechnology company Medivation, a coveted cancer drug maker. (Financial Times)

• Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has reportedly slashed the value of its proposed class action against MasterCard by around $6.5 billion, citing an “overshot.” (The Lawyer)

• Hillary Clinton won a U.S. court order rejecting a conservative watchdog group’s bid to force her to questioning under oath about her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state. But she’ll still have to answer at least some of those queries in writing. (Bloomberg)

• The rejection of a $100 million settlement with drivers holds plenty of silver linings for Uber Technologies Inc, but it also potentiallyreignites a dozen or so lawsuits against the ride-hailing company. (Big Law Business/Bloomberg)

• Two top partners at O’Melveny & Myers have been actively advising campaigns for the two major candidates in this year’s presidential race, but the firm asserts that neither campaign is a client. (Big Law Business)

• A key California lawmaker proposed a “last offer” amended state bar dues bill Friday aimed at breaking a legislative logjam. (The Recorder)

• Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partner Jeffrey E. Ostrow wants to make clear that he does not represent disgraced American swimmer Ryan Lochte, whose Florida-based lawyer has a similar name. (Litigation Daily)

• Attorneys for Baltimore’s top prosecutor said lawsuits filed against her by five of the officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray lack merit and should be dismissed. (Washington Post)

Baker & McKenzie Day

• Baker & McKenzie reported big gains in revenues and partners for its latest fiscal year, rebounding from a disappointing 2014-2015. (The Lawyer)

• An interview with Baker & McKenzie’s departing global chairman Eduardo Leite, who steps down with his firm on the upswing. (Am Law Daily)

• Baker & McKenzie’s Leite predicted that London will still be a global legal center after the U.K. leaves the European Union. (Financial Times)

SCOTUS and Other Court Rulings

• A Michigan federal judge ruled that a funeral home owner’s religious rights take precedence over his transgender employee’s right to wear a skirt while dealing with grieving customers. (WSJ Law Blog)

• In the latest fallout from a sexual assault scandal that cost Kenneth Starr his post as president of Baylor University, the former White House Solicitor General resigned his law faculty position at the school. (Texas Lawyer)

• If Donald Trump wins the presidential election in November his power to nominate Supreme Court justices would be a threat to women workers, equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter and two union officials said on Friday. (Bloomberg BNA/Big Law Business)

Laterals and Moves

• St. Louis law firm Lewis Rice has taken the unusual step of creating a second firm to handle estates work. (Am Law Daily)

• Dentons expanded its London real estate practice with four partners from Irwin Mitchell, including that firm’s head of London real estate, Rob Thompson. (The Lawyer)

• Dechert has picked up longtime finance partners Philip Butler and David Miles from DLA Piper in London, in its latest raid on DLA. (The Lawyer)

• The city of Baltimore gave the boot to a city contract attorney amid reports that the former DLA Piper lawyer donated for years to a neo-Nazi group. (Law.com)

Technology

• Federal e-discovery sanctions’ decisions dropped off dramatically in the first half of 2016, compared with several years ago, according to a new report. (Big Law Business)

• Increasingly targeted by hackers, many U.S. law firms are moving toward obtaining ISO certification to reassure their clients that the firm’s data security practices are adequate. (Big Law Business)

• Uber’s first self-driving cars are due to arrive in Pittsburgh this month. (Bloomberg Businessweek)

• A Texas man said the Autopilot mode on his Tesla Model S caused him to crash into a guardrail but he doesn’t plan to sue the electric-car maker. However, his insurance company might do so. (Bloomberg)

• Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has done little to boost ties with Silicon Valley companies, potentially hurting his fundraising prospects. (Wall Street Journal)

• A Virginia lawyer took to Facebook to vent his anger at a couple who wrote “ We only tip citizens ” on a restaurant credit card receipt after getting served by his latina granddaughter. (Washington Post)

Legal Education

• Students get a lot out of law school “but the most you get out of law school is debt ,” Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, recently told the bank’s interns. Blankfein graduated Harvard Law School and worked as a big law associate before going into banking. (Big Law Business)

Miscellaneous

• Commentary: Sooner or later state attorneys general who subpoenaed Exxon in a climate change investigation will have to answer questions from Congress. (Wall Street Journal)

• Taiwanese authorities will investigate a bank that was fined $180 million for violating anti-money laundering laws by a U.S. regulator and that was linked to the Panama Papers scandal. (Bloomberg)

• Mergers and acquisitions by U.S. banks are on a record pace in 2016 as regional and local lenders combine to stomach mounting costs of dealing with federal regulations aimed at avoiding bailouts of too-big-to-fail banks. (Bloomberg/Big Law Business)

• After winning a gold medal in gymnastics at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Kerri Strug went on to work as a program manager for the Department of Justice. (National Law Journal)

Compiled by Rick Mitchell and edited by Casey Sullivan.