Wake Up Call: NAACP to Fund South’s New Civil Rights Lawyers

In today’s column, Nancy Pelosi demanded the Trump administration back off its plans to install a political operative as the NSA’s general counsel; the Covid-19 pandemic slowed China’s outbound M&A by 45%, a Baker McKenzie report says; Shook Hardy & Bacon opened a New York office; a Morrison & Foerster associate has about 186,000 followers for her TikTok feed about her life as New York associate during Covid.

• Leading off, the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund announced a new $40 million scholarship program that aims to produce a new generation of civil rights attorneys working in the South. In ...