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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

RECKONING - Michael Flynn, the former lieutenant general who briefly served as President Trump’s national security adviser, is set to be sentenced today for lying to federal investigators in their probe of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Ellis Kim and C. Ryan Barber report that Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Clinton appointee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, will impose the sentence. Flynn’s defense attorneys from Covington & Burling and prosecutors working under special counsel Robert Mueller have recommended a sentence without jail time, citing Flynn’s extensive and timely cooperation with the government.

JUST BUSINESS? Sexual harassment within law firms is bad enough, but when male clients engage in such misconduct with their outside counsel, the dynamics greatly disfavor women in those law firms, Caroline Spiezio reports. Women lawyers often don’t report the incidents, fearing retaliation or lack of support from their firms, many of which do not have policies against client harassment. “I don’t know any one of my female friends who have been in a law firm or even in-house who haven’t seen or experienced that,” says Jean Lee, CEO of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

GAME (NEARLY) OVER - Closing arguments are expected today in the class action challenging the NCAA’s limits on compensating student-athletes in top echelons of college football and men’s and women’s basketball. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland, Calif., has presided over the bench trial that began in early September. The outcome has potentially dramatic consequences for schools in the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC. The plaintiffs want the individual conferences, not the NCAA, to set the limits of player compensation.

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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

TECH TRACK - U.K.-based Clifford Chance is launching the firm’s first innovation lab globally in Singapore, as more and more international law firms are entering the growing legal tech sector in the city-state. John Kang reports that the innovation lab, Create+65, which incorporates Singapore’s country code, is supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board and is operating in collaboration with the Singapore Academy of Law’s Future Law Innovation Programme—a two-year pilot program started this year to encourage legal tech in the city-state.

WHAT YOU SAID

“Nobody really wants you to look under the hood. Nobody much has an incentive to get people to participate.”

— ELIZABETH CHAMBLEE BURCH, PROFESSOR AT UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW, WHO HAS LAUNCHED A STUDY THAT SEEKS INPUT FROM LITIGANTS WHO HAVE BROUGHT CLAIMS INVOLVING WOMEN’S HEALTH THROUGH AN MDL PROCESS.