Wake Up Call: Lawyers React to Cohen Guilty Plea, Manafort Conviction

• Lawyers, politicians, and others reacted after Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen implicated him in a crime yesterday at almost the same moment as the president’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, became a convicted felon. ( Bloomberg ) ( New York Times ) ( Axios ) ( Above The Law )

• Venable is adding 104 intellectual property lawyers from IP boutique Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto in a merger that will make’s Venable’s IP team one of the biggest in the country at nearly 180 lawyers. The linkup, expected to close Nov. 1, takes Venable’s overall attorney headcount ...