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Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking on the button below. Thanks! After fourteen years as a partner at Sidley Austin, where he handled complex commercial and appellate litigation, Jonathan Cohn is leaving Biglaw. Where is he heading? Like so many other top litigators, he’s joining a boutique—Lehotsky Keller, which will become Lehotsky Keller Cohn (LKC) after Cohn joins on Monday, May 1.

In a 2017 interview, Forbes editor Susan Adams asked Anya Fernald to articulate her vision for Belcampo. “To direct-market very high quality, organic meat that is fully source-verified. That means customers know exactly where the meat comes from and that it’s been farmed in the right way,” Fernald said. But this was no quaint “chat with the farmer at her market table” kind of company.  Fernald and her business partner Todd Robinson had launched Belcampo in 2012 with $50 million, in an attempt to shake up meat production and consumption on a national scale.

In Food culture, I take a closer look at elements of local food cultures in Turkey, the Middle East and beyond. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to receive the weekly newsletter: If you ever get the chance to visit Turkey, make sure to set aside an evening for a local meyhane. Originally places to enjoy a few drinks, they’ve evolved into the best restaurant experience Turkey has to offer, with an endless stream of mezes, seafood, atmospheric surroundings and white tablecloths.

An excerpt from Blessed Are The Rest of Us: How Limits and Longing Make Us Whole. APRIL 2019 SAN FRANCISCO I walk the length of Grace Cathedral holding a candle and wearing a white acolyte robe, hardly the religious garb of my adult churchgoing life. I pass by the faces of fellow conference-goers. This weekend I taught a small seminar on the spirituality of rest, and now I find myself leading this processional with the other speakers trailing along.

▣ Before I could sing any of what followed, I used to howl the opening lines, "Two thousand and two, the first snow has come…" The song was already dated by the time I found it. It was never fashionable, anyway. As a critic wrote about Misora Hibari in the postwar years, Dao Lang gave off the aroma of the farm, of trainloads of men transported to the city to work.

By Marcus Patton / @ctgatorfan81 (Ed’s note: Marcus submitted this to the BLC group in 2022, but it never ran in our Sip Mightily newsletter. Mr. Patton is as brilliant as it gets when it comes to the spirit game, and his review on Flaviar is something I still reference. Follow him. This will be helpful to anyone who’s ever been intrigued by their ads. You’re welcome.) What is this “Flaviar” I keep seeing on my Instagram feed?

All of my college syllabus weeks had variants of the same scene. The professor squinted at the attendance roster. “Por Ja—” They moved closer to the screen or paper. “Jay… Jaijongkit. Did I say that right?” I’ve always said yes. The difference between “Jay” and “Jai” didn’t bother me. I have always been grateful that my Thai surname comprised of sounds that existed in the English language and had only three syllables.

Even if you don’t hang out at memorabilia shows or spend hours looking at online auction websites, you’re probably familiar with the little hologram stickers that Major League Baseball uses to authenticate its game-used jerseys, baseballs, and other items. Who applies those hologram stickers to the various items? Who decides which authenticated items get sold and which ones are archived for later use in historical displays in the team’s ballpark? And how do we know that a hologrammed item is truly game-used?

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking on the button below. Thanks! Last month, in honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, I interviewed Alejandra Caraballo, a leading advocate for transgender rights. After that episode, I heard from listeners who asked me to interview someone on the other side.