It’s time for another issue of news and gossip. Here’s what’s catching my eye:

1. Dean of Hastings Law School is (pushed?) out. Frank Wu (above), the very lively, energetic, motorcycle-riding dean of UC Hastings College of Law, is leaving his post—prematurely. The Hastings board of directors issued a statement that Wu is stepping down “to return to teaching full-time and finish his long-awaited book on the Vincent Chin case.”