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Morning Docket: 08.07.17

* Well, well, well... it seems that another law school has succumbed to the allure of the GRE. Which T14 law school has decided to accept the GRE for admissions purposes? We'll have more on the law school that hopes to reel in those sweet, sweet STEM majors later today. [Law.com] * Make Twitter great again? Lawyers from the White House and the Department of Defense had reportedly warned President Trump about the ramifications of the transgender military ban for days before he announced the policy via Twitter without warning because he was tired of being "slow-walked." [POLITICO] * Rep. Maxine Waters is reclaiming her time to call Alan Dershowitz a racist. The congresswoman is upset the Harvard Law professor claimed that a D.C. grand jury will be "unfavorable" to the Trump administration in the Russia case because of its liberal leanings and "ethnic and racial composition." [Free Beacon] * According to Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, the Justice Department will federally prosecute anyone and everyone who so much as thinks about leaking classified information -- but not members of the press, because they're "after leakers, not journalists." Perhaps he ought to relay this information to his boss. [CNN] * Kirkland & Ellis is looking for law students to join its army of summer associates in 2018. The magic number of summers is somewhere around 245, but they "could go over." Do you have what it takes to be one of the few many, the proud prestigious? Be all you can be at K&E. [Big Law Business] * Crap, it looks like the legal profession lost a ton of jobs in July. We're talking four figures worth of jobs -- 4,300 jobs, to be exact. All in, the profession has only seen an increase of 600 jobs since January, and is still down by about 50,000 jobs since pre-recession highs in May 2007. [Am Law Daily] * The Seventh Circuit will rehear "Making a Murderer" star Brendan Dassey's case en banc, following a 2-1 decision that Dassey's confession to murder was coerced and that his conviction should be overturned. Perhaps the full court won't be as sympathetic to Dassey's situation... [Washington Post]

By Staci Zaretsky