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By Barbri
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.03.15

* According to this former Supreme Court clerk, Justice Scalia's judicial zingers are just like porn in that they're "titillating, but over time they coarsen the culture of which they are a part." (Plus, for what it's worth, the jurist's audience usually never gets a money shot.) [Washington Post] * Better late than never? The ABA dropped the hammer on law schools trying to game their employment stats with a new rule that'll force them to report school-funded jobs as part-time unless certain length and salary reqs are met. [WSJ Law Blog] * The largest of D.C.'s largest law firms grew even larger over the past year, and thanks to a merger, an outsider firm -- Morgan Lewis -- managed to infiltrate the capital's Big Four. Sorry, WilmerHale, but maybe 2016 will be your comeback year. [National Law Journal] * In other ABA news, the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar rejected a plea for academic credit for paid externships, because we apparently want to keep students as indebted as possible before they begin their professional legal careers. [ABA Journal] * A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Richard Lee, a known conspiracy theorist, who sought the release of the Seattle police department's death-scene photographs from Nirvana star Kurt Cobain's suicide. Hey! Wait! He'll file a new complaint. [Seattle Times]

By Staci Zaretsky
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 03.06.15

* I guess 15 minutes of fame can really mess with you. The "cute mugshot girl" who took the Internet by storm a while back managed to get arrested again. Negative attention is still attention. [Gawker] * The DOJ is about to file corruption charges against Senator Robert Menendez. Corruption in New Jersey? [CNN] * With the assistance of the pro bono legal teams at WilmerHale and Polsinelli, 303 conservatives filed a historic amicus brief in support of marriage equality. [WilmerHale] * A nice review of "A Conversation on Clerking" moderated by U.S. Supreme Court reporter Anthony Mauro of the National Law Journal, with panelists including our own David Lat; Judge Patricia Millett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; and Lucas Townsend, an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. [American Bar Association] * Looking for an extra $1,000 this year? Enter this legal fiction writing contest. Maybe you'll write the next Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link). [The Expert Institute]

By Joe Patrice