Morning Docket: 12.04.14

* "[I]t’s hard to find anybody as handsome as Antonin Scalia." Some would beg to differ, but as it turns out, legal scholar Bryan Garner can brown-nose with the best of them. [WSJ Law Blog] * For the third year in a row, Cooley Law graduates have mostly failed the July administration of the Michigan bar. So much for it being a "highly prestigious" law school. [Crain's Detroit Business] * In a lawsuit filed against real estate database Zillow, a former employee claims she was subjected to the "most heinous acts of sexual harassment imaginable" and "sexual torture." That's just lovely. [LAist] * Law firm merger activity is still going strong as 2014 winds down to a close. Aside from big-name tie-ups like Bingham / Morgan Lewis and Locke Lord / Edwards Wildman, other firms like Verill Dana also had the urge to merge. [Am Law Daily] * "Does it really surprise me? Not all that much." University of Memphis School of Law students are on high alert during finals time after one of their own was almost robbed at gunpoint across the street from campus this week. Yikes. [WMC Action News 5] * In case you've been sleeping under a rock, Above the Law's managing editor, David Lat, wrote a book called Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link), and it's been receiving rave reviews. If you dig clerkship lit, you should try to check it out. [National Law Journal]