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Non-Sequiturs: 05.09.16

* Drugs, sex, and death. A lawyer lands in hot water after his teenage lover dies. [CNN] * The Good Wife took its final curtain call, and it was pitch perfect. [Slate] * Properly preparing for the LSAT might make you a little difficult to take in social situations. But you probably knew that already. [Pre-law Guru] * Should this lawyer tone down his ads? They're very... Better Call Saul. [Law and More] * A lawyer's run for a Florida state judgeship is cut short over 20 cents. The devil is indeed in the details. [Miami Herald] * Where did that case come from? An analysis of where cases before the Supreme Court originate. [Empirical SCOTUS]

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.08.15

* Southern California Institute of Law is suing the state bar over requirements schools must maintain a 40 percent bar passage rate over 5 years. [Los Angeles Times] * Have dreams of running away from the practice of law into the welcoming embrace of academia? Not so fast. The rate of new law professor jobs has dropped 55 percent. [National Law Journal] * FBI agents cannot be sued for monetary damages in their personal capacity for keeping people on the "No Fly List" as a coercive measure in anti-terrorism investigations, says SDNY Judge Ronnie Abrams. [New York Law Journal] * Find out who are the scariest federal prosecutors according to Steptoe & Johnson partner Reid Weingarten. [Litigation Daily] * You should still say "sorry" even when you're at work. [Corporate Counsel] * A fun way to mix college football fandom with your attorney advertising. [ABA Journal] * Carey Gabay, a lawyer for Empire State Development Corp., and who formerly held positions as assistant counsel to Governor Andrew Cuomo and at Jones Day and at Schulte Roth & Zabel, was shot in the head yesterday before the West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn. He is in critical condition. [New York Post]

By Kathryn Rubino