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Non-Sequiturs: 12.23.15

* Yup, this is STILL happening -- rape victims being charged for he cost of their rape kits. [Slate] * What happens to a university when its law school keeps dragging it down? [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * Here come the legal scholars defending the constitutionality of Donald Trump's dumb ideas. [NBC News] * Are you going to get work dumped on you right before the holidays? You are going to get work dumped on you right before the holidays. [Daily Lawyer Tips] * NYU is getting a new president -- and a $1.1 million renovation to the president's penthouse. [New York Times] * NYPD officer is charged for arresting a man that tried to film him. [Gawker] * Being convicted of a felony hasn't made Dinesh D'Souza love Obama more. [Wonkette] * The stigma of mental health issues when you are a lawyer. [Law and More]

By Kathryn Rubino
2nd Circuit

Non-Sequiturs: 03.29.13

* To those of you who celebrate it, Happy Easter! Welcome the holiday by voting in the ABA Journal’s fifth annual “Peeps in Law” contest. [ABA Journal] * If law firm brackets aren’t your thing, check out Professor Kyle Graham’s brackets for (1) law school classes and (2) law blogs. I’m thankful for ATL’s #1 seed but terrified by who we’re up against (because they’ve ripped me a new one before). [noncuratlex] * Sorry, Judge Steiner, you wuz robbed; you should have been our Judge of the Day. It’s tough to top “allegations of a sexual quid pro quo with a female lawyer and the eye-opening confiscation of carpet from [chambers] for forensic analysis.” [OC Weekly] William Shatner * “William Shatner’s Seductive Powers Don’t Create a Fiduciary Duty.” Robyn Hagan Cain explains why. [U.S. Second Circuit / FindLaw] * Citi settles securities cases for $730 million. Matt Levine is not impressed. [Dealbreaker] * And Ted Frank is incensed by Bernstein Litowitz’s nine-figure fee request. [Point of Law] * If you’re already depressed by public ignorance about the Supreme Court, don’t look at the responses to question 9 of this opinion poll. [Penn Schoen Berland] * Steven Harper — author of a new (and very good) book about the legal profession, The Lawyer Bubble (affiliate link) — offers thoughts on the billable hour in the wake of the DLA Piper overbilling allegations. [New York Times]

By David Lat