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Non-Sequiturs: 07.29.15
* Judge uses hearing to take out lost luggage irritation on airline appearing before him. [Legal Cheek] * Law schools should teach entrepreneurship, because students should be learning something they can apply when the job market turns up empty. [Tax Prof Blog] * Meet Dylann Roof's defense counsel, David Bruck. [The Marshall Project] * Lawyer quits law and opens a brewery. Good idea. [Click on Detroit] * Making "patently offensive racial, ethnic, homophobic, sexist, and other derogatory remarks to attorneys" nets a three-month suspension in New York. [Legal Profession Blog] * A new white paper on law enforcement and electronic communications, co-authored by Viet Dinh, the keynote speaker at our recent Technology & Law event. [Bancroft PLLC] * After Bruce MacEwen expressed doubts over the usefulness of the Am Law 200 as "a conceptual category," Kimberly Kleman, editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer, responds to the criticism. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=24&v=5_S9y8bHMlY
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Morning Docket: 06.12.14
* In defense of its PPP metric, the editor-in-chief of the American Lawyer revealed a shocking statistic about Dentons: the firm’s PPP was likely down about 20 percent year over year. [Am Law Daily] * A judge dismissed many of defunct firm Heller Erhman’s remaining unfinished business claims in the case against its former partners. Dewey know some partners who are thrilled? [WSJ Law Blog] * From 2012 to 2013, NLJ 350 firms saw the rise of “other” attorneys — staff attorneys, of counsel, and lawyers who were neither associates nor partners. We’re living in lean times. [National Law Journal] * “No one predicted there would be this kind of huge drop in applications.” Apparently law school deans thought prospective students would be thrilled about their lack of job prospects. [Hartford Business Journal] * Shelly Sterling has asked a judge to rule that she can sell the Los Angeles Clippers over her husband Donald Sterling’s protests. We’re very eagerly awaiting their impending divorce train wreck. [Bloomberg]