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Morning Docket: 05.20.15

* Thus far, five law schools -- Hawaii, Iowa, St. John's, Drake, and Buffalo -- have decided to drop the LSAT for top-performing applicants, and it's no surprise that all five law schools have watched their enrollment numbers take traumatic tumbles. [Bloomberg Business] * "[E]veryone calls colleagues for advice, particularly when we get gnarly jury notes." As it turns out, judges in the Southern District of New York are big proponents of the "phone a friend" lifeline for their trickier cases. FYI, those friends are never law profs. [New York Times] * Well, that was incredibly quick! Josh Seiter, the 2013 graduate of Chicago-Kent Law who's built a successful career stripping, working as an escort, and appearing on reality TV shows, didn't even make it past the first rose ceremony on The Bachelorette. [Heavy] * Without WARNing? Butler & Hosch, one of the largest foreclosure firm's in the country, decided to abruptly close up shop, leaving hundreds of attorneys and staff members of out work. Sources have told us that the firm was unable to make payroll. [Orlando Sentinel] * Sorry, boutiques, but according to Lexis/Nexis CounselLink's Enterprise Legal Management Trends report, the biggest of all Biglaw firms are controlling the market when it comes to performing specialized IP litigation work. [DealBook / New York Times] * As we mentioned previously, Sam Kamin of Denver Law is the first professor to hold a pot law professorship. Here's an interesting Q&A with the law firm partner who came up with the idea. See Prof. Kamin at our marijuana law event in June. [National Law Journal]

By Staci Zaretsky
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 03.11.15

* Texas wants to strip lawyers of their license if they don't pay their student loans. Yeah, if they're getting behind, taking away their ability to earn money seems like a good strategy. [Texas Lawyer] * Lawyer gives waiter a $25K tip to get dental surgery. Based on the picture, I'd have given him that tip for free. [ABC 11] * Let's all hope John Oliver never goes back to The Daily Show, because his HBO show is making a real-life impact. The Tennessee Supreme Court cited Oliver on civil forfeiture in an opinion handed down yesterday. [Tennessee Courts] * From the strip club to the mental hospital. Pretty standard murder scenario actually. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer] * Suge Knight's defense to murder and attempted murder charges? He's legally blind in one eye so didn't see the people he killed. [NY Daily News] * Reality star testifies under oath that reality shows aren't real. Try and pick up the pieces from your shattered world. [Morning After / Gawker] * Document review is such a terrible job, you should probably just go into PR. That assumes you've not done enough document review that you can never smile again. [Law and More] * The final segment of an interview with Seth Zachary, Chairman of Paul Hastings. In this part of the interview, Zachary discusses weathering and overcoming the collapse of his previous firm Finley Kumble, the former Biglaw giant that went under in the 80s. This is where we make the obligatory, "Dewey know anyone who might appreciate this tale?" [Bloomberg BNA / Big Law Business]

By Joe Patrice