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Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.22.15

* A representative for Amal and George Clooney has denied the rumors of an impending divorce plastered all over the newsstands this week. "This story is totally made up in order to sell their magazines." Now we can go back to wondering when Amal is planning to sue President Obama. [Aceshowbiz] * Roe v. Wade is 42 years old (or 126 trimesters) today. How much of the original holding is left? Not that much actually. [TBT Legal] * Some 1st or 2nd year in D.C. is banging another associate and felt obliged to give us an anonymous blow-by-blow account. Think of it as a Penthouse Letter to the ABA Journal. [Reddit] * Speaking of Penthouse, the affidavit from the Prince Andrew/Alan Dershowitz sex scandal is just bats**t amazeballs. Check out the full document on the next page. [South Florida Lawyers] * "Jews in the U.K. never won a reported discrimination case against non-Jewish defendants." I mean, who'd have thought the country that brought us The Merchant of Venice would have issues with Jews? [Tablet] * Americans decry European laws prohibiting certain kinds of hate speech. But Professor Faisal Kutty explains that liberal societies have their own secular sacred cows even if they don't want to admit it. [Al Jazeera] * If you presume the clientele for litigation financing services are helpless, you're selling them short. [LFC 360] * The latest threat to unsuspecting Americans: zombie debt! [Public Justice] * NYU admits it probably should have told the police when a student allegedly lit a classmate on fire and videotaped it. Ugh. NYU's gone soft. In my day, we set each other on fire all the time and we liked it dammit! [Chronicle of Higher Education]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.08.15

* 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft got to live out many an American's fantasy: he got to screw a lawyer, again and again. [Gawker] * "I guess if I had to change one thing, it would have been to go to law school after college. But I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up until I actually grew up, and by then it was a little too late for those goals." [XX Factor / Slate] * Hoboken councilwoman Beth Mason and her husband, Wachtell Lipton partner Ricky Mason, just got hit with more than $40,000 dollars in fines for election finance reporting violations. [Politicker NJ] * Some thoughts from Professor Jonathan Adler on standing up for free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * Speaking of Charlie Hebdo, Professor Ann Althouse isn't a fan of slobbery kisses. [Althouse] * How do legal rules contribute to the evolution of the institution of marriage? Thoughts from Professors Naomi Cahn and June Carbone. [Concurring Opinions]

By David Lat
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.07.15

* Alan Dershowitz vowed to sue the lawyers who alleged he took part in a sex scandal for defamation, but it looks like he was too slow -- they sued him for defamation first. The Dersh, however, seemed pleased as punch by the news: "This makes my day.” [WSJ Law Blog] * Illinois passed some of the toughest anti-revenge-porn legislation the country has seen to date. With possible jail time and huge fines, maybe people will be inspired to be decent human beings... but we doubt it. [International Business Times] * Welcome to 2015: In what's being called the "running of the laterals," many Biglaw partners and associates are making their moves and taking their practices to different firms and businesses. We hope everyone collected their bonuses! [Am Law Daily] * You may be “troubled by a program where people at the bottom pay for the people at the top,” but it's happening at law schools across the country. Students with low LSAT scores are subsidizing their classmates' education. [National Law Journal] * Meanwhile, getting into law school with lower LSAT scores is easier than it's ever been before. From 2010 to 2013, nearly all of the nation's Top 20 law schools admitted students with lower test scores. Thank them for paying your tuition. [Businessweek]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.05.15

* Per recent reports, human rights attorney Amal Clooney was threatened with arrest after she pointed out major issues with the Egyptian justice system in a paper sponsored by the International Bar Association. She was able to escape because officials feared the wrath of George Clooney. [The Telegraph] * Uh oh! It looks like Alan Dershowitz got himself mixed up in a lawsuit involving a salacious underage sex scandal. In his own defense, the famed Havard Law prof said, “It’s a completely, totally fabricated, made-up story. I’m an innocent victim of an extortion conspiracy." [WSJ Law Blog] * The price of the billable hour may have risen by more than 10 percent over the course of the last four years, but according to the chairman of one Biglaw firm, "[t]he question is: Is anybody ­paying that?" Hahaha, yeah right. [National Law Journal] * That was quick. The Bitcoin Foundation hired a global policy counsel who lasted there for less than a year. It seems the policy and regulation aspects of the digital currency's existence were viewed as a "distraction." [DealBook / New York Times] * Chicago Biglaw and midsized firms are brushing up on their Mandarin language skills because Chinese investment in the Windy City hit more than $3 billion last year. FYI, senior associates, these firms may have a job for you. [Crain's Chicago Business] * Did she get SLC punk'd? Another woman was just nabbed for allegedly pretending to be a lawyer. It seems that Utah resident Karla Carbo reportedly impersonated a member of the bar at least three times in the past six months. [New York Daily News]

By Staci Zaretsky