Summer Associate Allegedly Dismissed Over Wild Incident With Cocaine, Hookers

This is definitely a welcome vision from the halcyon Biglaw days of yore.

Non-Sequiturs: 06.30.15

* Justice Kennedy's writing style... maybe it's a little over the top. [PrawfsBlawg] * If you're looking for representation at the Supreme Court, go small. [Law360 (sub. req.)] * Marriage equality is only one more step for activists. Next up, fair housing and overall equality. Perhaps on the housing case, we'll get to hear Justice Thomas make some tone-deaf claim about how there's no need for protection from housing discrimination because gays are overrepresented on Bravo. [RH Reality Check] * Don't like the Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell? Why propose a constitutional amendment when you can propose a new constitutional convention? Runaway Con-Con! [Ab Initio] * A linguistic analysis of jiggery-pokery and the prose of Antonin Scalia. [The Chronicle of Higher Education] * A jury cleared the University of Iowa College of Law of "political discrimination" when it passed over conservative Teresa Manning's application to join the faculty.[Associated Press via ABC News] * Everyone in New York received an Amber Alert over their phones earlier today. Did anyone crash their cars when their phone started screeching with sounds it had never blared before? [New York Personal Injury Law Blog]

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Marriage Today, Climate Tomorrow?

Is it time to pursue global warming prevention in the courts?

Founder Stories: Webflow’s Y Combinator Journey

Watch Sergie Magdalin, the co-founder and creative director of the visual website building toolkit for professionals, Webflow, discuss some of his harrowing early days as an entrepreneur. Since raising funding at Y Combinator’s demo day, Webflow has acquired over 275,000 users, including Groupon, The New York Times, MasterCard, and others. But things weren’t always so easy for… Read More

Apple Music Now Available On The Mac Via iTunes

Apple Music arrived earlier today on iOS, with the iOS 8.4 update, and now it’s coming to the desktop via a new version of iTunes. The launch has been going pretty well so far, with only a few hiccups including some early mic testing by Zane Lowe prior to the official launch of the 24-hour Beats 1 radio station. The update went out quickly and consistently, however, and streaming seems… Read More

'Creed' trailer is no schlocky 'Rocky' — this thing looks awesome

LOS ANGELES — Now we're ready to believe in Creed.

When it was announced in 2013 that MGM and Warner Bros. were training up a Rocky spin-off with Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan in the title role, we have to admit we were scratching our heads. Was another trip into the Rocky ring, which seemed out of gas after a wildly uneven six films, really the best move for one of Hollywood's brightest up-and-coming director/actor duos?

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Then along came this trailer, which first played at Cinemacon and was released Tuesday. No joke: This thing looks like it has a fighting chance at greatness. Read more...

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Zuck Details How Artificial Intelligence Will Show You The Perfect Facebook Posts

What’s Facebook working on in its three AI labs? A way to understand exactly what you share so it can serve that content to people with matching interests. Today in a public Q&A on his Facebook Page, CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a closer look at why Facebook is investing in AI, as well as detailing his philosophy on happiness, exercise and the future of the company. At the end of 2013… Read More

Microsoft Drops Another Windows 10 Build

Today, Microsoft released another Windows 10 build for PC, numbered 10159. The company indicated that it is similar to yesterday’s release, with one change aside from normal bug fixes. According to Neowin’s Brad Sams, the operating system iteration contains a new desktop background. Read More

With new Chrome extension, everything is mostly awesome

Because we can all use a little more positivity in our lives (especially on the Internet), there is now a Google Chrome extension that replaces what it deems negative and/or swear words with something more awesome.

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London-based creative marketing and search agency Verve Search has built an extension on Google Chrome that filters out offending words so they show up as the word awesome instead, all decked out in fancy rainbow lettering.

Take, for example, this story.

While it isn't negative, the Everything is Awesome extension keys in on one word and replaces it. Read more...

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Hillary Clinton emails from 2009 released by State Department

WASHINGTON — The State Department has released roughly 3,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's correspondence from 2009, her first year as the nation's top diplomat.

The emails, covering March through December of that year, were posted online Tuesday evening, as part of a court mandate that the agency release batches of Clinton's private correspondence from her time as secretary of state every 30 days starting June 30.

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Clinton's emails have become a major issue in her early presidential campaign, as Republicans accuse her of using a private account rather than the standard government address to avoid public scrutiny of her correspondence. As the controversy has continued, Clinton has seen ratings of her character and trustworthiness drop in polling. Read more...

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Does Social Media Do Any Good At All In Marketing?

Technology columnist Jeff Bennion walks through the different social-media platforms... and expresses skepticism.

The (Monday) Morning After: A Conversation About Obergefell With David Lat

ReplyAll conversationalist Zach Abramowitz chats with Above the Law managing editor David Lat about the Supreme Court's big gay marriage ruling.

'Alien' piñata

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Where Are The Invisible Apps?

More than a year ago, Matthew Panzarino wrote an article on TechCrunch in which he described a new type of mobile app experience that he coined the Invisible App. He predicted that we would imminently see the rise of a huge number of apps that would live in the background, anticipating our needs based on sensor and contextual data, and do things for us before we even had to ask. What an… Read More