Quick Hits (4/13)

Here's a story about a 47 year old law clerk who may become a lawyer without attending law school.    . . .     Only 32% pass the Philippine bar exam.    . . .    A Manhattan judge apparently presided over a case where her friend was the plaintiff.    . . .      Duquesne School of Law's new Dean, Donald Guter, is a retired rear admiral who advised the Navy on ethics, among other issues.    . . .     An Iowa lawyer faces possible discipline for having simultaneously worked as a prosecutor and a defender in the same town.    . . .     When you call for the impeachment of US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy because of his "Marxist, Leninist, satanic" principles, you begin to lose just a little credibility.  Although the current spate of judge bashing is quite real, I'm beginning to wonder if the left doesn't have a vested interest in pumping up the right-wing-judge-bashing stories a little bit.    . . .     A Washington state Supreme Court justice has been admonished for speaking to inmates abut their pending cases, while the justice was touring a correctional facility.