Archive for June, 2006
What are you going to be when you grow up?
One of the unintended consequences of telling someone you’re going to law school is that they immediately ask you what kind of law you want to practice. This would be a perfectly reasonable follow up question were it not for the fact that I have no idea what kind of law I want to practice. [...]
Desperation Calling
From the ever entertaining Smoking Gun comes this story of desperation as a Tulane law student takes a creative approach to finding a job at a firm. We’ll see if I still think it’s desperate in a couple of years when I’m in Toll’s position.
Last month, he sent 20-30 law firms his resume and a [...]
People or things that should be sued: Norton Antivirus
Oh Norton, how do I hate thee, let me count the ways…
for no apparent reason and entirely without justification, you prevent good hard-working computer-using people from performing perfectly routine tasks
you use a ridiculous amount of memory and computing resources
your constant, hyperbolic “warnings” cause gullible users to compute in a state of fear, believing they are [...]
Rain closes University of Houston
No class today folks. Houston was hit with 10 inches of rain in the span of only a few hours this morning. Streets in the south-east Hobby-airport area are reporting significant flooding as well as some residences.
As much as 10.5 inches of rain was reported by the heart of the morning commute today, [...]
Jennifer Granick, Wired Legal Columnist, Granick Slate
If anyone has an interest in practicing law on the frontiers of technology, as I do, then Jennifer Granick’s Wired column is a can’t miss.
She also keeps her own blog choc full of interesting, useful information. I’m particularly enamored of the Granick Slate (see an example here .pdf) which outlines the issues in front [...]
Gold-medal-crazy winner, Charlie Rose interview
I had missed this article when I posted on the death penalty and Dow’s book earlier - from the NY Times Judging Whether a Killer Is Sane Enough to Die:
David R. Dow, a law professor at the University of Houston who has met more than 75 death row inmates, visited Mr. Panetti at his lawyers’ [...]
A Ward by Any Other Name
In strolling through a WSJ law blog review of the recently published Sorcerer’s Apprentice, I was surprised to see Artemus Ward listed as one of the authors.
This is surprising because the Artemus Ward I know is long dead. It was the pen name of Charles Farrar Brown, the 18th century counterpart of Jeff Foxworthy, [...]
Home is where the domicile is
An observation Chris D. and I noted last night - when Ragazzo asks you a question and you respond, and in response to your response he exclaims “Amazing!” … this is not a good sign. He is, in fact, amazed, but not at something you’ve done well.
Last night was to be the first of many [...]
Civil Procedure, Class Prep for Thursday June 8, 2006
Today I had the unpleasant and hopefully unique experience of leaving one of my case briefs lying useless on the printer at home instead of helpfully stashed in my CivPro binder where I needed it if called on. (Luckily I wasn’t) If this sounds like not such a big deal, keep in mind I’m not [...]
Debra Bruce, Law Practice Management
Debra Bruce primarily does executive coaching for lawyers but she has also been invaluable to me as a resource on getting started thinking on the practice of law (it’s never too early 1L’s!) and member of the Texas State Bar’s Law Practice Management Committee. She has impressive legal experience at Baker-Botts and running her own [...]