Archive for February, 2007
Teaching the Law
On the University of Houston Law Center Faculty Blog Professors Crump & Bush have been debating Cameron Stracher’s recent piece in the Opinion Journal - Meet the Clients: Law schools rarely teach students how to be lawyers.
Stracher uses the recent Brian-Valery-paralegal-posing-as-lawyer debacle and a recent report critical of law school teaching methods to trot out […]
Legally Punk’d: Lawyer pranked on first day on the job
On YouTube, an endless fount of procrastination. My “Law” Playlist.
Bar/Bri class action Yields Settlement
Above the Law Says: You Are Probably $125 Richer Right Now
According to the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the Bar/Bri class action settled for $36 million, to be paid out to 290,000 clients. Each client will get $125.
It must be wonderful having lawyers for clients…
A call to all exalted gentlemen to raise my guard for Holliday and U.S. Du Pont from pillaging my gorgeous wealth
There’s spam and then there’s Spam that calls me an exalted gentleman and warns me of people who may be trying to pillage my gorgeous wealth. Well done young spammer!
Indecent unshamed DuPont Refused Payment!
A Public Letter to All World
Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen:
After Du Pont Chemical Company of United States pessessed an effective […]
Contracting Shrinkage
From the Wired GC - Contracting Shrinkage
We seem to have sunk to a kind of playground system of forming contracts. Tag, you agree! Lawyers will tell you that you can form a binding agreement just by following a link, stepping into a store, buying a product, or receiving an email. By standing there, shaking your […]
Sam Milsap, who prosecuted Ruben Cantu, now crusades against death penalty
Houston Chronicle: Former Bexar DA crusades against the death penalty
More on Ruben Cantu
The Law School Rankings Game
The University of Houston Law Center is featured in a cover article - “The Rankings Game” - in the National Jurist this month. U.S. News & World Report is ostensibly a weekly news rag, a la Time and Newsweek. The only significance it holds in the legal community is the annual law school rankings it […]
Proceed and Permit Letter
via /. - Linden Labs Sends “Permit-and-Proceed” Letter. Take note, Pyrrhic lawyers, victory is in the thickness of your client’s wallet. Are you listening RIAA?
UPDATE: NFL are you taking stupid pills? A church? What, couldn’t find an infringing orphanage? or a puppy to kick?