Archive for March, 2007
RIAA Lawsuit Decision Matrix
This is making the rounds today. Hilarious. BBSpot.com
Effective Writing Flows from Recognizing Your Own Mistakes in the Writing of Others
A bit of from Jonathan Todres at the NYU legal writing program via The Volokh Conspiracy: Editing Tip for Law Students.
When you’re editing someone else’s work — for instance, if you’re a student who’s required to edit a classmate’s paper, or a law review editor editing a faculty member’s work — ask yourself, “What have […]
Arthur Miller and Scalia Spar in Oral Argument before Supreme Court
If you’re like me the sonorous northern twang of Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn accent (from the CivPro Sum and Substance series) is burned into my brain. For that reason, this brief exchange, from Miller’s oral argument before SCOTUS in Tellabs v. Makor seemed particularly hilarious.
Scalia clearly was on the side of the companies, chiming in from […]
Alternative Legal Careers: Devil’s Advocate
Well, ok, not any more. That position has been ‘downsized’, but it really was a job. According to Wikipedia:
Formerly, during the canonization process of the Roman Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith (Latin Promotor Fidei), or Devil’s Advocate (Latin advocatus diaboli), was a canon lawyer appointed by the Church to argue against the canonization […]
Alternative Legal Careers: Agent’s Assistant
Are you a procrastinating 3L with no discernible career prospects? Staring down the barrel of a career in BigLaw? As you’ve no doubt heard ad nauseum, a JD can give you entree into many other exciting careers, even perhaps as amazing as Assistant to Agent - Gaming.
The Beverly Hills office currently has an opening for […]
Issue: Whether under Florida law an ex-wife who becomes a man is owed alimony
My these are interesting times to be in family law. CNN is running the following: Ex-wife becomes a man; ex-husband seeks end to alimony
Lawrence Roach agreed to pay alimony to the woman he divorced, not the man she became after a sex change, his lawyers argued in a Florida court Tuesday in an effort to […]
Average Law Student Loan Debt, Bill to Assist Prosecutors and Public Defenders
Legislators have introduced a bill - John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007 - aimed at encouraging law students to consider careers in the prosecutors and public defenders offices by offering “up to $10,000 per year, to a maximum of $60,000, in exchange for a commitment of at least three years of […]
Unconfirmed: Law School Rankings Released, University of Houston Jumps 10 spots to #60
Via Marshall Preddy at Legalese, the University of Houston Law Center has jumped 10 spots to #60 in the 2008 U.S. World and News Report Rankings. The USWNR site still shows 2007, but Concurring Opinions has the scoop on 2008 law school rankings which were apparently released earlier to subscribers and posted on LawSchoolDiscussion.org.
I’ve made […]
Advice for Lawyers preparing Oral Arguments from Chief Judge Paul Michel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Chief Judge Paul Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC)
UVA: Michel Explains Role of Federal Circuit, Offers Advice to Students, via Bashman.
“Judges are going to ask a lot of questions, particularly appellate judges …and they actually expect answers, and they need answers, and they want answers, and lawyers who […]
List of Top 25 Underrated Law Schools
Yet another list for whatever it’s worth - Vault’s List of Top 25 Underrated Law Schools, Houston #19.