Archive for May, 2007
Litigation Reality Check - Reversing Juries in Coca-Cola v. Harmar
From the Texas Observer: Hitting the Bottlers
In 2000, after a six-week trial, a jury in Daingerfield, Texas, found Coca-Cola Enterprises—a bottling company 40 percent-owned by Coca-Cola—guilty of breaking state antitrust laws. Although a far cry from the $100 million they were hoping for, Harmar and the other regional bottlers won a $15.6 million judgment. Almost […]
Police Officer ‘over-doses’ on Pot; resigns but not charged
Court TV: Police officer who baked brownies laced with pot avoids criminal charges
The department’s investigation began with a 911 call from Sanchez’s home on April 21, 2006. On a 5-minute tape of the call, obtained by the Free Press, Sanchez told an emergency dispatcher he thought he and his wife were overdosing on marijuana.
“I think […]
Lawyer Advertising
AroundTownHouston Blog asks ‘What kind of lawyer advertises like this?‘ to which the Chicago-based firm of Fetman Garland says:
Goodness. Since I’ve got the song in my head now anyway, I may as well give a plug to fellow maniac Slaid Cleaves ‘Horses & Divorces’ from his Wishbones album:
I met Willie by the still, he was […]
Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel
Recovering law student Jeremy Blachman started writing Anonymous Lawyer Blog while he was a student at Harvard Law School. Amid speculation of who of the BigLaw partners had the time to put their malign misanthropy in digital form, Blachman was revealed as the author of the blog in NY Times article. A book deal was […]
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe is the name of the guy I was trying to think of last night during my Contracts final. I couldn’t think of his name because he was a 16th century Danish astronomer and I’m not normally in the habit of thinking of 16th century Danish astronomers. I thought of this one though. My […]
The 2L Year (How not to Succeed in Law School)
As I’ve been mercilessly flogging to death, more from James D. Gordon’s now jaded How not to Succeed in Law School (.pdf)
The second- and third-years are about the same as the first year, except that you are a cool second or third year student, and you get to choose your teachers (this is called forum […]
Law School Exams (How not to Succeed in Law School)
As I’ve mercilessly belabored, more from James D. Gordon’s now slightly depressing, but still masochistically fascinating How not to Succeed in Law School (.pdf)
Studies have shown that the best way to learn is to have frequent exams on small amounts of material and to receive lots of feedback from the teacher. Consequently, law school does […]
Entrepreneurs for Guaranteed Health Insurance
I have a knee-jerk distaste towards any mention of national health care proposal. Having spent the bulk of my working life working for small companies and for myself this argument strikes a chord -
…the lack of fairly priced, guaranteed health insurance is [a drag] on labor mobility and entrepreneurial endeavors. Busineses need water, roads, […]
Legal Writing (How not to Succeed in Law School)
As afore mentioned, more from James D. Gordon’s I’m-starting-to-wonder-if-it’s-really-sarcastic How not to Succeed in Law School (.pdf)
During your first year, you take a class called “Legal Writing.” The sole objective of this class is to make you write like real lawyers as little as possible. Virtually all lawyers write as if they were paid by […]
Law School Professors (How not to Succeed in Law School)
As previously mentioned mentioned earlier, more from James D. Gordon’s so true it’s not funny How not to Succeed in Law School (.pdf)
If you want to know what kind of people law professors are, ask yourself this question: “What kind of a person would give up a salary of a jillion dollars a year in […]