Archive for May, 2007
Update: the Perils of Public Speech by Law Students
On the heels of yesterday’s post Risks and Rewards of Law Student Blogging, WSJ Law Blog’s Amir Efrati reports this morning that Law Firm Rescinds Offer to Ex-AutoAdmit Executive.
The Law Blog has learned that law firm Edwards Angell Palmer and Dodge rescinded its job offer to Anthony Ciolli, the 3L at Penn Law who resigned [...]
First Year of Law School (How not to Succeed in Law School)
As mentioned earlier, more from James D. Gordon’s so true it’s not quite funny anymore How not to Succeed in Law School (.pdf)
Remember those horror movies in which somebody wearing a hockey mask terrorizes people at a summer camp and slowly and carefully slashes them all into bloody little pieces? That’s what the first year [...]
Risks and Rewards of Law Student Blogging
Fellow Houston law student and blogger “Anastasia” (she posts under a pseudonym) got me thinking about whether or not law student bloggers should expect a degree of privacy and the possible generational differences in approach, citing this article in NY Magazine. Slightly different than the typical blogger’s concern over getting fired, law student bloggers [...]
Lessons From a Large-Firm Partner Who Set Up His Own Shop
Inspiring words from Mark P. Zimmett in American Lawyer: Lessons From a Large-Firm Partner Who Set Up His Own Shop
My firm is small. We max out at four associates, a law-student clerk and two secretaries. There are obvious — and not so obvious — differences from a large firm. One is administration. I do all [...]
Podcasts from America’s Top Law Schools
The list - Podcasts from America’s Top Law Schools. I’m familiar with most of these and the quality varies widely. Chicago is the front-runner, I think, purely for entertainment value - see my previous post U. Chicago Law Podcast, Lior Strahilevitz’s Universal ‘How’s My Driving?’ Proposal.
Note to Dean Nimmer - Houston’s not on this list, [...]
Final Exams
Professor Chase, from whom I’m taking contracts this semester mentioned something in class the other night that hadn’t really occurred to me before - Professors don’t look forward to exams any more than students do – in his words, “Grading an exam is like reading a not so good book…. over and over again.”
That may [...]
On Defense Attorneys
It surprises me - I’m not sure that it should - that many of the most principled lawyers I come into contact with do criminal defense. Three links that reminded me of that recently -
Randy E. Barnett, Three Cheers for Lawyers: Don’t think a good defense attorney matters? Think again.
Newsweek: What Really Happened that Night [...]
Inscrutable
Why Clarence Thomas continues to fascinate me - Justice Thomas’s Life A Tangle of Poverty, Privilege and Race.
Reasons to Go to Law School (How not to Succeed in Law School)
As I mentioned earlier, I recently came across James D. Gordon’s highly entertaining How not to Succeed in Law School (.pdf) (thanks to Nancy Rapoport for the link) and thought it worth unpacking in case a few of you had a phobia of pdf files.
It is true that some lawyers are dishonest, arrogant, greedy, venal, [...]
Merry Law Day!
I’m not kidding it really is Law Day today. Right up there with National Boss Day in the American pantheon of public holidays.