Archive for May, 2008
The Inspirational Story of New Supreme Court Clerk Isaac Lidsky
The story of new Supreme Court Clerk Isaac Lidsky is inspiring - also disconcerting, I might add, for his foray as a child actor - Weasel, aka Screech 2 on the inexplicably long-lived Saved by the Bell: The New Class (aren’t these people supposed to end up in rehab?) - but unrelentingly inspiring.
Isaac Lidsky has […]
Casewatching United States v. Geoffrey Fieger
Norm Pattis has been covering the Geoffrey Fieger trial in Detroit which, in closing argument, famed trail lawyer Gerry Spence has called his last. From the start to the farewell - well almost, the jury’s still out as of this writing - Pattis has given us a unique look at Spence, familiarizing the legendary. Spence, […]
Anonymity and its Discontents - Anonymists and Eponymists
Why do we blog? Reading Emily Gould’s Exposed and David Lat’s new Project Truman spurred some thoughts this weekend that have been long accumulating on the nature of blogging. I’ll tiptoe around the more obvious freudian explanations for the urge to blog to note that there are two distinct camps of bloggers with very […]
Learning to Think Like a Chicken Sexer
The Situationist brings us a commencement-time gift of Law, Chicken Sexing, Torture Memo, and Situation Sense, a 2006 commencement speech by Yale Law Prof Dan Kahan who congratulates the gaggle of fresh-faced law grads by comparing the skills just acquired during their 3-year, $193,200 education to the dark art of chick-sexing….
Baylor 2Ls win World Hog Wrestling Championship
Sic ‘em indeed.
Is Obama the first Web 2.0 President
Marc Ambinder’s article in The Atlantic, HisSpace outlines a vision for technological revolution under an Obama Presidency similar to Candidate Obama’s nimble use of social media to harness support -
Obama clearly intends to use the Web, if he is elected president, to transform governance just as he has transformed campaigning. Notably, he has spoken of […]
Attrition Rate Numbers Among Texas Law Schools
Via one of my favorite new reads, the Sophistic Miltonian Serbonian Blog, mouthful that, comes Retentionally yours, noting the following attrition rates among Texas law schools:
University of Houston Law Center: 1.79%
SMU Dedman School of Law: 1.81%
University of Texas School of Law: 2.13%
Texas Tech University School of Law: 2.99%
South Texas College of Law: 4.45%
Texas Southern University […]
This is a test, this is only a test…
Apparently there is a problem with my RSS feed, which means, paradoxically, that some of you won’t get this message, but just in case, there you have it. Hopefully I will have it fixed soon. That is all.
Summer Reading List for Students Excited they are about to start Law School
Inspired by the achingly literate McSweeney’s Internet Tendency which brings us a series of clever user-contributed lists, including Classes My Top-Tier Law School Should Have Offered as Warnings About the Profession, including…
Cutting and Pasting Legal Lingo
Explaining Business Associations to the People Who Are Running Them
4 A.M. Word Processing and the Law
Ethics of Conspicuous Consumption
Forwarding E-mails: […]
Lawyers in Flight, Full-Billing Grounded
As I learned in Professional Responsibility this semester, nothing so stimulates the discussion as the subject of lawyers getting paid. The WSJ Law Blog’s Dan Slater piqued the ire of the inner Ayn Rand in hearts of the lawyers commenting below the fold in Traveling But Not Working? Can’t Charge Full Hourly Rate, Court Says […]