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Friday Legal Link Round Up
Being a good ole boy pays. So is there an application I fill out???
The Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson traces the ins and outs of the referral system in D.C.’s tight-knit legal community and finds millions of dollars built on sometimes serendipitous relationships that go back decades in Their Own Defense: D.C.’s Clubby Attorneys Keep Corporate [...]
Update on AutoAdmit Law Student Forum Defamation Suit
I posted previously on this here. NPR has an interview with some of the parties involved in Women File Suit to Defend Online Reputation.
Anthony Ciolli, AutoAdmit Sued by Yale Law Students Verbally Attacked on Online Forum
The WSJ Law Blog reports as Students File Suit Against Ex-AutoAdmit Director, Others or as AbovetheLaw.com puts it in a manner appropos so typically apropos for the case - Has AutoAdmit Been Pwn3d?
According to the notice of suit posted on this Autoadmit thread the defendants are people who posted under the following pseudonyms:
Pauliewalnuts; neoprag; [...]
Blawgosphere - The Personal Commencement Address
I think one of the nice, unintended consequences of law student blogging is that you’re left with a kind of record of your tenure and a certain reflection on the experience. Won L’s That’s a Wrap is thus far my favorite example of a blawgosphere sub-genre I’m call the ‘personal commencement address.’
Dear Pre-Law School Unsolicited [...]
Top Law Student Blawgs
I’m pretty sure this has to be a typo….
Source: Justia BlawgSearch: May 2007 Law Student Top Blawgs
Blawg Review #111, hosted by Blawg.com
The Blawg Review is a moveable feast of legally-related blog posts, hosted by a different blawg each month, currently at #111 on Blawg.com.
One of the links early in the post struck me as a bit of a revelation today. A Mad Tea Party was the first law student blawg Bill wrote about way back in [...]
Blawgosphere: Life of a Law Student
Life of a Law Student is one of the most impressive feats of stick-to-it-ness I’ve witnessed in a long, long time. The title appears in fact to be a clever misnomer because clearly no one who has done the amount of work evident on the site could hope for any life to speak of at [...]
Dr. Flea, Pediatrician blogs his own med-mal suit, learns the perils
A month or two ago I stumbled on the blog of Dr. Flea, a pediatrician in the north east who was being sued for failing to diagnose a condition one of his young patients later died of. Medblogs are among the most interesting I find, primarily because the information they impart is exactly what blogs [...]
Law Prof Blawg Concurring Opinions Seeks Summer Intern
Feeling a little underemployed this summer? Draft a blog post on why you deserve to be the Concurring Opinions Summer Intern.
1. The Job Description
Let’s start by repeating a key aspect of this job. It is unpaid, except in “prestige points,” which you can probably can’t even monetize on Berkman Island. In return for being associated [...]
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 [...]