lawyers behaving badly
Robert Sutton, the No Asshole Rule
I was talking about this with Andrew Smith at Pub Fiction the other night and he suggested I blog it. I’ve never done a request before, but I guess it’s not a bad idea. Got a suggestion? E-mail me.
Robert Sutton, a Stanford professor of management science, knew he hit a nerve with the response to […]
More on the Fulbright & Jaworksi N-word incident
I posted my reaction to the n-word incident at Duke - Fulbright & Jaworski Partner Drops N-Word in Interview; Sky Falls - having only read the early reports based on Dean Bartlett’s interview. A big thanks to Hans Bader for alerting me to the more recent developments. His comment appears in full below my first […]
Fulbright & Jaworski Partner Drops N-Word in Interview; Sky Falls
Apparently a Fulbright & Jaworski Partner on a recruiting trip to Duke let the dreaded N-word fly in a story he or she was telling to a student. As might be expected, except by the offending F&J Partner apparently, the shit has hit the proverbial fan.
Duke Law Dean Kate Barlett sent out a campus-wide e-mail […]
Law Student Defames Self With Ridiculous Complaint
via WSJ law blog: Slow Typist Sues His Law School
Certain exams taken by [plaintiff] that required students to be skilled touch-typists in order to produce a competitive response resulted in borderline failing grades by virtue of the low volume of prose [plaintiff] could type in the time allotted as compared with other students.
Oh and he […]
Return of the Jamail “Big Boy” Deposition Video
I swear I’m the only person in my section not to have seen this thing. Until now.
Sex in the Stacks
According to legal tabloid Abovethelaw.com some students at Washington University School of Law decided to deal with the stress of impending finals the old fashioned way. In an e-mail from SBA President Kenley Maddux forwarded a warning from the Dean and admonishing his fellow students to stop having sex in the library. And I thought […]
A new form of alternative dispute resolution
CNN Money: Acrimonious attorneys told to settle dispute by playing a round of ‘rock, paper, scissors.’
Desperation Calling
From the ever entertaining Smoking Gun comes this story of desperation as a Tulane law student takes a creative approach to finding a job at a firm. We’ll see if I still think it’s desperate in a couple of years when I’m in Toll’s position.
Last month, he sent 20-30 law firms his resume and a […]
New York Times on Milberg Weiss, lead counsel manuevers
The New York Times is running background on the upcoming case U.S. v. Milberg Wiess (.pdf) in which Vogel, a Florida real estate developer intentionally invested in stocks of a particular company in the belief that it was on the verge of collapse. This was a rational thing for Vogel to do only because the […]