You mean I was supposed to actually attend LS and take the bar exam?

And I was just getting to like the legal profession. Darn.

Robert L. Birmingham is slightly unusual in appearance for a law professor.

Are you sure THIS is not the fake lawyer of the day story?

honest question re uconn not being 'top-tier' (its usually in 40's). i thought top tier was top 50 as per the old US News rankings. is there a strict definition of what top tier is? top 20 only or what? and what's it based on?

alright, I've had about enough ... what is with the links taking us away from ATL? Is it so you can count our hits again when we return? Just make this site like every other site and make the links automatically open in another window. Geesh.

RE: "Fake Lawyer", I wonder if Anderson Kill & Olick refunded the difference between 1st year/ 2nd year Associate billing rate and paralegal rate to the clients that guy worked for? (PROBABLY NOT, RIGHT?)

Kind of a tough phone call to make...
"We're, uh, giving some of your money back because we couldn't tell whether someone on our staff was really a lawyer or not. Thanks for your continued business ..."

The ironic thing is that she (apparently) did good work; she lasted 2 years, right?

7:12,

Right click; Open in new window. It is not hard.

Says he pretended that he took night classes at Fordham. Does this mean that he can also be fake tier 2 lawyer of the day?

UConn Law is Tier One!

Shit..you mean UConn isn't "top tier"?

How does a law firm not confirm that one of its lawyers has actually been admitted to the bar??? In California, at least, it's ridiculously simple to get the information.

Did no one look for the guy's name on the pass list? What a bunch of freakin idiots there.

Good to know that Fidel is still healthy, active and teaching "law" in New England.

Um...that cop from the dubious lawsuit should have her other knee broken. Badly. And she should lose the "case"-it's called assuming the risk. Where did she find a lawyer? I hope he didn't take the case on a contingent-fee basis.
Actually-I hope he did.

The blind Sheik is teaching law in UConn? Does he commute from Colorado?

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Lat, I've been waiting for you to pick up on the Birmingham story (it happened over a week ago). "The Birm" has been one of the most eccentric, and sometimes controversial, profs at UConn Law for more than 35 years. He teaches contracts, remedies, admiralty and a bunch of "soft" courses (the ones that start with "The Law and ..."). No matter what course you take with him, you will always cover the same ground: game theory, scientific developments, pop culture, whatever Birmingham read that morning, etc. It won't prepare you for the bar exam, but it does generate some interesting academic discussion - something that is sadly needed at this quiet, "T50" state school. Sure, it sounds like the Pimpin' film was offensive on several different levels, but did it warrant suspension? Or was it a knee-jerk reaction by a newly minted dean at a school that was burned last year by stupid white students who threw a stupid party where they pretended to be black? P.S. - I nominate Prof. B as the non-top tier law grad of the day - he graduated from U. Pitt. law school, but has an LLM from HLS and 2 or 3 PhDs, as well as a long list of publications.

interesting how the guy pretended he was from fordham, so that the quality of his work would be compared to the average fordham grad (who apparently does work no better than a person who never went to law school at all).

the guy easily could have said he went to NYU or Columbia and got a little bit of fake prestige since they weren't checking anyway.

7:22,

NYU and Columbia don't have night programs; that probably would have raised a red flag had he tried it.

This is not the first year that Birmingham has shown a controversial film in class. It is also a small enough campus that everyone who sign up for his classes (indeed have to choose one as a top choice with the scheduling system to even get in) knows exactly what they will be watching and discussing in his class. Let's not forget that these students are adults who will be dealing with controversial subjects their entire careers.

this isn't the fist time Dean Paul's reaction to provocative discussion on campus was to move to quell it. Dean Paul, you see, takes the position that liberalism is a fiction, and that the "marketplace of ideas" view of speech is fundamentally flawed (in that it implicitly favors one doctrine to the exclusion of all others). Well, that is just a lot of p/c BS - this is just an example of why Dean Paul was a terrible choice to lead the school.

Lat - We need a Birmingham thread NOW. This a very good story for this blog, many ATL themes covered. There is a whole war going on between students and alumni and the Dean over this. The Hartford Courant has covered it all - check there.

I emailed you this tip and this is all you are going to do with it????????

This issue had already died on campus. No war at present. Dean Paul is the man. He said fuck it, I am in control of this bitch. See you in the Spring Birm! no furor just a week story in the less than credible current.

Winky Winky poop: You make me so proud to be a UConn Law alum. Such insight. Such articulation. UConn may be T50, but you, my friend, are T14.

Thanks 2:05. It's what they learn us here on a daily basis.

The cop dropped the lawsuit. And she's kinda hot: http://www.local6.com/news/14319101/detail.html