Non-Sequiturs: 01.10.08
* Actually, Judge Lamberth, calling a presidential candidate as "a European socialist" constitutes an endorsement -- at least at most American law schools. [AP via WSJ Law Blog]
* News you can use: under the "Free File" program, opening tomorrow, the IRS and its private-sector partners will provide free tax preparation and electronic filing services to qualifying taxpayers (AGI of $54,000 or less -- sorry, Biglaw denizens). [TaxProf Blog]
* The law school essay question: an unrecognized art form? [PrawfsBlawg]
* Practice pointer: don't "recreate" correspondence to use as evidence in your case. Dramatic reenactments belong on television, not in court. [Feminist Law Professors]
* We just got called "the Matt Drudge of the legal world." Our thanks to Neil Squillante for making our day. Now where did we put our animated siren GIF? [TechnoLawyer]
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Where is the outrage over Yale Law's horrendous lawsuit against the only tenured patriot on the Berkeley faculty? This item has been conspicuously absent from a blog that ordinarily regurgitate every other story from the WSJ Law Blog.
It is perfectly OK TO "RECONSTRUCT" document, as long as you do not tr to pass it off as the McCoy as Country Wide did, which is why BofA is about to acquire Country Wide and replace the dumbass managment thereof, rather than be a creditor in a Country Wide BK.
Watch DealBreaker for the next few days.
THE VIZU POLL:
Which TV network is the most "fair and unbalanced"...?
Talk about an unanswerable oxymoron, or as Herb Caen used to say, a self canceling phrase.
I miss Kumari Fulbright already. She is such a spicy little train wreck. Never has anybody so ugly been so attractive.
If ATL really was the Drudge of the legal world, it wouldn't get scooped by the WSJ Law Blog more than half the time.
"Now where did we put our animated siren GIF?"
in yesterday's Cadwalader Layoffs post.
Blogs do not break news; they collect and comment upon the news. Thus it is not possible for a blog to be "scooped" by an MSM source.
Take Drudge himself. He rarely does original news reporting. His main job is to collect and link to news stories by MSM outlets.
Saying that Lat gets "scooped" by the WSJ is like saying that Drudge gets "scooped" by the NYT or WaPo. But Drudge is competing with these sources; his niche is different.
One way that the Drudge comparison is accurate is that when Lat links to you, you get an avalanche of traffic.