* One helluva sexual harassment suit. Runner-up Lawsuit of the Day? [Jezebel] * Jerry Springer’s Northwestern commencement speech. Also: Is tax law professor Paul Caron friends with Pete Wentz? [TaxProf Blog] * The hidden talents of law students: hog wrestling? [Tex Parte]
In January, after the Harvard Law Review published a rather embarrassing, bleeding-heart Case Comment, we wrote: Last year, we ran a popular series of posts on the Harvard Law Review. The gist of the coverage was that the Review’s new, left-leaning leadership “is running the journal into the ground with a cabal of radical ideologues, […]
LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.
That’s the title of our latest column for the New York Observer, which reflects upon recent television and film portrayals of women litigators. It touches upon some of the same themes highlighted in Amy Kolz’s excellent American Lawyer article from last year, but it’s more focused on fictional female litigators, as opposed to real-life ones. […]
Legal Pad (a Cal Law blog) has a link to this amazing complaint [PDF] filed by paralegal Jason Herrera against Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Herrera’s complaint — “for discrimination, retaliation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress and fraud” — reads like a reality TV show pitch about the lives of paralegals. […]
That’s a question that our friends at the ABA Journal are planning to tackle in a forthcoming article. Perhaps you can help? Some background, from reporter Richard Acello: We’re looking to do a story on law firms’ tech savvy or lack thereof. At a recent technology conference, some IT people complained about how their technological […]
The bad news continues to roll in. Becker & Poliakoff, which just announced across-the-board pay cuts for its lawyers, isn’t the only Florida firm that’s hurting. From a report by Julie Kay, for the upcoming issue of the National Law Journal: In another sign of the hard times facing the legal industry, particularly in real-estate […]
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Ah, those inscrutable transcripts from the University of Chicago Law School — gotta love ’em. They’re chock full of numbers, but they don’t use the standard “As = 90s, Bs = 80s” scale. For example, if your grades are all in the 80s, you’re a rock star. Nobody can make heads or tails of the […]
Last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on trimming summer associate programs is still open, but we’ve already been getting some interesting debate in the comments. For law students, trimming the summer programs — or at least the summer salaries — would be a critical financial blow: [L]aw School tuition is fucking EXPENSIVE. I take […]
Judge Carlton Vines presides over traffic violations and DUIs in Chattooga County, Georgia. It’s a tiny county with a population of just over 25,000. The local newspaper, The Summerville News, has an ongoing investigative series examining the county’s drunk-driving phenomenon and growing number of DUI arrests. Unfortunately, Judge Vines has become a part of the […]
* Justice Department report details FBI objections to interrogation techniques used on terror suspects. [Legalities / ABC News; McClatchy] * Jurors get a bit too much evidence in R. Kelly trial. [CNN] * Officers in Sean Bell case face NYPD charges of misusing firearms. [New York Times] * Florida woman gets seven years for enslavement. […]
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