First First Firs!!!!

ARE COUNTRY WILL NOT BE OBVIATED!

Does anyone else wonder why the guy from Binder & Binder appears to be wearing Indiana Jones' fedora with the Empire State Building in the background?

Does anyone else wonder why the guys from Binder & Binder appears to wear Indiana Jones' fedora with the Empire State Building in the background?

Yet, media such as the mainstream THE NEW YORK TIMES and the alternative Abovethelaw.com still default into coverage of BigLaw............only 18% work in firms with 51 or more lawyers [Source: ABA Foundation.]

Of course, this anachronistic perspective - that BigLaw is the center of the legal profession and business of law - is a disservice to readers. But, more to the business point, it reduces the credibility of those media which keep defaulting into it.

COULD NOT AGREE MORE!!

Worst.
Pun.
Ever.

"What's more scary than law firms outsourcing legal work offshore? How about clients going directly to Indian law firms, obviating the U.S. and U.K. altogether?"

Actually it's kind of awesome.

What goes around comes around, partners. Law firms aren't the only ones who can cut costs to try to keep profits up.

I missed the opportunity to comment on the Barbri board: To # 70 - Socrates did not create the Socratic method -- it was Plato.

ellie you SUCK

WHY PROHIBIT COMMENTING ON THE BARBRI STUFF - AFRAID OF A DEFAMATION LAWSUIT?

how are things going AT Binder and Binder you insufferable douche.

Trouble's a-brewin' at K&L GaTTTes.

Did the Barbri thread close? I guess so.

Good. That thread was a perfect example of why Above the Law comment threads are everything wrong with the legal profession - bigoted, egotistical, entitled pre-professionals, obsessed with money and prestige for their own sakes, hiding behind a veil of anonymity. For shame.

It doesn't have to be this way. If Elie, Lat, &co. want to create a productive discussion forum, they could require registration and end anonymous commenting. While this would seriously cut into the comment volume, it would deter the current readership from plumbing such astonishing depths of ignorance and, really, would that be any loss?

I for one won't take my own advice, though, until this site becomes something more than a cesspool of hate and whining.

Fashion law isn't a real thing. If your practice is best described by the industry your clients primarily do business in, you're doing it wrong. I've never heard of "Fast Food Law" or "Jewelry Law."

Its real weak that the allegedly "open thread" (BarBri article) is already closed. Anyway another misstatement can be found on page 21 under the impossibility preemption - it's when it is impossible to "comply" with both laws, not "enforce" both of them. A minor point but very illustrative.

To the douche on the previous post that claimed her Conlaw professor invented the Socratic Method: are you fucking serious? Christopher Columbus Langdell. Harvard Law School. IN THE 1860s.

#17 -

Hyperbole. Learn to differentiate between jokes and literal statements, or you have bigger problems than the bar.

-Last thread's 54

Just saying. I used all 6 of my "clicks" to review Paula Franzcese's real property lectures. Clicks well spent my friends. Clicks well spent.

Well, I dont know whether to take a nap or shower off.

Bye.

14-

Eff you.

Re: Legally India

The goal of the uber wealthy, the only ones who benefit from offshore outsourcing, is for nobody in first world countries to have decent jobs anymore and to pay peasant wages in third world countries where they can force people to do overtime for free, discriminate at will, and have no environmental or physical safety regulations.

The attorneys are just catching up in this respect, but it looks like the Indians have already started to make an end-run around them. The usual Indian way is to sign on as humble "support" while acting as the middle man to the cheap labor, learn all they can from their first world benefactor, then form their own companies and cut the first-world benefactor out of the equation and go directly at their clients. Don't think they can't have a few Indian lawyers as members of various Bars in the USA and then use those people as the "front men" and have everything done in India for slave wages. The ABA is a bunch of idiots letting this outsourcing stuff go over. India knows better. It is even more amusing how protectionist their economy, particularly their legal field is, when it comes to outside competition, but they are more than willing to suck off the teats of anyone else's industries.

Spitzer paid good money when he monetized an enema.

"More scary" or scarier?

Jokes? the phrase was, 'she basically invented the Socratic method. ' you're joke was either (A) an inside one (perhaps a reference to her saying so in class), or (B) an improperly set up one, since I can't see any context in which that phrase intrinsically would resemble humor, or even an attempt at one.

By the way, I'm watching the class online (since I didn't go today) and she seems perfectly composed and knowledgable. Don't know what the hoopla was all about.

Kudos on locking comments to the BarBri story. Of course, those comments show that the typical ATL reader is still in law school...

Kashlobsters!

As someone who attended to DC re-taping today: She still had a few slip-ups, which included a rather flippant comment that "race" and "ethnicity" are basically the same thing. Incited some nervous "you probably shouldn't have said that" chuckles around the room. As a minority myself, I'm offended by the comments in the Barbri story, but I was equally offended by her comment.

Kiwi Camara got his ASS KICKED. No other way to look at it. What was different this time? Same lady, same judge (actually more sympathetic), same evidence, same RIAA. Just different lawyers.

Camara should be ashamed of himself. If you graduate Harvard as a teenager, you have nothing in common with normal people or jurors. The jury hated this guy. From what I read, he was arrogant, talked down to the jurors, interrupted the lawyers and witnesses, and pissed off the judge.

You think he likes all this media now? He better like pro bono work because no one will ever pay this guy to represent them. Way to go, Doogie. 24 songs for $2 million. Your parents must be so proud.

That BarBri lecture wasn't that bad. I actually liked her better than Francezi, except that Francezsi was smoking hot. So she skipped a few blanks. Big freaking deal. You could tell what was supposed to go in them if you listened and got some context. People are whiney little pricks.

OMG 26! You're right, that's soooo offensive. I mean, for a Con Law prof during a Con Law lecture to equate race and ethnicity! We all know that in litigation, a claim based on race is SOOOOO much different than a claim based on ethnicity. They aren't treated by the courts as the same thing at all.