June 2009

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  • Law Schools

    Now Law Schools Are Spawning Colleges

    As if creating new law schools from scratch wasn’t enough, now the schools themselves are starting to breed. Legal Blog Watch reports that The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover is metastasizing and creating a hybrid undergraduate program: The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover is branching out. It is launching the nation’s first college […]
  • Start Dates

    Shearman & Sterling Start Date Watch: You Better Hurry

    Incoming first years at Shearman & Sterling have been trying to figure out when they can start at the firm. A couple of months ago, the firm said that December 2009 would be the earliest start date. But Shearman also encouraged its incoming first years to defer until September 2010, while promising those deferrals that […]
  • Morning Docket, Sonnenschein, White & Case

    Morning Docket 06.10.09

    * Does SCOTUS need some affirmative action for non-Ivy League grads? [New York Times] * White & Case partner Tom Lauria, who got SCOTUS to issue a stay in the Chrysler-Fiat deal, is pissing people off and “enjoying the heck out of it.” He may take on GM next. [Wall Street Journal] * SCOTUS decided […]

  • Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 06.09.09

    * Don’t forget: Lolcats and Above the Law with David Lat and Ben Huh tonight at 7:00 p.m. [Asian American Writers’ Workshop] * What happens when smart people don’t make smart decisions? The “human capital bubble” bursts. [Yahoo! Personal Finance] * Free CLE, with an option for even more free CLE if you use Twitter. […]