First First of the day.

well, he sure has the requisite egotistical dickhead attitude for the world of business and biglaw.

Douche

#4--yeah, he should apply to UVA!!

This post delivers.

Jonathan Eakman obviously thought that A.S. Byatt's "Possession" was utter shite because he gave it a try instead of taking the compulsory tests. If he'd actually explained that to the admissions folks, they'd have given him a complete slide on the test requirements.

What an utter moron.

For one of the first times ever I feel it absolutely appropriate to use this word: What a DOUCHE!!!!!!

Geez!

2 = first fail of the day

B-b-b-but he has real world corporate finance experience for the world’s largest airline!

If the cops are there to meet you on the first day of class, you may have done something unwise.

Nobody gives a shit about a low level peon who boasts about his real world experience for the world's largest airline when he was actually responsible solely for petty cash for sandwiches for pilots and flight engineers.

Here I sit
Buns a stretchin'
Givin' birth
To another Texan

Sounds like a typical SMU student to me....

"Be cool on this"

wahaha. Where did this superiority complex come from? I can't imagine it passed muster at the world's largest airline.

If this kid thinks he knows everything, what's he doing getting an SMU JD/MBA? He must have been fired from the airline.

Jonathan Ellison Eakman:

You should now have full appreciation of what I mean when I say "Don't mess with Texas." This is especially true when you are dealing with Laura's alma mater.

AHAHA! Hilarious. Jonathan Eakman, you've made my day.

First to say:
This guy will never get a job at a BigLaw firm, or even a medium law firm (not that either are guaranteed from SMU anyway).

He should take note and abandon the law now. His career is runied before it starts. At least he can avoid the student loans.

And to repeat others, . . . what a total douche.

What does he care? Armed with a legal education from SMU, he probably already has offers from wachtell and w&c in the bag.

Or, if he's really, really lucky and is in the top 50%, he MIGHT land a coveted offer at V&E's Dallas office -- but that's a real long shot.

Sounds like the kind of guy who would throw a tizzy about being told by a head partner to check his blackberry after 7 PM. Should fit in well around here.

I stepped in some SMU, once. Everyone made fun of me.

Grade-A Douchebag, for sure....

I hate epistolary novels.

The kid acts like he was itching to hit the self-destruct button when fall came around. I think he wanted to drop out anyway and decided to go out with a bang.

He realizes he has just made himself unemployable for life, right? If you Googled this guy and this email thread was the first hit, how quickly would you light his resume on fire?

He must be black. This post reeks of affirmative action entitlement with him trying to skate by without meeting even the minimal qualifications met by his white (former) classmates. Welcome to Obama's America!

This guy is related to anti-Redskin Quinn associates. Has to be.

In fairness to the student, this is the way most people communicate in Dallas. I would guess the tone is only amplified at SMU.

I hope all future employers google his name and his emails are the first web pages that come up. I can't imagine working with this guy. I don't think "TTT" is strong enough.

What comes below "TTT"?

27, are you saying Eakman = "Eek" man?

This guy's tone is far too high-and-mighty for an SMU student. C'mon.

Nice race-baiting, 26. Your mom must be very proud of you.

What an immature idiot. It's unbelievable that this guy really thought his bullshit would fly. To post this exchange on his Facebook page is boarderline deranged. What in the world did he think that would accomplish?

The kids totally right...the other day I walked into court to oppose a SJ motion, and the judge started getting all pissy because I never filed an opposition or even called to request an extension. I told him I was a grown-up and already paid for parking so he should just be cool about it. He agreed, took one look at my resume and decided to grant SJ for me instead.

What an immature idiot. It's unbelievable that this guy really thought his bullshit would fly. To post this exchange on his Facebook page is borderline deranged. What in the world did he think that would accomplish?

SMU

26: you are d-bag

This is incredible. I wonder if you need an econ degree to flip burgers.

I fucking hate neo-Victorian novels about lovers dispossessed.

"Don’t use undergraduate threats with a graduate student. Its unbecoming."

Epic.

Does he even have opposable thumbs to begin with?

SMU to Douchiest law school? I request a recount.

Is "Cutting off his nose to spite his face" an expression in Texas?

This is an awesome story. We really do let some grade-A people become lawyers. Perhaps admissions interviews ought to be come mandatory...

Would be fun to see Urquhart at QE's reaction to Eakman's constant excuses.

Next time, they won't fuck with a GRADUATE STUDENT!

Comment 34 FTW.

what's the contract argument?

why has no one pointed out the obvious? this is almost certainly a joke.

34: Well played. Very funny.

Sense of entitlement, much??? Dude, don't bother running back to the legal world. We don't want you either.

30-you whiffed.

-27

3500 sq ft wife and a Lexis, bitches!

YeeeeeHAW, Wildcard.

This guy has to be kidding. You don't warm up a prospective employer/educator by bragging about your ability to "...[having ] dodged having to take responsibility for a billion dollar budget..." This dude is a self-entitled little prick and I hope the B-school has the stones to tell him to suck.on.this. Unbelievable; this guy is acting like a partner when he hasn't even finished law school! Good luck to you, sir!

19, WTF is w&c? Made up law firm?

This guy and Dave Johnson (of Cardzozo pizza) should get together.

2 words: Restatement 90.

cmt. 34 was nice, but 30...that one made me laugh.

Does anyone buy the "tak[ing] some time off" thing? I wouldn't be surprised if SMU Law didn't actually want him back.

54 = FAIL (White & Case. I'd know that one.)

The guy is hiding out in grad school until the economy improves and he acts like an ass. Good plan.

Something tells me the law school did not welcome him back with open arms. Hence the "taking some time off."

If you replaced "admissions counselor" with "moderately attractive, overly made up, promiscuous undergraduate" this same exchange occurs verbally over the course of about 10 minutes on a regular basis.

I'm an SMU law student. I don't know the kid, but I SWEAR this is not the norm around here. In fact, I cannot imagine the law school not kicking him out for his behavior with the school of business. What an ass!

This would never happen in Texas.... oh wait.

Jaw on the floor. This guy is insane.

Hahahaha! Jackass. His brain probably isn't attached to his spinal cord, even. You can't make this stuff up.

Why are we spending so much time talking about this while the balloon boy drama is unfolding minute by minute?

"Unfortunately the only state law he broke was the douchebaggery prohibition, which is a class three misdemeanor. We're currently consulting with federal prosecutors to see whether we can charge him with any federal crimes."

-Dallas police chief

hahahaha 59 thinks "W&C" is White & Case... clearly on Wachtell's level...

Clearly a douche, but I think he's actually right. Once someone has been admitted and deposit paid, they're a student. If SMU's bylaws define a student differently (like you don't take student status until the first day of classes), then the Dean had an obligation to demonstrate that.

Granted, the honor board, faculty or whatever should throw him out on the curb, but the Dean is trying to duck appropriate process here.

66=67

This kid will probably be a millionaire long before any BigLaw associates make the mark. The guy has what it takes to go far in a world where BS rules the day. Just think, Obama made it all the way to the White House (now Black House), with nothing more than BS and corruption. The grad school must be really hard up for tuition money, because they should have tossed his ass after the first exchange. On the other hand, the entire world is no run by BS, and the folks running the grad school are just as full of shit as the kid. This is what the world has come to now, what law grads getting paid to not work, and associates thinking that the big money comes to those who sit on their asses all day and night drinking beer and fucking whores.

This kid is going to make an awesome BigLaw partner one day.

71, I hope you are not one of the whiners who lambastes Elie about pushing his own political views on the readers.

I work in the Dallas legal field and this isn't that unusual as far as behavior among attorneys. It's all about bullying and manipulation and not just to other legal people in the course and scope of their jobs, but also in their dealings with vendors, retail people, country clubs admission people, car dealers, realtors, their children's school administration, etc.

This guy is oh-so-impressed with himself, yet it must, no doubt, be dawning on him that his professional life is over before it has begun. Maybe he has a trust fund or something, but if not, he is royally screwed.

This website should have a "Douche of the Week" competition - sort of like the Legal Eagle Wedding Watch, where we get to vote on the biggest douchebags. I'm torn between this guy and the Quinn partner.

19-
Top 50% @ SMU gets VE Dallas? Are you shitting me?

Can we reopen the douchiest law school competition and add SMU? Who the hell talks like this at a third tier law school in a recession?

I suppose that I should know the answer to this question, but is SMU Dedman School of Law accredited by the American Bar Association? Does anyone know whether the school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools?

Remember all those SMU comments on the "Douchiest Law School" thread?

Well, ladies and gents, now you know why.

Yeah!

SMU is totally the douchiest law school! After all, there's one kid there who's a douche!

Oh really? Tucker Max essentially won it for Duke? Carry on then...

Like 76's idea, but think this SMU guy beats out QE partner easily for the award

On the one hand, the student here is so far out there with his condescending, entitled, arrogant tone that this must be a joke. On the other hand I went to law school with a moron who was a "solid C" student who was so thoroughly convinced of his brilliance that he had much the same attitude -- "I'm in law school, I'm not one of your ordinary people. I am brilliant." So maybe it is real.

The guy drops that he is a "(future) attorney" so often he clearly thinks this is something special. Dude, you and about a million of your closest friends are all future attorneys. It ain't that hard to get in to a second-rate law school. Yes, even on scholarship. You idiot.

Who gets to be a grown-up without recognizing that if you break the rules and need an exception made for you, you treat the people with the power to grant it with at least a modicum of civility? Who thinks anyone else at his school cares that he is a law student or that he worked for an airline? He's wasn't the damn CEO. He was some random worker nobody there remembers.

I've run into this guy a couple of times and he was obviously a bit strange, but he was also quite reserved and quiet, and really nice too. He must have had some sort of melt down.

What what?

If his resume was as impressive as he thinks it is, he would have been able to go to a real law school.

#26-- nice try with the race baiting. Nope, he's a white boy: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1989532&id=549788866#/Eakman?v=photos

sorry, 87, nice try, but unfortunately using those silly "facts" never works with types like 26.

This guy's resume is not as impressive as he thinks it is. He goes to SMU.

I find the posts by this Kashmir Hill lady consistently more entertaining and well written than the posts by that Elie Mystal fellow.

Am I alone here?

This guy is basically a walking stereotype. Sounds like he'd be perfect for an MBA program.

He must be a Black person. No white person would behave like this.

Houston attorney

Is it safe to assume he couldn't pass the test. That has to be why he self-destructed this way. If I was AA I would be pissed. This does not reflect well on them.

The threat of being revoked admissions from SMU is like the threat of saying you'll going to key my broken down1980 Ford Escort.

SMU. Assshats welcome. Please apply soon.

Let's be honest though, the admissions people are bull shite. Very few of the admissions people I've ever met would qualify as competent, and it looks like SMU's B-school is full of the incompetent types as well. If as the guy claims, several students didn't take the stupid pre-assessments and still got in, then it looks like he just got singled out for calling their policies bs.

I think his number of friends is intentional. And relevant to this post.

i think this is a hoax. inspired by the balloon boy. he could've taken the corp finance test in less time then he took to craft all those e-mails, especially at the end.

96 = Jonathan EEEKMan.

PE = Eakman. Guess he'll have more time on his hands to post now...

Asslobsters and SMU.

SMU sucks. Harvard of the South, my ass.

With Eakman's knack for self-promotion, he may be the next Elie.

"[C]aused me to spend $900 on textbooks."

Restatement (Second) of Contracts Section 90 for the WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

34- Very funny. Chuckled aloud.

34- Very funny. Chuckled aloud.

Can anyone at SMU give us more info about this guy?

SMU is great. This tool is not. Glad he was asked to leave.

26=71=Lighten up, Francis.

87 -

His profile features nothing but a picture of a sail boat and you immediately assume he's white?

Ludicrous, Ridiculous, and Preposterous.

Did SMU verify he even exists? I smell HOAX. 180 friends? Oh hai xoxo. Elie, please confirm if any verifications were done. Also the tipster appears to be trying to insulate himself by saying he got info second-hand. He therefore can deny personal knowledge of the deception.

I find it somehow appropriate and poetic that SMU's law school is named "Dedman" since in my eyes its graduates' careers are already dead before graduation.

nice one 34

Well I know dude, and yes he is White, no affirmative action in that regard. Seemed relatively sane for the most part. This is not a joke. He's only about 5ft2, so maybe that explains it, who knows. But I have been laughing my a$$ off since I read the emails on fb.

Hey Dipshits! SMU is a tier 1 law school. Hey Biggots! Eakman, is white, I can vouch for that. In his defense, no one saw this coming.

Hey Dipshits! SMU is a tier 1 law school. Hey Biggots! Eakman, is white, I can vouch for that. In his defense, no one saw this coming.

79 - haha, serious? SMU is a top tier law school, ranked #47 last time I checked.

This guy - wow. Loser

firstly, the words "secondly" and "thirdly" are improperly used adverbs in his explanation.

good try, legal writing!

Incredibly funny, especially because it is real. Alas, I think the rest of the week will probably go downhill from here after this glorious start.

117 -- that's just an ATL meme. Posted every time any thread ever mentions a law school. Relax.

But for the record, #47 is not "top tier." Just sayin'.

He is rude but he does have a point. They don't like him -- so what? Why should his status be revoked because they don't like him?

He actually would make a great attorney.

121 - Shut up Eakman

96=121=Eakman

This is the first legitimate Res. 90 claim I have seen on this site.

Fellow SMU'ers (116=117, 118),
Come on... We are at the bottom of T1. There are arguments to make about the value of SMU, but overall rank sure as fuck isn't one of them. We place pretty well in Dallas, maybe there's an argument there... But we all know what SMU is... A place you should only consider going to on a significant scholly. Also, if I see Eakman on campus, I'll gladly uppercut him in the scrotum - for the good of the community.

-SMU1L

121- you might have noticed from the story that he failed to take the tests necessary to be a student at SMU. The fact that he is not likeable is meaningless with respect to his revocation.

Jonathon Eakman a/k/a JaKe Emeritus

I agree with 125.
SMU is the place Texans go if they can't get in to UT. UT is the place people go if they're cheap and can't get into HYS.

No, top 50% at SMU does not get you V&E. They do not talk to anyone outside of the top 25%. and yes, SMU is accredited, a tier 1 school, albeit toward the bottom.

He notes, tho, that some other students didn't take the tests either without a problem. IF that is true, then it appears the school is revoking his status because he is rude. Is that appropriate?

"The law school on the other hand, had no problems with my behavior, and welcomed me back to the law school."

Seems to say more about law schools than business schools.

130-eekman. And the answer is yes. You played chicken and lost. And you had more to lose than them.

I can see his facebook because I am an SMU student--I guess he has it so that friends of friends or SMU people or something can see his page. He is white. Has a beard. Age 30. Member of Republican party organizations. Not a hoax because he indeed discusses it in his status updates and notes.

His parents are apparently pissed. A few days ago: " I didn't explain my last post. They kicked me out for being rude. Some people didn't set up their email and therefore didn't do the "prerequisites" and are sitting in class. Why does my family seem to take the other side?"

This Jonathan Eakman seems like an unfathomable tool.

he should sue

Anyone notice he looks like a young Billy Mays?

http://tinypic.com/r/71mfkn/4

This is unfair that the school should reject him. It is unfair to the other students who this school is swindling with its toilet-quality education. Why kick this guy out and let him walk away debt free while the students who stay enrolled get themselves into 6 figure debt which they will never repay?

SMU's night school program is a nightmare.

Wow, what a phenomenal jerk. Good for the school for booting him out and calling him on his behavior.

26 - you are a racist jerk.

He looks like a young Billy Mays on a cocaine binge, at least in the photo posted by 137...

I've enjoyed this blog and (some of) its commenters for some time now but never felt moved to comment myself. Until now.

This guy is possibly the grandest douchebag ever to walk the earth. His douchetude is so massive it must have its own gravitational pull. Seriously, I want to make sure we all fully explore this issue because it seems clear this loser is monitoring the comments here, and he ought to understand the full magnitude of his jackassery. So, to Mr. Eakman:

Listen, fucknut, you have just aborted the fetus of your professional career. You might consider being an independent subsistence farmer or hunter/gatherer because those are about the only career choices left to someone with your social skills. While your antics have brightened my day considerably, they reveal you to be a festering pimple on the taint of the legal community. So do us all a favor now and fuck off back to the planet moon of Endor where you belong.

Thanks for a great post, ATL.

The sad thing is that Eakman apparently went public with this story intentionally. As if upon seeing his plight, the world would jump to his defense. Eakman, what do you think is going to happen when you try to get a job and your prospective employer googles you? "Independent subsistence farmer" indeed. Personally, I'm glad you're no longer polluting our school.

more like a cock and bullshit story

@52:
Your wife is 3500 square feet?!? Damn, that's one huge ass woman.
And is your Lexis on a monthly plan or hourly?

142 has seized the lead from 34. I laughed out loud.

guys at my high school used to email administrators there to ask for extensions and other stuff all the time -- it was no big deal

Hunter gatherer is close.

Check out the similarities in the before plastic surgery photo here:
http://www.fif3.com/pics/people/batboy.jpg

and the after photo posted above:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=71mfkn&s=4

I can say from experience that tests from ivy software were required before beginning my MBA program at another school. So that detail makes it sound like a somewhat more legitimate story.

Holy crap. He really does look like an Ewok.

Eakman you are a doucebag!

The guy is a douche, but bashing SMU law school and the students that go there is unecessary. Yes, it is a 'Tier 1' school that is VERY close to the bottom. But If you plan to practice in the DFW area, going to SMU is, for most, a better choice than UT due to the sheer strength of the SMU law alumni community as well as access to the tons of Dallas networking opportunities. Obviously, it's much easier to get your name out there, intern in Dallas, and meet your future employer if you actually live in Dallas. So, if you're on that road, SMU is the way to go.

142 - very well stated. SMU tried to tell him that in a nicer way, but he didn't get it. Maybe he will understand it better from you. But I wouldn't count on it...

I was in a similar situation years ago when starting the MBA portion of my JD/MBA. We were required to read a certain book and write a book report before school started. I guess the B-school wanted to make sure we could write a coherent paragraph (after a whole year of law school!). Incredibly lame. Anyway, I was in Europe all summer and never got the message to do the assignment. So, they asked me to write a short piece on why I was unable to read the book. What did I do? I wrote the damn paper. It was ridiculous, but what was I going to do - get upset with the knuckle-draggers in the admissions office? It was the dumbest paper ever, but so what? Just suck it up and do it. Why argue with those people who can only make your life difficult. To prove that you are smarter than them? I thought a JD/MBA student already proved that just by being in the program. He got what he deserved.

sounds like he was having a bad day(s). every single one of us has had bad days and done stuff we regret. I think the school should give him another chance.

155, he was not having a bad day. They basically said just do it anytime before school starts, and he was soooo insulted that he, with an econ major no less! would have to do such a thing

Check the dates; more like a bad two weeks. You don't need a bylaw to toss a rude dick out on his pompous ass, just some guts and common sense. Apparently those at the helm of Dedman have neither if they've gone and reclaimed this slime-weasel. Kudos, Marci Armstrong!

155 - While I admire your charitable spirit, you have to realize (and Eakman should have realized) that life can be unfair that way. Remember that old trope:

Writing one poem doesn't make you a poet;
Cooking one meal doesn't make you a chef;
But fuck one, just one, goat and, hey, guess what?
You're a goatfucker. For life.

Eakman fucked the proverbial goat and will have to live with the consequences.

-142

P.S. That should have read "forest moon of Endor" above. Don't know what I was thinking.

Alumni include, both in the U.S. and abroad, three justices of the Supreme Court of Japan, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, and several justices on the highest courts of Egypt, Brazil, and Columbia. Recently, five of the alumni were justices of the Supreme Court of Texas and another was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri. Currently nine alumni serve on federal courts in addition to over 100 judges on various other courts in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas, which includes the Presiding Judge for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the Chief Judge for the Oklahoma State Court of Civil Appeals.

Three Fortune 50 CEO's are graduates of SMU Law - the most of any law school in the nation, including HYS.

159,
You're trying too hard.
-SMU1L

159, don't forget SMU alum Harriet Miers, the would-be judicial superstar!

124 - WTF's a "Res. 90 claim"?

159,

I agree with 160. You have to be either Attanasio or Sargent.

-SMU3L

Supreme Court of Missouri? WOWOWOWOWO!

SMU3L,
If it was Attanasio, it would have been a 2 page list of pointless credentials that needed to be read before he spoke, or for that matter, before he'd pass gas in your general direction. I'd go with Sargent, or a classmate in denial.
-SMU1L

Google footprint FAIL - good luck with the background checks, jackass.

75...enough with the commas.

Eakman rocks. He's paying these idiots over 40k per year. They don't deserve "respect" for gouging him out of his cash in exchange for a degree that may or may not (probably not) get him a job. These folks make their living out of him. They're just lousy paper-pushing administrators, people. Just because your title is "dean" doesn't entitle you to "respect".

What is wrong with some of you people? You take one twit from the SMU law school and you just project hate about the entire university. I went to SMU Law and am doing just fine. I would challenge some of the negative responders on this forum to tell me what I missed out on by not attending an Ivy league school. I am partner at a mid-sized firm and make more money than I care to spend and do not live like a rat in some New York apartment. I worked the big-firm life after law school in Houston and then worked for an agency in DC for almost a decade after that. What else does one with a law degree really hope to do?

68- Just because your title is "dean" doesn't entitle you to "respect." ??

Umm, yes it does. You should respect everyone you deal with. Even if her title was "janitor." It is just common decency. It gets you further in life than this kind of B.S.--just look where it got him.

169,

SMU is a fine school, but it's not Yale and that's going to get it railed on here. The same thing would likely happen to georgetown or cornell.

or duke or northwestern or michigan or uva or basically any school not named yale or, to a lesser degree, harvard or stanford.

The Ick Man has a problem with women. It's doubtful he would have opened with this salvo if he thought he'd been talking to a man. The only fun thought is that I can't wait for a few female partners at law firms to get to evaluate his work. I'm guessing he will have met his match. Welcome to adulthood, Ickman.

152 - While I agree SMU is getting bashed way too much on here, and is a fine school, to say it is a better school for DFW bound law students than UT is patently ridiculous. You and I both know you would have been at UT in a second if you'd been accepted. There's nothing wrong with being proud of SMU law - it's a good school - but to delude yourself and others into thinking it's a better school for the Dallas area than UT is crazy. We don't need to meet our employers in Dallas . . . they happily come to Austin.

Laughed so hard pooped my pamts. Had to buy new ones. Or take them to cleaners.

what does SMU stand for?

174 = bitter UT student paying sticker

I'm an SMU law student, and one of our profs mentioned "a facebook post bashing a dean" that made it to the blogs, and several other people I know have confirmed it's him they were talking about.

Oh, and the comment about avoiding a billion dollar budget's going to be so reassuring to future clients.

SMU may not be the best law school in the country, but no city in America is more full of opportunity than Dallas right now.

SMU should get rid of its night school program. The day school program is fine, but the night school lessens the value of a day school degree.

180--Agree with that statement completely

180 & 181 - there's plenty of SMU night program alum that work at big prestigious firms. If that program somehow devalues an SMU degree, why are big employers so willing to hire them?

180 & 181 - there's plenty of SMU night program alum that work at big prestigious firms. If that program somehow devalues an SMU degree, why are big employers so willing to hire them?

180 & 181 - there's plenty of SMU night program alum that work at big prestigious firms. If that program somehow devalues an SMU degree, why are big employers so willing to hire them?

182-184: Because Attanasio has made it his life's mission to push the night program.

But that doesn't mean night students proudly proclaim the night program too. I have seen a night student, with whom I was clerking at a Big Law firm, lie to a partner when asked if he was a night student.

Wow. I am a night student at SMU, this is really depressing. I had no idea there was such disdain for evening programs.

FYI Eakman was a night student, us day-Ls have a little more sense than to go off like that

In all seriousness, I would actually hire this guy. I have enough cases that I have to take for my firm for ethical reasons that I really would rather not take at all. I would be willing to give him a shot with those. If he turns out a good product, but these clients dump me anyway, I am off the hook. I can't dump these jokers and I can't raise my fees in this economy. I only pay 55-65% of Dallas Mkt, though. he probably thinks he's too good for that.

I am sitting in a room with 6 fellow SMU law grads and we took a vote: Jonathan Eakman deserves every single negative consequence of his heinous behavior.

187- I think MOST people have more sense than to go off like that day or evening student law or business student.

187- I think MOST people have more sense than to go off like that; day or evening student, law or business student.

187- I think MOST people have more sense than to go off like that; day or evening student, law or business student.

this is fake

As a current SMU Law student, I want to assure everyone this type of attitude is atypical. I also want to address 78's comment. We are proud to be tied for Last Place in the 1st Tier, thank you very much. Dallas is also fortunate enough to have avoided much of the recessionary blow.

Oh yeah, and what a douche (not you 78)

193 & Co. - I'll assure you this is very much NOT fake, although J. Dickman probably wishes it was.

"Wow. I am a night student at SMU, this is really depressing. I had no idea there was such disdain for evening programs."

186, ignore the snarky comments. I was a day student at a school that also had a night program and I am firmly convinced that I did NOT somehow get a better legal education than students in the night program just because I was a day student. A great many law students (and a great many attorneys) are constantly looking for ways to feel better about themselves and the easiest way to do that is to make someone else feel bad about themselves. The fact that you're in law school at all means you're probably in the top one-half percent of Americans in terms of brains and education, so any distinctions among those in that relatively tiny group are pretty much meaningless when you look at the big picture. BTW, your best F.U. to the haters is to study your ass off and pass the bar exam on your first try. There are plenty of first-tier grads who are on their second, or third, or fourth attempt.

"In my last job, I dodged having to take responsibility for a billion dollar budget, so I know what I’m doing."

This guy has a bright future in the Obama administration ahead of him.

SMU has the highest passage rate in Texas for first-time takers of the state bar exam (and that includes the night schoolers).

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/111208dnmetsmulaw.1a5db55b1.html

Who is a bigger douche, Eakman or #26? Now ole John is definitely a douche, but he's just a garden variety law/mba douche, impressed with his own imaginary magnificence. #26 is certainly the larger douche, possibly a douchenozzle and definitely a drinker of the post-douche liquid, since he's not only an anonymous bigot but he's also the type of Foxnews-type loser who imports politics into issues that have nothing to do with politics. Hey 26! Do us a favor and cut your balls off (so you can't reproduce), slit your throat (so you can't speak) and dip your hands in acid (so you can't type any more). Also, Obama didn't win by affirmative action, idiot. You may not like that he won (I personally don't) but he won fair and square. Cumb Dunt.

"SMU has the highest passage rate in Texas for first-time takers of the state bar exam (and that includes the night schoolers)."

Nuff said. BTW, my comment that "there are plenty of first-tier grads who are on their second, or third, or fourth attempt" should have read "there are plenty of day students who are on their second, or third, or fourth attempt."

Highest rate in Texas, AND SMU isn't known as a "boot camp" like Baylor.....

Baylor.... now that place sucks. Who the hell wants to pay private tuition to live in Waco?

Highest rate in Texas, AND SMU isn't known as a "boot camp" like Baylor.....

Baylor.... now that place sucks. Who the hell wants to pay private tuition to live in Waco?

#199, I love you.
Eakman, I loathe you.
#26, You are a walking abortion.

Now that he is utterly unemployable, he will be unable to pay his loans, unless he had a full scholarship. I would love to see transcripts of the debt collection calls. You cant threaten me with that shit, Im not an undergraduate........

I think law students are very pretentious anyway. Most of them are rich pricks that have never held a real job anyway, then they think they're smarter than everyone else just because they've read a few court cases. And do you really need an MBA? Can you really teach someone "business"? Good business people either have "it" or they don't - look at Michael Dell and several other examples who don't have MBAs but yet are far richer than the MBAs they have working for them. This will probably turn out to be the best thing that's happened to Eakman - he can laugh later at all you high-and-mighty oh-so-smart lawyers and MBAs that end up working for HIM.

Jonathan Ellison Eakman is my new HERO!

All you people are just scared to stand up to 'the man' like he did - you all live in your little fearful lives of sitting at home and watching the O'Reilly factor. The same people criticizing Jonathan Ellison Eakman are also the same people who drive around in gas guzzling SUV's and pretend they are environmentalists by buying recycled toilet paper (thats packaged in a plastic bag).

Have any of you ever been to business school? If so, you should know that you hardly learn anything - so he was surely right about the lack of usefulness of taking those stupid little 'pre-tests'. Anybody who says they learned anything at business school is surely more dumb than most admissions departments at business schools.

Jonathan Ellison Eakman, YOU ARE THE STRONGEST LINK!

GOOD JOB JONATHAN, KEEP THE HEAT ON THESE FREAKING WEIRDO CONFORMIST, BORING, ESTABLISHMENT PEOPLE.

#206 - I completely agree. All these lawyers and businesspeople who think they know better than everyone and think they're smarter than everyone else (yet their the same people who got us in our current economic mess - thanks a lot lawyers and MBAs) need a good dose of someone like Eakman to shake them up a bit.

Hey SMU1L - why are you making smartass comments about people at SMU? Your a 1L - you haven't even taken your first law school final yet, you haven't done your first major legal writing assignment yet, and you're barely halfway through your first semester of law school. So instead of making stupid remarks about the Dean or other people at SMU law school, why don't you shut the hell up and focus on your studies? Seems to me like you're one of those 1L's that thinks you're all that just because you're in law school, then you get your first semester grades and shut up because you realize what a dumbass you are.

Texas lawyers and Texas law students all suck anyway.

Wow--I don't even know what to say--the guy is a bully and didn't get away with it. Poor baby. Ha!

Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

Word on the street is that there are pictures of this guy around campus with the phrase "if you see this man, contact the authorities."

-1L @ SMU who should be reading cases instead of this, but damn, it's just too funny

206 and 207 = eakman. Good call though on dropping out of law school. Now you have a shot at making more money from the publicity of this...you can be a reality show contestant...good move. Funny how stupidity in our society gets rewarded.

206 and 207 are not Eakman, "their" [sic] more like Eakman's mommy and old aunt Edna who are neither lawyers nor MBAs, but who fell bad dat dewr witty eaky-poo is being picked awn.

I have to admit, I've seen a lot of bashing on this website, but all "lawyers and MBAs" is the widest net I've yet.

206 and 207 are not Eakman, "their" [sic] more like Eakman's mommy and old aunt Edna who are neither lawyers nor MBAs, but who fell bad dat dewr witty eaky-poo is being picked awn.

I have to admit, I've seen a lot of bashing on this website, but all "lawyers and MBAs" is the widest net yet.

fell=feel

Edna did in fact also have a nasty spill, but the hip resurfacing has changed here life.

I came across this sight as I was looking for a support group of people who have been kicked out of graduate school. I have a disability (ADHD) that makes it difficult for me to complete tasks efficiently. Somehow I made it all the way through high school and college, and I got accepted into a Ph.D. program before I got diagnosed. To make a long story short, I did not receive accommodations and, while trying to keep up with program demands and staying up all night for several nights, I ended up sick in the hospital. I was later forced by my program to withdraw and I am still not exactly sure why. I am grieving, hence the search for a support group. The only comments that appear relevant are from people failing out. I had a 3.7 GPA and I was on track with my thesis, despite my limitations. After reading this man's story, I started to wish I could share my story with him. I can't believe people can be so unappreciative. I would give anything to get back into a program and I am applying again this year.

I came across this site as I was looking for a support group of people who have been kicked out of graduate school. I have a disability (ADHD) that makes it difficult for me to complete tasks efficiently. Somehow I made it all the way through high school and college, and I got accepted into a Ph.D. program before I got diagnosed. To make a long story short, I did not receive accommodations and, while trying to keep up with program demands and staying up late, I ended up sick in the hospital. The program's faculty forced me to withdraw and I am still not exactly sure why. I am grieving, hence the search for a support group. The only comments that appear relevant are from people failing out. I had a 3.7 GPA and I was on track with my thesis, despite my limitations. After reading this man's story, I started to wish I could share my story with him. I can't believe people can be so unappreciative. I would give anything to get back into a program and I am applying again this year.

Eakman's in the market for a job now and wants to join the Masons. He still has no idea how to use privacy controls on facebook. Have fun with his resume:

Jonathan Ellison Eakman

EDUCATION:
Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX
Bachelor of Science Degree May 2003
Major: Economics

Bachelor of Business Administration Degree
Double Major: Marketing, E-Business

EXPERIENCE:
American Airlines Fort Worth, TX
Strategy Analyst Mar 2006 - Aug 2007
I participated in the evaluation of emerging technologies and distribution models in the travel industry, provided recommendations to senior management about distribution strategy, represented American to executives of client companies, and ultimately negotiated agreements with external vendors. I played an important role in lowering distribution costs and expanding revenue reach through new and existing technologies. Key skills included superior negotiation, presentation, and analytical skills. Strong project management skills gave me the ability to motivate and mobilize key players from multiple departments to reach decisions about American’s distribution strategy. Specific projects include oversight of the growth of CorporateAAccess.com, American’s prototype corporate sales channel, evaluated alternative forms of payment for use AA.com, and doing the analysis for SABRE’s contract talks, where tens of millions of dollars were saved.

American Airlines Fort Worth, TX
Customer Service Representative Sep 2004 - Mar 2006
Assisted AAdvantage members with their accounts. I was moved to special assignment were I developed a web application and corresponding database for tracking compensatory time. The program allowed the rep to sign in to the web site securely, view their available balance, bid for compensatory vacation, volunteer to work, and sign in/out while working compensatory time. All business functions were handled automatically; whether it was monitoring to see the rep worked the hours he/she volunteered, to slotting compensatory vacation requests for approval. On a different project, I prototyped the representatives “report card”. The report card provides the customer representative feedback on different productivity statistics such as hold time, attendance, and off phone slippage. I streamlined the data gathering process, reducing the time spent gathering data for reporting from several weeks to a few hours.

Textron Fort Worth, TX
Web Development May 2002 - Dec 2002
Responsible for leveraging technology to solve business problems related to the redevelopment and redesign of Textron Information Services’ intranet. Participated in all phases of the development process, from inception through production. This includes development of applications, which interfaced with other systems at a business unit level. Applications included a corporate wide computer tech skills survey, an international job listing board, and a business financials’ reporting site. Also provided production support which involved maintenance and enhancement work. Problem solving and communication skills, along with technical know-how, were required for success.

INTEREST/ACTIVITIES:
• Recipient of Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence (The Neeley School of Business)
• Founding Father of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity (Texas Gamma, TCU)
• Honored as the Sigma Phi Epsilon Balanced Man (TCU, 98)

SPECIAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft FrontPage, InfoPath, Crystal Reports, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Unix, Oracle, XML, SOAP, ASP, Visual Basic, VB Script, Java, Java Script, SQL