April 2010
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Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
The Next Bubble: Law School Tuition
It’s one thing when I write about how crushing law school debt has impacted the value proposition of going to law school. I’m just repeating what every jobless 4L already knows. And prospective law students, 0Ls, have already proven that are too full of themselves to take out a calculator before they commit to three […] -
Bar Exams, Celebrities, Elizabeth Wurtzel
Congratulations to Elizabeth Wurtzel!
Congratulations to Elizabeth Wurtzel! The celebrated writer, who now works at Boies Schiller, just passed the New York bar exam. (As we noted earlier, February bar exam results for New York were released today.) More discussion after the jump. - Sponsored
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Fashion, Fashion Victims Unit, Law Professors, Law Schools, Racism
A LSU Law Center Professor's Scattershot Attack in a Baton Rouge Battle
Earlier this month, Lousiana State University heralded its victory in a lawsuit. Meanwhile, a professor at LSU Law Center was mighty disappointed. She was the one who sued the school. Professor Darlene Goring teaches common law property, real estate transactions, and immigration law. The Northwestern Law grad also mentors the Black Law Students Association. Goring […]
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Bar Exams
February Bar Results Are Out in New York and Other Exciting Locales
CHECK YOU BAR PASSAGE! The February Bar Exam results are out in New York and a few other states around the country. In case you haven’t done it already, click here to see if you passed. The February Exam tends to have a lower passage rate than the summer one. So if you passed you […] -
Deferral Stipend, Pro Bono, Public Interest
Sidebar-Plus Associates Heading Back to Skadden
Over a year ago, Skadden announced its Sidebar Plus program. Skadden gave associates the option to take a one-year deferral, for one-third of their Skadden salary. All indications suggest that the program was a huge success. Skadden received so many volunteers that it had to turn some people away. Skadden associates received varied and interesting […] -
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Hmmmmm...
Long, thoughtful pauses followed by rambling non-responsive answers can easily devour half of a member’s allotted questioning time. — O’Melveny & Myers partner K. Lee Blalack II in March, discussing preparing clients for congressional hearings. Goldman Sachs hired Blalack to advise CEO Lloyd Blankfein for today’s Senate grilling. -
Carter Phillips, Morning Docket, Seth Waxman
Morning Docket 04.27.10
* Wal-mart’s going to have a hard time keeping the price of this one down. The Ninth Circuit grants class action status to gender discrimination lawsuit against Wal-mart, with plaintiffs estimated to number two million women. [New York Times] * WilmerHale is outsourcing… to Ohio. [ABA Journal] * Should California AG Jerry Brown investigate the […]
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Contests, Law Revue, Law Revue Video Contest, Videos
Law Revue Video Contest: The Finalists
On Thursday we showed you the dishonorable mentions from our second annual Law Revue contest. Many of you thought that “les dishonorables” were not that bad. Hopefully, you’ll like the finalists even better. This year we chose seven finalists from seven different law schools. But there will be no repeat for last year’s champion, UVA […] - Sponsored
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs 04.26.10
* Cross Apple at your peril. It might result in your door being bashed in by police while you’re at dinner with your wife and your computers being confiscated, á la The Insider. [Gizmodo; New York Times; San Francisco Chronicle] * The nutty Ninth isn’t really that nutty any more, though we do hope Chief […] -
Free Speech, Gay, Law Schools, Minority Issues
Young Americans for Freedom Distance Themselves from Toledo 1L
On Friday, we told you about Toledo College of Law 1L Kyle Bristow. While an undergraduate at Michigan State University, Bristow was the chairman of the school’s chapter of Young Americans For Freedom (YAF). The Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the Michigan State chapter of YAF a “hate group.” We reported that Bristow was no […] -
Law Schools, listserv
Immigration Debate Causes University of Arizona Law Students to Turn on Fellow 3L Ted Vogt
It’s a heart-warming story turned cold. Earlier this year, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law 3L Ted Vogt was appointed to the State House of Representatives, after the previous seatholder was promoted to the Senate. Vogt, who went to Yale for undergrad, wasn’t necessarily a typical law student — age 37, he […] -
Jeffrey Toobin, Media and Journalism, Pregnancy / Paternity, Sex Scandals
Alleged Jeffrey Toobin Baby Mama Has a 'Back-Up Plan'
Over the weekend, Casey Greenfield — Yale Law School graduate, Gibson Dunn litigatrix, and daughter of political pundit Jeff Greenfield — made a foray into film criticism. Greenfield published a review of the new Jennifer Lopez movie, The Back-Up Plan, in the Daily Beast. Adrian Chen of Gawker breaks it down: The mother of CNN […] -
Cars, Crime, Police
How Lawyers Should Handle Traffic Stops
I talk a lot about what legal education doesn’t prepare you for. You know what it does prepare you for? Any future interaction with police officers. By the time I finished 1L year, I knew the golden rule for dealing with officers of the law: keep your mouth shut. Knowing the law and knowing your […]
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Job Searches
Wake Forest Law Students: Time for the Annual Meltdown
Around this time last year, we ran a story about a person at Wake Forest going ballistic at the school’s Career Services Office. There must be something about springtime weather that brings out the crazies at Wake. A tipster reports that this year a student once again has lost his mind because of the challenging […] -
Federal Judges, Linda Greenhouse, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Should Supreme Court Opinions Be Anonymous?
That’s the question posed by Linda Greenhouse, former Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, in an extremely interesting post on the Opinionator blog. In attempting to address “why other countries [don’t] suffer from the same toxic confirmation battles that we do,” she first notes that other nations don’t give their judges life tenure: […] -
Associate Salaries, Howrey LLP, Killing Lockstep
Will Law Firms Follow Howrey's Profit Diminishing Lead?
Last June, we reported that Howrey decided to make a big change to the law firm business model. The firm cut first year starting salaries to $100,000. In exchange, the first year program would involve a heavy emphasis on training. Associate billables would be capped at 700 hours and Howrey reduced the rates charged to […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket 04.26.10
* Law enforcement is getting involved in Apple v. Gizmodo and the leak of the supersecret iPhone. The Santa Clara County district attorney’s office will determine whether there’s enough evidence to pursue criminal charges. [CNet] * Minnesota lawyer Jeff Anderson has found an interesting niche: lawsuits against the Catholic Church on behalf of abuse victims. […]
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Asians, Idealism, Legal Ethics, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Weekend: The World's Most Honest Lawyer?
If I say I’m a clean lawyer, I’ll be a hypocrite, that’s all I can say. And if other lawyers say they are clean, they will go to jail, they’ll go to hell. — Indonesian lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea -
Advertising, Law Schools, Television
Truth in Advertising? One Law School's Pitch
Greetings from the great (albeit foggy) city of Chicago. We’ve arrived a little early, so we can enjoy the city in advance of our event on Monday with the fabulous Judge Diane Sykes (7th Cir.). Our talk, taking place at the University of Chicago Law School, is free and open to the public. For more […] -
Football, Sports
Sports and the Law: Will Ben Roethlisberger's NFL Suspension Stand?
On Wednesday, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger became the first NFL player never charged or convicted of any crime to be suspended under the NFL Personal Conduct Policy. According to Commissioner Roger Goodell, the decision to suspend Roethlisberger was the result of “some bad decisions” that Roethlisberger made in recent weeks, which emerged during the […]