You Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Law Degree to be on the Supreme Court
The Constitution does not specify any particular professional or educational requirements for serving as a justice of the high court.
Morning Docket: 05.14.10
* Working overtime will kill you. [Boston Globe] * No more ethnic studies in Arizona? Cool, I thought European history was boring anyway. [New York Times] * Fewer birther requests in Hawaii? Cool, I thought Freedom of Information requests weren’t at all that important to our democracy anyway. [Washington Post] * The fate of Law […]
Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup
With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation.
Summer Associate of the Day: Kaavya Viswanathan (Aka the Alleged Harvard Plagiarist)
Remember Kaavya Viswanathan? She’s the Harvard graduate who, while still in high school, landed a two-book deal worth a reported $500,000. The first book, a young adult / chick-lit novel entitled How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, was published in April 2006, during Viswanathan’s sophomore year at Harvard. And then […]
Non-Sequiturs: 05.13.10
* Fortune’s epic failure at being thankful for a favor. Or: Fortune’s epic failure at threatening copy”write” infringement. [TechCrunch] * Hey Law Revue types, get paid for your videos (if you win). [ACS Constitutional Video Contest] * Starved of case opinions from Kagan, we’ve devolved into trying to make judgments based on her sarcastic notes […]
New York Law School Student Trying to Scalp Graduation Tickets
How much would you pay to go see graduation at New York Law School? Nothing? Don’t be so sure. What if I asked: how much would you pay to go see a very slow moving trainwreck where you had no moral or ethical duty to save any of the passengers? Ah ha, see, you’d pay […]
Quote of the Day: Required Reading
Students are expected to become completely familiar with and prepared to discuss in class the blog “Above the Law.” — From the description for “Law Firms and Legal Careers,” a University of Michigan Law course taught by Kirkland & Ellis of counsel Karl Lutz UPDATE / CORRECTION: According to Lutz, the course description on the […]
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Football Coach
We’ve written before about how cheerleading for football teams is a possible career for J.D.s, but what about coaching football teams? A Detroit Lions assistant secondary coach, Daron Roberts, has done just that. The Harvard Law graduate and former Biglaw attorney is coaching in the NFL, notwithstanding the fact that he had no prior coaching […]
An Explosive Federalist Society Lunch at Michigan Law?
And another scatological law school tale at UT.
You’d think those in the law would know by now not to send out embarrassing emails. But a Federalist Society officer at the University of Michigan Law School, whose name we’ve replaced with a pseudonym, seems oblivious. Apparently, Fed Soc served up some E-coli tainted lettuce at a recent lunch: Subject: [lawopen] Fed Soc Lunch/ […]
The Perks of Small Law: Tuesday Masseuse and Tagging Events
While there are a few offbeat Biglaw firms out there (think Venable and rooftop bocce ball), the quirkiest firms tend to be the small ones. Childress Duffy Goldblatt is a litigation shop that does insurance recovery work. Its Chicago office just moved to a new location where it’s rolling out new perks. One quirky perk? […]
What’s the Difference Between an Email and a Pager? (Revisited)
“We’d all be a lot happier if we had some romancing foreplay pre-trial and left the rough stuff for trial,” said Ariana Tadler, a partner in the New York office Milberg LLP. That quote came from an article published yesterday entitled, Show Us the Love to Avoid Discovery Fights, Attorneys Urge, from Leigh Jones of […]
Filevine’s New Legal AI Platform LOIS Turns AI Into A True Legal Coworker
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
Lawyerly Lairs: Law Student Edition
Are you tired of reading about lawyers and law students struggling under massive educational loans? The debt-saddled law student has become something of a walking cliché — and the stereotype is not universally true. According to the 2009 Law School Survey of Student Engagement (p. 14), between 10 and 15 percent of full-time law students […]
Mean Blog Comments End Quest to Go to Law School for Free
A week and a half ago, we ran a story about a student who was soliciting donations so she could go to UNC Law School without incurring student debt. She dreamed a dream, but the tigers come at night. The would-be law student, Sarah Allen, was ripped apart in the press, and now wants no […]
Morning Docket: 05.13.10
* New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo is keeping banks’ lawyers busy. [New York Times] * Akin Gump senior counsel and former Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan had a star turn on the Good Wife. [Washington Post] * Defendants in the Robert Wone murder trial prefer not to be judged by a jury of their peers. […]
Orrick Will Abandon Publishing Profits Per Partner Next Year
Are profits per partner the appropriate metric to measure law firm success? It’s been a long time since firms seriously looked at the question. I didn’t know my Skadden from my Sullivan back when American Lawyer founder Steve Brill first started shining a light on the black box of top American law firms back in […]
Non-Sequiturs: 05.12.10
* Nate Silver, already one of the best writers/thinkers/statisticians alive, has totally outdone himself with this one. He has come up with a new stat: Value Over Replacement Justice. Look on his works, ye Mighty, and despair. [FiveThirtyEight] * Kagan is boring (despite Lat’s attempt to nickname her “Lady Kaga”), so let’s start talking about […]