October 2015

He allegedly wrote in a motion that his farts contain "more integrity and legal competence than is possessed by all the [judges] on this panel combined."

* Even Jordan Weissmann of Slate, who is relatively pro-law school, accepts that there are some people who shouldn’t bother going. [Slate]

* Yet another prosecutor with a temper: sorry he whipped out a gun at the office, but “Assistant Prosecutor Chris White is really [really, really] afraid of spiders.” [Charleston Gazette-Mail]

* Moot Court: the movie! Unleash your inner gunner and check out this documentary next month. [DOC NYC]

* Roadkill: it’s what’s for dinner (and apparently there’s no law or regulation against this). [Grub Street / New York Magazine]

* Professor Michael Koehler on “The Uncomfortable Truths and Double Standards of Bribery Enforcement” (beyond the FCPA). [FCPA Professor]

* Nationwide Layoff Watch: sports bloggers. Grantland, RIP. [Bloomberg]

* ICYMI, here’s your chance to be a D.C. judge (Superior Court, not D.D.C. or D.C. Cir.). [D.C. Judicial Nomination Commission]

* Elsewhere in interesting employment opportunities, Practical Law / Thomson Reuters is looking for an experienced IP lawyer to join its Intellectual Property & Technology Service. [Glassdoor]

* We wish all our readers a happy (and safe) Halloween — and remind you to submit legally themed costumes in our annual competition. [Above the Law]

A GOP Debate "Fallacy Index" that “highlights each candidate’s average use of fallacious statements.”

If you recently started my first law job, how can you get used to receiving multiple assignments from different supervisors and having to prioritize everything yourself?

Another breastfeeding law, made by men who are dumb.

Which Supreme Court justice wrote "Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It"?

Whatever the reason for the problem, if you are not getting paid what you should and when you should, address your and your clients’ concerns right away.

Above the Law has a new program to highlight student scholarship. Get yourself in the pages of Above the Law with none of the public humiliation.

Can we look forward to law school tuition finally being regulated via federal loan caps?

China Was, You Know, Totally Benevolent In Anthem Hack MedCity News Wall Street Finally Gets Some Attention In Third GOP Debate But CNBC's Apparatchik Moderators Get More Dealbreaker Natural Gas Will Reshape The Power Markets, But Capacity Challenges Remain Breaking Energy

Hopefully we are not one hundred years away from gender equality in the partnership ranks.

For almost a year now, a Wisconsin district attorney (now the state's Attorney General) has been trying to keep allegedly embarrassing footage of him from making its way into the hands/eyes of the public.

What happens when you allegedly begin to act like your clients and commit a crime -- in court, no less?

* “Say you’ll remember me, getting groped in a nice dress…” Uh oh! This pop star seems pretty pissed! Taylor Swift has filed a countersuit against a radio DJ who sued her because he claims he was fired for inappropriately touching the singer backstage at a concert. [Rolling Stone]

* Charleston School of Law has a new president, and hopefully his tenure will be less wrought with disaster than that of his predecessors. He says he’ll be paid one whole dollar per year as his salary until he can turn things around. [Charleston Post and Courier]

* At a speaking engagement at Santa Clara Law earlier this week, Justice Antonin Scalia proclaimed that the Supreme Court has been “liberal” throughout the entirety of his 30-year tenure. We’d like to beg His Honor’s pardon; that can’t be true. [WSJ Law Blog]

* As this article so eloquently puts it, “[t]he Supreme Court is about to climb back into Americans’ bedrooms.” Today, the high court will review several petitions from non-profit groups that want to be exempted from ACA’s contraception mandate. [USA Today]

* Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the number of firms that are trying to enter the market. To establish a presence in the Lone Star State, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton is saying howdy to some new partners and merging with Crouch & Ramey. [ABA Journal]

Have you got what it takes to top the winners of years past? Send us pictures of your costumes!

* “Coming to SCOTUS: Battle of the dueling interpretive canons.” [LAWnLinguisitcs]

* Fun fact: the highest scorer on the July 2015 Florida bar exam didn’t even go to law school in Florida. [Daily Business Review]

* What is “Lean Law,” and how can it help you in your legal practice? [Law Reboot]

* Additional information from Bob Ambrogi about the big announcement by Harvard Law and Ravel Law today. [LawSites]

*” I felt kind of stupid.” A Georgia man fled the courtroom just minutes before being acquitted. [New York Daily News]

* Dahlia Lithwick on Dale Cox, the Louisiana prosecutor who wants to “cold cock” defense counsel. [Slate]

* Are you “a Yuppie, professional or other generic dweeb between the ages of 22 and 82”? Here’s an idea worth considering. [What About Paris?]

* Former Wachtell Lipton lawyer Stephanie Lee and her Skybuds colleagues are 90 percent of the way to their Kickstarter goal — and they still have 20 days left in the campaign. [Kickstarter]

* I’ll be speaking next week at the Los Angeles LMA chapter’s Continuing Marketing Education Conference next week; I hope to see some of you there! [Legal Marketing Association]

For small-firm lawyers, you have to figure out what you need, what’s nice to have, and what you can safely do without.

An openness to facing adversity and a willingness to having knowledge challenged are required if you want to develop real expertise and experience, according to columnist Keith Lee.