Education / Schools
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Education / Schools, Quote of the Day
Do Frat Bros Owe Others A Duty Of Care Not To Fire Bottle Rockets Out Of Their Butts?
Look for this fact pattern on your next torts exam. -
Education / Schools, Job Searches, Politics, Student Loans
Who Better To Reform Higher Ed Laws Than Some Law School Graduates?
What proposals are Republicans making to reform higher education, and do they make sense? - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Education / Schools, Law Schools, Rankings
Which Law Schools Have The Best Clinics?
It's rankings time again!
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Education / Schools, Real Estate, Romance and Dating, Sex
Living In Sin Is Prohibited By University President's Contract
You'd think university presidents would know their rights. -
Education / Schools, Minority Issues, Quote of the Day, Racism
Stuff White People (Don't) Like: Being Accused Of RACEISM™
A professor's controversial pedagogical approach results in student complaints and litigation. -
Education / Schools, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools
How We Teach
What makes a good teacher? -
Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Education / Schools, Football, Politics, Quote of the Day, Sports
They Might Be Talking About His Hair
There's no love lost between New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Donald Trump. -
Education / Schools, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Vicious Infighting
Chaos At The Law School Leads To Ouster Of University President
Law dean battles university president and everybody loses. - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Education / Schools, Football, Kids, Sports, Texas
Anti-Bullying Laws Invoked Because One Football Team Can't Stop Another Football Team
Parent accuses 91-0 high school football victors of "bullying." -
Crime, Education / Schools, Facebook, Law Schools, Politics, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Law Student Of The Day: Alleged Social-Media Hoaxer
Law school: the last refuge of murderers, bank robbers, hate-crime perpetrators, and alleged social-media hoaxers. -
Abortion, Banking Law, Biglaw, Books, Education / Schools, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, SCOTUS, Sports, Supreme Court, Williams & Connolly
Morning Docket: 10.14.13
Ed. note: In honor of Columbus Day (and Canadian Thanksgiving), Above the Law will be on a reduced publication schedule today. We will be back in full force tomorrow.
* Justice stops for no one, not even a broken Congress. With the end of days approaching quickly for federal courts in terms of funding (or the lack thereof), many judges are lashing out and declaring all their employees essential. [National Law Journal]
* Legal expenses can be especially “painful,” even for the biggest of banks, but sadist firms like Sullivan & Cromwell, Paul Weiss, and WilmerHale are really getting their rocks off on Jamie Dimon’s suffering. [DealBook / New York Times]
* DLA Piper’s future’s so bright it’s got to wear shades — and appoint a new co-managing partner in New York City, its largest office. Congratulations to Richard Hans, you’ve co-made it! [New York Law Journal]
* “It’s not just about me.” Jim Tanner, a Williams & Connolly partner who represents Jeremy Lin, is leaving the firm to start his own sports management business, and he’s taking people with him. [Bloomberg]
* “I have no apologies to make about anything I did.” Steven Donziger of Chevron/Ecuador infamy will be defending himself in court this week in what’s being called a legal cage match. [Wall Street Journal]
* “Touro is asking a judge to declare the school a diploma mill.” Irony alert: Touro wants Novus University Law School, a school supposedly conferring “worthless law degrees,” to be stopped. [New York Post]
* If you think SCOTUS abused its discretion in the early abortion cases, you’re going to love this book (affiliate link), a “cautionary tale” about consequences of decisions like Roe v. Wade. [Wall Street Journal]
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Attorney Misconduct, Biglaw, Education / Schools, Legal Ethics, Partner Issues, Screw-Ups, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Don't Lie On Your Résumé -- Even If You're A Partner
Legal secretaries and other support staffers aren't the only ones getting fired by Biglaw; partners who lie on their résumés get shown the door too. -
Divorce Train Wrecks, Education / Schools, Family Law, Kids, Money
How Long Do You Have To Keep Supporting Your Child?
College could mean that your child support costs are just beginning.
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Education / Schools, International Law, Non-Sequiturs, Trusts and Estates
Non-Sequiturs: 10.07.13
* With all the focus on law schools, medical schools are quietly dropping the last year of schooling. If they can cut out a year of learning how to keep people alive, we can drop a year of learning Jane Austen and the Law. [The Atlantic] * MoFo lost a T&E team to Shartsis Friese. Hmm…. Maybe Shartsis should put ego aside and let Friese have his day in the sun. [Am Law Daily] * Congrats to Bayan Alzahran, the first licensed female lawyer in Saudi Arabia. Soon she’ll be valiantly trying to keep people from being stoned to death with the best of them. [Al Arabiya] * Good news, recovering criminals! As we mentioned earlier today (ninth link), mug shot extortion sites are getting whipped by Google. [Not-So Private Parts / Forbes] * God needs a lawyer in federal district court? Paging Roy Cohn. [Forbes] * If you’re interested in international law, International Law Weekend is coming up. Maybe Vladimir Putin will show up and learn a thing or two. [International Law Students Association] -
Education / Schools, Job Searches, Law Schools, Student Loans
Is Business School A Better Bet Than Law School?
The Above the Law editors debate the best decision for your educational dollar. -
Affirmative Action, Education / Schools, Law Schools, Minority Issues, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Minority Enrollment Plummets Thanks To Michigan's Anti-Affirmative Action Statute
Michigan's anti-affirmative action statute has resulted in anything but a meritocracy. -
Clarence Thomas, Education / Schools, Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Do Jobless Lawyers Feel This Way About Their Misfortunes?
We wonder what advice Justice Thomas would have for this similarly unfortunate group. -
Bar Exams, Celebrities, Constitutional Law, Education / Schools, Labor / Employment, Law School Deans, Law Schools, LLMs, Money, Morning Docket, Pro Bono, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Texas, Trademarks
Morning Docket: 09.16.13
* You skip over the footnotes when you’re reading for class, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t think you should. She’s a proponent of the most important footnote in all of constitutional law. [New Yorker]
* New York will modify its pro bono requirement for LL.M. students to allow public service completed outside the country. Well, so much for closing the state’s justice gap. [New York Law Journal (sub. req.)]
* Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the government-initiated trademark infringement actions over “Don’t Mess With Texas.” Like “I <3 NY," the Lone Star State's slogans are off limits. [New York Times] * WUSTL Law Dean Kent Syverud didn’t mind advocating for halving professors’ salaries. He just stepped down to become Syracuse University’s president — for much higher pay. [National Law Journal (sub. req.)] * You can sue Lady Gaga for overtime pay all you want, but you do not want to face her wrath. The pop star is due in court in early November where she’ll tell a judge “exactly what f**king happened.” [Daily Mail]
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Education / Schools, Law Schools
Recent Graduates Overwhelmingly Think Their Third Year Was Useless
Recent graduates did not find their last year of law school particularly useful. -
Education / Schools, Law Professors, Law Schools
A Yale Professor Offers A Most Yale-Like Response To The 'Length of Law School' Debate
In response to practical concerns that the third year of law school is too expensive, a professor goes "full Yale" on the issue.