Law Schools
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Law Schools
On-Campus With Elie: How Law Professors Can Help Failing Schools
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Law Schools
Do 0Ls Have Any Clue About Law School?
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Law Schools, Racism
Law School Dean Suggests Black People Lack 'Reason' And Other Delightful Post-Ferguson Talk
And just for good measure, an NYU law student composes a "parody" of the situation and it goes about as well as you'd expect.
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Law Schools
Will There Be More Lawyer Jobs Than Grads In 2016?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has changed the way it calculates job openings in the legal profession and claims we'll have more jobs than law grads by 2016. -
Law Schools, Nauseating Things
Law School Really Wants Students To Flush The Toilets
Law students are so disgusting. They must be stopped. -
Law Schools
Charleston President Quits After Only 8 Days
Its ownership is still up in the air, and now its president walks off the job. -
Law Schools
On-Campus With Elie: 3L Sues Firm For Being Elitist
Just because it's unfair doesn't make it illegal. -
Law Schools
If That's How The Administration Feels, Imagine The Students
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Asians, Attorney Misconduct, Crime, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Morning Docket, Rankings, Texas
Morning Docket: 11.20.14
* Deep in the heart of Texas, a judge refused to dismiss Gov. Rick Perry’s felony case over a silly technicality in the underlying paperwork concerning the special prosecutor’s oath of office. [CNN]
* This lawyer got a spanking for including a noncompete in an associate’s contract that said he wouldn’t be able to practice the same type of law for two years. [Legal Profession Blog via ABA Journal]
* UVA Law came in at #7 in the Graduate Programs ranking of the 50 best law schools, but the the school doesn’t “focus on year-to-year fluctuations in rankings.” Keep those collars popped high. [Cavalier Daily]
* “I’m hopeful that we’ll get our Tracy back, the guy everyone loves.” Tracy Morgan’s lawyer says the comedian’s crash with a Wal-Mart truck this summer has left him with a traumatic brain injury. [Bloomberg]
* After its giant, website-crashing sale debacle earlier this month, someone decided to file a class-action suit against Sephora for discriminating against Asian customers whose accounts were blocked. [Reuters]
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Bar Exams, Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Prostitution, Public Interest, Screw-Ups, Small Law Firms, Student Loans
Morning Docket: 11.19.14
* Morgan Lewis may be pretty pleased with itself now that it gets to gobble up most of Bingham McCutchen’s partners, but some day soon, it may be forced to “choke a bit” on remains of the dying firm’s carcass. [Philadelphia Business Journal]
* Yesterday, we wondered what would happen to Bingham McCutchen’s brand new back-office operation in Kentucky. Now, the pieces are starting to come together. We may have more on this interesting development later. [Am Law Daily]
* A Connecticut criminal defense firm’s managing partner who teaches at UConn Law was picked up in a prostitution sting last week. At least he’s got the skills to represent himself. [Connecticut Law Tribune]
* The NCBE thinks bar exam takers were “less able” than in prior years, but the organization seems to have forgotten that ExamSoft was “less able” to perform its one freaking job. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
* You must be whacked in the mind if you think law school tuition has anything to do with public service loan forgiveness. Law school tuition is high because people are still willing to pay for it. [Huffington Post]
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Biglaw, Crime, Lateral Moves, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Police, Romance and Dating, Weddings, Weirdness
Morning Docket: 11.18.14
* “The notion that some of us weren’t invited, selected or chosen to join Morgan Lewis is ridiculous.” Bingham McCutchen partners who aren’t moving to Morgan Lewis don’t want you to think they’re losers. [Am Law Daily]
* MGA is back in court to sue Mattel, and now it wants $1 billion after its $88 million verdict was nixed by the Ninth Circuit. Here’s hoping Quinn Emanuel will come to the rescue in a hot pink Barbiemobile. [National Law Journal]
* “We want an indictment. The cops don’t like it.” Missouri’s governor declared a state of emergency ahead of the grand jury’s decision on whether to indict the police officer who shot Michael Brown. Yikes. [Reuters]
* Not that it’s a wise choice, but you can still apply to law school with a low GPA. Almost nothing is “too low” these days. Most law schools want a pulse, that’s all. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]
* Everyone can find love, even mass murderers and cult leaders: Charles Manson applied for a marriage license so he could get hitched to a 26-year-old woman who’s visited him since she was 17. [E! Online]
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Bad Ideas, Bar Exams, Crime, Food, Law Schools
Law School Threatens To Report Student Lunch Thieves To State Bar
If you plan on stealing other people's food at this law school, you better pray that you don't get caught. -
Gender, Law Schools
Law School Women Don't Need 'Lower Pressure' Environments
Stop telling women they thrive when the pressure is off.
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Drinking, DUI / DWI, Law Schools, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Judge Accused Of Having Inappropriate Relationship With Cooley Law Student
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Law School Deans, Law Schools
Disgraced Law Dean Turns To Creepy Poetry
We all wondered where the disgraced former dean would end up. You won't believe what he's doing now. -
Biglaw, Confirmations, Federal Government, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Law Firm Mergers, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Sandra Day O'Connor
Morning Docket: 11.14.14
* Loretta Lynch, America’s would-be attorney general, has been flying under the radar for years, and now senators are searching to find something, anything at all really, that could possibly be wrong with her. [Legal Times]
* “[T]his is the best period of time that we have seen in a long time.” According to Wells Fargo Private Bank’s Legal Specialty Group, Biglaw’s revenue, hours, and profits all rose in the first nine months of 2014. Nice work! [Am Law Daily]
* Biglaw mergers and acquisitions are now on pace to meet or beat last year’s record, and company legal departments are pretty pissed off about it, especially since “[l]arge firm views on conflicts [tend to] drive [GCs] crazy.” [Reuters]
* Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor attended the groundbreaking of Arizona State Law’s new campus, and even shoveled some dirt in honor of the school named after her. [Arizona Republic]
* What’s the price on being blackballed? Condé Nast settled its unpaid intern class-action lawsuit yesterday for $5.8 million, which will result in $700 to $1,900 payouts per aggrieved intern. [Fashionista]
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Crime, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 11.13.14
* The 25 most influential people in legal education. [TaxProf Blog]
* Shell preemptively suing environmental groups over its Arctic drilling program. Nothing says, “we’re on the up and up” like hyperactive declaratory judgment motions. [Breaking Energy]
* I’m not normally in the “America is overlitigious” camp, but the idea that we’re scaling back corn mazes to accommodate people too dumb to find their way out is ridiculous. [Daily Mail]
* What does the Fox say? I’m not sure, but whatever it is, it involves peeing in this guy’s Super Soaker. [Legal Juice]
* Hunton & Williams has formed a new multidisciplinary practice to assist clients with legal issues surrounding Unmanned Aircraft Systems, or drones. Good idea. I hear those things fly by themselves. [Hunton & Williams]
* The career services director at LSU Law School got married over the weekend… in the stands during the Saints-49ers game. I’m guessing the reception had to wait until after overtime. [The Times-Picayune]
* Um. If this is how you want to steal that thing, more power to you. [Slate]
* “A distinguished panel of former and current judges including John Cleland, John Jones, Nathaniel Jones, Jed Rakoff, and Marjorie Rendell join Joel Cohen to for a discussion drawing inspiration from his new book, “Blindfolds Off.” Video available after the jump… [National Constitution Center]
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Advertising, Job Searches, Law Schools, Shameless Plugs, Sponsored Content, This Is an Ad
1Ls: Why You Should Do A Service Internship Abroad
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Law Schools, Lunacy, Ridiculousness
T14 Law Student Expects You To Answer 185 Crazy Questions To Join His Elite Club
Which law school sanctioned this lunacy? -
Commencement, Law Schools
On-Campus With Elie: Wiki Commencement
A pretty innovative approach to commencement speaking at a top law school.