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Law Schools, listserv, Transfer Students
You Can Transfer the Student into Stanford, But You Can't Transfer the Stanford into the Student
When you are a transfer student, you are constantly fighting for respect. We know how transfer students talk to non-transfers, but we don't often get to see how transfer students talk among themselves. But today, we've got a whole transfer student email thread from Stanford Law School, and boy, like Fredo in the Godfather, they really want respect.... -
Gay, Law School Deans, Law Schools, listserv, Rudeness
Penn State Law Students: Now Might Not Be The Best Time To Be Getting Drunk And Calling People 'Queer'
Being a student at Penn State has to be about as close as you can come to being in a World War I foxhole. Their reputation is getting bombed from all sides. Right now, kids should just be trying to keep their heads down and ride this out. But in the PSU Law foxhole, somebody just laid an egg. Apparently students at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law have already been banned from a few area hotels for drunken and inappropriate behavior this fall. And now a student is throwing around a slur on the school list-serv. It's not happy times in Happy Valley... - Sponsored
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Clarence Thomas, Federal Judges, Federalist Society, Free Speech, Law Schools, listserv, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas Is Coming To Town
Elie here. Imagine Santa Claus stopping by your house — except this time Saint Nick is a mute, who stuffs your stocking with personal responsibility and brings you wooden toys, because those were the only ones available when his legend was born. Well, joking aside, Justice Clarence Thomas will be stopping by Yale Law School […]
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Asians, Law School Deans, Law Schools, listserv
Closing the Loop on the Case of Bro Versus Thailand
Earlier this week, we told you about the Northwestern Law student who made a joke about Thailand on the Northwestern listserv. The joke was in poor taste, especially given that it was in response to a solicitation for charitable donations after a deadly flood in Thailand. I thought the penalty would be a chorus of […] -
Asians, Law Schools, listserv
Northwestern Law 'Bro' Offends Most Of Law School, All Of Thailand
We've gotten a lot of mileage out of the "PC Police" at Northwestern Law School. The school seems to have a number of students who are easily offended. Some of the kids there overreact at the slightest provocation. Do you want to see how they react when something actually offensive happens? -
Law Schools, listserv, Ridiculousness, Travel / Vacation
Northwestern PC Police Trying to Change the Image Of Brazil, One Email at a Time
At Northwestern Law, the PC Police have a long and storied history. You are, of course, free to say what you want to say, but if you offend other people's cultural sensibilities, you had best expect a reaction from other Northwestern students -- whether the cultural slight was real or just perceived.... -
Bar Exams, listserv
You Have No Scars On Your Face, And You Cannot Handle Pressure
It’s two weeks before the bar, so you know what that means; total freaking panic. Ah yeah: dogs and cats living together, pants on the ground, don’t feed the one-man wolfpack after midnight kind of hysteria. For people who will eventually fail the bar, this is the time that they start choking hard enough to […] -
Commencement, Law Schools, listserv
Should There Be a Market in Law School Commencement Tickets?
Are tickets to law school commencement like organs? Or babies? They’re not as necessary as organs, and they’re not as adorable as babies. But are graduation tickets, like organs and babies, so sacred that we should not allow them to be distributed through the free market? (Some folks, like certain Chicago School law-and-economics types, think […] - Sponsored
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Animal Law, Email Scandals, Law Schools, listserv, Pets, Violence, Weirdness
Sicko Mass-Emails Animal Death Fantasy To Law School Classmates
Yesterday, there was a wonderful story coming out of Kansas Law School (gavel bang: @VaultLaw). A student there is starting the first animal cruelty prosecution clinic in the country. That’s what the scholars call “awesome.” There are simply not enough lawyers who are even familiar with animal cruelty laws. If more people know how to […] -
Biglaw, Email Scandals, listserv, Partner Issues, Rudeness, Screw-Ups
More Proof That Lawyers Will Fight Over Anything
Sometimes you just have to whip it out and wait for somebody to bring over a ruler. That’s just a part of life. But some lawyers seem to sit around all day just waiting for an opportunity to drop drawers and call for the chains. Don’t believe me? Take a look at this guy from […] -
Hotties, Law Schools, listserv, Ridiculousness, Sexism
Do Michigan Law Men Have Thin, Saggy Skins?
You have to hand it to the University of Michigan Law School. They always keep it interesting in Ann Arbor. Today’s tale of wacky wolverines arises out of the law school’s “Mr. Wolverine” beauty pageant. Yeah, it sounds like exactly what it is. It’s a nice little event where Michigan men “dress down” for the […] -
Email Scandals, Law Schools, listserv, Ridiculousness
Law Students Tangle Over Prestige, Machine Guns, and Books; Hilarity Ensues
The best time for law school emails is right before spring semester finals. People have been stressed for an entire year and things are just about to get worse, so you see law students just breaking down. The Crimson DNA affair came to light last April; hopefully we’ll get something good this year too. The […] -
Drinking, Email Scandals, listserv, Sex
Northwestern Law Student Emails Hand-Job Offer to Entire Law School
You know how cars can be equipped with an ignition interlock device that prevents the engine from being started if the driver is intoxicated? Can we get one of those thingies for the personal computer, Blackberry, or any other device people can use to send email? Because I’m pretty sure a Northwestern Law student could […]
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Contract Attorneys, Job Searches, listserv, Technology
The 'What' List?
“Hey, are you on the Posse List?” “The what list?” A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away — seven years ago in the Farragut North area of Washington, DC — the “what?” list was my response when I first heard of the Posse List from a fellow contract attorney on one of […] -
listserv, Rankings
Cornell Law Ranked #4 By Cornell Student Who Reads Above the Law
Last week, we told you about a Cornell contracts exam gone bad. It’s just one exam, but you know that Cornell law students can be somewhat skittish. The school is ranked #13 by U.S. News, and so their spot in the top-14 is always under attack. After our story about the contracts exam, one Cornell […] -
Email Scandals, Harvard, Harvard Law Review, listserv, Racism
The Harvard Law School 'Racist' Email Controversy:Corrections and More Commentary
Earlier today, we wrote about an email controversy emanating from the halls of Harvard Law School. A 3L at HLS — referred to in these pages simply as “CRIMSON DNA,” and please help us keep it that way — sent out an email message that some construed as “racist.” In the email, “CRIMSON DNA,” following […] -
Email Scandals, Harvard Law Review, listserv, Minority Issues, Racism
Harvard Law School 3L's Racist Email Goes National
Every time you put something into an email, please remember that someone you send it to may hit Forward. If your email makes the case for a biological reason for racial disparities in intelligence, someone might hit Forward and send it to Black Law Student Associations across the nation. That’s what happened to a Harvard […] -
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 […] -
Job Searches, listserv
NYU 3L Takes Unemployment Plight to YouTube
Readers have been begging for a follow-up on the NYU 3Ls who threatened Mayer Brown with “Public Relations Disaster.” One reader suggests we set up a pay-per-view event: ATL should sponsor a cage match, pitting the UT 1Ls against the NYU 3Ls, in a fight to the career death. Well, boy do we have a […] -
Fashion, Gender, listserv, Ridiculousness
Northwestern's Gender Neutral -- Possibly Hermaphroditic -- Barrister 'Rulers'
A few months back, the Student Bar Association at Northwestern University School of Law got its panties in a bunch over inappropriate language and the “unthinking use of stereotypes.” Saying that you were “raped” by an exam, for example, was offensive to some on campus, said the SBA. (They preferred that Northwestern students engage only […]