AALS
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Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Crime
Is Redefining Criminal Sexual Misconduct The Way To Address #MeToo?
Do we need more criminal laws to achieve justice and accountability?
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Law Schools
What Do Undergrads Think About Law School? The Answers Will Probably Not Surprise You At All!
Undergrads tend to see law school for what it actually is. -
Conferences / Symposia, Law Professors, Law Schools
AALS 2017 (Part IV): A Postscript
What could make the American Association of Law Schools Conference better next year? LawProfBlawg has some ideas. -
Conferences / Symposia, Law Professors, Law Schools
AALS 2017 (Part III): Invidious Distinctions
Perhaps that which we dislike about AALS is that which we may dislike about our profession generally. -
Conferences / Symposia, Law Professors, Law Schools
AALS 2017 (Part II): Why Are We Here?
Why do law professors matter? How we can better society? How we can interact outside the echo chambers we’ve created? -
Conferences / Symposia, Law Professors, Law Schools
AALS 2017: A Guide For The Uninitiated
Are you going to AALS this year? Are you on any panels? If your answer to these questions is “WTF is AALS?,” then you clearly aren’t a law professor. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Law Schools
As Bad As Legal Education Is, It Could Be Worse
This former NYU law dean doesn't exactly have a rosy outlook on the future of legal education. -
Conferences / Symposia, Law Professors
How To Have Fun As A Law Professor
It’s beginning to look a lot like … AALS! With your help, we will make AALS a fun and interesting event. -
Law School Deans, Law Schools
Law School Deans Whine About The New York Times Calling Out Their Debt Scam
Faced with high-profile criticism, law school deans pull out the scare tactics in defense of the lucrative status quo. -
Law Schools
Law Schools Need To Lie More About The Market
Law professor is tired of all the bad news about the legal market and he wants law schools to do a better spin job. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.06.15
* At the annual Association of American Law Schools meeting, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg handed out a delightful piece of marriage advice that she sometimes uses when dealing with her colleagues on the Supreme Court: “It helps to sometimes be a little deaf.” [National Law Journal]
* Thomas Gilbert Jr., the man accused of killing his father — who just so happened to be the founder of the Wainscott Capital hedge fund — allegedly shot him to death over a $200 cut in his monthly allowance. This is why rich people can’t have nicer things. [New York Post]
* Litigants on both sides of a First Amendment issue headed to SCOTUS are using a law review article penned by none other than Justice Elena Kagan in an attempt to influence all of the justices. See, people do read law review articles. [New York Times]
* Musical chairs, dean-poaching edition: Fordham Law just named Matthew Diller as its new dean, but he’s still going to remain as dean at Cardozo until the end of the year. Let’s see how he tackles the school’s enrollment decline. [New York Law Journal]
* Per a study conducted by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, law school graduates who participated in a practice-ready program fared better as attorneys than those who did not. Whoa, nice going. [WSJ Law Blog]
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.02.15
* Nice try. Woman tries to add insurance coverage from the ambulance after the crash. [Legal Juice]
* Charles Pierce is a great writer. Not that keen at sports prognostication, though. I’ll let Urban Meyer respond to Pierce’s prediction of a “whopping win” by Florida State. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
* You’ve seen our 10 most read stories of the year. Check out the top 10 from our friends across the pond. [Legal Cheek]
* “Conservatism and porn.” OK, Professor Nita Farahany. You know how to get the attention of Above the Law. [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* “NEW YORK POLICE SHOOTING ATTORNEYS.” Perhaps not the most lucid headline. [Sullivan Papain]
* Writing a blog post about a judge’s on-the-record comments is not defamation. Unfortunately we actually needed a ruling on that one. [New York Law Journal]
* Are you at AALS? Here’s a Happy Hour for you! [Concurring Opinions]
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Association of American Law Schools, Law Schools, Quote of the Day
Which Law Schools Will Be The First To Close? Expert Hazards A Guess
Could one of them be your law school? -
Cars, Contests, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Student Loans
6 Cars Law Students Drive: Please Show Us Yours
Is your law school debt high because you drive a nice car? -
Abortion, Association of American Law Schools, Biglaw, Books, Conferences / Symposia, Football, Gender, Intellectual Property, Jed Rubenfeld, Law Schools, Racism, Securities and Exchange Commission, Securities Law, Sports, Tax Law, Trademarks
Morning Docket: 01.06.14
* “Either access to abortion will be dramatically restricted in the coming year or perhaps the pushback will begin.” We’re moving back in history. Here’s hoping pro-choice advocacy will be born anew in 2014. [New York Times] * George S. Canellos, the SEC’s co-chief of enforcement, announced his departure on Friday, and people are already wondering whether he’ll return to his old stomping grounds at Milbank Tweed. [DealBook / New York Times] * We hope legal educators had fun at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting, but we hope most of all that they learned what needs to change to really make legal education pay. [WSJ Law Blog] * “I believe women lawyers can contribute a lot to the legal system.” Saudi Arabia now has its first female law firm dedicated to bringing women’s issues to the country’s patriarchal courts. Congratulations! [RT] * A Starbucks spokeswoman issued a defense to the cease-and-desist response letter that went viral worldwide, and it reads just like how her company’s coffee tastes: bland. [International Business Times] * Amy “Tiger Mom” Chua is back with a vengeance, co-authoring a controversial new book (affiliate link) with her husband, Jed Rubenfeld. Which cultural groups are superior? [New York Post] -
Association of American Law Schools, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Rudeness
Well That's A Rude Way To Welcome Your New Dean
Maybe law deans should be hired like football coaches. -
Law Schools, Quote of the Day
As the Ivory Tower Crumbles, New Leadership Emerges
It's a scary time to step into a leadership role at the Association of American Law Schools... -
Antonin Scalia, Arthur Miller, Biglaw, Conferences / Symposia, Federal Judges, Law Professors, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Arthur Miller Puts Justice Scalia and Others on Panel; Good Thing Everybody Did the Reading
Even if you are on a panel with Justice Scalia, you should really do the reading...