Aaron Zelinsky

07 Mar 2013 at 5:07 PM
Eric Holder, Law Reviews, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, State Judges, Technology

Non-Sequiturs: 03.07.13

By Joe Patrice

* Congratulations on your law degree! Here’s a list of the other professions you can go into, because “being a lawyer” might not be in your future. [Associate's Mind]

* Deleting unhelpful text messages is a poor litigation strategy [IT-Lex]

* Aaron Zelinsky wants your help coming up with legal aptonyms for an upcoming article. Do you not know what an aptonym is? It’s okay, just read his post and he’ll explain it for you. [Concurring Opinions]

* Rand Paul spoke for 13 hours. It only took two sentences to make him stop. Eric Holder has a great ROI. [Balloon-Juice]

* Cleveland Judge Pinkey Carr has issued another sentence making a convict wear a sign in public. [Columbus Dispatch]

* This grammar rant figuratively blew my mind. [3 Geeks and a Law Blog]

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Tags: Aaron Zelinsky, Eric Holder, Judge Pinkey Carr, Law Reviews, Non-Sequiturs, Pinkey Carr, Politics, Rand Paul, Spoliation, State Judges, Technology

30 Jan 2013 at 12:38 PM
Brett Kavanaugh, Clerkships, D.C. Circuit, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Job Searches, Law Schools, Merrick Garland

The Law Clerk Hiring Plan: Really, Really Dead Now

By David Lat

When it comes to the Law Clerk Hiring Plan, the voluntary set of guidelines to put federal law clerk hiring on a standard timetable, one might say, “The ship be sinking.”

Actually, scratch that. The ship be sunk, and barnacles are growing all over its hull.

We declared the Plan dead last June, when at least two top schools decided not to participate in it. But now the Plan is, well, dead and growing cold and decomposing.

Yesterday brought word that an über-prestigious court, one that gunners across the land would sacrifice body parts to clerk for (who needs a pinky finger anyway), is abandoning the Plan….

Continue reading “The Law Clerk Hiring Plan: Really, Really Dead Now”

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