Pulling ‘The Hangover’ In Real Life Will Get You Arrested, Sued
In real life, the tiger in the Vegas hotel room eats you and you die.
Inside Straight: No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
People are idiots, as in-house columnist Mark Herrmann explains.
Schenck Price Competes Smarter With Lexis+ With Protégé
LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.
Social Media Darlings at Amy’s Baking Company Fear Lawsuit
From the social media meltdown of the century to the best threatened lawsuit yet.
Lawyer Claims His ‘Slut-Shaming’ Is Protected By the First Amendment — Just Like the Founders Intended
Hell hath no fury like a patent practitioner romantically scorned.
If You Don’t Want to Be a Lawyer, Don’t Go to Law School
Half of pre-law students don't even want to be real lawyers. Why are they going to law school?!
3D Printers Don’t Kill People, Guns Made With 3D Printers Kill People.
A law student tries to ruin 3D printing for everyone by turning it into a loophole to evade gun laws. Because... freedom!
Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup
With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation.
Later, When Students Have Sex On Or With A Duck Boat, The Law School Will Regret Rationing Water
Shouldn't water always be free if we care about student intoxication?
Inside Straight: On Blabbing
In-house columnist Mark Herrmann shares a few examples of how NOT to protect client confidences.
Florida Space Coast School of Law: Not An Onion Headline
Space Coast School of Law is as silly as it sounds...
Quote of the Day: Dreaming of a Third-String Law School?
Perhaps this football player's spot in the line-up is indicative of his future law school's ranking.
Filevine’s New Legal AI Platform LOIS Turns AI Into A True Legal Coworker
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
Non-Sequiturs: 12.28.12
* U.S. Attorneys are rising up, taking office, and conducting their business like hard-ass prosecutors. [Wall Street Journal] * If only they had more guns at the police station, this might never have happened. [Fox News] * Of course, out in Arizona, the state attorney general is pushing for an “armed posse” to patrol schools. Arizona: where bad ideas go to be fruitful and multiply. [NBC News] * Would you give your kidney to your favorite law professor? I wouldn’t, but I would consider taking the kidney of my least favorite law professor and giving it to, well, pretty much anybody else. [Wake Forest School of Law] * “Aereokiller” has been ordered to stop killing TV networks. [Film On] * Wait, we still have “longshoremen”? For real, not just as the backdrop for a season of the Wire? [Miami Herald] * Should law deans be “disbarred”? I like how people have to spend all this time just trying to figure out how to get law deans to tell the truth. [Tax Prof Blog]
Lawyer of the Day: Sorry Judge, But I’m Unavailable Due to the Mayan Apocalypse
It's the end of the world as we know it, so I'm not coming to court, judge!
Quote of the Day: Well, This Gives a Whole New Meaning to the Phrase ‘Oral Argument’
You wanted to call your lollipop what? That sounds so dirty!
Law Profs Have Holiday Party In The Reading Room During Exam Period
Hmm... what's the worst place at a law school to hold a holiday party?
Judge of the Day: A State Judge’s Alleged Affair and Baby Mama Drama Exposed — Via Incriminating Texts
The Michigan judge who sent half-naked pictures of himself to a bailiff via text is now back in the news with some more scandalous (and sexy) allegations.