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Trio Of Elite Law Schools Try Biglaw Early Interviews To Give Their Students Even More Of A Leg Up
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T14 Law School Cancels Classes Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
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Biglaw isn't the only career path out there.
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Central Park Five Prosecutor To Leave Columbia Law School
Elizabeth Lederer out at Columbia. -
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Calls Intensify To Hold Columbia Law Lecturer Responsible For Her Role In The Central Park Five Case
Columbia Law can't whitewash her record any more. -
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Law Revue Video Contest 2019: The Finalists!
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This Is What Happens When The Clooneys, Columbia Law School, The ABA, The UN, And Microsoft Work Together
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Will Law Students Turn Away From Government Jobs Thanks To The Shutdown?
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Top Law School Enters Into Partnership With Amal Clooney
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Elite Law School Announces Exciting Expansion Of Support For Public Interest Work
T14 law school is increasing their support of public interest work. -
Prestigious Law School Launches Exciting New LL.M. Program
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The Most Important Lesson From An Elite Law School: Rock, Paper, Scissors?
Juvenile, but at least it isn't racist.
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T14 Law School's Law Review Appoints Its First Black Male Editor-In-Chief In History
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.04.18
* Amal Clooney, the acclaimed lawyer who is working a side hustle as a visiting professor at Columbia Law, left her apartment while wearing clothes. This is apparently a very big deal. Oh, did we mention she’s married to George Clooney? Because she is. [Daily Mail]
* Both Microsoft and the Department of Justice have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a high-profile data privacy case even though oral arguments have already been heard due to the fact that a new law, the CLOUD Act, has made it moot. [Reuters]
* Villanova Law students got the day off yesterday to continue celebrating the Wildcats’ 79-62 win in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The team’s chaplain who delivers a prayer before every game is a lawyer. [Legal Intelligencer]
* “She’s created the impression that I’ve done something wrong and I haven’t even had final adjudication.” Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea of DePaul Law has canceled Professor Donald Hermann’s class in the middle of the semester after he used the N-word during a lecture. We may have more on this later. [Chicago Sun-Times]
* In the lead up to the release of the 2018 Am Law 100, the American Lawyer has been publishing articles about firms’ impressive financial feats. One of the latest articles is about Strasburger & Price’s 9 percent jump in net income — which likely means that Strasburger may have made it (at least into the Am Law 200). [American Lawyer]
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New York Is Officially GRE Country
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Another Elite Law School Eyes GRE For Admissions
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 02.02.18
* A question that has crossed the mind of every Biglaw corporate associate: “How much of lawyering is being a copy-and-paste monkey?” [3 Geeks and a Law Blog]
* Kenneth Jost notes out how Justices Ginsburg and Gorsuch like to butt heads — and scores the fight 2-0 in RBG’s favor. [Jost on Justice]
* And speaking of rumbles at One First Street, which pairs of justices have the most disagreements with each other, as reflected in majority and dissenting opinions? Adam Feldman has answers. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Saira Rao, former Cleary Gottlieb associate and author of the clerkship novel Chambermaid (affiliate link), takes on a new challenge: running for Congress. [American Bazaar]
* Data privacy is the name of the game these days, and Thomson Reuters is ready; TR showed off its new, Watson-enabled Data Privacy Advisor at Legalweek here in New York. [Dewey B Strategic]
* Amidst all the hoopla and robot fights at Legalweek, it would be easy to overlook the latest news from Neota Logic — but you shouldn’t. [Artificial Lawyer]
* Should more states move away from requiring unanimous jury verdicts in criminal cases? Joel Cohen argues that 11 is not enough. [Law & Crime]
* Can a U.S. court punish someone for their speech, on the theory that he breached an agreement not to speak, while keeping the speech-restrictive agreement secret? Eugene Volokh thinks not (with good reason). [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
* Dewey see an end in sight for legal proceedings related to the collapse of the Biglaw giant? Former executive director Stephen DiCarmine was supposed to be in court today to face fraud claims from the Securities and Exchange Commission, but it looks like the parties might have a deal. [Law360]
* If you will be in New York City next weekend and are interested Asian-American leadership in the legal field, consider attending Columbia APALSA’s annual conference — where Kathy Hirata Chin will be honored for her efforts to promote diversity in the legal profession. [Columbia Law School APALSA]