Cornell Law School
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Contests, Law Schools, March Madness
ATL March Madness: The Greatest Law School Scandal Of All Time!
The champion of this year's "Best Law School Scandal" bracket is revealed. -
Law Schools, March Madness
ATL March Madness: Law School Scandal Championship
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.29.16
* Perversely, Antonin Scalia’s death may have saved public unions. [Slate]
* Will online law schools radically alter the landscape of legal education? [Law Reboot]
* Justice Scalia’s death has changed how frequently the remaining justices speak. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* A criminal-defense attorney hasn’t sat on the Supreme Court’s bench in 25 years, but is that really a problem? [Vox]
* Follow-up on the racist meme that circulated at Cornell Law. [College Fix]
* Laurence Tribe discusses the Merrick Garland nomination. [NBC]
* The North Carolina anti-LGBTQ law is now the subject of a lawsuit, because obviously. [Fusion]
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Law Schools, March Madness
ATL March Madness: The Final Four Law School Scandals
The Final Four of Law School Scandals revealed! -
Law Schools, March Madness
ATL March Madness: The Elite 8 Of Law School Scandals
Some awfully juicy scandals populate the Elite 8 of this tournament. -
Law Schools
ATL March Madness: And Then There Were 16 Law School Scandals
Vote now in the Sweet 16 of our Best Law School Scandals contest. -
Law Schools, March Madness
ATL March Madness: Best Law School Scandal
It's time to get voting in ATL's annual March Madness bracket! -
Law Schools, Minority Issues, Racism
Minority-On-Minority Racist Memeing, At Cornell Law
Racist meme was a problem, but the apology was accepted. - Sponsored
How Generative AI Will Improve Legal Service Delivery
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.28.15
* Good news, everyone! Legally Blonde 3 is supposedly in the works, and Reese Witherspoon says that the movie may involve Elle Woods becoming a Supreme Court justice or some kind of an elected official. It’s really too bad that SCOTUS robes aren’t pink. [Washington Post]
* Biglaw firms aren’t the only ones that are downsizing when it comes to their headcount. Case in point, Lear Corporation’s in-house legal department has dropped from 20 attorneys to 11, but its GC Terry Larking says it’s working for the company. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
* Cornell Law School will be teaming up with Cornell Tech to launch a new LL.M. degree in law, technology, and entrepreneurship. Like most LL.M. degrees, we imagine that it will cost a pretty penny, but that its overall value on the market will be low. [Cornell Chronicle]
* “Do we really need to protect people from trying to achieve their dreams?” Professor Noah Feldman of Harvard Law thinks we shouldn’t coddle law school applicants who are unlikely to pass a bar or try to “save” them from a lifetime of debt. [Bloomberg View]
* She shoots, she scores? An ex-cheerleader filed suit against the Milwaukee Bucks under the Fair Labor Standards Act because she alleges she was paid less than minimum wage to cheer for the team. The suit is the first of its kind filed against an NBA team. [ABC News]
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Law Schools
OK, Stop It, Cornell Law School
Are students shamelessly trying to get our attention with faux meltdowns? -
Law School Deans, Law Schools
Cornell 1L Loses His Damn Mind On Message Board, Spars With Dean
Some 1Ls drop out of law school. Some leave flaming bridges as they go. This kid is the latter. -
Law Schools
You'll Never Guess What Was Stolen At This T14 Law School
It takes a truly remarkable petty crime to move the needle. -
Law Schools, Rankings
ATL Law School Rankings: Top Schools By Category
The top performing schools in the some of the various categories that make up the ATL Law School Rankings.
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This T14 Law School Writes Terrible Cover Letters
A school-wide email lambasts lazy law students. -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings
What Are 'The Top 50 Go-To Law Schools'?
Check out the top 10 "go-to" law schools. What does it mean to be a "go-to" law school? Find out. -
Document Review, FCC, Non-Sequiturs, Sports, Supreme Court
Non-Sequiturs: 09.30.14
* The world’s largest Harry Potter memorabilia collection belongs to a lawyer. His patronus is a shimmering gavel. [The Telegraph] * The FCC has ended the sports blackout rule. Expect the NFL to go bankrupt within days. [Politico] * No one expects to see “lawyer” on a Top 20 Work-Life Balance list, but there is one legal job out there coming in at number 11. [Glassdoor via Adjunct Law Prof Blog] * Want to expose the severe problems of the over-criminalization of everything? Everyone with a warrant turn themselves in on one day. Call it “Warrant Day.” See how the system copes logistically and financially when all those citations come home to roost all at once. [Street Roots] * Russia’s equivalent of Chief Justice Roberts advocates a return to serfdom. Now there’s an originalist! [Business Insider] * Bow Tie Law talks about the role of discovery software in the duty of lawyers to review documents. Because document review is “legal work” when it’s about paying people a livable wage and “computer work” when it isn’t. [The Everlaw Blog] * Before we get wrapped up in the cases the Supreme Court will decide, let’s remember all the cases it won’t decide. Because “we can tell a lot about what the court cares about—and what it doesn’t” from its cert decisions. [Slate] * Ha. After today’s story about the debt mistakes of Lisa S., here’s the cautionary tale of one “Elie M.” [Law and More] * Elizabeth Garrett, USC Provost, will become the next president of Cornell. Garrett will also be a tenured faculty member at Cornell Law School and is bringing along her husband, Andrei Marmor, who will also join the law school. See, this is how you hire administrators: get someone willing to do double-duty with teaching! [Cornell Chronicle] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law Schools, Sports
Which World Cup Team Is Your Law School?
You can understand a lot about the World Cup when you realize every team is basically a law school. -
Bar Exams, Blog Wars, Blogging, Law Schools
In Defense Of My Sympathy For A Sad Ivy Law Grad
Apparently I'm a hypocrite for actually feeling bad for somebody. -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Sad Ivy League Law Grad Says: 'So Many Years Of Schooling Have Led Nowhere, Just To Debt.'
A gut-wrenching tale from a law grad who can't pass the bar. -
Gender, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 03.19.14
* The Fortune 500′s top women lawyers have a message for you. There is a ton of female talent out there, and you’ll probably have a woman at the head of your legal department very, very soon — whether you like it or not. [Corporate Counsel]
* Cornell Law’s new dean would definitely be a contender if we still ran those Law School Dean Hotties contests. Welcome, Eduardo Peñalver. First task: resolve the tie at #13 in the latest U.S. News law school rankings. [Cornell Chronicle]
* Cleveland-Marshall Law has a new “risk-free” degree. Just go for one year. If you hate it, you can drop out, but you’ll have a master of legal studies — which is better than one-third of a J.D. [National Law Journal]
* Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, the man who has emphatically and repeatedly denied that he’s Bitcoin’s creator, hired a law firm to continue to spread his denials across the globe. Wow. Such lawyer. [Newsmax]
* This catfight could use some mud: A lawyer for Sarah Grimes, the sorority girl who came to blows with Nick Saban’s daughter and sued, pledged to take his client’s case to the state’s highest court. [AL.com]