Don’t try this at home kids

29 Dec 2011 at 2:06 PM
Cardozo Law School, Law Schools

Homeless By Choice: Because Law School Wasn’t Tough Enough

By Elie Mystal

It's like Bizzaro Pursuit of Happyness.

If you were close to a computer yesterday, you probably noticed the article on Gawker about the Yeshiva University student who was “homeless by choice” while going to school. The student, who goes by the name of “David,” gave an interview to the Yeshiva Observer.

If you read the article quickly, you might have missed the part where we found out this David fellow is a 2L at Cardozo Law School. You might have missed the part where this 2L at Cardozo decided to go through a semester of law school while living on the streets.

The Yeshiva Observer interview which Gawker linked to focused on the crazy aspect of a privileged person depriving himself of shelter. But David reached out to Above the Law and gave us short interview, including insight into how his self-challenge affected his legal career….

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18 Jan 2011 at 11:21 AM
Education / Schools, George Washington University Law School, Pranks, Privacy

Privacy Lawyer Aaron Titus Playing Robocop Was Possibly Illegal, But Definitely Funny

By Kashmir Hill

Aaron Titus, are you in there?

When Washington, D.C., was buried in snow last week, one suburban Maryland school alerted parents via robocall that they would be opening two hours late. The call, hypothetically letting parents know that they could sleep in that day, went out at 4:30 a.m.

That angered privacy lawyer Aaron Titus. His well-told tale of revenge reverberated around the media last week, thanks to a story in the Washington Post. Titus went Robocop on the school, using an online robocalling company to place a 4:30 a.m. call to the home phones of nine school board members, the school superintendent, and the school’s chief lawyer the next day, letting them know he hadn’t appreciated the early morning wake-up call. (The school said it made a mistake in setting the time for the calls and that it should have gone out at the immensely more reasonable hours of 5 or 6 a.m.)

Titus tweeted that he was following the Golden Rule. Meanwhile, other laws were possibly ignored…

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Tags: Aaron Titus, D.C., Don't try this at home kids, Education / Schools, George Washington University Law School, Lawyers don't like to be woken up by phones at 4:30 a.m. unless it's work-related, Maryland, Pranks, Privacy, Washington D.C.

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