Will This Student ‘Debt Strike’ Force The Government To Forgive Loans?
Law school students and graduates would love to know the answer to this question.
What Is Notre Dame’s Police Force Hiding From ESPN?
The school is trying to make a very scary police force.
Keeping Law School Accessible When Federal Loans Fall Short
As federal borrowing caps tighten financing options for law students, one organization is stepping in to negotiate the terms they can't secure alone.
Morning Docket: 09.15.16
* Judge Posner tells lawyer for Mike Pence: "You are so out of it." Was he talking about the case or the election? [LA Times] * Vibrator sparks class action of bachelorette party attendee class. [Corporate Counsel] * Bayer is looking to buy Monsanto and multiple Biglaw firms are working on this headache. [The Am Law Daily] * Former Simpson Thacher clerk gets 46 months for insider trading. [Law360] * Guess who is funding the battle over pot legalization? [The Intercept] * The next Brown v. Board? [Law.com] * The least shocking lawsuit award goes to this suit claims Georgia's voter registration laws violate federal law. [ABC News]
Pastor Wants High Schoolers Shot At Over Anthem; Trump Wants Them To Find Another Country
If you pro-anthem people keep it up, sports leagues are going to end up having to pull the anthem before ordinary games.
Pastor Wants High Schoolers Shot At Over Anthem; Trump Wants Them To Find Another Country
If you pro-anthem people keep it up, sports leagues are going to end up having to pull the anthem before ordinary games.
Drinking On Campus Is Good For Students, But Bad For Schools — Guess What Schools Want You To Do?
Look, if you are actually concerned about student drinking, and over-drinking, then you should want to keep your people on campus.
What Biglaw Can Learn From Personal Injury Firms
How a former insurance agent built a Houston injury practice around systems, empathy, and disciplined advocacy.
Lawyer’s Douchey Response To His Child’s Teacher Is Everything Wrong With Lawyers
Reality check: Law degrees do not mean you are always right.
Lawyer’s Douchey Response To His Child’s Teacher Is Everything Wrong With Lawyers
Reality check: Law degrees do not mean you are always right.
Harambe Didn’t Die So You Could Be Intellectually Lazy
Making a blanket prohibition, on a type of joke, is a weak attempt to avoid thinking too hard about what is appropriate in a community environment.
How Law Deans Spend Their (Or, At Least, How One Dean Spent His) ‘Summer Vacation’
There's a lot to keep law school deans busy over the summer.
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Georgetown To Treat Descendants Of Slaves They Owned Just Like Any Other Legacy Applicant
It's an empty gesture. But so are most symbolic policies, and yet that meaninglessness does not make them unimportant.
University Of Chicago And Northwestern University: Different Point Of Views On Safe Spaces
“See we do it for that boy that graduated / That looked you in your eyes real tough and said appreciate it.” — Andre 3000 This week, my MBA alma mater, the University of Chicago, sent a warning letter to its incoming freshmen class stating that it does not support “so-called trigger warnings” or “intellectual […]
Morning Docket: 08.26.16
* As a teenager, Richard Posner was fond of the phrase "The Poze knows." In other news, Richard Posner was an insufferable teenager. [WSJ Law Blog] * Layoffs are coming! At least that's what this analyst thinks. [Am Law Daily] * Law school dean beats charges that he beat professor. Or "squeezed" him anyway. [Law.com] * The evolution of the Fourth Circuit. [MSN] * Alabama passes a law requiring students to learn cursive. Tough educational stance for a state that continues to call evolution controversial. [NPR] * France's top court will hear the stupid Burkini ban case. [Yahoo!] * Another day, another humiliating loss for unpaid interns. [Courthouse News Service]
University Of Chicago Takes Tough Stand Against ‘Safe Space’ Strawman
No, "safe spaces" aren't ruining education.
Professor Tyra Banks Will Deign To Educate Lowly Stanford MBA Students
Yeah, at Stanford you get Tyra Banks. Because Tyra Banks is serious!