Ethics
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Attorney Misconduct, Crowell & Moring, Deaths, Free Speech, Health Care / Medicine, iPhone, Jersey Shore, Legal Ethics, Morning Docket, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Morning Docket: 10.07.11
* The Westboro Baptist Church has announced — on an iPhone — that it will be picketing Steve Jobs’s funeral. And now I have an Alanis Morissette song stuck in my head. [Los Angeles Times] * Price check on aisle seven. Price check on aisle seven for a divorce train wreck. People over in England […]
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Health Care / Medicine, Money, Student Loans, United Kingdom / Great Britain
The New Way To Pay Back Educational Debt: Sell A Kidney!
My wife and I have made this proposal to our Harvard creditors: they forgive our debt, we give the school a baby. A “pure-bred” Harvard baby that Harvard can dress up or perform experiments on or whatever. It will have to be a black baby, which might underwhelm some Harvard officials, but that’s got to […] - Sponsored
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Bad Ideas, Education / Schools, Quote of the Day, Sex
Quote of the Day: Why Don't They Have A Lap Dance Section on the MPRE?
I don’t know, just kind of laying on top of him. Not laying on top of him but straddling him. It was like a lap dance, you could say. — a sophomore describing the “ethics symposium” hosted by Jack Rappaport, a business professor at Lasalle University. You can read more about Rappaport’s alleged activities over […]
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Legal Ethics, New Jersey, Real Estate, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
Virtual Law Offices Are a Real Issue for Small Law Firms
Brick and mortar is so last century. Nowadays, one can get an entire post-secondary education without ever leaving the comfort of home, including a law degree (no I’m not talking about Belmont) and an LLM. Then, with your degrees and fully developed agoraphobia in hand, you can move seamlessly into a fully virtual law practice […] -
Public Interest, Weirdness
Why Public and Private Defense Lawyers Shouldn't Date Each Other
Usually, we find conversations with lawyers to be very engaging. But in this video short, Ron Livingston does not: The video was produced as part of a corporate undertaking — The Responsibility Project — devoted to “exploring what it means to do the right thing.” So, what is it trying to say exactly? -
Attorney Misconduct, Legal Ethics, Rudeness
Time for Our Daily Dose of Political Correctness
The language police are out in force. The ABA Journal reports that a lawyer’s bad language, used in public, has triggered an ethics inquiry: A township lawyer in New Jersey is facing the wrath of an animal rights group after he used the C-word to describe one of its demonstrators. Lawyer Richard Shackleton now faces […]
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