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Books, Career Alternatives, Clerkships, Facebook, Media and Journalism, Saira Rao
Tropical Depression: The Latest in 'Clerkship Lit'
Move over, chick lit. Make way for “clerk lit”! Over the past few years, we’ve seen a number of novels focused on the clerkship, a professional rite of passage for many a prestige-obsessed young lawyer. In these books, plucky law-clerk protagonists have tried to do justice while also holding on to their jobs (and their […] -
Blogging, Facebook, Small Law Firms, Social Networking Websites, Twittering
Small Firms, Big Lawyers: 7 Reasons to Avoid Social Media
Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Small Firms, Big Lawyers, one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. Most small law firms are staying away from social media when it comes to marketing, according to a new report from Chicago-based Total Attorneys. The report, which you can see here (a short […] - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Bad Ideas, Crime, Facebook, Rank Stupidity, Social Networking Websites, Technology
World's Dumbest Criminal Would Like to Add You As a 'Friend'
The following tale of legal technology took place in our nation’s capital, although it seemed to draw more attention overseas. Last December, as winter’s grip began to take hold over Washington, D.C., Rodney Knight Jr. found himself in serious need of a heavy jacket. So he did what any of us would have done in these circumstances: he […]
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Facebook, Law Professors, Law Schools, LLMs, Rudeness
Here in the United States, if the professor ends class early, we do not complain.
And maybe that’s why we’re falling behind the rest of the world educationally. But at least we’re having fun, right? This story comes to us from Boston University Law School (a top 10 law school by alumni median income, by the way). A professor accidentally ended class 15 minutes early, and it looked like class […] -
Drinking, Facebook, Pro Se Litigants, Quote of the Day
Facebook Status Update of the Day: Most. Embarrassing. Loss. Ever.
Still shocked that yesterday our attorney lost to a pro se litigant that was immediately taken into custody after the verdict for drinking in court, being drunk while in court and blowing a .13!!! — Facebook status update of a person who works for a tow truck company who watched something horrible happen. -
Akin Gump, D. Kyle Sampson, Facebook, Gay, Gay Marriage, Judicial Nominations, Lavi Soloway, Musical Chairs, Non-Sequiturs, Social Networking Websites
Non-Sequiturs: 02.25.11
* One of my favorite parts of the judicial nomination process is the financial voyeurism it makes possible. Check out the income and net worth numbers for two S.D.N.Y. nominees named Paul: Paul Engelmayer, recognized by ATL as a top partner to work for, and Paul Oetken, who would become the first openly gay man […] -
Facebook, Jury Duty, Technology, Trials, Twittering
If You're Not Using Facebook, You're A Bad Lawyer
If you’re not booting up your laptop or iPad during voir dire, you’re not a very good lawyer. That’s my takeaway from recent WSJ and Reuters articles on jury selection in the social media age. This week, the Wall Street Journal took a look at the evolution of jury selection in the age of social […] -
3rd Circuit, Facebook, Privacy, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Defense Attorney Will Poke Appeals Court Over Juror's Right to Privacy
Facebook’s lawyers have been looking for a rumble over the company’s responsibility to turn over user account information in legal cases. Now they’ve got one, thanks to a California juror and his grandstanding defense attorney. The case stems from a gang violence criminal trial. Members of the Killa Mobb were being tried for a 2008 […] - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.28.11
* Rahm’s back. And now you’re all in big BIG trouble. [Chicago Tribune] * It was a resounding victory for Rahm Emanuel, but two justices didn’t think the majority needed to benchslap so hard. [Chicago Sun-Times] * No more jokes about Allen Stanford. Still, that picture reminds me of a Geto Boys album cover. [TPMMuckraker] […]
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Facebook, Pictures, Pregnancy / Paternity, Privacy, Social Networking Websites, Technology
PPP: Poor Placental Precedent?
When you allow a photo to be taken, you should expect that it will be shown to others. That’s at the heart of a judge’s decision in the famous placenta photo case. Unless you’ve been stuck inside a womb, you must have heard by now about the placenta that almost aborted a nursing student’s career. […] -
Bad Ideas, Email Scandals, Law Schools, Social Networking Websites
Networking 101: Don't Send Networking Emails Like This One
Here at Above the Law, we’re still enjoying the awesomeness of 1Ls and 2Ls going to war over the appropriate use of a listserv. Today we’ve got an email more mundane in subject matter, but no less objectionable. It’s from a 1L (of course), who is trying to “network” with fellow 1Ls. And it’s written […] -
Facebook, Law Schools, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Posting Your 1L Grades on Facebook Makes You A ...?
What kind of world are we living in where people post their 1L grades on Facebook? I guess that after years of status updates about your latest biological function, you can fool yourself into thinking that people actually care about your Civ Pro grade. The world is full of navel-gazers. Companion question: What kind of […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.17.11
* Lawsuit lending, i.e., investing in lawsuits, is a booming business — but are plaintiffs getting screwed (again)? [New York Times] * The “state secrets” doctrine goes before the Supreme Court tomorrow. [USA Today via How Appealing] * Elsewhere in SCOTUS news, Justice Breyer gets a shout-out in the title of a new study: “‘People […]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.14.11
* Arizona has one of the least restrictive laws on involuntary commitment of nutters in the nation. Next time, Arizona. Next time. [Reuters] * Talk of new gun laws is the perfect time to link to the most criminally underrated movie of all time…UHF. [New York Times] * Two teen girls in Florida were arrested […]
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Facebook, Hair, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.04.11
* Hey baby, your placenta or mine? Four nursing students may have aborted their careers due to oversharing on Facebook — and now one of them is suing. [Wall Street Journal] * Like sh*t through a goose: a woman claims she now has digestive problems because she got to second base with Donald Duck. [Washington […]
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Drinking, Facebook, Job Searches, Outsourcing, Quote of the Day
Facebook Status Update of the Day: Well, they can't send bartending jobs to India.
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Facebook, Law Schools, Social Networking Websites
Facebook Catfight At Florida State Law
In the comments earlier today, I remarked that it feels like law students are gearing up for finals. You can just tell. We’re getting more and more psuedo-substantive legal arguments that only look at one side of the issue, but are said as if the commenter is some kind of expert in whatever law he […] -
Facebook, Free Speech, Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, Vanderbilt
Quote of the Day: Basically, Zuckerberg's a Jerk
If I’m applying the First Amendment, I have to apply it to a world where there’s an Internet, and there’s Facebook, and there are movies like … ‘The Social Network,’ which I couldn’t even understand. — Justice Stephen Breyer, in remarks made yesterday at Vanderbilt Law School (gavel bang: ABA Journal). -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.09.10
* The Canadian Supreme Court is debating whether a woman can give prior consent for unconscious anal sex. When it’s that cold, I guess you do really freaky things to stay warm. [Vancouver Sun] * Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court is just plain being anal. Yesterday, the Court rejected the first of the Obamacare lawsuits, […]
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Defamation, Facebook, Social Networking Websites
Nevada Lawyer Sues Over Mean Facebook Comments
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Unless it involves defamatory Facebook postings and a retaliatory lawsuit. The new CBS show The Defenders has Jim Belushi and Jerry O’Connell dramatizing and glamorizing the life and work of Las Vegas attorneys. But for the real attorneys working in the tumbleweeds of Nevada, it can be a […]