Finals
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Constitutional Law, Law Professors, Law Schools, Screw-Ups
Fordham Con Law Clusterbleep
Are professors ever punished for massively screwing up exams through abject laziness? -
Grade Reform, Law Professors, Law Schools, Privacy, Screw-Ups
Would You Like To See The Grades Of All Your Classmates? Then You Should Have Gone To This Top Law School!
Grading disaster at Michigan... - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Law Professors, Law Schools
Time For Our Semiannual Reminder To Law Professors to SUBMIT YOUR GRADES ALREADY
Law school faculty members can't get their act together to get grades in on time, again...
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Law Schools
Who Is the Turd in the Punchbowl at Brooklyn Law?
Brooklyn Law student freaks out over perceived injustice... -
Holidays and Seasons, Law Schools
'Twas The Night Before Finals, And Law Students Were Freaking Out
Turning your case brief into a Christmas poem is the NKI... -
Advice for the Lawlame, Bad Ideas, Law Professors, Law Schools, Libraries / Librarians, Parties
Law Profs Have Holiday Party In The Reading Room During Exam Period
Hmm... what's the worst place at a law school to hold a holiday party? -
Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, listserv, Screw-Ups
More Finals Week Ridiculousness: Law Prof Rips Final Exam Straight from Commercial Outline
What should happen when a professor doesn't even write her own exam -- and just takes it straight from a widely available outline? -
Law Schools
Exam Screw-up Follow-up: The New And Improved Plan For Administering A Simple Contracts Exam
Will Nova's third attempt to administer a 1L contracts exam be a charm? - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Law Professors, Law Schools, Screw-Ups
Huge Exam Screw-Up Requires Class to Retake Portions Of Test
An amazing exam administration screw-up defies explanation... -
Harvard, Jury Duty, Law Professors, Law Schools, Movies
The Harvard Law Exam That Requires You To Apply Lessons From ‘12 Angry Men’
The HLS exam that a film critic could pass... -
Law Schools, listserv, Rudeness
You Can Take Our Lives, But You'll Never Take Our Ping Pong
We know it's finals week, and everyone is stressed and needs to study, but that's no excuse for monopolizing your law school's ping-pong table… -
Bad Ideas, Constitutional Law, Law Schools, Rank Stupidity
Kid Posts Take Home Exam Question On Message Board Looking For Answers, Finds Only Ridicule
Today, we've got a story that is both stupid and unethical. A student at a top 14 law school reportedly posted a question from his Constitutional Law exam on a message board -- during the exam.... -
Animal Law
Introducing the Law School Llama
A T14 law school has an interesting strategy to combat final stress…
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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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…
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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Advertising, Career Center, Law Schools, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center: How to Succeed in Law School Without Even Trying (Too Much)
Looking for some tips on how to succeed in law school? Try these on for size. -
Elena Kagan, Food, Grade Reform, Law Schools
The Early Bird Gets the In-Class Candy
We've now seen a couple of examples of top law schools trying to reassure students who might receive less than stellar grades. Now, another top law school is getting into the "dear God these millennials are made of porcelain" game. But even when you are being soothed but the Student Bar Association at your great law school, you should beware of the classmate that is willing to out-compete you for treats.... -
Law Professors, Law Schools
The Evidence Exam at Harvard Law That Requires No Evidence to Pass
Professor Nesson at Harvard Law is all about the existential experience of thinking deeply (or casually) about law -- and he's doing it at a school that confers the very tangible benefit of high-paying, prestigious jobs to all who want them. So, strap yourselves in: two questions, 500-word limit per answer. Have fun, kids.... -
Law Professors, Law Schools, Screw-Ups
Stop Reusing Your Old Exams, You LAZY Law School Professors!
How hard is it to write an exam for a course you've taught all semester? On a scale of one to ten -- ten involving programing a rocket ship, one somewhere around putting on pants in the morning -- where does formulating a law school exam rate? A two? During this finals period alone, we've got students from three law schools, including two law schools in the top ten, alleging that their professors couldn't be bothered to come up with fresh exams for this year's students.... -
Hotties, Law Professors, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Rape, Video games, Women's Issues
Non-Sequiturs: 12.14.11
* Now that Chicago has bared it all, isn’t it time for other law schools to fall in line? Show us the stats for the class of 2010 already. [Law School Transparency] * And this is why your mother told you not to talk to strangers. [Legal Juice] * If you’re going to send out […] -
Copyright, Defamation, Education / Schools, Exercise, Free Speech, Mergers and Acquisitions, Morning Docket, Sex, Sex Scandals, Texas
Morning Docket: 12.12.11
* Protip for Mark Hansen, AT&T’s lawyer: when you want a judge to save your merger plans, it’s probably not a good idea to demand that she make a ruling by a certain date. [Businessweek] * What’s going on in Cooley Law’s defamation suit against Rockstar05 (other than discussion of whether the school’s attorney understands […]
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Food, Law Schools
Finals Give Students the Chance to Occupy Their Law Schools
Law students, we know that finals time is rough, because we've all been there. Sometimes getting together with a study group is a great way to take the edge off. And like good little scouts, these law students are prepared. Okay, maybe some of them are a little bit too prepared. When your classmates email us to let us know that they hate studying at the law school because of you, maybe you need to give it a rest....