Grades
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Job Searches, Law Professors, Law Schools
Qui Tam: A Study Of The Legal Profession In Verse
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Harvard Law Students Are The Best -- At Making Up Fake Transcripts
Which D.C. Circuit judges almost hired Mathew Martoma, defendant in the biggest insider trading case ever, back when he was a Harvard law student? - Sponsored
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Grade Reform, Law Professors, Law Schools
New Law Professor Devises Grading System Bewildering To Children, Annoying To Adults
Can somebody please stop this rookie professor from ruining his own class?
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Bar Exams, Law Schools, LSAT
What's The Best Predictor Of Bar Exam Success? It's Not The LSAT
If law schools are supposed to train people to pass the bar exam, they seem to be already doing the right thing. -
Law Schools, Lawsuit of the Day, Pro Se Litigants
Law Student Sues School For Making Him Retake a Class He Failed
Schools just can't get over that requirement that you "actually pass" classes to graduate. -
Grade Reform, Law Professors, Law Schools
Can Law School Grading Be More Fair?
Is there a better way to grade law school exams? And if so, would professors be willing to do it? -
Attorney Misconduct, Barack Obama, Biglaw, Crime, Election Law, FTC, Guantanamo Bay, Immigration, Lateral Moves, Law Firm Mergers, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Minority Issues, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 06.18.13
* Just like he said in 2008, President Barack Obama says that he’s going to close Guantanamo Bay, and this time, he means it. No, really, he appointed a Skadden partner to handle it, so we know he means business now. [Blog of Legal Times]
* The Supreme Court just invalidated Arizona’s proof-of-citizenship voter registration law, so of course Ted Cruz wants to add an amendment to the Senate immigration reform bill to require citizenship to vote because, well… duh. [Politico]
* According to a Pew Research survey, a majority of Americans think Edward Snowden should be prosecuted for his NSA leaks. It’s also likely that same majority don’t even know what Edward Snowden leaked. [USA Today]
* It looks like Jon Leibowitz, the FTC’s ex-chairman, got some great birthday presents this week. Davis Polk partnership and a SCOTUS victory aren’t too shabby. [DealBook / New York Times]
* They don’t give a damn ’bout their bad reputation: malpractice claims filed against attorneys and firms were up in 2012, and some say mergers and laterals are to blame. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* If you’re worried about your low GPA when applying to law school, you haven’t been reading the news. You’ll get in everywhere you apply. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
* ¡Ay dios mío! The Hispanic National Bar Association is hoping that a week spent in law school will inspire minority high school students to become lawyers in the distant future. [National Law Journal]
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Career Center, Career Files, Law Schools, Lawyers
From the Career Files: Is It Easier to Quit Law School After a Sex Change?
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Grade Reform, Law Professors, Law Schools
The Wussification of Legal Education Continues
Here's another pathetic attempt to save law faculty from the burdens of actually educating people... -
Biglaw, Books, Facebook, Federalist Society, General Counsel, Hedge Funds / Private Equity, In-House Counsel, Law Professors, Morning Docket, Murder, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Politics, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Tax Law, Technology
Morning Docket: 05.13.13
* Given the name and origins of the Tea Party movement, it actually makes perfect sense that their groups got grief from the IRS. [Washington Post]
* Wachtell Lipton weighs in against the practice of shareholder activists offering special compensation to director nominees. [Dealbook / New York Times]
* A law professor, Joshua Silverstein, argues that schools should embrace grade inflation. (But haven’t most of them done this already?) [WSJ Law Blog]
* Facebook shareholders might not “like” this news, but Ted Ullyot is stepping down as general counsel after almost five years. We’ll have more on this later. [National Law Journal]
* The Brooklyn DA’s office is reopening 50 murder cases that were worked on by retired detective Louis Scarcella (who looks oh-so-savory in the NYT’s photo of him). [New York Times]
* In news that should shock no one, Nicholas Speath’s dubious discrimination case against Georgetown Law has been dismissed. [The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times]
* Not long after leaving Cravath for Kirkland, Sarkis Jebejian is putting together billion-dollar deals for private-equity clients. [Am Law Daily]
* Professor Jeffrey Rosen reviews an interesting new book, The Federalist Society (affiliate link), authored by Michael Avery and Danielle McLaughlin. [New York Times]
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Law Professors, Law Schools, Rudeness
Gunner Storms Out Of Class, Sends Pissy Email To His Law Professor
How boring does class have to be before you are within your rights to stomp out? -
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...
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Conferences / Symposia, Drinking, Dubious Conferences, Facebook, Glenn Reynolds, Law Professors, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, UVA Law, Videos
Non-Sequiturs: 01.28.13
* The latest bombshell in the Chevron / Ecuador litigation: an ex-judge cops to participation in a bribery scheme. [Fortune] * I wish this “defense” of posting one’s law school grades on Facebook were more full-throated and “in your face.” [Virginia Law Weekly] * I suspect Professor Stephen Bainbridge is in the minority here. Most of my law professor friends enjoy all-expenses-paid trips to the Cayman Islands. [Professor Bainbridge] * Professor Glenn Reynolds: “As the GOP looks for issues it can win on, how about lowering the drinking age?” I’ll raise a glass to that. [Instapundit] * Ahoy, mateys! Did the Supreme Court grant cert in that piracy case out of the Fourth Circuit? [FindLaw] * Not all liberals hate guns. [New York Times] After the jump, the dashing and handsome Ryan Chenevert — Cosmo’s reigning Bachelor of the Year, and a Louisiana lawyer — offers his thoughts on dating…. Don’t you just love that southern accent? -
Grade Reform, Law School Deans, Law Schools
Law School ‘Recalls’ Grades, Because Apparently They Were Too Low
Grade recall! Please send them back to the factory to get more air. -
Facebook, Grade Reform, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, UVA Law
Should You Brag About Your Law School Grades On Facebook?
Facebook is obliterating our old rules about what is and is not appropriate to talk about. -
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... -
Grade Reform, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools
Top Law School Finally Commits To Getting Grades In On Time; Will Fine Late-Grading Faculty
Punishing faculty might be the only way to make them do their jobs in a timely fashion... -
Grade Reform, Law Schools, UVA Law
If Your Prof Still Hasn't Given You Your Grades, He Better Be Fired or Dead
At most schools, exams were two months ago. The "grade deadline" at schools that have them has already passed. If you don't have your grades by now, your law school should be offering you a refund for the outstanding classes. Well, students might not be able to do anything about late grades, but they don't have to be happy about it... -
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....