Harvard University
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Law Schools
Have Lawyers Considered Telling Bill Ackman To Shut Up Because He's Just Making Everything Worse?
The billionaire is ranting about suing Business Insider. A competent lawyer should tell him that he's only made things worse. -
Intellectual Property
Harvard Slave Photo Lawsuit Is The Perfect Amalgam Of White Supremacy And Copyright Trolls
I'm just going to side with 'the black person' because, why not. - Sponsored
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
First Monday Musings By Dean Vik Amar: Reflections On The Harvard Admissions Trial
Even if the plaintiffs win in proving Harvard has unfairly treated Asians, the remedy they seek may be way too sweeping.
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Courts
Asian-American Affirmative-Action Lawsuit Against Harvard Has Always Been On Behalf Of Mediocre White People
If white supremacists cared about Asian-American students, they'd be fighting to hold Harvard accountable to Bakke, not destroy it. -
Law Schools
How Do You Eliminate Affirmative Action In Higher Education? By Improving The Quality Of All Schools
Unfortunately, that solution costs money and will likely result in more nondischargeable student loans for students. -
Crime
Naked Harvard Student Assaulted By Cambridge Police, Caught On Video
Going to Harvard will not protect you from police brutality. -
Department of Justice
Justice Is Investigating Harvard For Affirmative Action? Bruh, Bring It On!
Black Harvard Students Ain't Scurred Of Your White Attorney General. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.19.17
* Baker Botts files SCOTUS brief reminding them what wedding cakes look like. Someday we’ll look back on a case designed to create second class citizens and think, “oh right, that’s the one where the Supreme Court decided with the help of a picture book.” [National Law Journal]
* Pepe the Frog’s creator is going nuclear with his intellectual property challenges against the Nazi scum who’ve turned his character into a mascot. [Engadget]
* Trader seeks to withdraw guilty plea after government shows him evidence that he probably didn’t commit a crime. The more you ponder that sentence, the more troubling it is. [Law 360]
* There are more female equity partners than ever, which means still not very many. [Am Law Daily]
* BuzzFeed hires Roy Black in the defamation case over the Trump dossier. Specifically, this case is about the allegations in the dossier that Aleksej Gubarev hacked the Democrats, but that’s no fun, so let’s remember the dossier also talked about Russian pee parties. [Law.com]
* A review of the federal government’s merits and amicus arguments this Term and it’s an aggressive invitation to legislate from the bench. So much for railing against “activist judges”! [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Harvard University is hoping Trump’s NLRB changes labor law so they can crush unionization efforts on campus. Damn liberal, socialist colleges. [Labor Notes]
* Here’s one to make some of you feel very old: Toys R Us files for bankruptcy. [Huffington Post]
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How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
Findings from the "Future of Professionals Report," based on a survey of 1,200 professionals from North and South America and the UK. -
Asians, Department of Justice, Minority Issues
As Asian Americans Become More Pivotal In The Affirmative Action Debate, Both Sides Weigh In
Two opposing viewpoints on affirmative action, from Cory Liu and Jenn Fang. -
Education / Schools, Federal Judges, Job Searches
Judge Merrick Garland For President -- Of Harvard University
The former Supreme Court nominee would make a perfect leader for the great university. -
Asians, Harvard
Asian-American Groups Sue Harvard For Admissions Discrimination
If anybody should be bitching about Affirmative-Action, it's Asian-Americans. -
Food, Ridiculousness
Lawyer With 3 Harvard Degrees Loses His Mind Over $4 Chinese Food Overcharge
Please, hate this lawyer -- it's what he deserves. -
Clerkships, Harvard, Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Insider Trading, Jury Duty, S.D.N.Y., Trials, U.S. Attorneys Offices, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
The Mathew Martoma Case, By The Numbers
Some fun facts about the just-concluded trial of Mathew Martoma.
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
Document Automation For Law Firms: The Definitive Guide
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How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
Are Small Firms Going Big On Legal Tech?
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A. Raymond Randolph, Clerkships, D.C. Circuit, David Sentelle, Douglas Ginsburg, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Harvard, Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Insider Trading, Law Schools, S.D.N.Y., U.S. Attorneys Offices, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
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? -
Fabulosity, Federalist Society, Harvard, Immigration, Military / Military Law, Money
Who Says Lawyers Can’t Be Geniuses? An Attorney Wins A MacArthur Genius Grant
Which prominent lawyer just won a prestigious prize? -
Antonin Scalia, Bloomberg, Career Alternatives, Constitutional Law, Harvard, Intellectual Property, Judicial Divas, Music, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Videos, YouTube
A Law School Graduate Who Makes Beautiful Music
Where did Derrick Wang come up with the idea for his "Scalia/Ginsburg" opera? -
2nd Circuit, Commencement, Copyright, Harvard
While Oprah Is At Harvard, She Might Want To Retain Some Lawyers
You get a diploma, you get a diploma, you get a diploma... -
Biglaw, Bloomberg, Career Alternatives, Harvard, Religion, Videos, YouTube
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Religious Ministry
From working for The Man to working for The Man -- Upstairs.... -
Citigroup, Crime, In-House Counsel, Lawyer Advertising, Money, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.30.12
* ‘Unprecedented’ cheating at Harvard. Nice to know that Ted Kennedy’s spirit is alive and well in Cambridge. [Harvard Crimson] * Court accidentally posts secret settlement. That’ll teach these courts from keeping secrets. [Boston Globe] * Here is an appropriate response to a law firm brochure. [Lawprofblawg] * Former News of the World lawyer arrested. […] -
Arent Fox, Asians, Basketball, Intellectual Property, Sports, Trademarks
Will the Real Jeremy Lin Please Stand Up? And Then He Can File a Trademark Claim for LINsanity
While most of America has been going gaga for God’s new chosen athlete, Jeremy Lin, I’ve been quietly lamenting the fact that my own hometown TTT excuse for an NBA team, the Golden State Warriors, were the ones who gave him up. it seems like everyone wants a piece of the Linsanity, even on a […]