Kill The Bar Exam
LawProfBlawg wants to know: what's the point of the bar exam?
Summer Fun For Law Students
Whether or not you are done with law school classes for the summer or are enjoying the last summer you’ll ever have before law school, it’s important to spend your time wisely.
Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup
With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation.
6 Highlights From John Yoo’s Interview With Ginni Thomas
The always quotable John Yoo had interesting and funny things to say during a recent interview he gave to Virginia Lamp Thomas (wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, for whom Professor Yoo once clerked).
Free Market Law Professor Seeks Unpaid Help
Putting the "free" in "free market."
Morning Docket: 05.29.15
* It may have taken two years, but Lindsay Lohan finally completed her community service for her reckless driving conviction. In other news, for the first time in almost eight years, the Hollywood has-been is off probation. Yay! [Los Angeles Times] * A former staff attorney at Drinker Biddle was suspended from practice after overbilling his time doing doc review work by just a tad -- 418.5 hours, to be exact. He owes the firm $12,500 to be paid in monthly installments of $100. [Legal Intelligencer] * An ex-assistant dean and a professor at Cleveland-Marshall Law filed suit against Dean Craig Boise, claiming he retaliated against them after they assisted the faculty in unionizing. This, after they were offered raises of $0 or $666. [Northeast Ohio Media] * Someone's allegedly been a very bad boy: Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert was indicted by a federal grand jury for lying to the FBI in an attempt to conceal payoffs to a third party to cover up his "prior bad acts." We wonder what those "bad acts" were... [BuzzFeed News] * We bet you didn't know that if you get convicted for sex on the beach you'd have to serve jail time and register as a sex offender. Protip: Don't let 3-year-olds catch you doing the dirty in public. You'll regret it for life (or until you win an appeal). [Bradenton Herald]
Law Dean Calls Other Law Dean A ‘Prick,’ Prick Alumni Lose Their Minds
Reader poll: Who is the real prick here?
Filevine’s New Legal AI Platform LOIS Turns AI Into A True Legal Coworker
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
‘Don’t Be A**holes’: The Graduation Speech You Must See
This is perhaps the most important piece of advice that young lawyers will ever receive.
The Absolute Worst Way To Run A Law School
More faculty layoffs for a school that can't figure out what it's doing.
Welcome To The Suck, Law Profs
I hope you didn't want to be a law professor, because people have stopped hiring them too.
Morning Docket: 05.19.15
* Amal Clooney of Doughty Street Chambers, who happens to be married to George Clooney, is being heralded as an "exotic, luxe-brand Princess Diana upgrade." Lesson learned: marry a celebrity and your legal credentials look awesome. [New York Magazine] * If you're into fashion at the high court, this satirical news website managed to get an exclusive photo of all of the Supreme Court justices in their new spaghetti strap sun-robes. You know what Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg must be thinking about her colleagues: "Do you even lift?" [The Onion] * The William Mitchell Law professors who filed suit against the school to protect the tenure code after its merger with Hamline Law was announced have voluntarily dropped their case. Apparently no harm will come to the precious after all. [National Law Journal] * Vicente Sederberg, a firm that focuses on marijuana law, will sponsor a three-year professorship for marijuana law and policy at Denver Law. Sam Kamin will be the first to hold the position. Come see him at ATL's marijuana reception in June. [The Cannabist] * Everyone in the legal community likes to complain about the fact that law reviews are useless because no one reads them. We dare you to complain about an entire law review issue dedicated to the legal problems presented in AMC's Breaking Bad. [WSJ Law Blog]
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Why Does It Take SOOOO Long For Law Profs To Grade Exams?
To help all law students get a grip on the grading process -- to determine how professors grade and to get an insider’s perspective about before and after exams -- we interviewed a law professor.
‘Everyone Should Go To Law School’ Poster Child Goes Full Tilt
When you think about it, the idea that students should uncritically go to law school is a classic poker bluff. And when someone calls your bluff it can make you crazy.
Barack Obama To Teach Law School Classes After Presidency?
Which law school could be flooded with paparazzi and Secret Service agents thanks to this statesman’s presence, and what subject will he be teaching?
Morning Docket: 04.29.15
* In case you haven't read the transcripts from yesterday's same-sex marriage arguments at the Supreme Court and you still want to have some talking points at the water cooler at the office, here are six of the more "provocative" questions that the justices asked. [WSJ Law Blog] * HBO is filming a TV movie called "Confirmation" about Justice Clarence Thomas's 1991 nomination hearings. Kerry Washington will play Anita Hill and Wendell Pierce will play our silent justice. No one puts a pube on Olivia Pope's Coke can and gets away with it! [Hollywood Reporter] * If you're not interested in the CliffsNotes version of the same-sex marriage arguments at SCOTUS, you should know the justices were split along their usual ideological lines, and Justice Kennedy seemed even more wishy-washy than normal. [New York Times] * You're my boy, Blue! Brooklyn Law School will honor 100-year-old Professor Joseph Crea this summer. He's been teaching at the school for more than five decades, and looks like a well-preserved academic artifact. Congratulations! [Brooklyn Daily Eagle] * Still high off its top passage rate for the February 2015 Florida bar exam and thanks to an anonymous $1 million gift, Ave Maria Law announced that it will be purchasing its campus... and launching a totally unrelated $3.2 million capital campaign. [News-Press] * If you're looking to take a year off before law school, then perhaps you ought to consider becoming a paralegal, a research analyst, or an investment banker. At least one of those jobs will make you reconsider your future. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]
Law Professor Who Sent Anal-Bead Porn To Her Students Blames Everyone But Herself
What did Drexel University's investigation into "Beadgate" conclude, and what does Professor Lisa McElroy have to say for herself?