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Law Schools
Harvard Law School Lets Kavanaugh Take The Gentleman's Way Out
If there's a way Harvard can allow a white man to save face, they're going to take it. -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Empowering Proficiency With The Legal Tech Assessment
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Bar Exams, Law Schools, Sponsored Content
Ask The Professor: The #1 Reason Why You Failed The Bar Exam
Nearly every student who failed the bar exam knew enough law to pass, but just did not know how to score points with the law they knew.
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Justice, Racism
White Kid Thinks Minorities Killed Charlotte School Of Law
White grievance logic as applied to failing law schools. -
Biglaw, Law Schools, Sponsored Content
Teaching You What Law School Doesn’t
Practical training on your terms at the right price. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 11.04.16
* Will ballot selfies ruin democracy? A debate between Rick Hasen and Elie Mystal. [New York Times]
* Tim Kaine’s law school roommate dishes on the experience. [Salon]
* How to survive your first year as an associate. [Ms. JD]
* Thinking about faking it as a lawyer? You could go to jail for that. [Patch]
* Republicans are already talking impeachment if Hillary wins, but can they pull it off? [LawNewz]
* The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York (LeGaL) is partnering with Legal.io to improve access to pro bono and legal referral services. [Legaltech News]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.03.16
* What, exactly, did it take for Donald Trump to
evadeavoid the draft? [PrawfsBlawg]* The Supreme Court just temporarily blocked a court order allowing a transgender teen to use the bathroom according to their identity. [CNN]
* Just in time for your $180K scale… Eric Schneiderman loses a talking point, and New Yorkers can all go back to making a killing at DraftKings. [Associated Press]
* FBI arrests DC law enforcement officer for helping ISIS. If he was as good a terrorist as DC is at policing, then maybe we should have left him out there. [ABC News]
* The battle over tougher bar passage standards rages on. [WSJ Law Blog]
* And the Tim Kaine love letter about law school. [ABA Journal]
* A good website really is key to a thriving, modern law practice. [Reboot Your Law Practice]
* The ten-year anniversary of the tragic murder of Robert Wone. [Who Killed Robert Wone?]
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Law Professors
Harvard Law Professor Responds To Devastating Diagnosis With Grace
Best wishes to this legendary professor. - Sponsored
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.30.16
* This excerpt from Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (affiliate link) explains how a kid from the Rustbelt felt like a fish out of water at Yale Law School. [Huffington Post]
* Is the police culture in America at odds with the democratic nature of our government? [Katz Justice]
* Increasing associate compensation may be increasing the divide between the haves and have-nots. [Law and More]
* It is okay if you don’t have it all figured out when you go to law school. [Legal Cheek]
* Putting up a fight over MoFo’s “Ivy League” rates. [Law360 (sub. req.)]
* Explaining the sex scandal that is rocking the Oakland police department. [Slate]
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Trivia Question of the Day
Law School Is Where Hobbies Go To Die
Before law school, Gerald Ford was a stellar athlete. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.28.15
* Marriage equality, religious freedom, voting rights, campaign finance reform, racial justice… one civil rights issue outweighs them all: the composition of the Supreme Court. [Talking Points Memo]
* Reminder to all the fresh lil’ 1Ls out there: you just might find love. [Go Knoxville]
* I’m glad someone is fact-checking How To Get Away With Murder; watching that show was getting exhausting. [Refinery 29]
* How quickly what is considered “offensive” changes. [What About Paris?]
* The latest review of Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link), by Katelyn Kye of Major, Lindsey & Africa (note: some spoilers). [In Brief]
* Try not to let the misery of the courtroom get you down. [Katz Justice]
* Taking a look at the process of adopting legal tech. [Law Technology Today]
* A tribute to how Doug Kendall changed the way liberals talk about the constitution. The founder of the Constitutional Accountability Center, Kendall passed away this weekend. [Think Progress]
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Career Center, Career Files, Pre-Law
Applying To Law School As An Immigrant Or As The Child Of Immigrant Parents
In the last five years, nearly 70 percent of my law school admission consulting clients have had one of the following stories to tell in their personal statements and/or diversity statements for law school application. -
Career Center, Career Files, LSAT, Pre-Law
From The Career Files: Jumping The LSAT Hurdle
Other than the rare examples of law schools here and here, you’re going to need to take the LSAT to get into law school.
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Law Reviews, Law Schools
Harvard Law Jerk Confirms Everything You Thought About Harvard Law
There's a thief at Harvard Law School -- you don't have to hide your valuables, just your work. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket 05.21.15
* Modern Family star Ariel Winter wants to go to law school. Aw, that’s a shame — she seems so smart. [E!]
* Five major banks will plead guilty to felony charges over allegations they illegally manipulated the dollar/euro exchange rate and pay over $5 billion in fines. Attorney General Loretta Lynch described the scheme as “brazenly illegal.” [National Law Journal]
* Preet Bharara is making the rounds as a law school commencement speaker, find out why Lat calls him, “surprisingly entertaining for a prosecutor.” [Wall Street Journal]
* Despite release of several hundred pages of the report on CIA abuse and torture a federal judge will not require the disclosure of the full report citing evidence that Congress intended to “retain control” over it. [Legal Times]
* Stay at home moms with JD are now commanding “bonuses” from their spouses — at least on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. [American Lawyer]
* Bail is set at $1 million for each of the bikers arrested in Waco after the deadly brawl. [CNN]
* ConAgra Foods will plead guilty to criminal charges over a 2007 outbreak of salmonella that was traced back to peanut butter. [NPR]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 05.07.15
* Are you tired of hearing about Tom Brady’s balls? No? Good. Here’s a great profile of the Paul Weiss litigator that authored the report on deflategate. [New York Times]
* Good news for all the Pandora listeners out there. The Second Circuit affirmed Pandora’s access to the ASCAP music catalogue. [New York Law Journal]
* As if the “Jena Six” haven’t been through enough, now one of its members is heading to law school. [American Lawyer]
* Brewery scores big First Amendment victory. Let’s all celebrate with a nice cold bottle of “Raging Bitch” beer. [Corporate Counsel]
* The federal government paid $45 million to Northrop Grumman Systems to settle claims it misappropriated trade secrets related to their satellite program. [National Law Journal]
* The debate over the minimum wage rages on in Ninth Circuit case on the constitutionality of Los Angeles’ Living Wage law. [Law360]
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Law Schools
On-Campus With Elie: Night Law School Can No Longer Be Done At Night
Law school administrators don't listen to the concerns of their full-time day students, so I'm sure they look at their night students like dollar signs with moving lips. -
Law School Deans, Law Schools
Hey, Let's Make Law School More Expensive! Top School Dean Proposes Tuition Increase
How much will next year cost for these students already paying over $50K/year? -
Law School Deans, Law Schools
We're Never Coming Back
The new normal isn't going anywhere, schools and students need to adjust. -
Canada, Food, Law Schools, Weirdness
Eating In Class Now Has A Corporate Sponsor, Kind Of
The pineapple mafia is tight.