Legal Education
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Law Schools
As Bad As Legal Education Is, It Could Be Worse
This former NYU law dean doesn't exactly have a rosy outlook on the future of legal education. -
Trivia Question of the Day
Who Is Really To Blame For The State Of Legal Education?
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Law Schools, LSAT
Law School Admissions Officers Express Optimism (Although Why Is Unclear)
Are we about to witness a turnaround in legal education?
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Canada, Law Schools
The View From Up North: Law Schools Acting Like Businesses
A Canadian perspective on what U.S. law schools need to do to survive in a challenging market. -
Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Women's Issues
This Is Not Your Father's Harvard Law School
Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law School offers thoughts on how HLS has changed over the years, how failure can be good, and whether law school is a smart investment. -
Law Schools, Pictures
The State Of Law School In One Comprehensive Graphic
A picture is worth 1000 words. -
Conferences / Symposia, Law Professors, Law Reviews, Law School Deans, Law Schools
7 Notable Quotes About Law School And Legal Education
Here are 7 funny or interesting comments from a recent conference about legal education reform. -
Career Center, Career Files, Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Fulfilling Your CLE Requirements Without Breaking The Bank
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American Bar Association / ABA, Education / Schools, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Television, Videos
Debating The Utility Of The Third Year Of Law School
On CNBC, we talked about the uselessness of the third year of law school. -
Alan Dershowitz, Dahlia Lithwick, Education / Schools, Law Schools, Student Loans
How Can We Fix Law School? Six Experts Opine
Which of these legal education reform proposals do you agree with? And what is your favorite idea for fixing law school? -
2nd Circuit, American Bar Association / ABA, Bail, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Copyright, Department of Justice, Enron, Google / Search Engines, Jeffrey Skilling, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.09.13
* Right about now, the Second Circuit is wondering why authors are suing Google and crying infringement over the Internet company’s e-book project, especially since digitization could benefit so many of them. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* This is the end of an era of legal battles: Jeffrey Skilling, Enron’s former chief executive officer, is getting a little shaved off the top of his 24-year prison sentence thanks to a deal with the Department of Justice. He’ll be out in 2017. [CNBC]
* Biglaw expected to have a slow start in 2013, but no one expected it to be this slow. The latest Citi report wasn’t exactly encouraging; on average, firms saw a 0.2% increase in revenue during the first quarter. [Am Law Daily]
* In the past decade, the American Bar Association has created six task forces to explore changing the face of legal education as we know it. Funny… nothing’s really changed. [National Law Journal]
* Bail for Ariel Castro, the accused Cleveland kidnapper, has been set at $8 million. “Just think of how many ribs and salsa albums could be bought with that, bro,” said Charles Ramsey. [Chicago Tribune]
* Casey Anthony had a bankruptcy hearing yesterday, but that news was overshadowed because everyone cared more about the girl who wasn’t going to get away with murder. [Orlando Sentinel]
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Abortion, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, California, Constitutional Law, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 03.25.13
* Many have compared the possible outcome of the gay marriage cases to the Roe v. Wade decision, saying that constitutionalizing the right to gay marriage will create a similar culture war. Relax, bro, your bigotry is showing. You won’t be any less married if everyone has equal rights, promise. [New York Times]
* Everyone thought Justice Kennedy was going to be the deciding voice in the Obamacare case, and that didn’t happen, but when it comes to the future of gay marriage, in the words of RuPaul, Kennedy’s got the right amount of “charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent” to save the day (at least as far as California’s Proposition 8 is concerned). [Sacramento Bee]
* Meanwhile, people waiting in line outside of the Supreme Court in the hopes of grabbing one of the 50 seats reserved for the public like it’s a Black Friday sale outside of Walmart. Unemployed law grads, just think, you could be getting paid to sleep outside in a tent right now! [The Caucus / New York Times]
* Modern-day legal education is a “failure” in the eyes of this Supreme Court justice. Now don’t get it twisted, Scalia wasn’t referring to the post-graduate employment crisis that we’ve all come know and loathe — he just thinks we need fewer “law and [insert bullsh*t here]“ classes. [Portsmouth Herald]
* Dewey know when we’ll be able to retire this punny phrasing? Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight because more than a dozen former partners (including John Altorelli of spy-shagging fame) are still clinging to their claims that the failed firm’s estate owes them money. [Am Law Daily]
* Seeing as Widener’s motion to dismiss as to its allegedly deceptive job statistics was denied, it looks like there’s still time to rally behind the law school litigation cause. Someone on Team Strauss/Anziska needs to go all William Wallace and inspire more would-be plaintiffs to sue. [Law 360 (sub. req.)]
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Celebrities, Constitutional Law, Crime, D.C. Circuit, Facebook, Law Professors, Law Reviews, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Lindsay Lohan, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Religion, Rudeness, Shopping, Weddings
Non-Sequiturs: 03.22.13
* So, after being shut down for more than two years, Caitlin Halligan asked President Obama to withdraw her nomination to the D.C. Circuit. This is how democracy works in our country, folks, and it’s pretty sad. [People For the American Way; Post Politics / Washington Post] * In America, we’re trying to get official recognition for gay marriage. In Scotland, they’re trying to get official recognition for weddings performed by Jedi Knights. Please, by all means, proceed to stroke each other’s lightsabers over this exciting nerd news. [Volokh Conspiracy] * Oh my god, this is something I’m definitely going to have to sit down and read, it looks so salacious and — oh. *eyeroll* This just in from the subtitle letdown department…. [Overlawyered] * A political consultant in Nebraska apparently got himself fired because he called Sen. Danielle Conrad a C-U-Next-Tuesday on his Facebook page. That was way harsh, Tai. [Jezebel] * Click here to listen to Professor Brian Tamanaha and Dean Lawrence Mitchell talk about rethinking the future of legal education. Tamanaha thinks the tuition is too damn high, whereas Dean Mitchell simply thinks that “life is expensive.” Not even kidding, he really said that. [Associate's Mind] * At Target, you can definitely expect more and pay less, but that’s probably because your money’s allegedly being stolen out of the cash register. [Legal Juice] * And just because I love just about everything that Lindsay Lohan does because she’s the hottest of all messes, here’s a timeline of her mug shots ranked in order of her sex appeal. I love that we live in a world where such a thing actually exists! [Gawker]
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American Bar Association / ABA, Law School Deans, Law Schools
The Dean’s Office: Why The ABA Is Resistant To Change
The ABA is slow to act because it's kind of designed that way. -
Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money
The Dean's Office: Three Questions About Legal Education
Dean David Yellen explores some of law schools' most critical challenges: capacity, cost, and quality. -
Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Raoul Felder
A Rose By Any Other Name... Will Still Want Alimony
Did you know that divorcing women are increasingly making up new names for themselves upon getting divorced? -
Law School Deans, Law Schools
The Dean's Office: An Introduction
A law school dean joins the conversation about legal education on ATL. -
Fat People, Law Professors, Law Schools, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.03.13
* I didn’t make this list of the 25 most influential people in legal education. That pisses me off. I’m going to start writing about how people shouldn’t trust legal educators because law schools are only interested in profits and not the employment outcomes of their students. That’ll show ‘em! [Tax Prof Blog] * … Of course, you know what else doesn’t make any list of influencing legal education? The truth. [Constitutional Daily] * This has been a big day for our friends at Thomson Reuters and at LexisNexis. [3 Geeks and a Law Blog] * Time Warner Cable is well within its rights to act like feckless cowards. [Huffington Post] * I like watching the Feds try to roll rich people. I’ve got no horse in the race, I’m just there for the competition. [Dealbreaker] * U.K. considers forcing fat people to lose weight in order to keep their benefits. I was going to make a “Britain, outsource, BBW” joke, which somehow led me to the Wikipedia page for BBW, a page that has really not at all what you’d expect the graphic on BBW to be. [Legal Blog Watch] -
Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Rankings
Who Are the 25 Most Influential People in Legal Education?
Whose voices influenced the most people this year in the world of legal education? Check out this list from National Jurist! -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: The Top Eight Things Wrong With Law Schools
A law school dean admits that law school is too expensive -- and identifies other problems with legal education, in a hard-hitting letter to the American Bar Association.