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Associate Advice, Banking Law, Biglaw, Email Scandals, Law School Deans, Law Schools, listserv, Minority Issues, Morning Docket, Racism, Shira Scheindlin, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 08.29.13
* Is Justice Ginsburg, our favorite judicial diva, foiling her own jurisprudential legacy by refusing to retire from the Supreme Court before another president takes office? [Daily Beast]
* Year-over-year, there’s been a double-digit drop in demand for legal services, so now is a great time to start speculating about which firm will be the next to conduct layoffs. [Am Law Daily]
* Don’t despair, the results of the Am Law Midlevel Survey are out, and associates are more satisfied than ever — except for the women. They’re “leaning out,” so to speak. [Am Law Daily]
* New York City (d/b/a Mayor Michael Bloomberg) wants Judge Shira Scheindlin to stay her stop-and-frisk rulings pending appeal, because racial profiling is an effective crime fighting tool. [New York Law Journal]
* If you want to know why law school is three years long instead of two, it’s because back in the day, the T14s of the world were convinced it’d “stop the proles from sullying the image of the bar.” [The Economist]
* In an effort to keep law school deans’ listserv drama and email scandals to a minimum, the American Bar Association just doled out some rules to keep their ivory tower talk in check. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* “[I]f I die because of this, my life will have been worthwhile.” The HSBC whistleblower is willing to face death to talk about big banks’ alleged money laundering — and to see Marni Halasa. [Huffington Post]
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Blogging, Law Schools, listserv, Media and Journalism, Ridiculousness
Yale Students Avoid 'Most Impressive' Competition, Win Award For 'Most Self-Important Snowflakes' Unopposed
Don't try identifying the "most impressive" Yale Law School students, 'cause they're ALL awesome.... - Sponsored
How Transactional Lawyers Can Better Serve (And Maintain) Their Clients
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Food, Law Schools, listserv, Rudeness
This Is Perhaps the Wittiest Response to a Pissy Law Student Email Ever
When a law student writes an overly dramatic email, it's best to shut them down with a dose of sarcasm.
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Asians, Email Scandals, Law Schools, listserv
Student Sends Open Letter To Classmates Explaining, In Detail, Why He Hates Them
A very angry law student professes his undying hatred for the people he goes to school with... -
Law Schools, listserv, Ridiculousness
How Many Yale Law Students Does It Take To Figure Out How To Pee?
It's fun to see Yale Law students learn how to use the bathroom... -
listserv, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
The Practice: Debating Failure, Solo Version
Are you a failure waiting to happen? Thoughts from small-firm columnist Brian Tannebaum... -
Job Searches, Law Schools, listserv, Unemployment
Adventures in Babysitting: Does Babysitting Count As 'Employed Upon Graduation'?
A babysitting gig that almost taunts the law students who will undoubtedly apply... -
Law Schools, listserv, Rudeness
Even During Finals, Some Law Students and Professors Manage to Act Like Adults
Finals week is stressful for everybody, and it leads to lots of screw-ups. But some law students and professors manage to rise above their mistakes… - Sponsored
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Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, listserv, Screw-Ups
More Finals Week Ridiculousness: Law Prof Rips Final Exam Straight from Commercial Outline
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Law Schools, listserv, Rudeness
You Can Take Our Lives, But You'll Never Take Our Ping Pong
We know it's finals week, and everyone is stressed and needs to study, but that's no excuse for monopolizing your law school's ping-pong table… -
Law Schools, listserv, Sex
NYU Listserv: I Do Not Think WTF Means What You Think It Means
If you want people to stop using the phrase “WTF,” you should probably learn what it means first.... -
Email Scandals, Law Schools, listserv, Rudeness
U. Chicago Law School Listserv War: 'How Embarrassing' for Everyone Involved
Some University of Chicago law students get a little testy on the school listserv... -
2nd Circuit, Admin, Cocaine / Crack, Deaths, Federal Judges, Holidays and Seasons, Law Schools, listserv, Morning Docket, Rape, SCOTUS, Sports, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
Morning Docket 02.20.12
In today’s Morning Docket: updates on the Justice Breyer robbery, security for the Supreme Court justices, and the Stolen Valor Act goes to SCOTUS.
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Email Scandals, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Politics, Prostitution, Religion, Rudeness, Women's Issues
A Contraception Controversy -- and an ATL Debate
Getting upset over inadequate access to contraception is one thing. What about getting upset -- at a Catholic law school, mind you -- over a discussion of birth control? Can you imagine what kind of comments about contraception could cause a law school community to get all riled up? Let's look at -- and argue about -- the email that caused students at one top-ranked Catholic law school to get their diaphragms all scrunched up proverbial panties in a wad. Even the dean had to get involved.... -
Law Professors, Law Schools, listserv
Administrative Law for All at Yale!
Wednesday, we covered a controversy at Yale Law School over an Administrative Law class with an oversubscription problem. The course wound up with a waitlist of about 100 students. Some 3Ls who were denied admission into the class were quite upset, since this represented their last chance to take Admin Law. The situation was described to us as a "near riot." Yesterday morning, we brought you an update to this story -- which has a happy ending, we're pleased to report.... -
Law Professors, Law Schools, listserv
On the Real Differences Between Law Schools
Right now, students at one top law school are in a "near riot" -- our tipster's words, not ours -- because they feel they're being denied the education they're paying so dearly for. The institution in question: Yale Law School. As for what's upsetting the students there, we'll turn the floor over to a source.... -
Law Schools, listserv, Transfer Students
You Can Transfer the Student into Stanford, But You Can't Transfer the Stanford into the Student
When you are a transfer student, you are constantly fighting for respect. We know how transfer students talk to non-transfers, but we don't often get to see how transfer students talk among themselves. But today, we've got a whole transfer student email thread from Stanford Law School, and boy, like Fredo in the Godfather, they really want respect.... -
Gay, Law School Deans, Law Schools, listserv, Rudeness
Penn State Law Students: Now Might Not Be The Best Time To Be Getting Drunk And Calling People 'Queer'
Being a student at Penn State has to be about as close as you can come to being in a World War I foxhole. Their reputation is getting bombed from all sides. Right now, kids should just be trying to keep their heads down and ride this out. But in the PSU Law foxhole, somebody just laid an egg. Apparently students at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law have already been banned from a few area hotels for drunken and inappropriate behavior this fall. And now a student is throwing around a slur on the school list-serv. It's not happy times in Happy Valley... -
Clarence Thomas, Federal Judges, Federalist Society, Free Speech, Law Schools, listserv, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas Is Coming To Town
Elie here. Imagine Santa Claus stopping by your house — except this time Saint Nick is a mute, who stuffs your stocking with personal responsibility and brings you wooden toys, because those were the only ones available when his legend was born. Well, joking aside, Justice Clarence Thomas will be stopping by Yale Law School […] -
Asians, Law School Deans, Law Schools, listserv
Closing the Loop on the Case of Bro Versus Thailand
Earlier this week, we told you about the Northwestern Law student who made a joke about Thailand on the Northwestern listserv. The joke was in poor taste, especially given that it was in response to a solicitation for charitable donations after a deadly flood in Thailand. I thought the penalty would be a chorus of […]