Mental Illness
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Celebrities, Crime, Drinking, DUI / DWI
Amanda Bynes Involved In More Courthouse Craziness
Will she be deemed competent to stand trial? -
Crime, Guns / Firearms, Health Care / Medicine, Politics, Violence
What We're Not Talking About When We're Talking About Guns
What changes to law and policy can we talk about in the aftermath of the Washington Navy Yard shooting? - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Biglaw, Bloomberg, Career Alternatives, Videos, YouTube
Will a Job at Sullivan & Cromwell Send You to the Therapist's Office?
Being worked to death can lead to mental health issues, but here's how one lawyer avoided them.
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Deaths, Small Law Firms, Suicide
Suicide Stalks Small-Town Lawyers
Is there an epidemic of lawyer suicide? -
Health Care / Medicine, Law Professors, Law Schools
The Author of 'Confessions of a Sociopath' Might Be This Law Professor
Our sources attempt to out the author of "Confessions of a Sociopath," who claimed to be a law professor... -
Health Care / Medicine, Law Professors, Law Schools
Sociopath Law Professor Admits To Being A Sociopath
Have you ever thought your law professor was a sociopath? What if you were right? -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Reader Polls
The Decision: Should A Minority With Asperger's Even Bother?
Do you need social skills in order to thrive in Biglaw? -
Conferences / Symposia, Education / Schools, Health Care / Medicine, Law Schools, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Suicide
Does Your Law School Need A Panic Button?
Suicide is a real problem at law schools, but schools don't seem to be interested in investing money in mental health. - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
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Deaths, Kids, Pregnancy / Paternity, Suicide
In Defense of the Suicidal Columbia Law Mother
A friend of Cynthia Wachenheim, the lawyer who jumped to her death while cradling her baby, speaks up in her defense. -
Deaths, Kids, Pregnancy / Paternity, Suicide
Attorney Jumps To Her Death Cradling Her Baby; The Baby Is Fine
Sorry, I can't be sympathetic for the woman who jumped out of a window with her infant strapped to her chest... -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, California, Constitutional Law, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Disability Law, Federal Judges, Guns / Firearms, Law Schools, LSAT, Military / Military Law, Morning Docket, Shira Scheindlin
Morning Docket: 01.09.13
* What Dewey know about this failed firm’s bankruptcy case? According to Judge Glenn’s latest order, it seems like D&L’s Chapter 11 plan is on track for confirmation in late February, unless there are objections, of course. [Am Law Daily (sub. req.)]
* The Law School Admission Council is suing California because the state’s legislature banned the practice of alerting schools when applicants had extra time to complete the LSAT. How lovely that LSAC values the ability to discriminate. [National Law Journal]
* “It’s not like we let anybody in the door. We don’t.” Apparently Cooley Law’s new Florida campus has very stringent admissions standards. Oh really? What else is required, aside from a pulse? [Tampa Tribune]
* It’s now too constitutionally risky for cops to get all frisky: a federal judge ordered that the NYPD cease its stock-and-frisk trespass stops without reasonable suspicion of actual trespass. [New York Law Journal]
* Tamara Brady, the lawyer for the accused shooter in the Aurora movie theater massacre, is setting the stage for her client’s diminished capacity defense — because even the mentally ill can buy guns. [Bloomberg]
* Pfc. Bradley Manning of WikiLeaks infamy will receive a reduced sentence if he’s convicted due to his illegal pretrial punishment, like being forced to sleep in the nude. A true hero! [Nation Now / Los Angeles Times]
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Lunacy, Quote of the Day, Texas
Quote of the Day: What He Meant to Say Was, 'That Sh*t Cray'
Because you should totally be able to practice law when you've been committed to a mental hospital... right?
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Books, Lunacy, Quote of the Day, Rankings
Quote of the Day: Think Your Boss Is a Psychopath? Well, He Might Actually Be One...
Where do lawyers rank on the list of the top ten most psychopathic professions? You might be surprised... -
Jury Duty, Screw-Ups
When an 'Innocent' Attempt to Avoid Jury Duty Goes Horribly Wrong
When you call in to the radio to tell the story of jury duty shenanigans, you never know who is listening… -
Crime, Lunacy, Murder, Trials, Violence, Weirdness
Introducing the 'Celebrity Angels and Demons Made Me Do It' Murder Defense
Right now in Atlanta, a former operations manager at General Electric is standing trial for allegedly murdering the husband of his female coworker and alleged lover. It’s a twisty tale of romance, deception, and violence, something you might find in an airport bookstore. The strangest part of what has been dubbed the Dunwoody Day Care […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Cardozo Law School, Clarence Thomas, Election 2012, Federal Judges, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, S.D.N.Y., Sexual Harassment, Suicide
Non-Sequiturs: 11.03.11
* Here is Bess Levin’s take on the Groomzilla lawsuit brought by Todd J. Remis, son of a Goodwin Procter partner. [Dealbreaker] * What advice would crisis management guru Lanny Davis give to Herman Cain about Cain’s sexual harassment scandal? Here’s an imagined conversation. [The Hill] * And here is a real conversation — between […] -
Alex Kozinski, Books, Deaths, Federal Judges, Gay, Law Professors, Non-Sequiturs, Technology, Vanessa Gilmore
Non-Sequiturs: 09.14.11
* Lincoln Caplan writes about Bill Stuntz — “America’s leading thinker on criminal justice, and its hardest to categorize” — in a review of Stuntz’s posthumously published book, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice (affiliate link). [Democracy: A Journal of Ideas] * Ben Kerschberg identifies eight great law and technology resources — including Above the […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.14.11
* Arizona has one of the least restrictive laws on involuntary commitment of nutters in the nation. Next time, Arizona. Next time. [Reuters] * Talk of new gun laws is the perfect time to link to the most criminally underrated movie of all time…UHF. [New York Times] * Two teen girls in Florida were arrested […]
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Crime, Lawyer of the Day, Violence
Lawyer of the Day: Ex-Prosecutor Maybe Had A Little Too Much Peet's Coffee
There’s nothing quite like a good old-fashioned Christmas meltdown — and apparently there was an epic one at San Francisco International Airport on Christmas Eve. Angela West, a Harvard Law School graduate and former Los Angeles prosecutor, allegedly went to town on a Peet’s Coffee kiosk. With a three-foot metal pole. Tsk tsk, Ms. West. […]