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Non-Sequiturs: 04.22.11

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* Technology is a godsend, but old-school ways did have their charms. Ben Kerschberg reminisces about preparing SCOTUS briefs back in the days of hot-metal printing. [Forbes]

* Ed Whelan calls out Linda Greenhouse regarding the D.C. Circuit nomination of Caitlin Halligan (in a blog post whose title I prefer not to dwell on). [Bench Memos / National Review Online]

* Volokh on Vibrators. Sounds like the title of a treatise, no? [Volokh Conspiracy]

* Lessons learned from The Lincoln Lawyer. [Tips for Young Lawyers]

* San Francisco residents: this is satire, right? Right? [Breadbucket]

* Wise Latino? Luis Ramírez, an ex-associate at Quarles & Brady, is suing his former firm. [Am Law Daily]

* If your parents are paying for law school, do they have the right to learn your Fed Jur and Corporate Tax grades? [TaxProf Blog]

* Today is Good Friday — an appropriate time for reflection on social justice. [Mirror of Justice]

* How would you like to have us as colleagues? Our sister site, Dealbreaker, seeks a new writer. [Dealbreaker]

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Did Blogging Kill the First Amendment?

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Our buddy, the Honorable Alex Kozinski, is on a roll. On Monday, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit benchslapped a pair of wealthy, persistently annoying and mildly famous identical twins.

The same day, he gave a lecture at San Francisco’s Golden Gate University School of Law, where he declared the Internet has killed the First Amendment, or at least made it an anachronism. Heavy stuff.

More on what the judge said about the web’s effect on unsuppressable free speech, journalism and scumbag bloggers, after the jump.

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Proof That the Legal Job Market Still Sucks

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It’s a little risqué, so we’ve placed it after the jump. If your sensibilities are delicate or you don’t like crudeness, please stop reading here.

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Skadden Takes Its Heart from San Francisco — and Closes Its S.F. Office

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Embarcadero Center (at right): Skadden's soon-to-be-former S.F. home.

Late last week, word started to leak out that Skadden Arps plans to close its San Francisco office, by the end of June 2011. A meeting was held on Friday where the closure was announced to the office. The S.F. office is essentially being folded into the firm’s Silicon Valley outpost.

Some of the initial reactions expressed concern. “Unclear with respect to job security,” said one source. “My cynical side wonders if this isn’t layoffs in disguise,” said another.

But further examination of the situation suggests that this is, as some might say, no big deal….

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ATL March Madness: Best City to Practice Law (Regional Finals). West and Midwest.

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ATL’s competition to crown the best city to practice law continues.

In the regional finals in the east and south, D.C. is dominating New York, and Dallas is doing away with Atlanta. Now it’s time for us to turn our sights westward.

This round’s bouts will determine which city in flyover country is the best for lawyers and will finally resolve the NoCal vs SoCal debate. Let’s get to it…

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