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Morning Docket: 03.01.11

* Apparently hearsay exceptions are still hard to grasp, even for justices on the Supreme Court. [CNN Justice] * Threaten judges over a ban on guns and your own guns get banned. Hal Turner gets pistol-whipped by karma. [Bloomberg] * Obama is giving states the “flexibility” to drop federal health care reform by 2014 — […]

Career Alternatives

Career Alternatives for Attorneys: CEO

Good news for general counsel who dream of one day sitting in the king’s seat: the ABA Magazine says there is a new trend of corporations tapping lawyers to become top executives: Nine of the Fortune 50 companies now have a lawyer as chief executive, up from three just a decade ago. In December, Bank […]

Abortion

SMU Law Grad Morphs Into Anti-Abortion Warrior

Erlyndon Joseph Lo, 27, graduated from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 2007. Lo is a devout Catholic and has been using his knowledge of the law to fight abortion. We must add that his knowledge of the law appears to be shaky. In March, he sued the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the […]