Two-year law school

  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.28.15

    * The lawsuit the Bernie Sanders campaign filed against the Democratic National Committee is far from over. Will a “full investigation from top to bottom” reveal that the DNC was trying to burn the Bern in the polls? [Yahoo!]

    * It seems like the whole two-year law school gambit isn’t working out as planned, but maybe that’s because it hasn’t been properly executed yet. Sorry, Northwestern, but we’re really not sorry for saying that. [DealBook / New York Times]

    * DraftKings and FanDuel threw the challenge flag after Illinois AG Lisa Madigan declared that daily fantasy sports betting was illegal in her state. Gibson Dunn and Boies Schiller hope review of the play won’t result in another “Fail Mary.” [Chicago Tribune]

    * “I thought I was the only person who felt that way.” Feeling left out at law school? USC Law is trying to make legal education a little less intimidating for students who are the first in their family to attend institutions of higher education. [Los Angeles Times]

    * iDamages: If you thought Apple liked gouging its customers, then you should see what it does to its adversaries. Samsung just paid the company more than $548 million in patent infringement damages, but Apple wants about $180 million more. [Reuters]

  • Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 12.18.15

    * Are Harvard Law professors chilling the reporting of sexual assault on campus? [Huffington Post]

    * Amal Clooney launches a scholarship to educate Lebanese women. [Los Angeles Times]

    * Justices Scalia and Thomas just plain wrong on gun regulations. [The Atlantic]

    * Baltimore reacts to the hung jury in the Freddie Gray case. [The Root]

    * You know those late-night commercials for LifeLock, designed to convince elderly people to buy their product lest their identity be stolen? Yeah, the FTC announced the identity theft company would be paying $100 million to settle charges that it didn’t secure its customers’ info and misrepresented the strength of its product. [Washington Post]

    * A motion for summary judgment has been filed in the case against Alan Dershowitz for defamation. [Palm Beach Daily News]

    * Lowenstein Sandler Chair Gary Wingens comes out in favor of two-year law schools. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]

  • American Bar Association / ABA, Biglaw, Celebrities, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Tax Law

    Morning Docket: 03.05.14

    * It’s apparently time to pay your fair share. Obama wants to close the pesky tax loophole that’s allowed rich professionals, like lawyers, to get away with being rich professionals for so long. [Legal Times]

    * On this episode of As the Weil Turns, we take a look at the firm’s tumbling gross revenue, profits per partner, revenue per lawyer, and headcount. Don’t worry, Weil’s just “repositioning.” [Am Law Daily]

    * The American Bar Association released the dirt on 1L enrollment declines at law schools nationwide, and some schools got totally massacred. Pray yours wasn’t one of them. [National Law Journal]

    * “[T]hey’d probably make the school year longer and bring the cost up for each year.” We sure hope these pre-law students aren’t right about the dubious cost factor behind the two-year law degree. [The Hoya]

    * Who owns the copyright to the Oscar selfie? Does it belong to Ellen DeGeneres, or Bradley Cooper? If you want to get technical about it (and you do, you’re a lawyer), check out this legal round-up. [The Wire]

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