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Ask the Experts, Job Searches, Law Students, Technology
From Across the Desk: An Apprenticeship to Practice -- That Works
Bruce MacEwen discusses one apprenticeship that seems to be working for law school graduates. -
Boutique Law Firms, Email Scandals, Labor / Employment, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Vanderbilt, Women's Issues
Alexandra Marchuk v. Faruqi & Faruqi: The 'He Said, She Said' Battle Rages On
Is Alexandra Marchuk the victim of Juan Monteverde, or his tormentor? The answer to the latest complaint paints a picture of a woman obsessed. - Sponsored
How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
Findings from the "Future of Professionals Report," based on a survey of 1,200 professionals from North and South America and the UK. -
Boutique Law Firms, Labor / Employment, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Vanderbilt, Women's Issues
Alexandra Marchuk v. Faruqi & Faruqi: The Latest Allegations
The plaintiff's second amended complaint in this salacious case contains some striking new allegations.
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Boalt Hall, Law Professors, Law Schools, Rankings, Vanderbilt
Law School Rankings: Who Has The Most Important Professors?
A new ranking of the scholarly impact of legal academics. -
Boutique Law Firms, Defamation, Labor / Employment, Media and Journalism, Oral Sex / Blow Jobs, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Vanderbilt, Women's Issues
Can This Litigation Get Any Uglier? Alexandra Marchuk Amends Her Complaint Against Faruqi & Faruqi
Alexandra Marchuk isn't taking the Faruqi & Faruqi counterclaims lying down. Here's her vigorous response. -
Career Center, Law Schools, Reader Polls, UNC Law, UVA Law, Vanderbilt
Comparing the Law Schools of the South
A look at the law schools of the South, based on our ATL Insider Survey. -
Clerkships, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings, Vanderbilt
Which Law Schools Had the Most Clerkship Placements?
Believe it or not, there are some surprises in the top 10 of this list! -
Boutique Law Firms, Defamation, Labor / Employment, Oral Sex / Blow Jobs, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Student Loans, Vanderbilt, Women's Issues
Lawsuit of the Day: Nobody Puts Faruqi in the Corner
Nobody puts Juan Monteverde in the corner. A boutique law firm and one of its partners hit back -- hard -- against an ex-associate's salacious allegations. - Sponsored
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, Football, Hotties, Lawyer of the Day, Litigatrix, Sports, Vanderbilt
Studious Lawyer By Day, Sexy Cheerleader By Night
She knows how to BE AGGRESSIVE, B-E AGGRESSIVE, B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E inside of a courtroom. -
Books, Boutique Law Firms, Labor / Employment, Lawsuit of the Day, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Student Loans, Vanderbilt, Women's Issues
Lawsuit of the Day: A Super-Salacious Suit Against A 'Legend' of the Bar
If these allegations are true, this is a very sad and ugly story. -
Election 2012, Politics, R. Ted Cruz, Regent University School of Law, UVA Law, Vanderbilt
The Return of the Lawyer-Politician
A review of the legal education and experience of the incoming freshman class of Congress -
American Bar Association / ABA, Eugene Volokh, Labor / Employment, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Technology, Twittering, Vanderbilt
Non-Sequiturs: 11.05.12
* Stop drinking the FCPA Kool-Aid. Kool-Aid doesn’t even taste good anyway. Unless you add booze. But I digress. [FCPA Professor] * Is it illegal to lie on Twitter? Some thoughts from Professor Eugene Volokh. [Volokh Conspiracy] * So you wanna get published in a law review, huh? Well, check this out, young padawan. [Prawfsblog] * Who are the top employment lawyers in America? [eBossWatch] * The ABA and New York Law School are butting heads on how to deal with time lost due to Sandy. [Legal As She Is Spoke via Constitutional Daily] * Lat is giving a talk at Vanderbilt Law School tomorrow. It’s open to the public and free, just like the pizza (but if you take the pizza, you have to stay for the event). [Vanderbilt Law School] -
Crime, Gay, Hotties, Law Schools, Money, Rape, Sentencing Law, Vanderbilt, White-Collar Crime
Having a Gay Old Time: Couple Sentenced for Massive Theft from Vanderbilt Law (and Statutory Rape)
A former administrator at Vanderbilt Law School just got a hefty sentence after pleading guilty to theft and statutory rape. His boyfriend got sentenced too. How much time did they get, and what are some of the salacious allegations?
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
Findings from the "Future of Professionals Report," based on a survey of 1,200 professionals from North and South America and the UK.
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Document Automation For Law Firms: The Definitive Guide
Legal document automation is no longer only for the exclusive few.
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Are Small Firms Going Big On Legal Tech?
Please help us benchmark your firm against your peers through this (always) brief and anonymous survey and enter for a chance to win a $250…
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Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News, Vanderbilt
ATL Survey Update: Rearranging the T14 and Choosing a Permanent Number 15
Last week, we received our 4,000th response to the ATL School & Firm Insider Survey. We thought it would be interesting to compare how the vaunted T14 stack up based on our own survey feedback. Let's look at how the elite schools compare.... -
Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Student Loans, Vanderbilt
Law School Transparency: Who's Naughty and Who's Nice?
Late last year, plaintiffs’ lawyer David Anziska pledged to make 2012 “the year of law school litigation.” Anziska, who’s currently spearheading efforts to sue law schools over allegedly misleading employment statistics, told my colleague Staci Zaretsky that he and his team members “want to sue as many law schools as we can to bring them […] -
Job Searches, Law Professors, Law Schools, Student Loans, Vanderbilt
Quote of the Day: Is Law School Worth It?
[L]aw school is a very risky (and expensive) investment; it should not be entered into lightly…. [E]ach potential student’s calculus will be based on a host of factors unique to him or her. For some, like an English major (relatively low opportunity costs) who gets some scholarship assistance (somewhat lower out-of-pocket costs) to attend Harvard […] -
Bar Exams, BARBRI, Screw-Ups, Vanderbilt
Everybody Whose State Did NOT Make A Last Minute Change In Bar Exam Grading, Step Forward. Not So Fast, Tennessee.
Bar exams are underway all across this great nation. It’s an exciting time for the next crop of young lawyers (at least “exciting” in the sense that being trapped in a mall while zombies swarm around trying to eat your brains is certainly not dull). In Tennessee, where the bar exam starts tomorrow, the state […] -
Crime, Law Schools, Vanderbilt
Ode to the Guy Stealing Power
We’ve done a lot of stories about alleged thievery at law schools and law firms, and we’ve posted many funny messages from the victims of these crimes looking to get their stuff back. But we haven’t seen anything this elegant before. Law students tend to ask for their stuff back in an argumentative, logical way, […] -
Law Schools, Reader Polls, Vanderbilt
The Choice: 0Ls Try To Figure Out Which Law School Is Right For Them
This is the time of year when future lawyers have to make a crucial choice that will follow them for the rest of the legal careers: where to go to law school. The choice of law school is critical, maybe unfairly so. When you look at medical schools, the hard part is getting into a […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, Student Loans, U.S. News, UNC Law, Vanderbilt
Open Thread: 2012 U.S. News Law School Rankings (16 - 30)
And now things get interesting. As we continue to run through the U.S. News 2012 law school rankings, we get to a crucial set of schools. The schools in this batch are certainly top tier, but they’re not “top 14”; for the most part, though, they charge like top 14 schools (especially the private ones). […]