Videos
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Contests, Law Revue, Law Revue Video Contest, Law Schools, Videos
Above the Law's Third Annual Law Revue Contest Starts... Now!
It’s frigid in the Northeast, but the cold temperatures can’t obscure all the signs that spring is upon us. America is engaged in an unnecessary military action in the Middle East, purported Wake Forest Law students are freaking out, and I’m talking myself into a Mets ticket package. Yeah baby, spring is in the air. […] -
Books, Small Law Firms, Videos
Small Firms, Big Lawyers: Why Are You a Small-Firm Lawyer?
Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Small Firms, Big Lawyers, one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. Seriously. Why? I don’t mean in a “because I couldn’t get a BigLaw job” way. I mean, “Why are you practicing law in a small firm?” And if you’re looking for work in […] - 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. -
Holidays and Seasons, Insider Trading, Non-Sequiturs, Tax Law, Videos, YouTube
Non-Sequiturs: 03.17.11
* Is associate hiring bouncing back? Not so fast. [Young Lawyers Blog] * Tape-recorded trash talk at the Raj Rajaratnam trial. [Dealbreaker] * Here’s a good response to Mark Herrmann’s request for examples of crappy behavior by partners: “Miss a deadline, and then throw your secretary and associate under the bus when called out for […]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 02.24.11
* Yes, we have seen the excellent GW Law Revue video based on the Cee Lo Green song (embedded above). No need to send it to us again. In fact, please do not send us links to any Law Revue videos until we announce the start of our third annual Law Revue Video Contest (perhaps […] -
3rd Circuit, Asians, Crime, Guns / Firearms, Jury Duty, Law Schools, Litigators, Racism, Temple University, James E. Beasley Law, Trials, Videos, Violence
Commonwealth v. Ung: The Other Side of the Story
In response to our last story about Gerald Ung — the Temple Law student now on trial for attempted murder and aggravated assault (among other charges), after shooting Eddie DiDonato, a former Villanova lacrosse captain and the son of a prominent Fox Rothschild partner — some commenters expressed the view that our coverage was too […] -
Lawyer Advertising, Social Networking Websites, Technology, Videos, YouTube
Volkswagen Uses 'The Force' Of Social Media
By now, everyone has seen the Volkswagen Super Bowl commercial featuring Max Page as a pint-sized Darth Vader. You know, Max Page — the kid who plays Baby Reed on The Young and The Restless. You mean to tell me you don’t watch a little Y&R? Yeah, I don’t either, and I also hadn’t heard […] -
Bad Ideas, Lawsuit of the Day, Videos, YouTube
Potential Lawsuit of the Day: 'Fountain Lady' Might Sue the Mall
Hopefully everybody had a chance to see “Fountain Lady” before YouTube removed the clip. It’s the kind of thing that made YouTube famous: a woman is texting and walking and she falls right into a fountain at a mall. It’s funny. And the woman walks away soaked, but unharmed. Normally, that would be the end […] -
Law Schools, Sex, Sex Scandals, Texas, Videos, Violence
Cuckolded Spouse Gets Revenge on SMU Law School Lovers
One Dedman School of Law student may be a dead man. He may have picked the wrong person’s wife to have an affair with. Here’s the set-up: a husband suspects that his wife, a student at SMU Law School, is cheating on him with another SMU Law student. So the husband sets up a video […] - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
9th Circuit, David Boies, Federal Judges, Gay, Gay Marriage, Stephen Reinhardt, Ted Olson, Videos
Liveblogging the Prop 8 Ninth Circuit Oral Arguments
We’ve set up our liveblog of the Ninth Circuit oral arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the Proposition 8 / same-sex marriage case. For a comprehensive account of what has happened in the litigation thus far, see this great FAQ by Chris Geidner, over at Poliglot. You can watch streaming video of the arguments over at […] -
Airplanes / Aviation, Constitutional Law, Hotties, Videos
Slightly Crazy Blonde Disrobes for TSA
I’m surprised we’re not seeing more of this. As TSA continues to scan and/or feel-up everybody who gets on a plane, raising questions under the Fourth Amendment, an Oklahoman woman stripped down to her underwear to prove a point. According to a report by News 9 – Oklahoma, Dr. Tammy Banovac, 52, arrived at the […] -
Biglaw, Gay, Gay Marriage, Money, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Tax Law, Videos
Biglaw Perk Watch: MoFo Takes a Stand for Fairness
Sorry, we’re still waiting for the Biglaw bonus shoe to drop. While you wait, here’s some good news in the Biglaw benefits area (a la Proskauer’s iPad announcement). On Wednesday, I asked: “Remember Google’s gay gross-up? Barclays is doing it too. Will law firms follow suit?” At least one law firm is stepping up to […] -
Law Schools, Videos
So You Want to Go to Law School: The Backstory, and a Sequel
Remember the hilarious So You Want To Go To Law School video? The genius behind it, Virginia lawyer David Kazzie, recently sat down with The Careerist to share the backstory behind the video (which was one of the 25 most-viewed videos last month in YouTube’s film/animation section). So who is David Kazzie? And has he […] -
Crime, Suicide, Television, Videos
Don't Put Bullies in Jail: Now With Video!
I had the opportunity to take my surprisingly controversial argument that bullies shouldn’t be thrown in jail to a television audience. Megyn Kelly, the host of America Live on Fox News and a former litigator at Jones Day, invited me on her program and gave my argument a fair hearing. Once again, I think my […]
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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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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls.
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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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…
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Job Searches, Law Schools, Student Loans, Videos, YouTube
How Many Jaded Attorneys Does It Take to Discourage One Law Student?
It has been a while since we’ve had one of these cut-rate animation movies discouraging people from going to law school. There have been some great ones in the past: A Law School Carol springs to mind, as well as Don’t Go To Law School. There was a time when I thought little video clips […] -
Bar Exams, Glenn Reynolds, John Yoo, Law Professors, Law Schools, Richard Epstein, Television, Videos
Is Law School Becoming a Fool's Errand?
That’s one of the topics covered by an impressive trio of law professors — Richard Epstein, Glenn Reynolds, and John Yoo — in an interesting, wide-ranging discussion over at PJTV. Although they all hail from the right side of the aisle, they disagree on a number of issues. Here’s a summary: Are law schools creating […] -
Grade Reform, Law Schools, Loyola Law School, Television, Videos
Stephen Colbert Rips Loyola-L.A.'s 'Foolproof Plan to Get Their Graduates Better Jobs'
Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) hoped to quietly jump on the grade-inflation bandwagon in order to help make its students more competitive in the legal marketplace. The school bumped letter grades up a notch, so that a C- became a C, a B became a B+, and an A+ became an A+you’reasuperamazinggunnerrockstar. But the quiet […] -
Contracts, Sports, Videos, Weirdness
Bullfighter Arrested for Cowardice Breach of Contract
In America, nonperformance on a contract usually involves a failure to deliver goods or a failure to pay. In Mexico, apparently contract law covers a failure of courage. The ABA Journal reports: Gored by a bull in a previous match several months ago, Mexican bullfighter Christian Hernandez lost his nerve and bolted from the ring […] -
Law Schools, Movies, Videos, YouTube
Law Student of the Day: Star Wars Kid
Hello, what have we here? Based on the approximately ten billion emails we’ve received about this into tips@abovethelaw.com in the last few hours, it seems a lot of you already know that the “Star Wars kid” has decided to attend law school. We think the first Kamino-like flood of emails linked to the story on […] -
Lawyer Advertising, Plaintiffs Firms, Videos
Adventures in Lawyer Advertising: Personal Injury Firm Might Break Your Funny Bone
We don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who hurt themselves in stupid ways. When we’ve featured personal injury firms in our lawyer advertising feature before, it’s usually been to make fun of them. In this case, the personal injury firm, Trolman, Glaser & Lichtman, is in on the joke: Their commercials got picked […] -
Media and Journalism, Music, Nina Totenberg, Videos, Weirdness
Nina Totenberg and Her NPR Colleagues Go Gaga for Gaga
Word on the street is that President Obama is about to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. This makes sense; there are many good reasons to nominate Kagan. But what if Obama were to think outside the box in terms of SCOTUS nominations? What if he nominated, say, Lady Gaga to the […]