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Bar Exams, Cars, Drinking, Texas
How To End The Bar Exam In Style
A few good ways to end the bar exam.... -
Ann Althouse, DUI / DWI, Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Professors, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Tax Law
Non-Sequiturs: 05.20.13
* Justin Bieber has apparently abandoned his 20-week-old monkey, Mally, after having her confiscated because he couldn’t comply with animal control laws in Germany. Now in a shelter somewhere in Germany, there’s one more lonely girl. [Lowering the Bar] * Ann Althouse posted FOUR TIMES about Barack Obama’s umbrella over the weekend. Somebody is really putting off grading those papers. [Althouse] * Alabama judge faces $25 million lawsuit alleging he improperly took a case from another judge and issued damaging rulings. This is the judge who ran against Chief Justice Roy “Don’t Remove the Ten Commandments From the Courthouse” Moore. The moral of the story is: don’t use the Alabama judicial system. [Legal Schnauzer] * The FBI may be looking into whether lawyers conspired to have opposing counsel arrested on DUI charges by using a “comely paralegal” to get the lawyer drunk and then ask him to drive her home. [Tampa Bay Times] * Statewide Virginia Republican candidates are no friends of the libertarian wing of the conservative movement. On the other hand, are there viable conservative candidates not named “Paul” that are friends of the libertarian wing of the conservative movement? [CATO at Liberty] * The IRS scandal gets the SNL treatment courtesy of Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler. Video after the jump… - Sponsored
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Gay, Monica Lewinsky, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Religion
Non-Sequiturs: 04.03.13
* Monica Lewinsky’s lawyer is checking out the big stained dress in the sky. William Ginsburg, RIP. [CNN] * Hoo boy, North Carolina is trying to opt out of the Constitution. As the article notes, they tried this in the 1860s and it didn’t work out so well. [Lowering the Bar] * New York state government gets another black eye with a couple of arrests for bribery. [Gothamist] * Judge Richard Cebull is retiring to spend more time on his racist rants. [Billings Gazette] * Obama is forfeiting $20,000 in solidarity with sequester victims. An excellent opportunity for right-wing hacks to complain about his vacations, as though Secret Service protection is supposed to be free. [Washington Examiner] * Ken Cuccinelli is running for governor in a state that voted for Obama twice. So, obviously, he’s making a public show of his fight to reinstate a law used to harass gay people. [Washington Blade] * Conrad Black, the media mogul who served three years in the federal pen, sits for an interview with California Lawyer magazine. Check it out (and earn California CLE credit). [California Lawyer]
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Intellectual Property, Law Professors, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Trademarks
Non-Sequiturs: 03.14.13
* Happy Pi Day from Sasha Volokh! [Volokh Conspiracy] * Tiffany’s sued Costco for trademark violations because Tiffany’s is afraid someone walked into Costco and thought, “$20 Tiffany’s engagement ring? AWESOME!” [Law of Fashion] * Pro se litigants have finally killed Virginia’s sodomy statute. [The CockleBur] * UChilawgo provides a visual representation of what happens when you criticize Brian Leiter on the Internet. [UChilawgo] * Kelly Mathis, a Jacksonville attorney, got arrested for allegedly running a $300 million illegal gambling operation. And yet Nova Southeastern is able to make bank gambling that their students will find jobs with their degree. [Tampa Bay Times] * If you’re looking for someone else to foot the tab for law school, the folks at Best Criminal Justice have a helpful list. [Best Criminal Justice] * Law and the Multiverse knows the way to my heart: an analysis of the Futurama “Future Stock,” featuring my all-time favorite Futurama character, “80s Guy.” Click through to see “80s Guy” doing the The Safety Dance on a loop. [Law and the Multiverse] -
Antonin Scalia, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Freedom of Information Act / FOIA, Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Apparently Scalia Doesn't Hold the Government in Very High Regard These Days
Does the federal government do pointless things? That's what Justice Scalia seems to think. -
ACLU, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Defamation, Department of Justice, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Federal Judges, Free Speech, Money, Morning Docket, New York Times, Partner Issues, Technology
Morning Docket: 01.03.13
* Dewey know how much money this failed firm has run up on its tab for legal advisers since May? It’s quite the pretty penny — $14.8 million — and that amount actually includes some pretty ridiculous fees and charges, like $21,843 for photocopies. [Am Law Daily]
* Everyone’s glad that we didn’t nosedive over the fiscal cliff, but the people who are the most excited about it seem to be Biglaw partners. This wasn’t the best bill, and more uncertainty means more work, which means more money. [National Law Journal]
* It looks like we’re never going to find out what the Justice Department’s legal justification was for the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, because a federal judge upheld the validity of its secret memo. [New York Times]
* Everyone flipped out over Instagram’s money filter, but they’re keeping relatively quiet about this mandatory arbitration provision. Quick, post some pseudo-legalese on your Facebook wall. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* Good news, everyone! Thanks to this ruling, in Virginia, you can be as nasty and negative as you want to be on Yelp without fear that your voice will be censored… kind of like the Above the Law comments. [All Things D]
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Disasters / Emergencies, Federal Government, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Frankenstorm Closes Everything, Except SCOTUS... And Above The Law
There's a storm coming, but some things are still open... -
Crime, Lawyer of the Day, Politics, Sex, Sex Scandals, UVA Law
UVA Law Grad, Rising Political Star, 'Forced Sodomy' Allegations; Yeah, You're Gonna Read
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Bar Exams
Recent Bar Exam Results: Open ThreadVirginia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania -- any others?
It’s that time of year again: bar exam results season! Which states have already released their results? And in which state can you sit for the exam under a pseudonym? -
Boutique Law Firms, Craigslist, Job Searches, Money, Small Law Firms
Boutique Firm Advertises Law Job That's Above Minimum Wage (And Below Everyone's Standards)
If you think you're above a job like this, then maybe you should think again... -
Asians, Cellphones, Crime, Law Schools, Police, UVA Law, Violence
Law Student of the Day: UVA Kid Allegedly Uses Her Phone to Communicate With Cops
Law student uses her cell phone to send a message to cops. No, not in the regular way... -
Bad Ideas, Crime, Law Schools, UVA Law, Weirdness
UVA Law Registrar Thief Pleads Guilty
Turns out that covering up a GPA you incorrectly reported is way more difficult than just putting in the work to get good grades in the first place... -
Bar Exams, BARBRI, California, Screw-Ups, UVA Law
Congratulations to All Bar Exam Finishers!(And more horror stories from across the land.)
Congratulations to everyone who finished the July 2012 bar exam. Here are reports - and horror stories - from half a dozen different states.
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Bar Exams, Screw-Ups, Technology
Bar Exam Horror Stories: There Will Be Blood (and Power Outages)
Bar exam horror stories. Well, how about "stories of mild inconvenience for everybody but the bleeding guy"? -
8th Circuit, Bail, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Health Care / Medicine, John Roberts, Law Firm Mergers, Morning Docket, Religion, SCOTUS, Sentencing Law, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 06.29.12
* You don’t necessarily have to agree with what Chief Justice John Roberts did with respect to his health care opinion, but you’ve got to admit that it was an act of statesmanship that will forever define his legacy on the Court. [New York Times]
* CNN, one of the world’s most reliable news networks, reports that no many legal scholars were surprised unsurprised by yesterday’s Supreme Court decision to strike down uphold the Individual Broccoli Mandate Affordable Care Act. [CNN]
* Word to the wise: don’t get cocky over in the Eighth Circuit, because apparently boosting the length of a prison term based on whether or not a defendant is smiling at sentencing is not considered an abuse of discretion. [National Law Journal]
* Dewey know why the number of law firm mergers and acquisitions in the United States dropped during the second quarter? Truth be told, they’re all scared, because “[n]obody wants to wind up with a lemon.” [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* George Zimmerman, the man charged in Trayvon Martin’s death, is returning to court today to try to get himself released on bond… again. Let’s give him some credit, because he sure is tenacious. [ABC News]
* Listen, it’s not an easy thing to perform an exorcism these days. Sometimes a priest really just needs to kiss and caress the demon out of your body — a sexorcism, if you will. Nothing to sue over, nothing at all. [MSNBC]
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Bad Ideas, Crime, Drinking, Litigators, Litigatrix
DLA Piper Partner Accused Of Lying Under Oath About How Much She Had To Drink
How much does it take to get a DLA Piper partner drunk? -
Election 2012, Gay, Judicial Nominations, Politics, State Judges
Openly Gay Judicial Nominee Defeated For... Being Gay, And That's It
Add Virignia to the list of states that think it should be totally okay to openly discriminate against gay people... -
Law Schools, Rudeness, UVA Law
PSA: Don't Take Out Your Frustrations On Support Staff
Taking out your frustrations on those with no power is never cool... -
Cars, Law Schools, Money, Rudeness, UVA Law
Law License Plates: First-Tier Degrees on Second-Tier Cars
It’s been quite a while since we last discussed law-related vanity license plates. Today, we’ll be writing about lawyers who really, really love their law schools.... -
Law Reviews, Law Schools, Legal Research
Law Student Revolts Against Law Review's Bluebook Exam
Is it any wonder that a student from a law school in Virginia is raging against the law review's upcoming Bluebook exam? Several law students have written to us about this student's "guerilla campaign" against the school's annual exercise in "academic hazing," and they have even provided us with copies of this kid's manifesto. Who is this revolutionary, and why does he think the school's Bluebook exam needs to go?