Texas
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Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Student Loans, Texas
Your Tuition Dollars Hard At Work
We know that tuition keeps going up at American law schools. And, for the most part, we know where the money goes. Law schools use tuition money and alumni donations to fund capital projects and law professor salaries. And, at some schools, the law school kicks back some money to the larger university. Law schools […] -
Bar Exams, New Jersey, Texas
Recent Bar Exam Results: Open ThreadTexas, New Jersey -- who else?
Let’s call this “Bar Exam Open Thread: The Much-Maligned States Edition.” Since our last bar exam open thread, we know of two major states that have announced: Texas, on May 5, and New Jersey, on May 3. These two states sometimes get bad raps — unjustifiably so, in my opinion…. - Sponsored
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Associate Bonus Watch 2010, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Texas
Associate Bonus Watch: Vinson & Elkins Gives Me A Headache Takes Spring Bonuses to Texas
The law firm of Vinson & Elkins, one of Texas’s top shops, once represented Enron. I was reminded of this fact in trying to write up V&E’s bonus news (year-end bonuses and spring bonuses, which the firm just announced). Lawyers at Vinson & Elkins seem to thrive on complexity — in the service of hiding […]
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Antonin Scalia, Biglaw, FDA, Linda Greenhouse, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Texas
Morning Docket: 03.11.11
* Johnson & Johnson will have to fix several factories after an agreement with the FDA prompted by massive product recalls. This still doesn’t explain why my bottle of Tylenol may contain tree nuts. [Bloomberg] * Charlie Sheen hammered out a custody agreement With Brooke Mueller. That’s nice. [People Magazine] * Texas may consider a […]
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Craigslist, Job Searches, Texas
Self-Important Job Listing of the Year (So Far)
Do you need a job? Are you willing to work for a pompous jackass? Well, Craigslist (where else?) might have a job for you. And if you are a lawyer in Austin, you might need a job. The Austin Business Journal reports that one of the city’s most prominent law firms, Clark Thomas & Winters, […] -
5th Circuit, Federal Circuit, John Roberts, Minority Issues, Racism, Texas
Fifth Circuit Upholds Affirmative Action, But Is It Begging for SCOTUS Intervention?
Two people from my high school got into the same college I did. We were all in the top 10 of our class, but none of us were in the top 5. One was a white guy who was a brilliant piano player. The other was a white girl who excelled at sports. Then there […] -
Animal Law, Crime, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Pets, Texas
Drinking While Riding Your Burro Is Still Legal!
Legal Blog Watch has a perfect Friday story up on its pages. Two men were arrested for riding animals while drunk. One guy was on a mule, the other was on a horse. But when they got to the police station, the county attorney determined that the animals did not fall within the definition of […] -
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
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Airplanes / Aviation, Boutique Law Firms, Deaths, Partner Issues, Texas
Greg Coleman, Leading Appellate Litigator and Former Texas Solicitor General, RIP
We’ve received a number of email messages from readers today conveying some very sad news. In the words of one correspondent, “Texas lost one of its finest lawyers, as well as a great man and father, last night.” On Tuesday night, prominent Texas lawyer Gregory Coleman — name partner at appellate boutique YetterColeman, former Solicitor […] -
Bar Exams, Texas
Texas Bar Results Are Out Now
It has been a tough month for Dallas. The Cowboys are embarrassing, Cliff Lee spit the bit, and the Rangers couldn’t win the World Series. Hopefully today’s bar results will give some Dallas-area would-be lawyers a big boost. And if they failed the bar, they can always work for Jerry Jones: he seems to like […] -
Quote of the Day, Texas, Weirdness
Legal Citation of the Day: Pointy Ears Under a Ten-Gallon Hat?
Appropriately weighty principles guide our course. First, we recognize that police power draws from the credo that “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” Second, while this maxim rings utilitarian and Dickensian (not to mention Vulcan21), it is cabined by something contrarian and Texan: distrust of intrusive government and a belief […] -
Attorney Misconduct, Legal Ethics, Sex, Texas
Texas Tries to C**kblock Lawyers from Getting Their Freak on With Clients
Today many people made time to talk about Texas legal ethics — specifically, a proposal in front of the Texas bar that would prohibit lawyers from having sex with their clients. It’s a rule most jurisdictions have in one form or another. It’s not obvious that getting this rule enacted in Texas would be a […] -
Crime, Guns / Firearms, Law Professors, Law Schools, Texas, Violence
Shooting at UT Austin: Law Professor Shot At But Unharmed
Breaking this morning, there’s been a shooting at the Perry-Castaneda Library on the University of Texas – Austin campus. The Houston Chronicle reports: A man opened fire with an automatic weapon on the sixth floor of the Perry-Castaneda Library early Tuesday, UT police spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon said. “He subsequently shot himself. He is deceased,” she […]
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Sentencing Law, Suicide, Texas, Violence
Man Takes Razor to Throat Instead of Sentence From Judge
A couple of weeks ago, we talked about the decision by Philip Markoff, aka the Craigslist Killer, to take his own life. Today we’re seeing another version of that kind of thinking — less high-profile, less fatal, but still pretty harrowing. The Dallas Morning News reports that a Texas man slashed his own throat — […] -
Associate Salaries, Killing Lockstep, Texas
Baker Botts Releases New Merit-Based Compensation Levels
Back in November, Baker Botts told us that they would be moving away from a lockstep associate compensation system and instituting a new merit-based system. Yesterday the firm released the base salary levels for its new four-tiered system. Here’s the statement from the firm regarding the basic changes: The next phase of a talent management […] -
Clerkships, Fabulosity, Judge of the Day, Sports, State Judges, Texas, Violence
Ever Wanted to Kickbox the Judge You Work For? You Can, In Texas
Have you ever clerked and wanted to beat the stuffing out of your judge? In Texas, you might just get that opportunity. But be careful — some Texas judges have skills. The Supreme Court of Texas Blog has the story of one of them: Texas State Supreme Court Justice, David Medina: Justice David Medina’s biography […] -
Law Professors, Minority Issues, Racism, Texas
University of Texas Renames Simkins Hall
The University of Texas Board of Regents has agreed to rename Simkins Hall. Simkins Hall was named for a former UT Law professor and Ku Klux Klan leader. The Board of Regents voted unanimously to change the name. The Houston Chronicle reports: “There has never been any doubt in my mind about what direction they […] -
Minority Issues, Racism, Texas
UT's KKK Dorm Name Change Is up to the Board of Regents
A couple of months ago, we brought you the story of Simkins Residence Hall at the University of Texas. The dorm is named in honor of a former UT law professor — a professor who was a Ku Klux Klan leader and organizer. University officials claim they only became aware of Simkins’s KKK past when […] -
Guns / Firearms, Non-Sequiturs, Pets, Texas, White People
Non-Sequiturs: 07.09.10
* I’ll bite: I think a tanning tax is racist. It’s textbook disparate impact. African-Americans have been through enough; we shouldn’t be forced to look at pasty-faced white people all winter. [Concurring Opinions] * DWI fines are so expensive drunk drivers can’t pay them, so a Texas state senator suggests repealing the law. The things […] -
Bad Ideas, Law Schools, Texas
How to Sell a Law School to Texans
In Morning Docket we mentioned that the new public law school at UMass is off to a flying start. Let’s check back in with those students in three years when they are in massive debt and have no job prospects. We’ve slammed UMass Law quite a bit. But there are other university systems that are […]