* When people tell you that you can do anything with a law degree, they’re wrong. Sounds like… everything Elie writes. [Slate]
* Student debt is dragging down the economy. Is today “every news outlet catches up with Elie Day”? [New York Times]
* Everyone’s also talking about the law student turned prostitute. What about the law professor who was a gigolo? [The Nota Bene]
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* Baker Hostetler lawyer leaving the law to start a gym. With any luck he’ll have a championship dodgeball team in no time. [Crain’s Cleveland Business]
* Just a reminder, there isn’t a “telling a university everything you’ve done for an oral history” privilege. [BBC]
* An argument for Republicans to get serious about loosening the reins on technological innovation like the Republican Party of old. But that might require saying no to some billionaire donor, so that’s off the table. [The American Conservative]
* Professor Will Baude pointed us to a fun new law professor blog from Professor Richard Re, soon to be of UCLA Law, with an even more fun title. Here he compares Justice Sotomayor’s dissent in Schuette to Quidditch. [Re’s Judicata]
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* A new show about law school. It’s supposedly about criminal law, but the trailer looks more like a professional responsibility fact pattern. [YouTube]