* This excerpt from Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (affiliate link) explains how a kid from the Rustbelt felt like a fish out of water at Yale Law School. [Huffington Post]
* Is the police culture in America at odds with the democratic nature of our government? [Katz Justice]
* Increasing associate compensation may be increasing the divide between the haves and have-nots. [Law and More]
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* It is okay if you don’t have it all figured out when you go to law school. [Legal Cheek]
* Putting up a fight over MoFo’s “Ivy League” rates. [Law360 (sub. req.)]
* Explaining the sex scandal that is rocking the Oakland police department. [Slate]