Arin Greenwood

Linda Greenhouse

Non-Sequiturs: 07.15.11

* Is the D.C. Circuit is okay with TSA screeners touching your junk? Professor Orin Kerr discusses an opinion handed down today. [Volokh Conspiracy] * According to his mother, Mercer Law grad Stephen McDaniel — a “person of interest” in the investigation of the death of Lauren Giddings — would like to serve on the […]

Books

Tropical Depression: The Latest in ‘Clerkship Lit’

Move over, chick lit. Make way for “clerk lit”! Over the past few years, we’ve seen a number of novels focused on the clerkship, a professional rite of passage for many a prestige-obsessed young lawyer. In these books, plucky law-clerk protagonists have tried to do justice while also holding on to their jobs (and their […]

Biglaw

So Just How Much Does It Suck To Be a Temp Attorney?

That’s the question that Arin Greenwood — who previously brought us this great article, as you may recall — tackles in a long but interesting piece for the Washington City Paper, entitled Attorney at Blah. Greenwood writes: For more and more law school graduates, this is the legal life: On a given day, they may […]

Crime

If It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Probably Is

Several readers drew our attention to this fascinating article from our local free weekly, the Washington City Paper: Wanted: Gullible LawyersBy Arin Greenwood I was hired over e-mail. A boss I never met promised me $14,000 a month. How could I fall for that? Two tipsters have done an especially good job teeing it up, […]