Cardozo Law School

Getting into the NBA Draft is as much about lawyering as anything else.

If the Reviser were alive today, maybe we'd give him qualified immunity for all the lives he's ruined.

* When New York’s largest personal injury firm collapses, who gets access to (800) 888-8888? [New York Personal Injury Blog]

* This is what it’s like when the President Tweets you. [Bloomberg BNA]

* The Indy 500 — the latest way to delay a deposition. [The Washington Post]

* Cardozo Law gets in on current events. [Law and More]

* Well this is, allegedly, awful. [Jezebel]

* The Civil War lives on at Virginia courthouses. [Katz Justice]

* Hmmm, where is Jeff Sessions in the whole Comey mess? [Slate]

Which law school released information on these disappointing results, and how does it plan to help struggling students?

This law school is trying to pull a fast one for the sake of its employment statistics.

* Pet therapy? This is what you’re doing with your time? This is why Cardozo can’t have nice things. [Cardozo Law] * Nobody likes name-calling, but opting for the death penalty just because you don’t want to be called “retarded”? That’s, um, what’s the word I’m looking for? [Cincinnati Enquirer] * Remember when Mary Jo White was going to bring teeth to the SEC? Well, that’s all over. [New Republic] * Live tweeting a prostitution sting. Yeah there’s no way this could go wrong. [Slate] * Law student says cops beat him so hard he lost a testicle. Um. That’s horrible. [KOB] * Do you fancy yourself a funny lawyer? Then enter New York’s Funniest Professional competition. Lawyers square off later this month. [Gotham Comedy Club / Manhattan Comedy School] * Judge sentences rapist to 45-days and community service… working in a rape crisis center. How could anyone be this tone-deaf? Oh, it’s in Texas? Never mind. [CNN] * California lawyers now must promise to be courteous. Play nice, kids. [LA Times] * Finally, it’s time to wish a happy birthday to Winston & Strawn’s Jonathan Amoona, who was on the 2014 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. I guess he won’t be anymore. His 30th birthday invitation went out to the managing partner and a bunch of the top rainmakers, which isn’t toolish at all. The invite is available after the jump….

Don't be a law student who tries to come between a police officer and his lunch. The result is not pretty.

Should law school take FOUR years? One professor thinks so.

Philip Segal of Charles Griffin Intelligence LLC reveals two things you won't learn in law school that would help new lawyers do a better job and probably hold on to their jobs longer.

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* The NFL has reached a $765 million settlement with the over 4,500 retired concussion victims whose injuries paved the way for the league’s success. [Sports Illustrated] * Dennis Rodman confidante Kim Jong-un had his ex-girlfriend executed on pornography charges. Kind of puts the whole “revenge porn” thing in perspective. [The Telegraph] * A lawsuit against Curt Schilling, based on allegations that he deceived the state into giving his company $75 million, will go forward. Like most conservative Republicans, Schilling saw no problem with taking millions in handouts from the government so long as poor people don’t get $4.50 a day for food. [Comcast SportsNet] * Judge Mark Bennett (N.D. Iowa) ripped the Department of Justice for creating massive drug sentencing disparities because the DOJ went years without a policy for when prosecutors should double the prison time for repeat offenders. In Northern Iowa, that’s a LOT of meth heads in prison. [Des Moines Register] * Attorneys for the Governor of Pennsylvania equate gay marriage to letting 12-year-olds marry. Just because a demographic calls everything “gay” doesn’t make them gay. [ABA Journal] * Study shows academics use lots of adjectives and adverbs. This is really a very terrific and awesome study. [TaxProf Blog] * Polygraphs are inadmissible, but remember invisible jets are A-OK. [Texts from Superheroes] * REMINDER: OK NYU, Columbia, Fordham, Cardozo, and NYLS students! It’s time to send nominations to us for where you want us to go on the Great Above the Law/Kaplan Bar Review Bar Crawl. Send bar nominations to [email protected], subject: “Bar Crawl.” See you on September 18th! [Above the Law]

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An immigration lawyer sells his fabulous pad for $3.6 million. How much did he pay for it?

An aquatic look at which law firms' alumni have the top spots at the largest U.S. law firms.

Cardozo admits what they did, but they're still not telling anybody why they did it.

Is this the most embarrassing alumni giving campaign in the world?

The email that tells you how to increase the value of your law degree....