Columbia University

Can professors please STOP already?

Blockchain is for real, and it is a big deal -- as evidenced by this one.

* Uber and Waymo settled, so now we can have flying cars. Or something. [Corporate Counsel]

* New charges in the Dan Markel murder case. [U.S. News]

* Trump can pretty much get away with anything, so why not talk to prosecutors and just take the Fifth? [The Hill]

* A look at the difficult work of navigating a romance at work. [Law and More]

* A week in the life of a mom working as a solo practitioner. [CorporetteMoms]

* An excellent new podcast for aspiring trial lawyers, from McKool Smith and Benchmark Litigation, kicks off by interviewing legendary litigator Evan Chesler of Cravath. [McKool Smith]

There's no doubt this issue is trickier than it seems.

* A lawsuit by New York Giants player Jason Pierre-Paul against ESPN will go forward. The firework enthusiast is mad ESPN reporter Adam Schefter tweeted out a pic of the x-ray of his hand after an accident last Fourth of July. [The Hollywood Reporter]

* The Kardashians are changing their #sponsoredcontent ways. [Jezebel]

* How lawsuits against Ivy League retirement plans could help you — by William Birdthistle, author of Empire of the Fund (affiliate link). [Forbes]

* A Republican Super PAC is going hard after Fordham Law professor and Congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout. [The Slot]

* “I knew you would pull it off.” When clients help their lawyers with an impressive victory. [Katz Justice]

* Exactly how readable are the decisions from the 2015 Supreme Court term? [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Are immigration glitches hurting American farmers? [Huffington Post]

* Should you feel sorry for Scott Brown because he wasn’t named in a lawsuit? [Law and More]

* This is how the Ivies bust unions. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]

And congrats to the prominent Columbia Law alum who handled the matter.

Wouldn't a ceiling collapse make you stupider?

Wait until you see the kind of people who received this "whites only" fellowship from Columbia.

* The definitive post on why we cannot sue Rush Limbaugh for exercising his right to have enough rope to hang himself with. [The Legal Satyricon] * Bill Maher is also defending Limbaugh. Why can’t people understand that most acts of speech aren’t punishable offenses, even if that speech is very stupid. [Entertainment Weekly] * […]

Due to the current weakness in the job market for environmental journalists, Columbia’s dual degree program in Earth & Environmental Science Journalism will not be accepting new students for the foreseeable future. — A note posted on the official website for Columbia University’s Dual Masters program in Earth and Environmental Science Journalism. (I feel like […]

Here's the real story -- plus wedding photos, of course.

* Protip for Mark Hansen, AT&T’s lawyer: when you want a judge to save your merger plans, it’s probably not a good idea to demand that she make a ruling by a certain date. [Businessweek] * What’s going on in Cooley Law’s defamation suit against Rockstar05 (other than discussion of whether the school’s attorney understands […]

Giving a platform to an anti-semitic global strongman is less damaging to your reputation than allowing a cast member from Jersey Shore to address your students. Vinny Guadagnino, the "smart one" from the Jersey Shore who occasionally talks about going to law school, was actually a guest speaker in front of college students at a Columbia University class....

In this edition of the Law License Plates series, we are writing about legal professionals who are so proud of what they do that they've slapped their titles on their license plates. If this isn't an invitation to get rear-ended, then I don't know what is. These submissions come to us from New York, Ohio, and Tennessee, proving that stupid lawyer tricks know no bounds across state lines....

It isn’t easy to wring a correction out of the New York Times. The Gray Lady is notoriously stingy when it comes to confessing error. [FN1] But David Segal’s very interesting and widely read article about the perils of going to law school — which still sits at the top of the NYT’s list of […]

* Professor Paul Caron has taken the data gathered by Princeton Review and come up with new law school rankings. Which school comes out on top? (Stanford is #2.) [TaxProf Blog] * Are business students better than law students at making clever musical parody videos? Check out “Those CBS Girls” (Columbia Business School girls), set […]

* Bad news for Howrey: Gary Bendinger, co-chair of litigation, is leaving for Sidley Austin, along with two other litigation partners, Gregory Ballard and Kevin Burke. [Am Law Daily] * Richard Epstein and Megan McArdle on today’s judicial smackdown of Obamacare. [Instapundit] * Quipped our tipster: “Three cheers to annoying psychology undergrads getting mugged in […]

Last week, we reported that Boston University School of Law was warning job seekers not to read (or link to) WikiLeaks if they want to get a government job. The government still regards the documents as classified, and so somehow if you link to them (say on Facebook), you might fail a to get the […]

We have a soft spot for Columbia Law School, especially after our excellent visit there on Wednesday (“our” = Lat + Kash). Thanks to the CLS Federalist Society, the sponsor of our talk, for the warm welcome. We also have a soft spot for celebrity professors. Meet Columbia law prof Philip Bobbitt — no relation […]