Harvard Law School Professor Finds ChatGPT Invents Fake Law Less Than The Supreme Court
ChatGPT can figure out how broken Citizens United was, but then it's not actively on the take.
Law School Professor Sues New York Times For ‘Clickbait’
Lessig sues over Times headline and lede.
The Fifth-Year Dilemma: Do I Stay Or Do I Go (In-House)?
How to make the right decision, and why there might be another way to shape a fulfilling legal career on your own terms.
If You Don’t Trust Congress Or SCOTUS, Then Let’s Call A Constitutional Convention!
Maybe it's time for a radical idea.
Is It Time To Call A New Constitutional Convention?
If we think the system is rotten, perhaps we should throw open the floodgates?
Non-Sequiturs: 11.25.16
* Orin Kerr isn't persuaded by Larry Lessig's argument in favor of the Electoral College picking Hillary Clinton as president. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * What do people think of President-elect Donald Trump's appointments so far? Survey says.... [Instapundit] * If the justice(s) Trump appoints to SCOTUS end up overturning Roe v. Wade, what would happen next? [New York Times via How Appealing] * Speaking of the Donald, not everything is his fault. [Guile is Good] * No, this wasn't said by Trump: "I am not a racist and my voters are neither. They are people who want their country back and who are sick and tired of not being listened to." [Althouse] * Congratulations to the 177 lawyers from 76 firms who were just named Law360’s 2016 MVPs! [Law360]
A Harvard Law Professor’s Call To Derail The Trump Train
Professor Larry Lessig argues that there's no good reason for electors to veto the people's choice: Hillary Clinton.
The Hidden Threat: How Fake Identities used by Remote Employees Put Your Business at Risk—and How to Defend Against This
Based on our experience in recent client matters, we have seen an escalating threat posed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) workers engaging in sophisticated schemes to evade US and UN sanctions, steal intellectual property from US companies, and/or inject ransomware into company IT environments, in support of enhancing North Korea’s illicit weapons program.
Whose Fault Is It Harvard Law Prof Larry Lessig Had To Quit Running For President?
Larry Lessig withdrew from the presidential race, but not without a few parting shots.
Morning Docket: 11.04.15
* Fans of this man's dopey mugshot grin will be sad if they're deprived of another jailhouse picture, but lawyers for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton want their client's securities fraud indictment to be tossed over what they claim was a faulty grand jury investigation. [Reuters] * Friday is apparently "Love Your Lawyer Day," and the ABA recently passed a resolution to commemorate this special day every year. Biglaw firms can show their love for lawyers by announcing bigger, better bonuses! [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * Alabama thinks the legal fees and costs that are being requested by attorneys in the state's landmark same-sex marriage decision are "entirely excessive" and should be "cut dramatically." It's not like these lawyers had to "reinvent the wheel" or anything. [AL.com] * "I may be known in tiny corners of the tubes of the Internet, but I am not well-known to the American public generally." One-issue Democratic candidate Professor Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School is dropping out of the presidential race. [Boston Globe] * It's high time you joined the green rush, lawyers: although Ohioans voted against legalizing marijuana yesterday, more and more states are adding ballot measures for the legalization of marijuana or medical marijuana to be voted on in 2016. [Washington Post] * “I’m glad Houston led tonight to end this constant political-correctness attack." In other election news, voters in Texas repealed an LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance that would've prevented bias related to several important areas in life. [New York Times]
From Harvard Law Prof To White House?
It seems a Harvard law professor may have designs to move out of Areeda Hall... and into the White House.
Non-Sequiturs: 09.08.14
* David Letterman and CBS got smacked with the latest internship class action. To think, poor Paul Shaffer’s been working for free all those years. [Deadline] * Class action could be on the horizon over high-frequency trading. [Wall Street Journal] * Frankly, I don’t know what the problem is. [Washington Post] * You may have been following the story of Justice Ginsburg’s officiating a wedding in New York this weekend. Well, if so, here’s the Times write-up. [New York Times] * The federal courts are looking at tightening the word limits on appellate briefs. How do you feel about this move? I’m with the author that “The number of cases where attorneys think they need a word extension is greater than the number of cases that actually warrant one.” [New Mexico Appellate Law Blog] * Scott Brown, formerly of both Massachusetts and the Senate, is threatening to sue Harvard’s Larry Lessig after Lessig labeled the Nixon Peabody “advisor on governmental affairs” a “lobbyist.” Lessig asks if the campaign preferred he write the more technical, “sold his influence to a DC lobbying firm.” Ha. [Time] * Fordham professor Susan Scafidi, founder of the Fashion Law Institute and designer Narciso Rodriguez make the case for strong legal protection for fashion designs. [Room for Debate / New York Times] * On Friday, Keith Lee wrote about a lawyer who billed a client for sanctions. We’ve written before about lawyers billing for the time spent boning their clients. A law professor who teaches professional responsibility asks: “Is billing for sanctions better or worse than billing for sex. I say sanctions. Can we have a survey on this?” Of course you can. Poll after the jump….
Gen AI: Your Legal Research Assistant, Not Your Replacement
Here's how you can spend more time practicing law, and less time sorting, sifting, and summarizing.
How Not To Write About The Celebrity Hacking Thing
ESPN, your trusted source for manufactured controversy, chose to report on this actual controversy in the most opaque manner possible.
The Letter Of The Law — And How To Get A SCOTUS Clerkship With Weak Grades
How can you get B grades in 1L classes and go on to clerk for the Supreme Court?
Morning Docket: 05.12.14
* Due to the extreme polarization of SCOTUS, with its near constant 5-4 opinion line-ups, “it becomes increasingly difficult to contend … that justices are not merely politicians clad in fine robes.” Yep. [The Upshot / New York Times] * Tim Wu, the Columbia Law professor who first introduced the term “net neutrality” to the world, had two of his clerkships (Posner; Breyer) “arranged” by Professor Lawrence Lessig. If only we could all be so lucky. [New York Times] * We’re getting the sinking feeling that the lack of diversity in law school is one of those problems that everyone and their mother claims to be trying to fix, but the lack of momentum keeps it from ever truly improving. [National Law Journal] * When contemplating what law schools would have to do to get a bailout, this law professor has three ideas, and they involve changing her colleagues’ lives in uncomfortable ways. Well played. [Boston Globe] * Cole Leonard is struggling to decide between going to law school and going to Mars. Well, he’s more likely to have a job doing anything on Mars than here on Earth as a lawyer. HTH. [Dallas Morning News] * The L.A. Clippers have a new CEO, for the time being. Say hello to Dick Parsons, the former chairman of Patterson Belknap, a man who the world hopes is not quite as racist as his predecessor. [Am Law Daily]
T14 Law Professor Writes And Performs New Song
Is the next season of The Voice casting? Because there's a professor who wants in.
Non-Sequiturs: 10.10.13
* Who says bipartisanship is dead? Senators McCain and Gillibrand hammer Obama’s nominee for Navy Undersecretary. Gillibrand went after her specifically over prosecuting sexual assaults. [Breaking Defense] * Lawyers per capita by state. For everyone who says lawyers make the world worse, note that Arkansas has the fewest lawyers per capita and do with that information what you will. [Law School Tuition Bubble] * A bunch of rabbis were arrested for plotting to kidnap and torture a guy into granting a Jewish divorce. This is a thing? [Wall Street Journal] * Professor Larry Lessig thinks the administration should have made originalist arguments in the McCutcheon case to salvage campaign finance limits. First, I don’t see why this would have worked. Second, someone in Washington has to be an adult and resist the urge to make stupid arguments just because someone might listen. [The Atlantic] * An agent is facing 14 felony counts for giving improper benefits to college athletes. For all the alleged cheating, you’d think UNC would be better at football. [Forbes] * A Texas judge ordered a teen to move back in with a sex offender. This was a poor decision. [USA Today] * Upon hearing former NYC Mayor David Dinkins saying, “You don’t need to be too smart to be a lawyer, so I went to law school,” the dean of New York Law School said, “So you went to Brooklyn Law School?” Which of course Dinkins did. What is wrong with NYU’s Tribeca campus? [NYLS (exchange begins at 23:00)] * Is this related to the law? Not really. Is it the cast of Archer doing the video of Danger Zone? Yes…