Georgetown LLMs Bent Out Of Shape Over Graduation
UPDATE: Seems everyone got treated badly at graduation.
BARBRI And 11 Law Schools Get Hit With A $50 Million Antitrust Lawsuit
This ain't BARBRI's first time at the antitrust rodeo.
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.
Anecdotal Evidence That LLMs Are A Giant Cash Grab
It's easy to disregard this convicted con-man, but he has a point.
Kansas Law Censure: ABA Fines School For Trying To Make Money Without Asking Nicely First
Regulatory oversight from the ABA is as random as it is ineffective.
Law School Ethicist: Just Because You Are Breaking Exam Rules, Are You Cheating?
An ethical issue for law students: should you report de minimis cheating?
Law Professor Suggests Adding An Extra Year To Law School — Seriously?
Should law school take FOUR years? One professor thinks so.
Why Better Financial Acumen is the Key to Law Firm Success in 2025
From training to technology, uncover the essential steps to futureproof your law firm in a competitive market.
Quote of the Day: Law Schools Would Probably Care, But Only If People Stopped Throwing Money at Them
Does it matter if you get your LL.M. degree online? At least one hiring partner thinks so...
Morning Docket: 05.09.12
* Dewey get the chance to reap revenge against all of the partners who defected? Only in bankruptcy clawback suits. Many are keeping an eye on the Coudert and Thelen Chapter 11 cases to see if they’ll have to pay up. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight] * “People have bigger concerns on their mind than whether Elizabeth Warren is 1/32 Cherokee.” Well, Scott Brown isn’t most people. He wants all of her job records from her career as a law professor. [Washington Wire / Wall Street Journal] * “We are not anti-gay, we are pro-marriage.” I don’t think “pro-marriage” means what you think it means. Last night, North Carolina voters passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in the state. [CNN] * Mike McQueary is filing a whistleblower lawsuit against Penn State. Hate to say it, but that’s definitely not the first time Penn State’s seen a lawsuit over something being blown in the locker room. [Centre Daily Times] * Washington University in St. Louis Law is launching an online LL.M. program for foreign lawyers for the low, low price of $48K. The exchange rate surely can’t be good enough for that to be worth it. [New York Times] * Joran van der Sloot will likely be extradited to the United States from Peru this summer. His lawyer, Maximo Altez, isn’t a fan, because he thinks that we’ll charge his client with murder. America, f**k yeah! [ABC News] * Oh, of course a member of the Village People’s claim just had to be the test case for 35-year copyright transfer termination. Well, kudos to you, Mr. Motorcycle Cop. You’re a real “Macho Man.” [Bloomberg]
The Value of the LL.M. Degree? Still Low
Every so often, people ask us about the "value" of getting an LL.M. degree. Our answer has remained pretty consistent. Is it a tax LL.M. from Georgetown or NYU? No? Then save your money and buy something valuable like gold or drugs. The National Law Journal made that EXTREMELY OBVIOUS point this week (again)....
Richard Epstein and John Yoo on Law School Reform
The topic of whether (and how) to reform legal education remains very hot. The latest New York Times story — by David Segal, who isn’t very popular among law school deans right now — has sparked much online commentary. And it’s not over yet. What do Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo — two of […]
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.
Morning Docket: 11.18.11
* John Wilkes Booth. Lee Harvey Oswald. Oscar Ortega-Hernandez. Sorry, Oscar, you have three names, but you didn’t actually kill the president, so you don’t get to join the club. [New York Times] * Former SCOTUS clerk Roy McLeese III has been nominated for a seat on the D.C. Court of Appeals. I don’t have […]
Feeling Hot Hot Hot: From NYU LLM Student to Beauty Queen
The holder of an LLM from NYU was just named Miss India. How beautiful must you be in order to rank #1 out of 600 million women?
Double Down
Ed. Note: Will the Lost Generation ever find its way back into Biglaw? This new column is written by a member of the Lost Generation who initially was thrown off of the Biglaw bandwagon but was able to get back on, and is now trying to hang on to his Biglaw second chance. By the […]
New York Law Journal Ranks New York LLM Programs
Last week, we asked if there was any value to getting an LL.M. The upshot seems to be that law schools have no idea whether or not their LL.M programs are any good. In lieu of information from the schools or the ABA, we turn to where we always turn: a magazine. The New York […]