Stanford
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Law Schools
U.S. News Law School Rankings Preview Is Here: Major Shakeup Or Much Ado About Nothing?
Quite often, much fanfare signals nothing. This is one of those times. -
Law Schools
Stanford Law Student Proves That Fair Play Doesn’t Really Apply To The Police
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Law Schools
Are Top Tier Law Schools Pulling Away From US News Because Of Concerned Action Or Concerted Action?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.06.22
* Boutique firm aims to represent problem clients. Guess they’re taking “everyone deserves representation” seriously. [NBC News]
* New York church sues for right to bring guns into church. Looks like the armor of God just isn’t what it used to be. [WGRZ]
* Law school accidentally accepts 4,000 applicants. Before you ask, this probably isn’t IIED. Still sucks though. [Boston]
* Stanford is experimenting with income sharing! Let’s see how long it takes for other law schools to adopt. [Stanford Daily]
* An internal investigation turned deadly — LAPD officer investigating his four colleagues alleged gang rape was killed during a “training accident”. His lawyer suggests there was foul play. [Complex]
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Education / Schools
Current Stanford Students File Class-Action Because Scammers 'Devalued' Their Degree
We have gone from outrage to idiocy in record time. -
Artificial Intelligence, Promoted, Technology
Push Research: How AI Is Fundamentally Changing The Way We Research The Law
'Push Research' is one of the most consequential applications of artificial intelligence technology, especially to lawyers. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.24.17
* Ted Cruz predicts another Supreme Court vacancy this year based on absolutely nothing but his desire to see his name in stories reporting his baseless ramblings. [ABA Journal]
* Hope you didn’t dump your private prison stock, because look who’s back in the business of abusing prisoners! [Mother Jones]
* Stanford’s student senate joins the calls to reinstate the lawyer dropped from the school’s referral program for sexual assault victims after she criticized the school. [Law.com]
* Covington posts double-digit growth. [National Law Journal]
* Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is suing Simpson Thacher over real estate. [National Law Journal]
* Revenue recognition rules are changing… what’s that going to do to M&A? [Law360]
* Securities lawyer gets in juicy lawsuit over sports journalism. [Business Insider]
* Law professors file ethics complaint against Kellyanne Conway. For good measure let’s rephrase that: Law professors file first ethics complaint against Kellyanne Conway. [Washington Post]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.10.17
* Law forces Oklahoma town to cancel Valentine’s Day dance. But, you know, keep worrying about states imposing Sharia law. [ABC News]
* When a lawyer who routinely represented sexual assault victims as part of a referral program at Stanford pointed out that the school’s policies made it difficult for victims, the school took this criticism seriously, engaged in thorough introspection, and, regardless of the outcome of their review, thanked the attorney for her honest assessment. Nah, just kidding, they fired her. [Inside Higher Ed]
* Lateral hiring by the numbers. This may come as a shock, but partners are more likely to bolt when PPP declines. [The American Lawyer]
* Republicans have renewed efforts to break up the Ninth Circuit. To create… two different liberal circuits? [Fox News]
* The Bio-Rad case may influence more GCs to blow the whistle. [Law360]
* Are Trans-Atlantic Biglaw mergers the new normal? [Am Law Daily]
* Covington & Burling partner James Garland discusses “when Tweets attack,” specifically how a company should deal with a rogue Tweeter in the White House. [Law.com]
* I wonder if Fragomen is busy right about now… [Big Law Business]
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Crime
Criminally Yours: The Right Lesson To Learn From The Stanford Rape Case
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.09.16
* Justice Thomas calls a woman a "venireman." First of all, say what you will about PC language policing of generic terms, but when "juror" is available, you consciously chose to be a sexist. Plus, the proper term is veniretrix. [Clear Writing] * The pay raises on this of the Atlantic are helping our legal brethren on the other side too. [Legal Cheek] * Best. Press release. Ever. Nicely played, Nancy Pelosi. [Wonkette] * These are the law firms that GCs actually recommend to their friends. [Law360] * Read Joe Biden's moving letter to the survivor of the Stanford rape. [Buzzfeed] -
Books, Crime, Rape
Beware The Adorable Rapist
A former sex-crimes prosecutor shares her views on the case of Brock Turner, the former Stanford student convicted of rape. -
Politics
The (Mostly Liberal) Political Ideologies Of American Lawyers, Law Schools, And Firms
Some findings from the most extensive analysis of the politics of U.S. lawyers ever conducted -
Conferences / Symposia, Technology
alt.legal: Stanford’s FutureLaw 2015 – Literally With Robots (And RoboCops)
Technological change is coming to the legal profession, and those that embrace it (and understand it) will prosper.
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Ask the Experts, Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Partner Issues, Rankings
The Best and the Brightest: Some Reflections on Entry-Level Law Firm Hiring
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Drugs, Law Schools, Slideshows
Adderall Abuse At Stanford Law School? Only If You Look Really Close.
We might have evidence on just how Stanford was able to jump ahead of HLS this year. A tipster reports that there's an Adderall epidemic at Stanford Law. He says there might be an "Adderall ring" at the law school. Maybe. Or maybe one pill fell on the ground... -
Bar Exams, Boalt Hall, California, Law Schools, Loyola Law School
California Bar Passage Rate Holds Steady; Shame For Underperforming Schools Deepens
California has released some macro-level results from the July 2011 administration of the bar exam. The California bar is notoriously difficult, and every year we like to take a look at which schools prepared their students well for the exam, and which schools did not. You might be surprised at which California law school had the best passage rate on the California bar. Hint: it's not Stanford, or Boalt Hall, or UCLA.... -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, Student Loans
Stanford Law Dean Explains Why Stanford Law Deserves a Bigger Tuition Hike Than the Rest of the University
I think we’ve all been waiting for this. Last Wednesday, we picked up a report from the Stanford Daily announcing that students at Stanford Law School would be looking at a 5.75% tuition hike for the 2011 – 2012 academic year. That’s significantly larger than the 3.5% tuition hike for the rest of the university. […] -
Bar Exams, Boalt Hall, California, Law Schools, Loyola Law School
California Bar Exam Results By Law School: Open Thread
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Law Schools, Martha Minow, Rankings
Can Stanford Overtake Harvard and Yale and Become the #1 Law School?
Hello, West Coast readers! How’s it hangin’ out there past the Rockies? Here at Above the Law, we try to overcome any suggestion of East Coast bias by consistently publishing a post later in the day for our readers in the Pacific time zone. And we try to be generally aware of West Coast firms […]