Stanford

Quite often, much fanfare signals nothing. This is one of those times. 

Wait, is our legal system not egalitarian or something?

Sure would be cool if we all just independently did the same thing as each other within a very short period of time such that it would be as if we all decided to do the same thing together...

* 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]

We have gone from outrage to idiocy in record time.

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* 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]

* 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]

Judges should not be stripped of sentencing discretion or recalled because of one sentence out of whack with what many view is fair.

* 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]

A former sex-crimes prosecutor shares her views on the case of Brock Turner, the former Stanford student convicted of rape.

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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...

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....

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. […]

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