From The Career Files: Why Lawyers Need To Pay Attention To Spirituality
According to many studies, lawyers (especially family lawyers) have some of the highest stress, depression, anxiety and addiction levels of any profession
From The Career Files: Do You Have What It Takes To Be Self-Employed?
Where we live beyond our means, finance everything--from homes to cars--with loans from banks, and count on our bi-weekly paycheck to make a dent in all of the bills that we have.
How MyCase’s Smart Spend Can Help Increase Your Profits
This tweak to your financial management seems like a no-brainer.
How Yoga Practice Helps You Keep Calm In Stressful Situations
Lawyers are starting to acknowledge the importance of maintaining our physical as well as our mental well-being.
Judge Kristi Harrington On Why Every Lawyer Can Benefit From Practicing Yoga
The judge has helpful advice for lawyers on the importance of maintaining their well-being and setting boundaries.
From The Career Files: Are You Forcing Your Life? Or Living Your Life?
There is something about law school, they say, that makes everyone a little competitive and nutty.
Non-Sequiturs: 04.12.16
* Gauging the importance of Supreme Court decisions this Term based on media coverage. [Empirical SCOTUS] * Georgia is changing state law because UGA's football coach thinks it might help the team cover up a scandal and somehow the legislature thinks this makes sense. [SB Nation] * Did President Obama outthink himself on the Merrick Garland pick? [Guile Is Good] * Using expert witnesses to defeat class certification... an emerging tradition. [The Expert Institute] * Some graphics cross-referencing the laws around "burners" and global terrorism. [imgur] * Restraining order be damned! Montgomery Blair Sibley is releasing D.C. Madam contacts for our viewing pleasure. [WTOP] * What lawyer Scott Limmer learned from a yoga retreat. [Law Reboot]
Your Law Firm’s Website Is Failing You.
Here’s What The Best Ones Are Doing Differently.
What Transitioning Out Of Law Really Looks Like: An Interview With Monica Reyes
Columnist Jeena Cho interviewed a woman who once ran a multimillion-dollar law practice to find out how she went from being a corporate lawyer to a spiritual success coach.
From The Career Files: Change Your Job? Or Change Your Perspective?
The problem with changing jobs in pursuit of happiness is that no job will ever make you happy.
Morning Docket: 01.27.16
* “Every school has had to make choices, even at the top. This has been upheaval for everyone.” With a significant drop in applicants, the crisis in legal education has reached the members of the T14, the very best law schools in the country. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * Another lawyer has filed […]
Non-Sequiturs: 10.12.15
* Gun control advocates finally seem to have the monetary resources to take on the NRA. [New Yorker] * This is how to deal with Biglaw induced rage. [Daily Lawyer Tips] * A commentator's take on the double standard pervading the cases against misleading law school advertising [The Legal Watchdog] * Colorado and Arizona bar results are in, still more bad news. [Bar Exam Stats] * That's a no-go on copyrighting yoga poses. [Overlawyered] * Let the countdown to the unsealing of Bill Cosby's latest deposition begin! [Gawker] * Reforming the world of debt collection. [Pacific Standard]
Private Practice Lawyers: Rater Your Work With In-House Counsel
Please share your thoughts in this brief and anonymous survey.
Non-Sequiturs: 04.06.15
* The law prof who sent anal-bead porn to her students is making headlines beyond the legal media. [Inside Higher Ed; Total Frat Move] * You've been served -- via Facebook. How do you "Like" them apples? [New York Daily News] * Making a federal -- or at least state -- case out of teaching yoga to schoolchildren. [ATL Redline] * Bad idea: taking someone's identity and accepting money on their behalf. (Or: the dangers of launching a startup without legal advice.) [Associate's Mind] * Also a bad idea (if the allegations are true, that is): a men-only golf retreat at a large law firm. [ABA Journal] * "Sperm Donor Scandal Lawsuit: How One Man with Schizophrenia Allegedly Fathered 36 Children." [People] * Getting revenge on a revenge-porn magnate: an 18-year sentence for Kevin Christopher Bollaert. [Los Angeles Times] * How can healthcare startups protect their intellectual property? [MedCity News] * Debt-saddled law students love free stuff -- so how about free membership in the ABA? [American Bar Association] * In addition to our April 23 reception, I'll also be doing an event on April 25 for Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link), to which you are all most cordially invited. [Seminary Co-Op Bookstore; Facebook]
Non-Sequiturs: 02.12.15
* Meet Hewie, a cuddly puppy adopted by a law firm to act as its social media avatar. Wachtell was considering the same thing, but Ragnok, Destroyer of Souls, wasn’t up for adoption. [Legal Cheek] * After throwing a hissy-fit over nuts, Korean Air Lines’ Heather Cho is sentenced to one year. Luckily for her […]
Non-Sequiturs: 11.06.14
* The Sixth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Jeff Sutton, just upheld four states’ bans on same-sex marriage. Next stop, SCOTUS? [BuzzFeed] * JPMorgan Chase really doesn’t want people to hear this woman’s story. [Rolling Stone] * Dating site busted for sharing users’ STD info. [Slate] * If you’re opting for a life of crime, dream bigger. [Legal Juice] * There’s a patent on filming yoga classes. So class, you’re going to transition from “downward dog” to “shameless patent troll.” [Lowering the Bar] * The continued existence of Thomas Jefferson School of Law has spawned so many good lines. The Times compared the school to Dracula. Now Steven Harper describes it as “throwing furniture into the fireplace to keep the house warm.” [TaxProf Blog]
Are You Overweight And Out Of Shape?
Meet a former Biglaw associate who can help you turn over a new leaf.
California Judge Bends Over Backward In Yoga Ruling
Parents sue a school district for using yoga as an exercise unit.