Thanks again, Faculty Lounge!

My final post as this month's guest blogger is here.

Some more details on the Beyond Text conference at the University of Edinburgh.

See here. My time as a guest blogger at The Faculty Lounge is almost over, and I had a blast!

My newest guilty pleasure: LawShucks.com

I'm becoming addicted to LawShucks.com. Lots of great stuff about BigLaw and about big bankruptcies. Enjoy!

How I spent last week (in Edinburgh)

Had a blast at the Beyond Text conference in Edinburgh. For a description, see here. More soon!

Congratulations, Michael Asimow!

Michael's newest book, Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television, is now out and available here. Yes, my essay on Shark is in it, as is Keith Rowley's essay on The West Wing. Congrats, Michael!

See my buddy Sara, who's a star, at a big hair show (no, not a show about big hair) in Orlando!

See here. Sara's incredibly creative, loads of fun, and a joy to watch. YAY, Sara!

Gotta love this one--thanks, Bankruptcy Bill!

See here.

I fear for the next generation of lawyers.

Not only are they moving into a world that's increasingly precarious (generally) and into a legal world in which the rules of survival are getting more brutal, but they're doing so after coming into law school significantly less prepared. They don't have the liberal arts (or science) background that so many of us did (which enabled us to relate what we were learning in law school to other ways of thinking and analyzing), but they're simply not prepared to communicate well. Are they not getting solid training in basic writing (and I'm talking about spelling and punctuation problems) skills? We have very, very smart students. But too many of them aren't prepared for a complicated world. And it's not just students at Boyd. I've seen these problems at every school at which I've taught.

In a world that's going to be far more competitive, we need to help our students catch up to the skill level of students from other countries. But HOW?

Bravo, Steve Gillers!

Wonderful speech (see here)!

Latest musings on problems in higher education, over at The Faculty Lounge

See here. Looking forward to your comments.

Well, we're not going to be national champs in college baseball this year....

We just lost to LSU, which means that I hope that LSU takes the whole smash. I am a very sad Owl tonight. On the other hand, has LSU ever done experiments with Twinkies (see here)? I didn't think so....

A compendium of funny exam (and other) turns of phrase, over at The Faculty Lounge

See here, and please add your own over at that blog.

Happens everywhere, apparently.

See here. Personally, I think it happens when (1) some folks don't have enough to do, and (2) senior members of the community don't tell the mean folks to back off.

I'm having fun guest-blogging over at The Faculty Lounge

Dan Filler has invited me to guest-blog over at The Faculty Lounge this month. (Thanks, Dan!) Here's my first post.

Why I love the blog "Bankruptcy Bill"

Where else can you get bankruptcy haiku or other fun bankruptcy thoughts? See here. For the conflicts counsel haiku, see here. For my thoughts on conflicts in bankruptcy cases, see, e.g., here.