Saturday, March 31, 2007

Playing around with the numbers

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I've done some sorting of the latest rankings by various measures. If you want to take a gander, my version is here .
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

LUV letter--thank you, Southwest Airlines!

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Before I go to sleep tonight, I want to thank Southwest Airlines publicly for how nicely it handled my travel delays today. I was headed to ...
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Same as it ever was, again (stop making sense)....

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Paul Caron has posted this year's USNWR rankings on TaxProfBlog , and he's done us a favor by posting the vertical moves of several ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

YouTube, Viacom, AutoAdmit, and Ann Coulter--and, of course, the rankings

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What do the Viacom/YouTube dispute, the brouhaha over AutoAdmit's content, and some of the back-and-forth on alternative rankings all ha...
Monday, March 19, 2007

On the usefulness of scholarship

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I just posted, over at MoneyLaw , some musings on whether legal scholarship (especially that published in traditional law reviews) counts fo...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Treasury meeting of corporate bigwigs--"same as it ever was?"

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I just read, in today's Houston Chronicle , that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's convening a group of movers and shakers to discu...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Countdown to the death of billable hours continues

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Two stories in today's Wall Street Journal caught my eye (and, like all "the sky is falling" theorists, confirmed my theory t...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Updated Toledo Law Review Deans' Symposium article

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For those of you who've been nice enough to give comments on the earlier drafts of my latest (and final) Toledo Law Review Deans' S...
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Saturday, February 24, 2007

Two great lists to watch--thanks to Brian Leiter

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Brian Leiter has pointed us to a list of lateral moves that Dan Filler of Drexel is compiling . (Thanks, Dan, for doing this! Any chance ...

Rapoport's tried-and-true method for learning how to take law school essay exams (with a shout-out to Mary Beth Beazley)

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After way too many years talking with students after they've received their grades (especially first-year students), I started to think ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The SEC's “Bullwinkle” Enforcement and the WABAC Machine

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Peabody’s Improbable History [a regular segment on the Rocky and Bullwinkle shows] featured a talking dog genius named Mister Peabody who ...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

A shout-out to the wonderful Carol Lam (Stanford Law Class of 1985)

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As I was reading the morning's paper, I noticed this news item: Former CIA Official, Contractor Indicted , along with a picture of U.S...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

I have seen bad customer service, and I have never seen customer service as bad as that "offered" by McAfee

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I foolishly tried to update my anti-virus software. Because my computer originally came with McAfee , I thought that I'd just update th...
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Jeff Harrison's salary compression question, viewed from the standpoint of shared governance

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In answering Jeff Harrison's question on salary compression with a comment of my own , I realized that I'd answered him from the st...
Wednesday, February 07, 2007

OK, OK--you actually can hear it in a lot of places

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Here's more on the issue of starting salaries at large law firms: Jeff Lipshaw, Days of Whine and Roses , or the Strangled Cries of Lawy...

You heard it here: the beginning of the end of law firm "billable hours"-based budgets

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On February 6, the WSJ Law Blog posted this article: Pay Gap: Top Firm Associates Fall Behind Partners . In that post, Jessica Marmor poin...
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Saturday, February 03, 2007

Mimi Swartz's Lone Starlets--a salute to iconic Texas women

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In today's New York Times, Mimi Swartz has a lovely piece ( Lone Starlets ) on the late Molly Ivins, Nellie Connally , and Ann Richar...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

I, Grantmore, feel the rage

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Greetings, Nancy and fellow readers of Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot: Thanks to Nancy for inviting me to contribute to this page. I am espec...

Touching a nerve at The National Jurist?

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I just received an email from National Jurist: As you are already aware, in our latest January issue of The National Jurist, we covered the...
Monday, January 29, 2007

MoneyLaw, Class Bias in Higher Education, and PrivilegeLaw

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Jim Chen , over at MoneyLaw , pointed out Chadsworth Osborne Junior 3d's blog, PrivilegeLaw , the sworn enemy blog of MoneyLaw and Jeff...
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