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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

What do the NYT article on the MBA cheating scandal and the WSJ article on accounting rules vs. standards have in common?

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If you combine today's New York Times story on a cheating scandal at Duke ( 34 Duke Business Students Face Discipline for Cheating ) wi...
Friday, April 27, 2007

MoneyLaw's "law professor market"

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MoneyLaw's currently talking about creating a market in law professors, akin to other types of markets. Take a look at the posts: Paul C...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

On Crying: National Jurist and Wall Street Journal

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Today's Wall Street Journal has a piece by Sue Shellenbarger on crying at work-- Read This and Weep: Crying At Work Gains Acceptance . ...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

St. John's LL.M. in Bankruptcy

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Sorry for the gaps in my blog--I've been doing a lot of speaking (Enron, images of lawyers in movies, legal ethics, corporate ethics) an...
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Saturday, April 07, 2007

Sugar rushes for the season

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I was just responding to Brian Leiter's ranking of law schools by LSAT score over at MoneyLaw , and I found myself using the word ...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Prediction of the death of billable hours, part 3

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Peter Lattman's post today on Law Blog, You Say You Want a Big-Law Revolution , talks about the efforts of two Stanford Law School stude...
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Francis Stokes is brilliant!

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My new guilty pleasure is watching the episodes of God, Inc. on YouTube . Francis Stokes directed these The-Office (US version)-style mo...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

My bad--and thanks to "anonymous" and my dad for finding glitches in my USNWR spreadsheet

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Here's the updated one (with some charts added)--sorry for the glitches.
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Most numbers don't speak for themselves

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We're now in phase 2 of the annual USNWR rankings reaction: the PR machine's touting of the numbers for those schools that are high...
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 ...
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