Monday, July 23, 2007

Roughly 26 hours to go....

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Things I've realized in the last few days, with the bar exam less than 27 hours away: 1. I have no more room in my brain for anything el...
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Monday, July 02, 2007

A Zagat-style rankings system for lawyers?

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In today's NYT, there's an article on a Zagat -style rankings system for lawyers , which I discuss in more detail in a MoneyLaw pos...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

What full professors can learn from Elizabeth Edwards

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If you've been following the aftermath of the Elizabeth Edwards-Ann Coulter dialogue on Hardball , then you know that Mrs. Edwards conf...
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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Open brain, insert black-letter law

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With only a few weeks to go of bar review classes, I'm now at the point that I'm happy to accept passively the disgorgement of bare-...
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Monday, June 11, 2007

Bar review and summer camp

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A friend of mine who's studying for the Texas bar has, quite aptly, compared bar review to summer camp "but without the horseback r...
Monday, June 04, 2007

Teaching to the test....

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As I begin the third week of bar review--and let me say how grateful I am that BarBRI is spoon-feeding me the material I need to know--I ca...
Friday, May 25, 2007

Reflections on the first week of bar review

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One more day, and Jeff & I will be finished with the first week of bar review. Observations so far: 1. I liked Professor Whitebread...
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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Apparently, I get cranky in the midst of moving....

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Am in the process of changing from Houston to Las Vegas (which is why I haven't had a chance to post much recently), but a couple of th...
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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 ...