Thursday, January 24, 2008

I did it--I switched to a MacBook Pro!

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Having gotten a full refund from Dell (thank you, Michael McKinney), I have switched laptop formats from Dell to a MacBook Pro, although I...
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Death of the billable hour, part n+1

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In this morning's NYT, Lisa Belkin's article, Who's Cuddly Now? Law Firms , caught my eye. As I've predicted (see here for ...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Bye, bye, lessons that we can learn from Enron

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What with the Stoneridge case and the denial of certiorari in the Enron shareholder lawsuit, it's pretty clear that Enron--along with ...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

It's all about the incentives....

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Jared Sandberg's WSJ column today, Why Learn and Grow on the Job? It's Easier to Feign Infallibility, reminds me how important the ...

For all of my friends who know my political leanings, guess what? John Yoo is right about the lawsuit against him.

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See his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, here . For those of you who don't subscribe to the WSJ, here's an excerpt: In a case ab...
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Legal Ethics Nightmare Comes True--Sort Of

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I'm assuming that other folks saw this article in the Saturday New York Times : Lawyer Reveals Secret, Toppling Death Sentence . It...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

The headline meme....

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Jim Chen has tagged me, over at Jurisdynamics , to do my own version of the following four headlines: Headline I most fear seeing in 2008: ...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Nice one, Cameron!

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For those of you who missed Cameron Stracher's op-ed on the rankings, see here . For those of you who don't subscribe to the WSJ, ...
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A couple of op-eds that resonated....

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As we start out in 2008 (and here's wishing everyone a good 2008), I wanted to note a couple of op-eds that resonated with me:  one from...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

Thanks for the plug, Paul!

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A hat tip to Paul Caron for mentioning this book on MoneyLaw and TaxProf Blog: Law School Leadership Strategies: Top Deans on Benchmarking...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Ann Bartow: tag, you're it!

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Jim Chen , the stalwart dean of the U of Louisville School of Law, has started a bad movie meme over at Jurisdynamics , and he's tagged...
Monday, November 19, 2007

A nice way to put things in perspective this week.

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Hat tip to our friend Scott Unger for sending it along--thanks, Scott!
Saturday, November 10, 2007

Latest lawyer joke--except that it's not one.

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In yesterday's Wall Street Journal : "Except in One Career, Our Brains Seem Built for Optimism." The only career where optimis...
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Anthony Ciolli gets dismissed from lawsuit

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To see how disgusting some of the comments posted on AutoAdmit were, see here . The people who posted such things demonstrated their immatur...
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Happy birthday, Marines!

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I know some honorable people, although there are few enough truly honorable people that I can count the ones I know on two hands. But I know...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

And now, for something completely different [in the law school publications wars]

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I enjoyed Brian Leiter's comments about SUNY-Buffalo's latest publication ( here ). Having recycled my share of "law porn"...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

A history lesson: "law porn," Trotsky, and ... Rapoport?

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Hmmm .... Let's see: 1. We know that, during the USNWR rankings season, law schools send out ludicrous amounts of PR material with an e...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Today, we saw a miracle....

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Yesterday and today, Jeff & I were the guests of Johnson Space Center for the launch of STS -120 , better known as Discovery, which wi...
Friday, October 19, 2007

Guilty pleasures, ballroom dancing, and academic support

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How can I not love this post? See here .

A shout-out to Paul Caron

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Two of my guilty pleasures, Paul, are (1) reading blogs (including Tax Prof) and (2) my own obsessive hobby (see here ). For other folks...