Wednesday, May 28, 2008

VINDICATED! Dell's marketing, warranties problems show up in court

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In today's New York Times about Dell's failure to follow through on its "next-day" warranties:  see here .  NY Attorney G...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

And a great post from the Legal Profession Blog about depressed lawyers

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For those of us who struggle with depression, the Legal Profession Blog has a great post today ( here ) about depression, lawyers, and job ...
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Urban myth or chilling commentary on law firm life?

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This post ( here ) from Above the Law is making the rounds today. A hat-tip to my buddy Kathleen Lyon for telling me about it.
Sunday, May 04, 2008

A lovely post about dean qualifications

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A hat-tip to Alan Childress over at Legal Profession Blog for pointing out a well-done post ( here ) by Michael Froomkin .
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

American Bankruptcy Institute/University of Illinois College of Law's Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium on Debt

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I'm sitting in the session that Elizabeth Warren & Bruce Markell are doing in the Debt symposium , marveling at how well this whol...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Bravo to Bill Henderson & Andy Morriss (as always)

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For their op-ed in the National Law Journal ( here ) about other choices that students can make, in light of the rankings.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

A post on the lighter side

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Over at PrawfsBlog , there's a discussion of the most screwed victims in caselaw history, along with the list of finalists .  Not only d...

Bob Morse on comments about the rankings

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See here .
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Are bankruptcy judges unconstitutional?

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Another one of my colleagues here at UNLV, Tuan Samahon, has made some interesting arguments that they are--see here . (If you're getti...

A new take on article selection for law reviews

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One of my colleagues at UNLV, Rachel Anderson, has posted an intriguing article on SSRN about market failure in the selection of articles fo...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Musings on the ideal law faculty

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That's the topic of my second post on the mobblog, over at Madisonian.net ( here ).
Monday, April 07, 2008

Mobblog on legal education over at Madisonian.net

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Thanks to Mike Madison & Deven Desai , there's a fun mobblog going on at Madisonian.net : see here for Erwin Chemerinsky's fi...
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Wondering about the fate of the billable hour?

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I'm going to be at DePaul's one-day conference on Lawyers, Law Firms, and the Legal Profession: An Ethical View of the Business of L...

You've gotta love this--the perfect decanal letter(s) responding to USNWR rankings

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Thanks to the WSJ.com Law Blog , you can now read University of Tennessee law prof Gregory Stein's parodies of decanal letters respondin...
Saturday, April 05, 2008

A must-read blog post by Jeff Lipshaw

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If you ever wonder what lawyers and other service providers in the corporate world are thinking when they give grey-area advice that might p...
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Yet more suggestions about the rankings

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See Daniel Solove's very sensible observations ( here ).  
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

More suggestions about changing the rankings

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See Brian Leiter's open letter to Bob Morse of USNWR ( here ). Although I don't agree with all of Brian's suggestions, I cert...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

Cognitive dissonance and the USNWR rankings

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As Brian Leiter correctly points out ( here ), the schools listed on Paul Caron's post ( here ) are trying to eat their cake and have it...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Putting my money where my mouth is....

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In keeping with my comments in the recent ABA Journal article on the rankings ( here ), talking about improving USNWR's rankings to ma...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Before the USNWR rankings come out....

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Here's the ABA Journal's spin on all of this (click here ).