Tuesday, November 24, 2009

My buddy David Friedman connects the dots...

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Over at Prawfsblog ( here ). In addition to admiring David's good sense (and his sense of humor), I like where he's going with thi...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

Legal Profession Blog is, of course, right again.

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See the various posts about the new, flawed SuperLawyers rankings here and here .

A plague on both their houses.

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I'm officially disgusted with both political parties at this point. I've been a Democrat most of my life, and it's fair to say ...
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My hair guru in action!

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See here . Yay, Sara!
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Continental Airlines sees box, refuses to think in or out of it.

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I am sitting on a "weather-delayed" (or could it be the delay caused by the massive computer glitch, here ?) flight from Austin to...
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Law students, grammar, and the practice of law

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I'm hearing through the grapevine that some of my law students were unhappy with the grades that they received on their group papers thi...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Well, duh....

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The SuperLawyers law school rankings are out (see here for a leak of the results). As I predicted ( here ), older and bigger schools did ...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

New SuperLawyers rankings of law schools punishes smaller, newer schools

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In the world of rankings, more info is usually better, but only when the ranking is fair( ish ). SuperLawyers is about to release its new ...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Sad news about Fred Zacharias

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I read on Brian Leiter's blog this morning that Fred Zacharias had passed away (see here ). I had the opportunity to visit with Fred a...
Monday, November 09, 2009

Happy birthday, Marine Corps!

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10 November 1775-10 November 2009 (so far). I'm so proud of the Marines I know, from Joe Reynolds , Racehorse Haynes , and Harold Hyman...
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Saturday, November 07, 2009

Why Sara Bryan and the Kelly Cardenas studio both ROCK!

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See this YouTube video ( here ). My hair guru can beat up anyone else's.
Saturday, October 31, 2009

More on John O'Quinn

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His New York Times obituary ( here ). As I read various comments to posts about John's death, I'm struck by two things: first, ho...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

One of the many reasons I like Tim Zinnecker

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See his most recent post over at The Faculty Lounge ( here ). Good job, Tim !
Thursday, October 29, 2009

John O'Quinn killed in car accident

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I'm still in shock after hearing that John O'Quinn was killed in a car crash today (see here ). I got to know him fairly well from...
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You've got to love this kind of contract drafting!

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See today's front-page story in the Wall Street Journal ( here ).
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Don't miss Jon Macey's marvelous op-ed in today's WSJ today

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See here . He's right, as usual.
Friday, October 23, 2009

I don't think garden-variety caps on executive compensation are the way to go--but I don't care if there's a rush to the exits, either.

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Joe Nocera's column in this morning's New York Times ( here ) once again gets it right: it's not about the caps, it's abou...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

I couldn't be happier.

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While enjoying my morning coffee, I read that two of the Yale Law women who were woefully abused by anonymous posts at AutoAdmit a few years...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

See? It is possible to rethink executive compensation without having the government do it.

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Take a look at this article in today's New York Times ( here ).

5th Circuit orders acquittal of Enron's Yeager

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See Mary Flood's Houston Chronicle article here .