Thursday, March 25, 2010

Why the title of an ad counts--a lot

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Taken from a Craigslist ad -- verbatim. Looking for Bad Faith Attorney (Las Vegas, NV)

Why Liz Warren rocks, part n

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Story on front page of New York Times, just barely below the fold ( here ).
Sunday, March 14, 2010

I've posted some videos of our 2010 Vegas Showdown competition.

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You can see them on the right-hand side of the blog-- Sergei & I had a ton of fun!
Thursday, March 11, 2010

One of my friends, Meredith Duncan, has written a great op-ed.

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Read it here .  You can check out some of her scholarly work here and here .  If Jeff & I had had kids, we'd have wanted them to be...

Thanks, Super Shag, for the videos!

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SuperShag did some on-the-dance-floor videos of our Vegas Showdown 2010 Silver Smooth Scholarship ( here ), Bronze Standard Scholarship ( h...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Brian Leiter's latest letter to USNWR is a must-read.

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See here .
Sunday, March 07, 2010

A salute to master teacher Jaime Escalante

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Apparently Mr. Escalante is battling cancer ( here ).  My thoughts go out to him, his friends and family, and the countless students whose ...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

Wrong. Wrong on so many levels....

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Hat tip to UNLV's own Matthew Stafford for pointing me to this Above the Law post ( here ).  I count 7 independent ethically (and gr...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Fearless prediction and a shout-out to Loren Steffy of the Houston Chronicle

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My buddy Jessica Gabel of Georgia State pointed out Loren Steffy's latest column about Jeff Skilling's appeal ( here ).  The column...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Rest in peace, Will Kohn

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Will, who was delightful, warm, funny, and extremely smart (see here ), passed away suddenly last week.  I'll really miss him.  I met hi...
Friday, February 26, 2010

The former University of Maryland law dean's current troubles

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I've been following the stories about Karen Rothenberg's current troubles over some payments made to her while she was Maryland'...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Newsflash: small, newly established law schools not in National Law Journal's top 25

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Thanks to my home Google page, I read TaxProf Blog regularly, so I clicked on the links (see here and here ) to the National Law Journal...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Will the crash in BigLaw hiring be a boon for lesser-"ranked" law schools?

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We won't know for a while, but if some law schools didn't place a lot of their grads in BigLaw firms before the crash, and the gradu...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

You know you've been in legal education a long time when . . .

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You remember being dean at Nebraska and helping to hire someone who is now the incoming dean at Nebraska.  Congrats to Susan Poser (see he...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

I get a kick out of this one (hat tip to PrawfsBlawg again)

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See the commentary and the comments to How to Write an Incendiary Blog Post ( here ).  The post refers to the original full article in the ...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I hate bullies--especially anonymous ones.

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Just got a nastygram today from RoastMail (meaning that the sender wasn't brave enough to sign his or her own name to the email).  The p...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Musings about an essay that I'm writing.

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Posted at Voir Dire ( here ), where I'm guest-blogging this month.  Comments gratefully accepted.  Thanks!
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One of the many reasons that my friend Bernie Burk ROCKS!

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See Bernie 's comment to Howard Wasserman 's post (http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2010/02/being-sued-v-being-held-liable.h...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

More kudos for David Dow.

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Check out this book review ( here ).

I'm sad about the NASA budget cuts.

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And I'm not the only one (see here ).  There is not enough space on any blog to list all of the gifts that NASA's research and missi...