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Friday, April 30, 2010

Shameless self-promotion.

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See here .
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

You've got to love this noir-ish YouTube clip about law school life.

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See here .  Hat tip to Bernie Burk .  C'est merveilleux!
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Best comment about the Goldman Sachs brouhaha.

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Take a look at Steven Pearlstein's column in yesterday's Washington Post ( here ): There was a time when issuers would pay a prem...
Friday, April 23, 2010

And I thought that financial fraud was porn.

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But apparently I was mistaken:  see here . Ah, so many jokes, so little time.  Let's start with: I guess that the SEC didn't know...
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The answer to hateful speech is more speech.

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And there's some very hateful speech going on in Denver right now, along with some counter-protests (see here ).  I'm glad that ther...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

VERY cool new publication....

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Take a gander at what my buddy, Alan Childress, has done lately:  here .  Hat tip to ALL my buds at Legal Profession Blog !  Congrats, Alan!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Best presidential fund-raising video EVER.

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Hat tip to the Chronicle of Higher Education .  Here it is :  enjoy!
Friday, April 16, 2010

A new social networking "first" for me....

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So I'm taking a break from work by checking my Facebook page, and one of our Boyd law students IMs me to ask me to supervise his summer ...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

A nice update about Nancy Temple's career

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Legal Ethics Forum has posted an update on Nancy Temple's career ( here ).  Nancy Temple was the Arthur Andersen lawyer whom the jurors...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Above The Law has an interesting post about the disconnect between what law schools do and what law firms want.

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An intriguing choice to replace Justice Stevens

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Sure, all of the folks who are front-runners are good replacements.  No one's arguing that.  But if President Obama wanted to pick someo...
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Thursday, April 08, 2010

You can't make this stuff up, continued.

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See here .  Hat tip to my buddy Kathleen Lyon for this one!
Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Why corporate boards need to designate one director each meeting as a nay-sayer.

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A perfect example ( here ), by Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times .
Monday, April 05, 2010

On the other hand, the secondary market for our SECOND edition of the Enron book is doing surprisingly well.

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An above-market price on our second edition takes some of the sting out of the $2.18 price on the first edition.  And, thanks to Mythbuster...
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Saturday, April 03, 2010

We've made it to the small time!

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Made it to the national market at last....
Friday, April 02, 2010

Couldn't make this up if I tried.

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See over at Legal Profession Blog ( here ).  Hat tip to Scott Unger for this one!
Thursday, April 01, 2010

Too much time, or not enough? The annual Peeps contest....

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Who can't love the Peeps dioramas ( here )?  Hat tip to my buddy Kathy Carpenter for sending this year's contest entries my way.... ...

The sky's not falling, but law firm economics sure are changing.

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See this article ( here ) in today's New York Times .  I keep saying that the numbers don't crunch--someday, law firms will have to ...
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 ).
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