Sunday, September 19, 2010

Another suggestion for dealing with the housing crisis.

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See this New York Times op-ed ( here ).  We have to figure out some way to give banks an incentive to help the folks who can pay their mortg...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

It's a good day at the Van Niel-Rapoport household.

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See here .

Focus, shareholders. FOCUS.

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Yesterday's New York Times story on directors who presided over corporate failures being snapped up as directors by other companies (se...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

See? Clients want to push for fees calculated other than by the billable hour.

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See here .  (Hat tip to my buddy Walter Effross .)  Law firms are thinking about how to stay profitable while figuring out new ways to value...
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Aspen will give you a taste of Law School Survival Manual by posting one free chapter.

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And we think that the chapter's a doozy--it's on how to prepare for exams.  See here for the link to Aspen1L.
Monday, September 13, 2010

A nice feather in Boyd School of Law's cap.

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One of the things I love about Boyd is how engaged our faculty is in research.  Now Brian Leiter has a post that recognizes how we're do...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Another good column on the housing crisis.

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I always look forward to the Sunday columns by Gretchen Morgenson (see the latest one here ).
Friday, September 10, 2010

More shameless self-promotion.

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Click here for a podcast that gives advice to law students, and click here for a post that links the podcast to our Law School Survival Ma...
Thursday, September 02, 2010

Thank you, Faculty Lounge & Laura Appleman!

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Woke up today to this review of the Law School Survival Manual over at The Faculty Lounge ( here ).   Thanks, Laura !  You made my day!
Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Another good column on Nevada's budget crisis.

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I look forward to John L. Smith's columns in the Review-Journal, and today's column is no exception (see here ).  Let's face i...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Shameless self-promotion here: LexisNexis Top 25 Business Law Blogs voting begins now....

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When I came back from class this afternoon, I saw this email: Dear Nancy: Each year, LexisNexis honors a select group of blogs that set t...

Best explanation of what Nevada needs to do to turn the state's economy around--EVER.

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See here .  The whole "we don't have to raise taxes to fix the state's economy" problem brings to mind my favorite speech ...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Why I like Steven Horsford.

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Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone apologizes for them or takes responsibility for them.  When Senate Majority Leader sent out a fund...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Give the banks a monetary incentive to do the right thing.

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Guilt doesn't work.  Shame doesn't work.  Threats don't work.  "Affordable homes" programs don't work (see here a...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Hey, I've never been the subject of a rap video....

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See here .  At least not to my knowledge....  Hat tip to my buddy Eric Van Horn .
Monday, August 16, 2010

Larry Temkin changed my life, too.

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One of my favorite professors from Rice University , Larry Temkin , now teaches at Rutgers.  The Rutgers home page is featuring a salute to ...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Scott Bovitz ROCKS! (As does the Bovitz-Spitzer law firm....)

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So I'm bugging my friends for some samples of stay relief motions to effect setoffs and for samples of objections to exemptions, and Sco...
Friday, August 06, 2010

Shout-outs for new law professors

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Thanks to my buddy Tim Zinnecker for mentioning the advice I've given to "newbie" law profs (see here ), and kudos to my budd...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Newest guilty pleasure: everything "Jen Lancaster-y"

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First, I picked up Bitter is the New Black .  Loved it.  Then I went straight to a Jen Lancaster trifecta:  Bright Lights, Big Ass ; Such a ...

Billing judgment matters.

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As I was reading this morning's Above the Law post about a federal court cutting legal fees because the law firm requesting fees failed...