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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Stop it. Stop demonizing the other side.

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It's a few days until Election Day, and I'm already cranky:  every time our home phone rings (a sure sign that the caller doesn'...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

The New Yorker: GREAT magazine; HORRIBLE web customer service.

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I keep trying to fix a login problem at The New Yorker's website.  The site now keeps putting me into infinite loop.  I love the article...

Brava, Michelle Rhee!

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Still a fan.  See here .
Friday, October 29, 2010

Best disclaimer ever.

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See here .  For the disclaimer that's a close second, see here .
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Thanks, everyone!

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I sure appreciate being in this group!
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

That McGowan-Burk article I mentioned is highlighted in the latest ABA Journal.

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Just more proof that this article is both very good and very important.  See here for the ABA Journal link, and see here for my earlier p...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Michelle Rhee is my hero.

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See here .
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Thanks, Hank's!

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We just got back home after a wonderful dinner at Hank's .  Delicious food, attentive staff, and a lovely surprise dessert.  All in all,...
Monday, October 11, 2010

A great op-ed by Sharon Davies of Ohio State.

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See here .  Brava, Sharon!
Sunday, October 10, 2010

For those of you who like law review irony.

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See here .  I especially liked the section on the right to bare claws, although the part about herd derivative suits was also classic.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Why our students at Boyd rock, part n.

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See this post at the Law School Survival Manual blog ( here ).
Saturday, October 02, 2010

New "good read" article.

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My buddy Bernie Burk and his co-author, David McGowan , have just posted an article on SSRN ( here ):  Big But Brittle: Economic Perspecti...
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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...
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