Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Two reasons to think before acting.

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Loved Luke Johnson's piece in today's Financial Times about "How to Spot an Impending Calamity" ( here ).  Although high...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

A tale of two abuses.

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OK, look at Joe Nocera's column in yesterday's New York Times ( here ) ( " Biggest Fish Face Little Risk of Being Caught...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

The GWU law students were exceptionally funny this year.

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Warning:  adult language.  But see here .  And a hat tip to one of our students, Jason Lather, for letting me know about it.

And some funny stuff from my buddy Rod Fong....

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Rod sent me these sayings:* To write with a broken pencil is pointless. When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate. A thief ...

Shout-out to the Faculty Lounge blog.

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I always like reading that blog , and today's gave me an honest-to-goodness spit-take .  I love Malcolm Gladwell's books , and we we...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

For you corporate law students out there....

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My buddy, Professor Walter Effross , has come up with a list called Suggestions for Law Students: 101 Assets, Activities, and Approaches for...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Some rules to live by, forwarded to me by Dad.

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Here's what my dad forwarded to me recently.  I loved them. 16 Rules To Live By By Bob Parsons, Founder & CEO of GoDaddy.com ...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Heroes don't like to be called "whistle-blowers."

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In today's New York Times Gretchen Morgenson column, she describes the travails and eventually victory of former Countrywide exec Mich...

From my buddy George Connelly:

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A list of paraprosdokians, from my friend George: A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase ...

A nice salute to Judge Steen, on his retirement.

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See here .  I didn't know Charlie Fielder (the second part of the post), but it's clear that he made many lives better. Judge Stee...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Tim Canova's point about the budget crisis.

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My buddy Tim Canova writes very interesting things, and here's his latest op-ed on the national budget crisis ( here ).

Two examples of why my dentist ROCKS.

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 See here.... and here.... Not only is Sam Savage a great dentist, but he and his staff are some of the nicest people around.

A nice salute to a very talented CRO--William Snyder.

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See here .  I've seen his work in person (twice) and read about his work in other, equally high-profile matters.  He's absolutely at...

On days like this, it's hard to be a proud Texan.

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See here .  We need to rectify this, and pronto.
Monday, February 14, 2011

A professor to watch.

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I really like Michelle Harner's work (for an example, see here --the Legal Ethics Forum just highlighted it).  Her combination of exper...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Good for you, Harvard Law Review!

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See here .
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

More on Brent Newton's article about law faculties.

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Over at TaxProf Blog , Paul Caron has highlighted some juicy quotes from Brent Newton 's article (you can download it here ) about whet...

Update on the Samsung printer.

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After I sent a letter to the Samsung America headquarters asking for compensation for the hour of computer guru time it took to get my print...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Bragging on my Professional Responsibility students.

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So I'm teaching Professional Responsibility again this semester, and I'm doing it primarily through "law firm" presentatio...
Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Nevada's budget, as seen through the eyes of the UNLV/Brookings Mountain West study.

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See here for some very sensible advice.