Monday, April 30, 2012

R.I.P., Judge Paskay.

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A remarkable man .  I'll miss him. 
Friday, April 27, 2012

Do I really expect some law schools to close in the next few years? Yes. Yes, I do.

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In this cross-post on our Law School Survival Manual blog , I attempt to clarify that--although the ability to discharge student loans in b...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Probably not a relative,* but a really cool guy. RIP, Bernard Rapoport.

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Here's the New York Times obituary of Bernard Rapoport. *Of course, theoretically, all Rapoports are related....
Monday, April 23, 2012

Congrats to my buddy Sherri Wattenbarger!

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

This article tickled the heck out of me.

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Especially the observations about academia--see here .
Friday, April 13, 2012

More shameless self-promotion: my article on fees in chapter 11 cases is out.

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You can download it here .
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

I loved the blog The Legal Whiteboard even before . . .

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Jeff Lipshaw so kindly posted about my latest piece ( here ).  Thanks, Jeff!

Shameless self-promotion: my most recent article about legal education.

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Available at SSRN ( here ).
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Titanic.

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It will be 100 years ago this coming weekend, and there are so many news stories about Titanic that I hardly know where to begin.  But we c...
Sunday, April 08, 2012

Wow.

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Hear the interview of a Titanic survivor here .
Wednesday, April 04, 2012

R.I.P. Gary Hartman

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I just heard about Gary Hartman's passing ( here ) and my heart goes out to Susan and the rest of his family and friends.  Gary was on...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Blaming the wrong person.

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As I'm reading this story , I'm getting deja vu .  Some students at U Conn's law school somehow believe that the soon-to-be-form...
Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Some very intelligent comments about public discourse.

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See Jon Ralston's opinion ( here ) and David Brooks's opinion ( here ).
Friday, March 02, 2012

The news article that a lawyer does not want to see when she's having her morning coffee.

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See here .  Shades of Arthur Andersen's shredding scandal .  Having a rogue manager (assuming that's what happened) shred documents,...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Yet another reason why my buddy Bernie Burk is cool (and funny).

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See here .
Friday, February 24, 2012

Kvelling about the review of Randy Gordon's book.

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One of my buddies, Randy Gordon , has just gotten a really nice review of his really good book called Rehumanizing Law: A Theory of Law and ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Playing through the pain.

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Great essay in the Wall Street Journal ( here ).
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Bloomberg Law on the 10 greatest legal movie lines.

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See here .  I feel very self-actualized.  I use nine of these movies when I talk about lawyers in pop culture, and I use five of the same cl...
Monday, February 20, 2012

A hearty congrats to Omar Alaniz!

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My buddy Eric Van Horn just sent me links to Omar's latest honor (see here and here ).  Omar has just been given the ABA Young Lawyer...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Who can't love an op-ed piece about corporate greed that refers to Nozick?

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See the Financial Times piece by John Kay here .