Friday, February 27, 2015

Passing of a legal ethics giant: Monroe Freedman.

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What an amazing person.  Hat tip to The Faculty Lounge for this sad but important news.
Friday, February 20, 2015

It's exciting to see something on my fees wishlist become a reality.

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I've written about developing behavioral prompts to encourage lawyers to bill timely and accurately , and LinkedIn just pointed me to an...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Best line in today's NYT op-ed about the value of college.

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The op-ed is here .  And my favorite bit? That brought [Professor] Hall to her own answer about college’s mission: “It is for developing t...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

R.I.P, Marvin Chirelstein.

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Just heard the sad news .  Marvin Chirelstein made Federal Income Tax comprehensible for me when I was a lost law student, trying to figure ...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

More Enron-ization of rankings.

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As TaxProf Blog reports ( here ), UMKC has had an outside audit ( here ) to uncover rankings shenanigans.  What should we learn from example...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Chilling series, but important to read.

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So grateful to CNN for this particular series .

Why Lucy Kellaway rocks, part n.

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Here . 

Cross-posting about the team that makes a good leader better.

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Here .

More shameless self-promotion.

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A nice mention of our second book in the Survival Manual series ( here ).
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Why I switched from Fitbit to Vivofit--a customer service story (UPDATED YET AGAIN)

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I like fitness trackers.  I like measuring things, and I don't expect the trackers to have pinpoint accuracy.  They exist as motivationa...
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Thursday, January 08, 2015

Really cool workshop on conducting empirical legal scholarship coming up this summer at CERL/Wash U.

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See here for info.  I can't make it to this one, but I'm hoping to do one in the future.  I've heard great things about it.
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Monday, January 05, 2015

I'm pretty sure that's not the correct use of the word.

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Now that I'm back from the AALS Annual Meeting, I remember what I liked about going in years past (seeing old friends; making new ones) ...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Bad customer service winner of the week--Ulta.com.

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Apparently, Ulta, "we promise to answer your question in 24 hours" does not mean what you think it does .  Ten days and waiting, a...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Our amicus brief in ASARCO was filed yesterday.

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And it's here (and here ). 
Thursday, December 04, 2014

Why doesn't Fitbit trust its customers?

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I have a Fitbit Charge.  I have that, instead of the Jawbone, because my Jawbone broke repeatedly and had to have a soft restart about once ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Dear Tim Cook: Steve Jobs wouldn't have bollixed up the Genius Bar this way.

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So now, apparently, I can't just make a Genius Bar appointment .  I have to go through too many hoops, including having to override the ...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Wishing my beloved Marine Corps a very happy birthday today.

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Happy 239th birthday, Marines !
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Steven Davidoff Solomon's interesting take on why law schools won't close.

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Here .  I especially liked his point about why incentives favor bailing out law schools rather than closing them: [A]  closed law school ...
Friday, October 31, 2014

I loved this post about the boycott.

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See here .  (Hat tip to my dad for sending it to me.)
Monday, October 27, 2014

Happy birthday, John Cleese!

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And here is his lecture on how to be creative.