Friday, April 28, 2017

Why the Westin Cincinnati is likely the very worst Westin in the country.

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How do we count the ways in which the Westin Cincinnati is a very, very bad hotel? First, the good news:  friendly staff and great locati...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Predicted this in 2012.

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The story on Whittier in the NYT is here . As I said in 2012, "[t] he world doesn’t need as many ABA-accredited law schools as it has...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Well, Jeff now gets to use a Satan emoji to describe me.

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Here's why: I was at the Burbank airport earlier this week, returning my rental car, and I heard a running sound.  The next thing I kn...
Sunday, March 05, 2017

How NOT to collect a legal bill.

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We used a friend of ours, Mike Cenatiempo, to update our wills.  Mike used to work at Shannon Gracey, which is now defunct.  We paid our bil...
Tuesday, January 03, 2017

I have managed to alienate Blogger.

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After I got hacked, I tried to change my administrative login credentials to my new email address, but Blogger doesn't believe me.  Let...
Sunday, December 04, 2016

Lessons from being hacked.

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Criminals are smarter than I am. Criminals are more dedicated to their jobs than I am--and I'm pretty darn dedicated. Computers can b...
Monday, November 28, 2016

I love the First Amendment (and I can still deplore hateful speech).

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Of course I'm angered and saddened about the increase in hateful speech across campuses (see today's latest story here ).  I don...
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Friday, November 11, 2016

Why I am frustrated with B of A.

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In October, a B of A ATM ate a check that I was depositing.  I called Customer Service, and B of A  gave me a credit for the check while it ...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Happy 241st birthday to my beloved Marine Corps.

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So grateful to you and your fellow servicemembers for all that you do.  Here's today's birthday greeting .
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Friday, November 04, 2016

About closing more law schools....

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Yesterday, T axProf Blog posted a story about the closing of Indiana Tech and raised the question of whether other law schools might close...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Lucy Kellaway is correct.

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In today's Financial Times piece : If one employee offends against a bank’s vision and values, it is [his or her] fault. If 5,300 do,...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Urban Meyer is one of my heroes.

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And here's why .
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Stephen Fry and depression---a great read.

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Here .  For those of us who have lived through depression, it's hard to explain to those who haven't.  Thanks to folks like Stephen ...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Dear Hilton Corporation:

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Why is it, that at least one Doubletree, you have set the systems running the televisions (according to the repairperson I met yesterday) to...

Last-minute advice for bar exam takers.

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On one of our other blogs ( here ).
Monday, July 11, 2016

Why I quit LVAC and switched to Lifetime Fitness, and why I'm really happy about the switch.

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There's nothing wrong with LVAC .  It's a nice gym, and it's reasonably priced.  But I love Lifetime Fitness , even though there...

Why I quit LVAC and switched to Lifetime Fitness, and why I'm really happy about the switch.

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There's nothing wrong with LVAC .  It's a nice gym, and it's reasonably priced.  But I love Lifetime Fitness , even though there...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

R.I.P., Steve Zamora

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Steve passed away suddenly, and my heart goes out to his family.  Steve was the dean at UH Law Center immediately before I came on board, a...
Monday, July 04, 2016

Shameless self-promotion over at our Law School Survival Manual blog.

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Here .
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Great minds think alike -- about compensation models for law firms.

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I came away from Liane Jackson's ABA Journal article, $10K prize-winning hackathon team dreams up new compensation model for law firms,...