April 2013
SUNY Buffalo Law Offering 2-Year J.D. for Foreign...
From the New York Law Journal:
Lawyers who hold law degrees from institutions outside the United States will be able to earn a J.D. in two years through an accelerated degree program at University at Buffalo Law School set to begin this fall.
The degree…
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On law schools and institutional crisis
Bill Henderson has previously said that he expects big layoffs at law schools this fall – presumably thinking that there will be a huge overall revenue shortfall, but that schools won’t know, until opening day, just how bad their own situations look. We… View Post
“Social justice movements tend to spring up around issues that most people don’t...”
– A Thought on Social Justice and Being Whiny | Research to be Done (via brute-reason)
March 2013
“There are some real CSO gems who work hard, and the law schools like to show...”
– Above the Law http://feedly.com/k/YwXiyD
“Let the record show: that you can be a United States senator for 21 years, you...”
– Rachel Maddow, discussing Senator Ted Cruz’s condescending lecture to Senator Dianne Feinstein during a Senate debate on gun control. March 14, 2013. (via kateoplis)
I really don’t like DiFi. But fuck Ted Cruz, for realz. (via luckyjimjd)
February 2013
Logic
Logic http://wp.me/sCZX-logic What Dan Filler at The Faculty Lounge wrote:
The newest voume summary from LSAC is out and it indicates that, as of February 15, 2013, applications have increased to the point that law schools are now down a mere 18.9% in total applicants and 22% in total… View Post
Inside the Law School Scam: The twenty-year drop →
“Accounting for the growth in college graduates makes clear that law schools are not suffering a sudden or cyclical drop in applicants. Interest in our degree has fallen fairly steadily over the last twenty years. There was a small uptick of interest during the 2002 recession, but no increase at all during the Great Recession. At best, that more recent recession bought us a short pause in...
January 2013
Legaltech - The Power of a Crisis: Remaking the...
[Disclaimer: I am attending Legaltech thanks to a free blogger’s pass, so read skeptically. All opinions are my own because nobody else would want them anyway.] [Further disclaimer: Live blogging. Errors, omissions, and snarky comments are my own.]
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Legaltech: The Future of Technology: Five Trends...
[Disclaimer: I am attending Legaltech thanks to a free blogger’s pass, so read skeptically. All opinions are my own because nobody else would want them anyway.] [Further disclaimer: Live blogging. Errors, omissions, and snarky comments are my own.]
The… View Post
Legaltech Day Two: The Morning Show!
[Disclaimer: I am attending Legaltech thanks to a free blogger’s pass, so read skeptically. All opinions are my own because nobody else would want them anyway.]
[Further disclaimer: Live blogging. Errors, omissions, and snarky comments are my own.]
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Looking for e-discovery vendors interested in law...
I spent a good chunk of the morning talking with e-discovery vendors in the Legaltech exhibit hall and trying to figure out how best to expose my students to e-discovery systems. Unfortunately, in most cases the people I needed to talk to within each… View Post
Legaltech Plenary: Facing the Cliff: Can...
[Disclaimer: This post represents my sketchy paraphrase and comments on the content of the discussion. Any errors or omissions are my fault.]
Facing the Cliff: Can Proportionality Avert the eDiscovery Crisis? Proportionality has been touted by industry… View Post
Blogging from Legaltech NY 2013
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how law professors manage to remain ignorant of the intersections between law and technology. Thanks to Carolyn Elefant, I learned that Legaltech offers free passes for bloggers, so deciding to put Legaltech’s money… View Post
And the bad news about the law market keeps on...
From Legal Ethics Forum:
Citibank advisory for 2013 suggests that big law economics are still under great pressure
The report is available below. Intro graf:
For the legal industry, the results in 2012, another turbulent year, were largely a repeat of…
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More on law students and technology
A couple of days ago I posted an excerpt from Carolyn Elefant’s cri de couer about young lawyers’ lack of ideas for the use of technology in marketing their practice.
Some of you newbies have told me that law school discourages use of technology. That… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Carolyn Elefant on the disconnect between young...
Open Letter to New Lawyer: You should be dragging me into the 21st century not the other way around
Just out of law school, your skills are of minimal use to me. Nothing you research or write will be worthy of filing without significant oversight and…
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Bernie Burk on the shrinking dominion of law...
And Bernie Burk is one of the more hopeful writers on the law school crisis:
Judging from the oversupply revealed by the employment numbers gathered and disseminated by the ABA Section on Legal Education, my relatively unscientific guess is that we can… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Aaron Swartz was not special
Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice makes an important point about the online community’s reaction to the tragic suicide of Aaron Swartz:
But there remains a side of this tragedy that the geek community misses. Government overreaching, “bullying” as Lessig… View Post shared via WordPress.com
"Scam bloggers," law professors, and the...
“Scam bloggers,” law professors, and the responsibilities of superior knowledge Professor Stephen Diamond (via Brian Leiter) undertakes another defense of law school practices from the oft-maligned “scam bloggers”:
Over the last couple of years a new industry has emerged run by a small number of recent law school graduates and an… View Post shared via WordPress.com
December 2012
“Now, after carefully nurturing for 40 years the notion that government is bad,...”
– Charles P. Pierce
“One of the most annoying things that happens post-massacre is the gun nuts who...”
– Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon
“Nowhere in the myriad complaints is there any mention of, or indication of...”
– Scott H. Greenfield, Simple Justice
“The Senate is populated by dozens of people who think they should be President,...”
– mistermix
November 2012
Slip of a Girl: As it happens ... →
mehreenkasana:
politicalprof:
President Obama, in defending Israel’s strikes into Gaza, noted that no country would endure attacks from another outside its borders, and so Israel had the right to defend itself.
Which is all well and good, except I can name at least two countries that…
“But this pragmatic approach seems to founder on the shoals of a very unpragmatic...”
– Pierre Schlag, http://brazenandtenured.com/2012/11/15/the-great-gop-identity-search/
A Lost Generation of Aspiring Law Profs?
Matt Bodie at PrawfsBlawg writes:
The easiest way to cut costs would be to not fill empty faculty or staff lines. Based on the AALS entry-level data, it looks like a fair number of schools have taken this approach. I say this is “easiest” because no one has to be fired or take a pay cut. But there are real costs as well. It unbalances a school’s faculty by cutting off the...
