Gnomic Wisdom

SUNY Buffalo Law Offering 2-Year J.D. for Foreign Lawyers

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:27:25 -0400

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…

View Post

On law schools and institutional crisis

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:34:42 -0400

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

latimes: The story behind Sriracha With a distinctive bottle...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:29:55 -0400

latimes:

The story behind Sriracha

With a distinctive bottle and taste, Sriracha has gone from an unpronounceable challenge to a staple sauce for many Americans. In the U.S. alone, $60 million worth of the sauce was sold last year alone.

But it wasn’t always such a prevalent item on store shelves. David Tran, the man responsible for popularizing the hot sauce, had a long journey beforehand:

When North Vietnam’s communists took power in South Vietnam, Tran, a major in the South Vietnamese army, fled with his family to the U.S. After settling in Los Angeles, Tran couldn’t find a job — or a hot sauce to his liking.

So he made his own by hand in a bucket, bottled it and drove it to customers in a van. He named his company Huy Fong Foods after the Taiwanese freighter that carried him out of Vietnam.

Read more via our profile of Tran, and his beloved hot sauce.

Photos: Gina Ferazzi, Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

"Social justice movements tend to spring up around issues that most people don’t get. Social justice..."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:14:52 -0400

“

Social justice movements tend to spring up around issues that most people don’t get. Social justice movements tend to spring up around issues that, to most people, don’t seem to matter that much. If people understood that the issues mattered, then organized movements to promote them wouldn’t be necessary.

Until their issues are properly understood, most social justice movements, almost by definition, are going to look whiny to most people. If you can’t understand why the things people are complaining about matter, those people are going to look whiny to you. That is, they’re going to look like they’re complaining about things that don’t matter.

Something to keep in mind when you’re thinking about accusing people in a social justice movement of being whiny: every social justice movement looks whiny if you don’t understand their issues. A lot of the time, the fact that calling attention to their issues is perceived as whiny is precisely the reason why the movement is necessary in the first place.

”

- A Thought on Social Justice and Being Whiny | Research to be Done (via brute-reason)

wenchymcwench: We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:55:09 -0400

wenchymcwench:

We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and give our order. While we’re aproaching our table two people come in and they go to the counter:
‘Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended’ They pay for their order, take the two and leave.

I ask my friend: “What are those ‘suspended’ coffees?”
My friend: “Wait for it and you will see.”

Some more people enter. Two girls ask for one coffee each, pay and go. The next order was for seven coffees and it was made by three lawyers - three for them and four ‘suspended’. While I still wonder what’s the deal with those ‘suspended’ coffees I enjoy the sunny weather and the beautiful view towards the square infront of the café. Suddenly a man dressed in shabby clothes who looks like a beggar comes in throught the door and kindly asks
‘Do you have a suspended coffee ?’

It’s simple - people pay in advance for a coffee meant for someone who can not afford a warm bevarage. The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Naples, but it has spread all over the world and in some places you can order not only a suspended coffee, but also a sandwitch or a whole meal.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have such cafés or even grocery stores in every town where the less fortunate will find hope and support ? If you own a business why don’t you offer it to your clients… I am sure many of them will like it.

Source : [x]

Photo

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:02:46 -0400

"There are some real CSO gems who work hard, and the law schools like to show these people off. But..."

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:17:28 -0400

“There are some real CSO gems who work hard, and the law schools like to show these people off. But the system of law school career services is based on legal jobs economy that is gone and never coming back. People are using 2003 skills to contend with the 2013 job market, and it’s failing students all across the country.”

- Above the Law http://feedly.com/k/YwXiyD

buzzfeed: Museums are really weird.

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:40:26 -0400

buzzfeed:

Museums are really weird.

"Let the record show: that you can be a United States senator for 21 years, you can be 79 years old,..."

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:15:38 -0400

“Let the record show: that you can be a United States senator for 21 years, you can be 79 years old, you can be the Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and one of the most recognizable and most widely respected veteran public servants in your nation. But if you are female while you are also all of those other things, men who you defeat in arguments will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They will patronize you and say they ‘admire your passion, sweetie,’ but of course they only deal in facts, not your silly girly strong feelings. It is inescapable, you can set your watch by it.”

- 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)

Logic

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:04:40 -0500

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

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:42:09 -0500

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 the decline.”

blackfoxx: homoerotics: zeonfunnelcake: [...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:04:42 -0500

blackfoxx:

homoerotics:

zeonfunnelcake:

[ Compare/Contrast: Perfect Blue (1997, dir. Satoshi Kon) and Black Swan (2010, dir. Darren Aronofsky) ]

A young woman on the brink of stardom struggles to assert her adult identity and sexual autonomy while being stalked by a murderous doppelgänger.

Why did this never occur to me? I love both of these movies A LOT.
Damn.

you realize aronofsky bought the rights to perfect blue years ago to let him copy/pay homage to a scene in requiem for a dream (the bathtub one, specifically), then made black swan using essentially the same story with only a few details changed (the occupation of the main character, the setting, etc.) and copying multiple scenes, sometimes exactly, and then went on to say he took no inspiration or ideas or scenes from perfect blue and was not influenced by it at all, despite owning the rights to it,having previously done so (which was why he bought the rights in the first place), and the year 2010 being the year black swan came out as well as the death of satoshi kon, perfect blue’s director.

tl;dr FUCK aronofsky.

yeah this is why i just assume poc made everything. tl;dr white folks aint shit and stay stealing….every time i get comfortable it turns out a poc actually did it first and someone stole it

Perfect Blue is an amazing movie.

leasthelpful: CHECKMATE, SPIELBERG Thousands of years ago

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:02:41 -0500

leasthelpful:

CHECKMATE, SPIELBERG

Thousands of years ago

Legaltech - The Power of a Crisis: Remaking the Habits of Lawyers

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:47:44 -0500

[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.]

Day…

View Post

Legaltech: The Future of Technology: Five Trends Lawyers Can’t Ignore

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:08:51 -0500

[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!

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:33:41 -0500

[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.]

Day…

View Post

Looking for e-discovery vendors interested in law school collaboration

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:18:07 -0500

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 Proportionality Avert the E-Discovery Crisis?

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:51:44 -0500

[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

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:46:58 -0500

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

g0ggles: I think this is the most concise summary of privilege...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:43:02 -0500

g0ggles:

I think this is the most concise summary of privilege I’ve seen yet