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Scalia opines at Pepperdine

Posted on March 11, 2009
Dean Kenneth Starr (formerly Solicitor General) was the host when Justice Antonin Scalia visited Pepperdine Law School earlier this week. This detailed report of their "conversation" comes from the Los Angeles County Bar Association Blog. We will share a few...

proposal deadline for Lone Star regional LRW conference

Posted on March 11, 2009
The Lone Star Regional Legal Research and Writing Conference will be held at Texas Tech University School of Law on May 29-30, 2009. We invite proposals for presentations at this conference and welcome proposals from anyone involved in legal education,...

judges as authors, and vice versa

Posted on March 11, 2009
A working paper by Ryan Benjamin Witte examines the extent to which some federal judges "summon their inner novelist or poet to add life to the pages of the Federal Register." The paper, titled The Judge as an Author/The Author...

your next LRW class: featuring a 500-1 ratio?

Posted on March 11, 2009
No more worries about shrinking law-school enrollments, says the Onion. New federal legislation will mandate that every twenty-five-year-old in America spend one year in law school, "to simultaneously placate their parents, impress their friends with complex-sounding legal jargon, and effectively...

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Nova legal writing professor Anthony Niedwiecki elected Commissioner-Mayor.

Posted on March 11, 2009
I'm proud to report that Anthony Niedwiecki, a legal writing colleague of mine at Nova, was elected yesterday to a seat on the Oakland Park City Commission in Ft. Lauderdale. Based on the chain of command, he will become Vice...

Alternative to the LSAT measures students' ability to research, write and problem solve

Posted on March 11, 2009
The New York Times is reporting today that two UC Berkeley Professors teamed up to design an alternative to the traditional LSAT entrance exam which they believe will better measure a student's likelihood of success in practice while avoiding the...

Judge Gertner to Professor Nesson: The Courtroom is not a classroom, bub!

Posted on March 11, 2009
United States District Court Judge Nancy Gertner just schooled Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson in how to act in federal court telling him in a written decision that litigating in her courtroom is "no clinical exercise." The written decision, found...

Watch this - an amazing video about technology's impact on the world

Posted on March 11, 2009
Maybe you've already seen this - but if you haven't, take a gander. It's a very effective video presentation about the way in which technology has affected our lives and will continue to do so at an exponential rate. The...

UK study shows average IQ of attorneys has declined

Posted on March 10, 2009
So reports the UK website "The Lawyer.com" As they explain:The study, carried out by the Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) at Bristol University, suggested that lawyers have moved closer to average intelligence over the past 12 years. The...

Should Thomas Jefferson Law School offer a course in dinosaur law?

Posted on March 10, 2009
You may have read in early February that excavation for the new $68 million Thomas Jefferson School of Law building uncovered the 500,000 year old fossil of a Columbian mammoth. Then came the discovering 10 days ago of the 600,000...

Are big firms beginning to ratchet down starting salaries? They're nuts if they don't.

Posted on March 10, 2009
It's not a surprise to anyone who's read the news in the past six months that given the present state of the legal marketplace, $160k starting salaries for BigLaw associates are not sustainable. Some would argue they were never rational...

2,500 lost legal jobs in the past 10 days

Posted on March 10, 2009
Reported the ABA Journal yesterday. One law firm consultant says he expects to see law firm lay-offs continue at least through the fourth quarter of this year. While financial wiz-man Warren Buffett told CNBC yesterday that the "economy has fallen...

Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference this weekend

Posted on March 10, 2009
Over 110 legal writing professors are getting ready to travel to Arizona State University for the 9th annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing conference, taking place this coming Friday and Saturday, March 13th and 14th. The theme of the conference is...

Library Research Grants at Harvard - Schlessinger Library on the History of Women

Posted on March 10, 2009
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites scholars whose research requires use of the library's collections to apply for research support. Applications will be evaluated on the significance of the research and the...

Nebraska Joins 43 Other States in Requiring MCLE

Posted on March 10, 2009
Nebraska ? the state that gave us the unicameral (the "one house" state legislature) ? will join 43 other states that have mandatory continuing legal education. Active members of the Nebraska bar will have to collect 10 credit hours annually...

"Please Repeat the Question" -- A Music Video from NYU Law Students on Web Surfing in Class

Posted on March 10, 2009
The debate on laptops in the classroom has raised many thoughts, but none as WONDERFULLY expressed as in this music video made by students at New York University School of Law. (I went there for an LLM, but I don't...

New scholarship alert - Pitfalls Ahead: A Manifesto For The Training of Lawyers

Posted on March 10, 2009
A recently published essay by Professor Anita Bernstein of Brooklyn School of Law appears in 94 Cornell L. Rev. 479 (2009). Below is the abstract from Westlaw:Many entrants into the legal profession decided to become lawyers after they were inspired....

If college admission offices are sweating, where does that leave law schools?

Posted on March 09, 2009
The New York Times reported Saturday that college admissions offices face uncertainty about applicant numbers for the first time in decades. Colleges have been in the catbird seat for the past decade or so. As the number of high school...

Lawyers use online networking but a generation gap persists

Posted on March 09, 2009
The Chicago Lawyer reports that more and more attorneys are using social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Legal OnRamp as a time efficient way o keep in touch with family, friends, colleagues and clients. People are too busy these...

Boys don't cry, but they sure do flunk out

Posted on March 09, 2009
Here an interesting article, Stop Avoiding the Issue of Failing Boys, from Inside Higher Ed noting that males flunk out of high school and college at far higher rates than females. I wonder if anyone has studied whether the same...

Hiring for college grads down 22% - worse on the coasts

Posted on March 09, 2009
This report comes to us from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The parts of the country reporting the worst numbers are the Northeast - where hiring of college grads is projected to be down 38.9% - and the...

Subscribe to the "word of the day" feed

Posted on March 09, 2009
The world wide web is, like, big. Really big. I'm constantly finding new stuff that makes me wonder: "I spend hours and hours on the web each week looking for relevant material to post about so how come I've never...

Vote for the "Big Law" word of the year!

Posted on March 09, 2009
Here's an interesting little contest being run by the legal news site The Daily Report. (You'll have to register to enter but it don't cost nothin' so what 'ya waitin' fer?). They're holding a contest to determine the best "Big...

The Ward Churchill trial began today - Are faculties more timid these days?

Posted on March 09, 2009
Professors and students from the Sturm College of Law and the Daniels Business College at the University of Denver have begun blogging about Ward Churchill's first amendment suit against the University of Colorado. The trial began today and, as you...

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