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Goodbye is too good a word 27 Feb 2013 | 06:13 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I began this blog one summer afternoon in exactly way I’ve started every other professional project I’ve undertaken which ever amounted to anythi...
The disappeared 27 Feb 2013 | 12:03 am
As I've mentioned before, probably the most crucial knowledge gap that needs to be filled by people pursuing legal academic reforms is in regard to medium and long-term (as opposed to short-term) care...
This is not my beautiful house 25 Feb 2013 | 09:09 pm
This thread on TFL provides a sobering glimpse into what's happening to both the legal academic hiring market and the market for high-status and otherwise desirable non-entry level lawyer jobs (BigLaw...
Inside report 25 Feb 2013 | 12:41 am
Legal educators are still fantasizing that law firms will create more positions for new lawyers. The latest pipe dream suggests that big firms will "give talented graduates of less prestigious institu...
A note on the reliability of the employment data reported by law schools 23 Feb 2013 | 11:16 pm
You can get a mordantly amusing sense of how reliable law school employment data has been by looking at the wildly divergent unemployment rates reported by otherwise very similar schools, and by exami...
Doctors and lawyers 22 Feb 2013 | 07:35 pm
Steven Brill of The American Lawyer and CourtTV fame has a very long story in the new issue of Time on some of the more absurd financial dysfunctions of The Best Health Care System in the World(tm). ...
An apology 21 Feb 2013 | 06:36 pm
DJM's new post below has alerted me to a very serious mistake in my post yesterday, in which I criticized two law school deans for touting, without any statistical basis, the purported versatility of ...
Choo choo 21 Feb 2013 | 10:50 am
Did you love playing with trains as a child? Would you like to drive a train? Can you imagine yourself tearing down the tracks at more than 350 miles per hour? If so, I have great news for you: The un...
Straight out of Scarsdale 20 Feb 2013 | 07:54 pm
A law professor forwarded me links to a couple of law school-produced podcasts/youtube videos flogging the "versatility" of what one of them actually refers to as the "magical" JD degree. The first i...
Live at the Improv 19 Feb 2013 | 07:56 pm
A law student writes: American University is holding improv lessons to help students learn how to network and interview. Sometimes when I walk around the school I feel like I must be in the twilight ...
