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Friday Fun: The BigLaw Job Interview

03 Feb

BitterLawyer.com’s original series: Nick interviews for his dream job at a prestigious law firm. But that turns into a nightmare. [JH]

 
 

Friday Fun: TV Station Uses Hand Puppets to Recreate Courtroom Scenes in Corruption Trial

27 Jan

Why? Because the TV station was not allowed to take cameras into the federal courtroom to cover a former Ohio county commissioner. Lowering the Bar’s Kevin Underhill, comments “I think that all court proceedings should be reported in this way,…

 
 

Friday Fun: Time for Contract Law Karaoke

20 Jan

Starting with Chicken in a Contract (Frigaliment Importing Co v BNS International Sales). For more songs from classic cases of first-year contract law, visit R.B. Craswell’s Contract Songs. [JH]

 
 

Friday Fun: Verbal Brain Jammers

13 Jan

HBR blogger Dan Pallotta reviews five strains of the jargonism epidemic at I Don’t Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore. You can also listen to Dan explain why we still use jargon even though we hate it, and vote for…

 
 

Friday Fun: The Unemployment Crisis

06 Jan

… for people with facial tattoos! I’m not sure Title VII is intended to protect this class but I’m thinking some lawyer might try to make the case. [JH]

 
 

Friday Fun: Chirp n’ Chirp

30 Dec

Listen to the sound of Twitter! [JH]

 
 

Friday Fun: Santa Visits the Library During Finals Week

23 Dec

Santa visits LSU Middleton Library during finals week. Student: I’ve been a good boy, Santa Santa: What would you like for Christmas? Student: A’s on my finals. Santa: I don’t know if I can quite pull that off but I’ll…

 
 

Friday Fun: The Bottom Rung Job

16 Dec

Bitter Lawyer’s Matt Ritter writes “Bottom Rung out of my own experience doing document review in Los Angeles. Until I moved out to LA in 2010, I worked as a big firm corporate associate in New York and had never…

 
 

Undocumented Search Operators In Google

05 Dec

Searching Google, or any search engine for that matter, almost always offers relevant results, though with a lot of noise hits thrown in just for the fun of it. I’ve always imagined how Google might benefit from using Boolean connectors…

 

Friday Fun: Going Green by Repurposing Legal Reporter Volumes into Book Flasks

02 Dec

The Bender Books folks have “come up with a new twist on the book flask. Rather than mass-produce fake books, or concentrate on the classics, we want to take professional and reference books like legal reporters, medical books, cook books,…