On August 1, Ronald V. Miller, Jr. of the Maryland firm of Miller & Zois and UB Law adjunct faculty member for 13 years posted the following offer on The Maryland Injury Law Blog: I really believe that Dean Closius…
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Chapter Three in the Continuing Baltimore Law Saga: "Junking the Stats" in Public "Cockfight" between UB President and Fired UB Law Dean
03
Aug
In yesterday’s ATL post about the University of Baltimore’s ouster of UB Law Dean Closius, Elis Mystal comments that “these kinds of ‘juking the stats’ discussions are usually handled behind closed doors, but now we all get to see it.”…
NALP on ABA Job Reporting: Not So Fast There Buddy
02
Aug
There is at least one or more angles to the ABA upping its law school data placement information I’d like to mention. See Joe’s post from earlier today, ABA Revises Law School Placement Data Reporting Requirements. The first is that…
ABA Revises Law School Placement Data Reporting Requirements
02
Aug
Quoting from the July 27, 2011 press release, ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Will Collect Additional Employment Information from Law Schools in its Annual Questionnaire: [T]he 2011 Annual Questionnaire will request from law schools information…
The Saga of Fired Baltimore Law Dean Continues: U of Baltimore Responds Publicly to Dean Phil Closius
02
Aug
All this sounds more than vaguely familiar to what happened at DePaul back in 2009 when that University’s Administration decided to air its dirty laundry publicly. The Baltimore Sun reports the following: The University of Baltimore’s president issued a sharp…
Univ. of Baltimore Law School Dean Told to Take a Hike by University Administration
01
Aug
Quoting from the published announcement by Baltimore Law’s Dean Phil Closius: At a meeting at 4 o’clock on July 28, University President Robert Bogomolny asked for my resignation as Dean of the School of Law. As of today’s date, I…
Something New in the Academic Law Journal Genre: UDC-DCSL’s Illustrated Law Journal
29
Jul
The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law has launched the Illustrated Law Journal (ILJ) project “to use web technology and Free Culture licenses to generate meaningful visual illustrations of laws and legal concepts… .”…
How to Control the Courts Using On-Line Legal Research
27
Jul
| How to Find Appellate Cases that Control Judges!
You cannot win without controlling judges. You cannot control judges unless you research and cite controlling “legal authority” for every point you seek to make on the court’s record! Read on to see what you will learn with the official and affordable step-by-step, 24-hour Jurisdictionary “How to Win in Court” self-help course. The judge is not the authority! If you want to win in court, you must make it crystal clear on the court’s official record that the judge will be reversed on appeal if he rules against you! Nothing else matters! If the judge thinks he can rule against you and get away with it, guess what! If the judge knows you haven’t made your record for appeal before the case is concluded at the trial level, he is free to ignore everything you did and rule any way he pleases in spite of what the law and facts may prove to the contrary because he knows he cannot be reversed on appeal because you didn’t make your record! The appeal process will not give you another bite at the proverbial apple. Either you make your points with the trial judge by citing “legal authority” that controls him, or you run the risk of losing your case and being stuck with the decision forever! Don’t believe me? Tell a judge what your personal opinions are about the law and how you think he should rule in your case, and see how far it gets you! YOU WILL LOSE … if you don’t learn how to cite “legal authority” as explained clearly in the official step-by-step, 24-hour Jurisdictionary“How to Win in Court” course! The only opinions that count in court are the written opinions of appellate court justices who stand in judgment over trial level judges and have power to reverse them if they disagree with the appellate decisions in any way! Your opinions count for nothing in court. You must control the judge by citing official authorities from controlling appellate decisions, so the judge knows he will be reversed if he rules against you! This is how smart lawyers win! Stupid lawyers are afraid of judges. Stupid lawyers are afraid to threaten appeal. Stupid lawyers lose … routinely! Controlling judges is what wins lawsuits! |
Does Vocationalism Justify Academic Freedom and Tenure?
26
Jul
In a recent New York Times think piece, Vocationalism, Academic Freedom and Tenure, Stanley Fish writes: In her new book, “The Faculty Lounges: and Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For,” Naomi Schaefer Riley brings…
Could Jailhouse Lawyers Teach Legal Skills to Law School Students?
26
Jul
What the hell, why not? Could save some employment costs at state-run law schools. But I don’t think Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is thinking outside-the box. Not yet, anyway. See Adjunct Law Prof Blog’s Gov. Walker To Now Use Prison…
