According to the latest report by BLS, professional and technical services showed job expansion running at 8.5% and the only subgroup that showed a decline was legal services (- 1.8%). On WSJ Law Blog, Joe Palazzlo reports that while the…
Federal Judge Offers Ideas To Reform the Teaching of Law
09
Jan
Judge José A. Cabranes of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was the lunchtime speaker at the Association of American Law Schools’ gathering last Friday. He was pretty blunt about his view of the current state of law schools, suggesting…
Fact-checking the Duncan Law School Story
09
Jan
In an earlier post, I speculated that it was probably not a coincidance that Duncan Law was featured in a New York Times article by David Segal just before the law school received official notice that the ABA denied its…
Round-Up of Law Practitioner Blogs
08
Jan
Sacramento Real Estate Lawyer Blog http://www.sacramentorealestatelawyerblog.com/ http://www.sacramentorealestatelawyerblog.com/index.xml Discusses real estate cases, news, and related business matters in Sacramento, California. Published by The Law Office of Kristina M. Reed Whistleblower Qui Tam Law Blog http://www.whistleblowerquitamlaw.com/ http://www.whistleblowerquitamlaw.com/index.xml Examines whistleblower cases, news, and…
TRUSTe’s 2011 Website Privacy Index
07
Jan
From the press release: In the 2011 Website Edition of its Privacy Index, TRUSTe analyzed the privacy policies of the top 100 U.S. websites (as ranked by Alexa Sept. 2011) to evaluate privacy practices by measuring key policy attributes, as…
Publishers Hate Libraries, But We Sort Of Knew That
06
Jan
Techdirt has an interesting article on ebooks called If Libraries Didn’t Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending? The article is a reaction to an examination of major publisher attitudes to providing ebooks to libraries as published in…
Publishers Hate Libraries, But We Sort Of Knew That
06
Jan
Techdirt has an interesting article on ebooks called If Libraries Didn’t Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending? The article is a reaction to an examination of major publisher attitudes to providing ebooks to libraries as published in…
Law School Scamblogging Law Prof is ATL’s Lawyer of the Year for 2011
06
Jan
Staci Zaretsky announced the winner of ATL’s 2011 Lawyer of the Year contest yesterday: Congratulations to Paul Campos, the tenured, top-tier law professor behind Inside the Law School Scam! He is ATL’s Lawyer of the Year for 2011. If you’re…
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]
