I saw this post yesterday:
That is absolutely wonderful advice.
Whenever I hear that a law student or a new lawyer has gotten into trouble, typically it’s because the person has tried to turn in something close to perfect, but in doing so, the person blew past a deadline.
For whatever reason, law students sometimes
The DOJ has proposed a new rule (https://aboutblaw.com/bk49) that suggests a “better” way to investigate its lawyers who have been accused of ethics violations: instead of doing its own investigations in parallel with any state bar investigations, the DOJ wants to have an exclusive first shot. As the proposed rule states:
Under the
Although Benjamin Franklin often gets credit for saying “[w]e must all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately,” several quote-verification sites have debunked that attribution. Still, the concept is important, even if its provenance is murky.
The Executive Orders aimed at firms like Perkins Coie and Paul, Weiss are designed to bend
It’s that time of year: 1Ls are arriving at law schools (some already may have had their first classes), and for those who didn’t grow up surrounded by lawyers, the experience of panic when getting called on in class can be profoundly disorienting. For some, being called on in class triggers a “fight or flight&rdquo
In an earlier post, I explained why I don’t believe that law students should file anonymous complaints. Here’s a follow-up post. According to an article on law.com, an internal investigation at the university level determined that those anonymous complaints were false. So what we have here is a situation in which a student
I read an article today that featured allegations of discrimination against a professor. (I also have left a comment after that article, but it has not yet appeared.) I read a lot of those types of articles, most recently this one. I read these types of articles in part because I am aware of
When I saw the tweet about Sarah Weddington’s passing and read the Texas Tribune’s obituary, I thought back to the first time that I met her. She spoke at an event at the University of Nebraska, back when I was working there, and she told a classic story about how she learned to take
So we were among the thousands of people stranded by Southwest last week, trying to make it to a long-planned milestone occasion. I awoke at 12:15am on Sunday morning to read a 11:30pm Saturday text from Southwest. That text said that our flight to Atlanta was canceled. Oh, the connecting flight after that was
I’ve written before about how we might train law students to defuse tense situations in order to improve our ability to hear each other. Last night, as I was listening to our school’s monthly Town Hall meeting, it occurred to me that we are quite good at getting students to express themselves clearly. What we’re