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15 Oct 2008, 7:13 pm
The answer from Douglas County District Court Judge Marlon Polk is no. [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 7:31 pm
Remember our post about a Houston's attorney indignant letter to a Dallas attorney about a deposition cancellation? [read post]
8 Oct 2008, 7:52 pm
Legal writing and research instructors spend a lot of time emphasizing the importance of proofreading briefs and memos, and here's why -- The Legal Intelligencer reports today that a federal judge decided to award just $26,000 in attorneys' fees instead of the requested $180,000, in part because the petitioning attorney's brief was filled with typographical errors. [read post]
6 Oct 2008, 7:07 pm
Professor Richard Leo's new book, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four, will be released on November 3, 2008. [read post]
1 Oct 2008, 4:41 pm
Weeks ago, we reported on the legal research omissions that led some parties to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling in Kennedy v. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 11:19 pm
I follow Mary Flood's excellent blog on Houston legal happenings, Legal Trade, because one of my closest friends is a Houston attorney. [read post]
27 Sep 2008, 4:29 pm
Even the tiniest mom and pop businesses gather Yelp reviews, but I was surprised to see that the experience of jury duty in San Francisco now has 21 Yelp reviews. [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 3:46 pm
Looking for a concise summary of the Supreme Court's major decisions during the 2007-2008 term? [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 6:46 pm
Professor David Post from Temple Law has a few more useful tips for first-years in his post at Volokh Conspiracy, and his most important tip, IMHO, is don't blow off your first-year legal writing and research class! [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 5:25 pm
Last fall, we posted about an Atlanta law firm, Ford & Harrison, which dropped billable hour requirements for first-year associates. [read post]
2 Sep 2008, 9:27 pm
At the start of every semester, I definitely suffer from a bit of information overload, helpfully defined by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (!) [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 9:32 pm
Orientation has brought a flock of new law students to the Zief Library, and reminded us that one of the hardest things about the beginning of law school was trying to make sense of the cases assigned for the first classes.So this seems like a good time to alert our new students to How to Read a Legal Opinion (now available for downloading at SSRN's Legal Scholarship Network). [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 9:35 pm
Even though I was a pretty dedicated law student, there were certain concepts that I had a hard time grasping during my first year of law school. [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 5:33 pm
Want to find out how members of your jury really think? [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 5:08 pm
We all know that having a license to practice law doesn't necessarily stop attorneys from engaging in negligent or criminal behavior. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 9:07 pm
Somehow, we knew that this story wasn't going away anytime soon. [read post]
1 Aug 2008, 10:12 pm
Kevin Underhill's very funny blog, Lowering the Bar, has this wry report on the impact that last Tuesday's 5.4 earthquake had on bar examinees in the Los Angeles area. [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 11:12 pm
There has been a lot of commentary about an article in the New York Times that discussed Barack Obama's 12 years as a law professor at University of Chicago (click here to see article). [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 8:01 pm
The release of "An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General" (click here for the 524 KB .pdf file from the DOJ site) has been all over the news and blogosphere ever since it was released on the 28th of July. [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 9:53 pm
Well! [read post]
