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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Food Taster Needed?

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Last week I opened my BU office to find a gift box of cookies on my desk.  There was no note attached, no signature card, nothing identifying the giver.  Just a box of fancy decorated cookies.  I asked around but no one knows who delivered them to my office.  No one has called or emailed [...]

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Sign of Spring

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Our first crocus of 2009.

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Grim Career News: One-Stop Shopping

Friday, March 20, 2009

I have keen interest in the job market for recent law graduates.  My oldest son is looking for a position after his current judicial clerkship ends next fall and a 3L friend is gingerly holding a permanent Big Law job offer, fearing it may disappear with one brief email.  As a service to law students, [...]

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Cheats

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools? in the 3/14 New York Times contained this revealing, disturbing fact:
A study of cheating among graduate students, published in 2006 in the journal Academy of Management Learning & Education, found that 56 percent of all M.B.A. students cheated regularly — more than in any other discipline. The authors attributed [...]

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Malware Aid

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Malware is a serious, growing problem.  The Berkman Center and Consumers Union have launched BadwareBuster.org, “a community of people working together to fight back against viruses, spyware, and other bad software.”  If you believe your system has been infected with malware, have expertise about malware that you want to offer others, or want to learn [...]

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Toxic Data

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Tomorrow I start teaching a half-semester seminar on privacy law in the honors program.  Here’s Bruce Schneier with a timely piece about data, “the natural by-product of every computer mediated interaction.  It stays around forever, unless it’s disposed of.  It is valuable when reused, but it must be done carefully.  Otherwise, its after-effects are toxic.”   [...]

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Job Discrimination Cases Tough to Win

Saturday, March 14, 2009

A study published last month in the Harvard Law & Policy Review proves something I’ve stressed in classes for many years, based on anecdotal experience:  winning a federal employment discrimination claim is a long shot.  Based on data from 1979-2006 the study reports:

Federal employment discrimination plaintiffs won 15% of their cases, compared to the 51% [...]

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