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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Apology for singing shop worker: The agency responsible for collecting copyright royalties in Scotland warned Sandra Burt, a food-store employee, to stop singing while she worked or face thousands of pounds in fines. First the Performing Rights Society notified the store it must have a license “to play a radio within earshot of customers.” The [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Having recently dissed Yahoo!’s event planners, fairness requires mention of a story I read in the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, which picked it up from the Legal Profession Blog. This past spring Illinois solo attorney Samir Chowhan advertised for secretarial help for himself and another solo on Craigslist–in the Adult Gigs section:
Duties will include general [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
I don’t know whether more students are sick this fall than in prior years or H1N1 makes students more cautious about incipient flu symptoms, but illness-related class absences are unusually high. On top of that both of my Intro to Law sections were listless today. I thought the lassitude might be limited to the first [...]
I’m not trying to discourage prospective law students. Honestly. I just want to reduce the number of former students who return to shout in my face “practicing law sucks!” or “the only job I could get is doing document-review piecework as a $23/hour contract attorney!”
Placement Office Scrambles at Law School Where 65% of Grads Had [...]
A former student currently in law school passes along this advice about reading and preparing cases for class: ”If I can pass any knowledge down to the current undergrads, I would push the 5-highlighter technique as although it seems a bit cumbersome at first, it makes case recall so much easier in class and actually makes book briefing [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
My guess is the planning committee consisted of three guys in their early 20s who subscribe to Maxim; how else to explain Yahoo’s hiring lap dancers to entertain at a corporate event in Taiwan?
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