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Monthly Archives: November 2009

I Don’t Get It


About 22 Intro to Law students elected Grading Option B, which requires that they research and write a short paper.  I implore those who elect Option B to send me drafts at least two weeks before the paper is due. I stress the importance of soliciting and responding to my feedback.  The paper is due [...]

Law School Cost/Benefit


The WSJ Law Blog recently ran a post that’s worth linking to just for its title:  “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Lawyers.” Its substance–or the substance to which it links*–is less cheery, being an academic paper that addresses whether “a law degree is a good investment.”  The paper examines the investment [...]

Saab Story


As the owner of two Saabs–a 9-3 Sport Turbo and 9-2x–the headline GM Plan to Sell Its Saab Unit Collapses in today’s Wall Street Journal produced the sinking stomach you feel when you know you are about to lose money.  Reading the story didn’t make me feel better.  It’s not like the extinction of an animal species [...]

‘Tis the Season for Sales Taxes


The New York Times acknowledged Black Friday (when did the Thanksgiving Day Plus One shopping extravaganza acquire that name?  Is it so named because it’s the day that puts retailers into the black for the year?  I would call it “Shopping Orgy Day”) with an editorial calling for online retail sales to be taxed.  (Yes, [...]

The Geezer Bowl


My friend Chip wanted to start a Thanksgiving tradition.  He bought a throwback bison-leather football and suggested some of our group show up at the park near his park on Thanksgiving afternoon to play touch football.   Why not? thought I.  I love touch football, my relined hip has had eleven months to figure things [...]

Echoing Advice


In a post titled “You (and 60,000 Others) Have Taken the LSAT.  Now Read This” the WSJ Law Blog urges you college seniors applying in record numbers to take the LSAT to re-examine your path.  While the advice is not news to anyone who has followed my posts I recommend it because (1) one should [...]

“Oh, MAN!”


Students have been visiting office hours to review their contracts law exam.  When they see the right answer for the questions the got wrong they exclaim “oh, man!!!,” over and over.  Often they realize why their answer is wrong without having to ask me for the correct one.   “Oh, man!” is the verbal equivalent [...]