Matthew Homann’s Venn diagram – titled Your Clients Don’t Care Where You Went to Law School – is a funny take what clients and lawyers, respectively, find important in lawyer bios. My addition to the client side: do you understand my business? I also doubt most business clients care about their lawyers’ blogs, Facebook pages, and Twitter [...]
Anyone who has read my blog posts or asked my advice about law school has heard my pitch: it’s better for one’s prospects to get high grades than to go to a high-ranked school. A recent study shows I didn’t make this up. As reported in the WSJ Law Blog article “New Study: Forget the [...]
Lowlights from the National Association for Law Placement’s May 2010 employment report on 2009 law-school graduates: The NALP “report is based on information submitted by 192 ABA-accredited law schools on 96% of the graduates in the Class of 2009″ 88% were employed This includes graduates whose employment start dates were deferred beyond 1 December 2009 [...]
But if you do attend law school you can learn why it is perfectly lawful to watch idly while someone struggles not to drown: ”People Offer No Help as Man Struggles in Water.” Fortunately passerby Paul Pinto, possessing the empathy gene lacking from others who were ready to let Dale McNulty drown because they thought [...]
Hope drives rise in law school applications Despite grim job statistics in nearly every corner of the legal world, law school applications increased by 7% over last year. National Law Journal, 12 July 2010 Why? “I’m obviously about to take on a lot of debt. I’m hoping by the time I get out of law [...]
A story in today’s Globe is a lock to appear in the coming academic year’s copyright law discussions. Titled “Pay to Play–Strict enforcement of copyrights jeopardizing live music in small venues,” the story addresses campaigns by Performance Rights Organizations (PROs)–ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC–to require coffeehouses, cafes, and other small dining venues to obtain performance licenses [...]
The text of my address at last evening’s commencement: Welcome parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, extended families, friends, deans, faculty and staff, my wife Judy, and the reason all of us are here: the Boston University School of Management Class of Two Thousand Ten. First, I must note the passing last December [...]