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Imagine my surprise


I am preparing my fall class schedule so I can get course materials to the copy center next week. I sketched in my fall course calendar a few months and have been pleased ever since that classes do not start until September 8, the day after Labor Day. I was savoring five more [...]

Groundhog Year


If I am asked to deliver a graduation speech I am likely to expound on Groundhog Day as a metaphor for teaching. Bill Murray plays a weatherman who lives the same day countless times. He wakes at 6:00 AM to the radio playing “I Got You Babe”, has the same conversation with the [...]

Not Covered By LSAT Prep


My stack of to-be-written law school recommendations makes this Wall Street Journal headline especially timely: Hard Case: Job Market Wanes for U.S. Lawyers (Amir Efrati, The Wall Street Journal, 24-Sep-07 Page A1 Subscription Required). The story in a nutshell:

[T]he majority of law-school graduates are suffering from a supply-and-demand imbalance that’s suppressing [...]