2008-05-17 05:02
In February 2008, I wrote a post about temps entitled Attorneys Suitable for Everyday Use. It was one of the posts I was particularly pleased with at the time--and I was pleased to receive a… Read More
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ALL ABOUT LAW SCHOOLS, CAREERS IN LAW, AND ALTERNATIVE CAREER OPTIONS FOR LAWYERS
2008-05-15 04:20
The timeworn saying is that "Truth is stranger than fiction." That's certainly true in the case of this house, which I drive past every day on my (wonderfully short) commute from my house to… Read More
2008-05-08 17:41
So after a very busy April and de facto blog holiday (blogiday?), I'm back to posting. Among other things, I will be taking a group of law students to Seoul, Korea to study this summer. That… Read More
2008-04-01 05:01
Yesterday I posted about the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings for law schools. Paul Caron at TaxProf Blog has posted a complete list of schools ranked only by their academic peer r… Read More
2008-03-30 15:00
U.S. News & World Report has published its annual rankings of law schools, but the ABA Journal reports that bloggers (again) beat U.S. News to the punch with leaked rankings. The U.S. Ne… Read More
2008-03-22 22:21
My friend and soon-to-be ex-Mississippian Paul Secunda has written an excellent article on negotiating the vagaries (treacheries?) of the law school lateral hiring market. The article is ava… Read More
2008-03-10 03:44
I've added a new student blog to my blog roll. Law is Cool features a whole slew of law students from law schools in Canada, and it has a nice, eclectic blend of posts. Check out the March… Read More
2008-03-02 19:24
The New York Lawyer has a report about revisions NALP has made to its "Principles and Standards for Law Placement and Recruitment Activities." The guidelines, while not binding, are followed… Read More
2008-02-16 00:15
I recently gave a talk at Mississippi College School of Law on interviewing techniques. The video is available online here. It's been broken into chapters for ease of viewing; it also can be… Read More
2008-02-12 04:31
In November, I posted about UK law firm Simpson Millar, which has set up shop in the online gaming world "Second Life." I just received an interesting comment on that post--and since some t… Read More
2008-02-09 03:59
In my last post, Attorneys Suitable for Everyday Use, I wrote about the growing prevalence of contract attorneys at U.S. law firms. It's my position that the use of such temp workers is par… Read More
2008-02-08 06:24
Over at JDWired, blogger Joe Miller has a post about a contract attorney survey he recently conducted via his blog. For the uninitiated, a contract attorney is not a lawyer who practices con… Read More
2008-02-06 03:09
I have added a few more student blogs to my blogroll. They are as follows:Transnational Law Blog (http://transnationallawblog.typepad.com/) This blog features various students, recent grads… Read More
2008-02-01 06:24
Recently, I wrote a series of posts on the movie Michael Clayton. Six posts, to be exact. I thought the movie highlighted a number of important themes regarding the practice of law, and the… Read More
2008-01-30 05:37
There is a good deal of discussion these days about the “death of mentoring” in law practice. I have blogged about this subject previously (see here and here). Discussions about… Read More
2008-01-24 23:45
Yesterday I gave a talk on interview techniques to the 1L class at my law school. Hopefully I soon will be able to post a podcast of the event on this blog. In any event, I've discussed th… Read More
2008-01-23 05:29
Now that law students across the country have started classes again, it's worth revisiting the subject of law school exams. Specifically, I want to discuss common mistakes that students make… Read More
2008-01-21 06:39
I received a comment to my last post that was way off point, but which had two virtues: one, the commenter admitted it was off topic; and two, it was on an interesting subject that is import… Read More
2008-01-12 21:09
As a follow-up to my last two posts (here and here), my latest law review article, The Comparative and Absolute Advantages of Junior Law Faculty in the Classroom: Implications for Teaching a… Read More
2008-01-12 20:37
There has been so much going on with the start of the new semester that it raises a problem: what to talk about? Like studies about consumers who, faced with a plethora of choices tend to fr… Read More
2008-01-04 06:01
As I write this post I am sitting in my hotel room in New York, where I am attending the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting. The theme of this year's meeting is "Reass… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Obviously it has been a while since I have posted on this blog. Why is that? I suppose it is because I have accomplished much of what I wanted to with Law Career Blog as a solo blog. I felt… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Last week was my first week of classes for the 2008-2009 academic year, and I was all ready to write a post called "The Most Important Day of Class." The whole premise was that the first da… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
There was an interesting post on the Law Librarian Blog this week concerning the benefits of senior, junior, and adjunct faculty in the classroom. The post can be linked to here. This is a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
My law review article on junior law faculty, The Comparative and Absolute Advantages of Junior Law Faculty: Implications for Teaching and the Future of American Law Schools, 2008 BYU Educ. … Read More
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