Some recent graduates of American University's Washington College of Law have put together this music video. It addresses some common legal-ethics problems, but you should watch it anyway because it's also a pretty good music video. Via the Professional…
I know bar-exam results don't come out until next month, but I'm going to go ahead and suggest that if you are now or have ever been a terrorist, you might want to make other plans anyway. The job market…
The ABA Journal reports that two former law students have sued their former school and an adjunct professor, claiming that the professor unfairly gave them Ds in their first-year contracts class. The plaintiffs' claims include negligent supervision, defamation, emotional distress, and, more…
Here's a remarkable letter that was posted yesterday at the very interesting blog Letters of Note. The letter was written in August of 1865 to Col. P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, by Jourdon Anderson, one of his former slaves. At…
“[I]t is highly questionable whether attending law school is a legally cognizable injury”
Looks like stabbing somebody 33 times isn’t necessarily a disqualifier.
Because this woman was. Above the Law says it has confirmed the story with multiple sources, and has a picture of the resulting baby. Who resulted, at a hospital across the street, less than two hours after Mom finished the…
My post on the moon-rock sting operation that went down at a Denny's restaurant in California, together with what was apparently a serious need to take a break from studying for the bar exam, led a reader to do some additional research….
Above the Law is running its annual Law Revue Video Contest, which solicits funny videos from the nation's law-school students. ATL offers some sort of prize to the winners (though not, apparently, a job), and heaps mockery on non-winners, or…
The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog reports that students at Duke Law School have written and produced a musical about a young Richard Nixon, who graduated (third in his class!) from Duke in 1937 and quickly became its least favorite…