Today is May Day, International Workers’ Day, and a day of massive demonstrations in U.S. cities (for the second year in a row) in support of immigrant rights. Throughout the United States, it is also Law Day. The New York Times today ran the best editorial on Law Day that I’ve ever seen […]
I spent the second half of last week in first-best city in Canada (…did I just say that?). Winnipeg, Manitoba, is the birthplace of Randy Bachman, formative home of Neil Young, site of the massive 1919 General Strike, city of the once and future Jets, and final resting place of Louis Riel. Hail! Hail!
Regular readers may have noticed that nothing’s been posted here in a while. That’s because the web hosting company I use, iPowerWeb, has merged with another company and rapidly become the worst deal in webhosting in the entire world. This entire site was down for nearly a week, much data—including posts on this […]
Yesterday, the Technolawyer mailing list published these comments from a lawyer about how hard it is to make a living in public interest law:
I bristle at the suggestion that I’m not practicing public interest law because I don’t want to “give up [my] lifestyle.” I lived close to the bone as a law student (living […]
Two interesting thoughts on judges have found their way to me lately. First, “do judges systematically favor the interests of the legal profession?” That’s what this article (spotlighted on this fabulous blog) asks. Its answer? Yes. After a sweeping analysis of major cases in the areas of lawyer regulation, attorney-client […]
Right this time of year, thousands of freshly graduated JDs are getting their first taste of Bar/Bri, a bar exam prep course provider that nearly every law student scares themselves into signing up for—for $2000+ in many cases. A class action against Bar/Bri and Kaplan, alleging antitrust violations (basically, that they divvied up the […]
This week, the Michigan Law Review published a symposium on televising the U.S. Supreme Court. (For those who care a little, but not a lot, Ben Winograd has summarized the seven-essay, 27-page symposium on SCOTUSBlog.) Currently, nobody’s allowed to film, videotape, or televise the Court Chamber, where oral arguments are heard. Ever. […]
I’ve been surprised how hard it’s been to find some at-a-glance figures on where judges practiced before they became judges. I still haven’t found what I’m looking for, and I’m going to quit trying for the moment. These ABA stats on diversity in state courts are curious though: while the percentage of non-white […]
Do you want a quick, concise backgrounder on the Legal Services Corporation, America’s largest funder of civil legal aid? The Congressional Research Service has just produced one, RL34016, and it’s available on one of my most favorite sites in the world, OpenCRS.