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LA Lawyer Suspended for Charging Legal Fees for Non-Legal Work
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Law School Applications Down 24.6% Since Last Year
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Exude Professionalism: Get a Real Email Address
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Please see my comment on this post. — Ed. LexisNexis has released the results of its recent Attorney Research Selection Survey by The Research Intelligence Group (TRIG), and provides some interesting...
View ArticleLaw Dean: Law School is Worth the Money
Yesterday the New York Times published an editorial by Lawrence Mitchell, Dean of Case Western Reserve University’s law school. The piece can be seen alternatively as a plea to stop the law-school...
View ArticleOffice Lottery Pools Creating New Body of Case Law
The ABA Journal reports that an interview with University of Louisville law professor Russell Weaver outlines important considerations to be made with regard to office lottery pools, from which...
View ArticleLA Lawyer Suspended for Charging Legal Fees for Non-Legal Work
Usually it seems pretty self-explanatory that legal fees are to be charged for legal work, but Ms. Katherine M. Guste of Louisiana got herself in hot water (gumbo?) with the Supreme Court of Louisiana...
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The Atlantic has a nice write-up of some of 2012’s most-watched legal stories. Among the items given honors are issues of drone strikes, gay marriage, and legalization of marijuana in some states....
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Earlier this year, National Jurist took a survey of law schools throughout the country to compile a list of people involved in legal education in 2012 and recently published its list of finalists. One...
View ArticleLaw School Applications Down 24.6% Since Last Year
Inside the Law School Scam is reporting that as of December 7, law school applications are down 24.6% since the same time last year, and there is no obvious end to the trend at this point. Blog author...
View ArticleMale Jurors More Likely to Find Overweight Women Guilty
A study just published by psychologists at Yale University finds that male jurors are more likely to find female defendants with a high body-mass index (BMI) guilty. According to the study’s authors,...
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Exude Professionalism: Get a Real Email Address
In an age where email has become a standard medium for communication among lawyers, potential clients, actual clients, opposing counsel, and judges, the way you present yourself speaks volumes about...
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