By J. DeVoy This weekend, my facebook and e-mail discussions focused on a New York Times piece about for-profit trade schools and their questionable value to students. Many likened the trade
By J. DeVoy In a recent e-mail sent to graduating 3Ls at SUNY-Buffalo Law School, the school’s administration alluded to filing character and fitness complaints against students who are savvy
It gets awfully cold in Ann Arbor, Michigan this time of year. Our sources report that a man, most likely a homeless vagrant, has been bopping his baloney in the
By J. DeVoy Kenneth Starr, current dean of Pepperdine University School of Law, has been named Baylor University’s new president. For Starr, originally from central Texas, this may be a
By J. DeVoy In his remarks at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law earlier this week, Clarence Thomas used a term those who read legal blogs and message
By J. DeVoy One of the things holding recent and soon-to-be law grads back from expatriation — other than the global dearth of jobs — is the constant fear that
Marc likes to post about the worthlessness of legal education yet never outright addresses the underlying reason it is worthless. The reason is simple: Legal academia is run by and
I have written previously on the Worthlessness of American Legal Education. That ruffled a few feathers among legal academics who didn’t like being called a “circle jerk.” In response to
The American Bar Association thinks that the U.S. government should give law grads a bailout by letting them convert their private loans into government loans. (source) The American Bar Association
University of Massachusetts might get a law school. Meh. At least they are going to possibly acquire an existing unaccredited law school, rather than open yet another one. I think
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBTba2J6OKI] HT: J$W
