On LGM's 10th anniversary, I'd like to thank the Founders for inviting me to join the gang all the way back in 2008. For me it was a timely invitation, as a decade-long stint as a weekly columnist for the Rocky Mountain News was about...
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This post is one of what may be several about Elliot Rodger and his crimes. I read Rodger's manifesto, My Twisted World, this past weekend, and have been thinking about.
Scott's post linking to Chris Taylor's thoughts on various bits of meta-commencement commentary alerted me to this Onion article actual op-ed by Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter. Scott and.
I started walking between 5 and 12 miles a day about year after I moved to Seattle. The main motivator was a crippling anxiety about being late coupled with an inconsistent public transportation system (that will now become less consistent, yippee). Additionally, working in an...
Stephen Diamond provides a free lecture on the nature of capitalism: [I]t is more likely that Stanford grads will earn substantially more than Colorado grads. And that makes it far.
According to the Dr. Pangloss of the legal academic status quo, it's because of reasons: The critics do not seem to realize that it is expensive to create an effective.
The law school reform movement gets a boost from an unexpected source: It is no mystery what has prompted the current calls for a two-year law degree. It is, quite simply, the constantly increasing cost of legal education . . . If I may advert...
Updated below In his post about free speech on campus arguments, Scott mentions the tangential issue of exactly how much celebrity speakers at commencements and other university events are getting.
I've been looking at various demographic breakdowns of income in the USA. Here's an interesting one from the Census Bureau, based on household size (A household is everyone who lives.
Salaries in Massachusetts criminal courts: Assistant District Attorney $37,500 Custodian $38,796 Public Defender $40,000 Switchboard Operator $42,834 Court Officer I $54,375 Administrative Assistant $56,217 Sessions Clerk $57,711 Law Librarian $66,059 Probation Officer $66,238 Research Attorney $72,703 (Is this what they call judicial clerks in MA?)...
The research assignment is here, and really needs to be read in its entirety. It includes three historical summaries, two of which are conventional if necessarily superficial descriptions of the.
After one ABA task force recommended that another ABA task force be convened to study the financing of legal education, the latter entity has emerged from the primordial bureaucratic ooze..