The Shark

linx: the deepening worries of law school professors and, well, law school students.

[cynthia foster]

Anyone else wondering where January went?  Here's the what's up from the last week:

• RIAA Seeks Sanctions Against Harvard Law School Prof (ars technica)
• How to Escape the Law School Debt Trap (Slate)
• Finishing Up the New Grad School Rankings (Morse Code - US News)
• Family Law Professors File Prop 8 Amicus Brief (UC Davis News & Information)
• Law Schools Dealing With Budget Cuts (National Law Journal - has some updated info on Hastings' budget woes)
• Job Market for Visiting Faculty Shrinks, Along with Law School Endowments (ABA Journal)

linx: why wait for work? reasons abound for kissing butt in law school

[pam smith]

• A California law school uses the don't panic button pencil as a way to help its people pass the Bar. And it works! (O.C. Register)

• On thinking 20 years ahead: You should be really nice to everyone now, because some day they might end up being president, or at least advising the president. Then again, if everyone thought that way, you'd have to wonder if your law school buddies really like you, or if they're just hedging their bets in case you end up surprising everyone and doing something amazing one day. (Politico, The Harvard Crimson, The Stump blog #1, #2 and #3)

• We know where Elena Kagan is going. But who will take her place? (Boston Globe)

• Judge to lying, texting mayoral aide: No law school for you! (ABA Journal)

linx: the good news is, at least you're not shia labeouf. or living in marin.

[cynthia foster]

To aid and abet all you procrastinators, I bring you the semi-annual Finals Linx:

• Firms Rescinding Offers to Students (The American Lawyer)
• Say What, Berkeley City Council? John Yoo Is Not Styrofoam (The Daily Clog)
• Bar Exam Pass Rates Climb in Several States (The National Law Journal)
• UC Bigwigs to Crowd: We're Screwed (East Bay Express)
• Betting on Bob - The next thing in student loans: Investors pay your bills. You give them a share of your future (Boston Globe)
• Shia LaBeouf to Star In the Associate (Variety)

And last, but not least, an SF Chron OpEd from Berkeley Law's own Susan Gluss (director of media relations) on why she's forsaken the East Bar for Marin County:

• Long Commute Better than Living In Oakland (SF Gate)

linx: the seven most interesting things you'll read today.

[cynthia foster]

Ten days after the election and public service is It...

• Stay Focused (National Law Journal)
• A 'Bong Hit for Jesus' Costs $45,000 (National Law Journal)
• UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic Wins Habeas Case! (ImmigrationProf)
• The Ex-Donald Bren School of Law (MoneyLaw)
• California Western Law School Launches "Transition to Practice" Program (The LACBA Student Lounge Blog)
• The Five Stages of Death I Mean Law School (J.D.? ... Maybe)
• Berkeley Wants Admission Research to Go National (Cal Law - free reg. req.)

linx: love your professor day.

[cynthia foster]

The only reason I remembered that today is Halloween is because of the guy in the mullet wig with the McCain sign standing outside of Hastings this morning.

• Stanford Law School's Mad At Me (Greta Van Susteren on the Greta Wire Blog)
• Plight of Undocumented Youth Focus of UCLA Documentary (EGPNews)
• Law Prof Blog Rankings (TaxProf)
• Law Professors Decry Proposition 8 Claims (The Desert Sun)
• Is a Laptop-Free Zone the Answer to the Laptop Debate? (Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog)
• Nobody Likes a Tattletale (Nuts & Boalts)

linx: your daily dose of pepperdine drama, courtesy of prop 8. and other stuff.

[cynthia foster]

A hazy Monday:

• A Grim Verdict Awaits Law Grads (The National Law Journal)
• More for Prof. Peterson To Worry About (Legal Pad - Prof. Peterson of the Pepperdine and Yes on 8 commercials fame)
• Fierce Critic of Law School Rankings Steps Down As Dean - But Goes Out Swinging (The National Law Journal)
• Pepperdine Prez Lashes Out At Anti-Gay Prop 8 Propaganda (To Form a More Perfect Union)
• Stanford Law Grad Accused of Running High-Priced Call Girl Service Pleads Not Guilty (San Jose Mercury News)
• USC School of Law Plans Memorial for Professor Charles Whitebread (Metropolitan News-Enterprise)

linx: rankadoodle dandy

[cynthia foster]

To all the rest of you trapped inside: doesn't the weather look nice through that window?

• Lieter's New Rankings Are Crap (Nuts & Boalts)
• Law School Rankings: Who Gives Away the Most Money? (Equal Justice Works)
• Preparing For Our First Ranking of Law School Part-Time Programs (Morse Code - US News)

And:

• Stanford Fair Use Team Sues Over Radio Blowhard (Legal Pad)

linx: keeping things cheerful on black monday.

[cynthia foster]

At least we're not trying to retire.

• LSAT-Free Law School Admissions Can Goose U.S. News Rankings (TaxProf Blog)
• UCI Set to Launch Dual Law, Business Degree Program (Orange County Business Journal)
• Law Firms, State Dept. Collaborate to Enroll Afghan Lawyers in U.S. Schools (BLT)
• More Loan Help for USC Law Graduates (Media Newswire)
• Congress Poised to Create a Dozen New Clerkships (The National Law Journal)
• Students Help Free Life-term Prisoner (USC News)

linx: mcsweeney's notices law school, people with big bucks notice UCLA.

[cynthia foster]

Another day, another linx roundup:

• Court: UC Berkeley Can Build Athletic Center (The Daily Californian)
• Foreign Law Schools Follow the U.S. Playbook (The National Law Journal)
• Classes My Top-Tier Law School Should Have Offered as Warnings About the Profession (McSweeney's)
• Quick Index to Pretty Much All Law School Posts (Barely Legal - the most popular law student blog, in its day)
• Law Clerks Are Not Necessarily Coming Right from School (Philadelphia Business Journal)
• Is Affirmative Action to Blame for Black-Lawyer Attrition? (DiversityInc)

And two pieces of news from UCLA:

• School of Law Receives $1.5M  to Establish Chair in Public Interest Law (UCLA Newsroom)
• UCLA Law School gets $4M for International Justice Clinic (LA Legal Pad)

linx: the internet plagues us.

[cynthia foster]

Welcome back...

• Loan Forgiveness Program Becomes Law (The National Law Journal)
• Law and Humor at Harvard Law School (Pillage Idiot)
• Yale Students Name Lawsuit Defendant (Harvard Courant - more on the AutoAdmit scandal)
• Friendship and the Law (Freakonomics - guest post by Hastings' Prof. Ethan Leib)
• Technology, The Internet, and Multitasking: The Problem (To An Unknown God: A Journal of Christian Thought at Berkeley)