What Difference Presentation?
David Udell is the Executive Director of the National Center for Access to Justice and a Visiting Professor from Practice at Cardozo Law School. In my line of work, I have seen many efforts in the...
View ArticleWhat Difference Representation: Case Selection and Professional Responsibility
Thanks for the invitation to participate in this interesting and provocative symposium. I’m a legal services attorney in Boston. My employer, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI), has as one of...
View ArticleRandomization, Intake Systems, and Triage
Thanks to Jim and Cassandra for their carefully constructed study of the impact of an offer from the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau for representation before the Massachusetts Division of Unemployment...
View ArticleBlame Email Disclaimers on Judge Harmon?
The Economist has a fun blurb on email disclaimers — the ones that boldly state that the email you’ve just received creates no legal relationship, offers no advice, and generally isn’t worth the paper...
View ArticleWhat Do Law Professors Do?
In the legal writing interviews with the Justices that I referred to over the weekend, Chief Justice Roberts said that “[w]hat the academy is doing, as far as I can tell, is largely of no use or...
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F.M. LaGuardia and Lawyers In the Way
As a law professor and lawyer, I like law and lawyering. But I hate as much as the next guy when lawyers get in the way of people trying to do business. In the past year, lawyers have poisoned three...
View ArticleSuggested Reading (for Law Students and Profs): Open Book: Succeeding on...
Barry Friedman and John C.P. Goldberg have a new book out on how to take law school exams called Open Book: Succeeding on Exams from the First Day of Law School. It is something different and really...
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“The first thing we do, let’s [train] all the lawyers.”
David Segal has a front-page, above-the-fold article in today’s New York Times, What They Don’t Teach Law Students: Lawyering. Segal blasts legal education for failing to produce prêt-à-porter lawyers...
View ArticleThe Usefulness of Legal Scholarship
A reader of my post about the N.Y. Times critique of legal education writes, in regard to the value of legal scholarship: I happen to be on the editorial board of a T14 law school’s law review, so I...
View ArticleTransactional Internships in the Summer after the First Year
A number of students have recently asked me about opportunities to work in transactional practice in the summer after their 1L year. That kind of job search is challenging, as the typical kind of 1L...
View ArticleOriginal Habeas Writ
My brilliant colleague Lee Kovarsky is an expert on the theory and practice of habeas corpus. He’s a wunderkind. One can find him, in any given week, arguing habeas petitions before an appellate...
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Book Review: Levin & Mather’s Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in...
Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context, edited by Leslie C. Levin & Lynn Mather. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2012. pp. 370. $39.00 What is the best way to study the...
View ArticleGreiner and Pattanayak: The Sequel
In a draft essay, Service Delivery, Resource Allocation and Access to Justice: Greiner and Pattanayak and the Research Imperative, Tony Alfieri, Jeanne Charn, Steve Wizner, and I reflect on Jim Greiner...
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The Yale Law Journal Online: “The Gang of Thirty-Three: Taking the Wrecking...
The Yale Law Journal Online has published two essays on legal ethics: The Gang of Thirty-Three: Taking the Wrecking Ball to Client Loyalty by Lawrence Fox, and In Defense of a Reasoned Dialogue About...
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Law School Employment Outcomes
The ABA’s just-released consolidated dataset on law school employment outcomes presents nice opportunities for data analysis. Unlike Bernie Burk, I’m not particularly interested in the relationship...
View ArticleTop Ten Lists
Building off that my last post, and engaging in the very temptation to look at school specific outcomes that I earlier resisted, here are a series of top-10 lists for various law school employment...
View ArticleAn opening musing on legal education
Well, several days later than planned, here I am with my inaugural post as May’s guest blogger here at Concurring Opinions. Thanks to Gerard for the flattering invitation. This is my first venture as a...
View ArticleLouis Pollak (1922-2012)
From the federal courthouse comes the very sad news that Senior District Court Judge Louis Pollak has died. Judge Pollak, a jurisprudential giant, mentor to many, and former dean of both Yale and Penn...
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The AIG Story with Hank Greenberg
I am pleased to report steady progress on my book project, The AIG Story, which I am writing with Hank Greenberg, who headed the company for 35 years before its nosedive that began in March 2005 and...
View ArticleHow Lawyers Feel About Their Work
David S. Lee, of LSE, is engaged in an interesting piece of research and asked me to post about it. After taking the survey linked below (about 10 minutes) I agreed, and I think the underlying project...
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