My daughter & I rewatched the Empire Strikes Back, and I was reminded of so many great lines of dialogue. Here are my favorites. If you had to choose ONLY ONE, which is your favorite? * * * LEIA: I’d…
Today would have been my mom Gail Schlachter’s 80th birthday. To commemorate the occasion, this post recap some of her ongoing legacies. Undoubtedly, mom would have said that her most important legacies are her children (Sandy and me) and four…
[Sometimes blog posts get stuck in draft mode for various reasons. I wrote the draft of this post in 2018…. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯] [Back in 2018,] I put together a Spotify playlist about intellectual property. I keyword-searched for copyright, trademark, patents, publicity…
Bloomberg Law launched an inaugural “Law School Innovation Program” award to recognize “pioneering educational innovations that benefit their students, their schools, and the legal field.” It’s a great honor to report that Santa Clara Law’s Privacy Law Certificate was recognized…
The last time I posted an anticipated travel schedule was 3 years ago, when I had an in-my-dreams travel schedule lined up (Hawaii! Israel! Amsterdam! Bali! Kenya!)–all derailed by the pandemic. I nevertheless flew 20k miles in Q1 2020, with…
I generally avoid the August submission window, but this year, I had two time-sensitive pieces that could not wait until the February window: (1) a co-authored piece with Dean Laura Norris recapping our experience with the Tech Edge JD program…
I did an interview with Newstex, which syndicates my blog content, about my experiences as a content creator: What made you become a content creator? I started practicing law in 1994, at the beginning of the Dot Com boom. As…
I have posted 80 works to SSRN that collectively have generated over 60,000 downloads. This creates a dataset to play with. I categorized each of the 80 works into one of 11 topical categories. As you would expect, this classification…
I recently blogged about my 1993 summer associate class at Cooley Godward. I would love to do a similar roundup of my peers’ careers from my other summer associate experience at Sidley & Austin’s LA office in summer 1992, but…
I was one of 25 summer associates in Cooley Godward’s program in 1993. I recently rediscovered my summer associate “resume book”/”facebook” (we all looked SO YOUNG), and it made me wonder how their careers developed over the past three decades….