Kirsten Wolf, a 32-year-old graduate of BU Law, is out to warn people about law school. At WSJ Law Blog, she complains: Lots of people go to law school as a default. They don’t know what else to do, like…
In February 2006, I spoke about teaching contract drafting at a symposium at Brooklyn Law School. Nearly 2 years later, I have finally posted the associated essay, entitled “Integrating Contract Drafting Skills and Doctrine.” It’s brief (6 pages) and breezy,…
Mark Hermann at the Drug & Device Law Blog celebrated his one year blogiversary with a retrospective on four lessons he learned about blogging: 1) “blogging — or, at a minimum, blogging about substantive legal issues — is hard.” Eric’s…
Represented by Morrison & Foerster, Toshiba won a commercial dispute with New England Technology. Per the contract, the judge awarded attorneys’ fees to Toshiba. As usual, the court gave a 10 day period for Toshiba to file a motion detailing…
The law library has prepared this helpful list of blogs with a Santa Clara Law School affiliation.
The NYT speculates that perhaps the stress of blogging contributed to Om Malik’s heart attack at age 41. (BTW, the article also does mention smoking, drinking, fatty foods and coffee). Yet another way that blogging is a major peril to…
I don’t think anyone knows exactly what’s going to happen due to global warming, so the AP article on global warming’s impact on California is more speculation than science. On the plus side, we can anticipate that global warming will…
I love stuff like this. Feel like having a hamburger? Choose to eat a peanut butter & jelly sandwich instead, and you will save 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, 280 gallons of water, and up to 50 square feet…
In October, the AP ran its results of a comprehensive investigation of sexual predation by teachers. Obviously, if you take a population of individuals as large as teachers (3M public school teachers), some bad actors are unavoidable. Indeed, even if…
California has passed the Name Equality Act of 2007 (AB 102). Hooray! Among other things, this law allows either spouse to change their name upon marriage (or upon registration of a domestic partnership) simply by filling in a blank in…