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Governance in higher education and in law firms, bankruptcy ethics, popular culture and the law, and professional responsibility generally.
By Nancy Rapoport

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Last Entry: September 08, 2017 at 18:29:00

One of the many reasons I like Tim Zinnecker

Posted on October 30, 2009
See his most recent post over at The Faculty Lounge (here). Good job, Tim!

John O'Quinn killed in car accident

Posted on October 29, 2009
I'm still in shock after hearing that John O'Quinn was killed in a car crash today (see here). I got to know him fairly well from my time at the University of Houston Law Center, and it's fair to say that he was a complicated man. Clearly talented as a litigator, obviously generous in several ways, he was still tormented by ethics complaints and personal issues...

You've got to love this kind of contract drafting!

Posted on October 29, 2009
See today's front-page story in the Wall Street Journal (here).

Don't miss Jon Macey's marvelous op-ed in today's WSJ today

Posted on October 24, 2009
See here. He's right, as usual.

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I don't think garden-variety caps on executive compensation are the way to go--but I don't care if there's a rush to the exits, either.

Posted on October 23, 2009
Joe Nocera's column in this morning's New York Times (here) once again gets it right: it's not about the caps, it's about the boards of directors deciding about compensation packages in the first place. If shareholders are unhappy with who's getting paid what, the fix is with getting rid of the folks believing the hype about who has to get paid the gargantuan bucks...

I couldn't be happier.

Posted on October 22, 2009
While enjoying my morning coffee, I read that two of the Yale Law women who were woefully abused by anonymous posts at AutoAdmit a few years ago settled their lawsuits against the posters (see the ABA Journal story here). Those anonymous posters weren't trotting out any of the usual excuses for hiding behind pseudonyms: fear of retaliation, fear of losing their jobs, etc...

See? It is possible to rethink executive compensation without having the government do it.

Posted on October 21, 2009
Take a look at this article in today's New York Times (here).

5th Circuit orders acquittal of Enron's Yeager

Posted on October 21, 2009
See Mary Flood's Houston Chronicle article here.

Stupid Facebook mistakes, part n

Posted on October 16, 2009
Hat tip to my buddy Seymour for pointing me to this one. See here.

R.I.P., Judge William Wayne Justice

Posted on October 16, 2009
His NYTimes obit here.

Some of the reasons that I love Boyd School of Law (UNLV)

Posted on October 13, 2009
Check out the video on our admissions webpage (here).

Latest Enron news: USSC to hear Skilling appeal

Posted on October 13, 2009
See WSJ story here and WSJ Blog post here.

Hat tip to Brad Wendel for another great post on morality

Posted on October 12, 2009
Over at Legal Ethics Forum: see here.BTW, where did Prof. Wendel get his undergraduate degree? Oh, yes: RICE UNIVERSITY.Happy Rice Day, all you Owls out there....

Attention, law students: another good reason to pay attention in your legal writing course

Posted on September 23, 2009
See here. Hat tip to my buddy Scott Unger.

One of my favorite Brian Leiter posts about the rankings

Posted on September 13, 2009
See here. Bravo, Brian!

New ballroom dress designer in town!

Posted on September 13, 2009
My buddies Cindy & Kimberly have opened Fiore Ballroom Designs (here), and I really love their work--AND I'm proud of them for launching this new biz!

My new "guilty pleasure" blog.

Posted on September 08, 2009
See here. It has just the right combo of useful info and snarkiness.

Please vote for this Boyd law student!

Posted on September 05, 2009
See here. Etai Movshovitz and his fiancee have been chosen by Ryan Seacrest as finalists for KIIS-FM's Perfect Wedding Contest. Etai's in my PR course. If we can keep this Boyd student's wedding costs low(er) (even though winning would cause him to have imputed income on which he'll have to pay taxes, of course), that would be lovely...

A Brooklyn hero

Posted on August 31, 2009
A judge who makes foreclosure plaintiffs (the mortgage holders who want to foreclose) actually prove their cases: see today's New York Times story (front page, slightly above the fold) here. Note to the lawyers drafting the complaints--shouldn't you make sure that you have the prima facie case correct before you file?Hat tip to my buddy Seymour, who also saw the story.

Seriously, you've heard it here before -- billable hours are on their way out

Posted on August 24, 2009
See this morning's Wall Street Journal (front page, below the fold): here. See also here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. I know I'm becoming a broken record, but there's no way that clients are going to continue to help law firms meet their budgets (and keep associate salaries high--for those associates who still have jobs) on a piecemeal approach when they can simply shop around for equally talented lawyers who are willing to try alternative billing methods...

The future of ballroom dance

Posted on August 23, 2009
Watch Martin Rivas dance quickstep (with Sergei Shapoval and Liza Smith) at this year's Nevada Star Ball): here. BRAVO, Martin!

A nice way to learn about public service: Rachel's Rave.

Posted on August 09, 2009
Rachel Diehl, one of the student workers at Boyd, has started her own blog, which describes different ways to do public service in and around Las Vegas (and, ultimately, beyond). See here. Brava, Rachel!

Mazel tov to our friends Martha & Karen!

Posted on August 09, 2009
Who were married yesterday! See here. (And, yes, Jeff & I think that it's way cool that Martha & Karen's announcement made it into the New York Times!)If you talk with Martha and Karen, ask them about their wedding cha-cha....

Two reasons that I think Steve Bradford's funny.

Posted on August 08, 2009
See here and here.

The Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn, 3550 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, FL--my review

Posted on August 07, 2009
Is here. Other similar reviews are here.

Why I wish I had taken pictures of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn, 3550 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, FL, before I left this morning.

Posted on August 06, 2009
I had a great time at SEALS, as I always do, and this time, I had tried to keep costs down, so I stayed at a place down the road from the Ritz. Here's how the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn describes itself (see here and especially here). I don't know when those photos were taken, but either Photoshop works miracles, or I'd checked into an alternate universe...

A shout-out to Jason Solomon for letting me do some op-eds with him

Posted on August 04, 2009
Jason Solomon, a buddy of mine at U Ga. and one of the co-founders of the Race to the Top blog (here), has kindly let me hang out with him in a couple of op-eds talking about turning the USNWR rankings into something resembling a measure of actual quality, rather than a mere beauty contest...