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For all of our wounded warriors

Posted on July 21, 2009
See here (hat tip to my hubby for sending this to me). You can find out more about the Wounded Warriors Project here. You can donate to the project here.

Anonymous postings are the last vestiges of cowards.

Posted on July 19, 2009
After reading the latest barrage of comments over at Wild Wild West's post about late grades (here), which managed to get picked up by the Wall Street Journal's law blog (here), I have to confess that I'm stunned that so many people feel compelled to post vitriol anonymously...

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to relive Apollo 11.

Posted on July 18, 2009
Check out Wechoosethemoon.org. You can listen to what NASA heard 40 years ago. Forty years ago, I was young enough to think that going to the moon wasn't a big deal. Now I know that it was a miracle--the science worked; the people involved worked up to their potential; and for a brief moment, everyone on Earth got to see an achievement of truly international import...

What makes it so good is that the guy has Flatley's mannerisms down pat.

Posted on July 17, 2009
See here. Hat tip to my buddy Katya.

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Commentary on our times.

Posted on July 14, 2009
A hat tip to my buddy Marc Stern, who forwarded this pic to me.

This just in: cats outrank us.

Posted on July 13, 2009
Thanks to my brother-in-law, more proof that Grace and Shadow rule our roost: here. Considering all of the stupid human tricks that these two cats have trained us to perform, we're not surprised.

A nice way to feed some animals.

Posted on July 08, 2009
See here. Many thanks!

My hair guru can beat up your hair guru.

Posted on July 08, 2009
See here. Congrats, Sara!

A fun read, part n

Posted on July 06, 2009
My buddy Andy Spalding is spending a year at the University of Mumbai, and here's what he's working on these days (here). Should be a fun read!

Political pressure, the rankings, and one law school's response

Posted on July 06, 2009
This morning, I read Larry Ribstein's post about the brouhaha between the Chicago Tribune and the University of Illinois Law School (here). Seems to me that we should have been discussing the pressure brought to bear on admissions years ago: pressure not just by highly connected politicians but also by powerful donors and alumni...

A fresh take on rankings

Posted on July 03, 2009
Bridget Crawford has a fascinating post at Feminist Law Professors regarding ranking law schools using SSRN downloads (here). Hat tip to Paul Caron at TaxProf Blog for this one. Thanks, Paul!Another ranking system that I'm eagerly anticipating is Green Bag's Deadwood Report (here)...

Thanks again, Faculty Lounge!

Posted on June 30, 2009
My final post as this month's guest blogger is here.

Some more details on the Beyond Text conference at the University of Edinburgh.

Posted on June 26, 2009
See here. My time as a guest blogger at The Faculty Lounge is almost over, and I had a blast!

My newest guilty pleasure: LawShucks.com

Posted on June 25, 2009
I'm becoming addicted to LawShucks.com. Lots of great stuff about BigLaw and about big bankruptcies. Enjoy!

How I spent last week (in Edinburgh)

Posted on June 24, 2009
Had a blast at the Beyond Text conference in Edinburgh. For a description, see here. More soon!

Congratulations, Michael Asimow!

Posted on June 13, 2009
Michael's newest book, Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television, is now out and available here. Yes, my essay on Shark is in it, as is Keith Rowley's essay on The West Wing. Congrats, Michael!

See my buddy Sara, who's a star, at a big hair show (no, not a show about big hair) in Orlando!

Posted on June 13, 2009
See here. Sara's incredibly creative, loads of fun, and a joy to watch. YAY, Sara!

Gotta love this one--thanks, Bankruptcy Bill!

Posted on June 12, 2009
See here.

I fear for the next generation of lawyers.

Posted on June 10, 2009
Not only are they moving into a world that's increasingly precarious (generally) and into a legal world in which the rules of survival are getting more brutal, but they're doing so after coming into law school significantly less prepared. They don't have the liberal arts (or science) background that so many of us did (which enabled us to relate what we were learning in law school to other ways of thinking and analyzing), but they're simply not prepared to communicate well...

Latest musings on problems in higher education, over at The Faculty Lounge

Posted on June 08, 2009
See here. Looking forward to your comments.

Bravo, Steve Gillers!

Posted on June 08, 2009
Wonderful speech (see here)!

Well, we're not going to be national champs in college baseball this year....

Posted on June 06, 2009
We just lost to LSU, which means that I hope that LSU takes the whole smash. I am a very sad Owl tonight. On the other hand, has LSU ever done experiments with Twinkies (see here)? I didn't think so....

A compendium of funny exam (and other) turns of phrase, over at The Faculty Lounge

Posted on June 06, 2009
See here, and please add your own over at that blog.

Happens everywhere, apparently.

Posted on June 03, 2009
See here. Personally, I think it happens when (1) some folks don't have enough to do, and (2) senior members of the community don't tell the mean folks to back off.

I'm having fun guest-blogging over at The Faculty Lounge

Posted on June 03, 2009
Dan Filler has invited me to guest-blog over at The Faculty Lounge this month. (Thanks, Dan!) Here's my first post.

Why I love the blog "Bankruptcy Bill"

Posted on June 02, 2009
Where else can you get bankruptcy haiku or other fun bankruptcy thoughts? See here. For the conflicts counsel haiku, see here. For my thoughts on conflicts in bankruptcy cases, see, e.g., here.

A Memorial Day thought from our friend David Polyansky

Posted on May 25, 2009
One of our best friends, David Polyansky, has written this beautiful piece about Memorial Day and what it really means (here). My husband, my father-in-law, my brother-in-law, and my sister-in-law (and my late mother-in-law) have all served our country proudly, and I count myself so fortunate to have married into the Van Niel family...

HELP! Calling all computer gurus!

Posted on May 25, 2009
Hi, all--have a question for you: I use a MacBook at home and a Windows XP at school. I have an external hard drive, and when I copy things from my MacBook to my Windows, I see a lot of these types of files:.* (no prefix--just files that look more faint than "real" files)...

Fun reads--Richard Mendales's Collateralized Explosive Devices: Why Securities Regulation Failed to Prevent the CDO Meltdown, and How to Fix It

Posted on May 22, 2009
You can download Richard's paper from SSRN (here). Richard's got strength in both the commercial (Contracts through Bankruptcy) and corporate (Agency & Partnership, Corporations, and Securities Regulation) sides of business law. One of his courses looks at the ethics issues for transactional (non-litigator) lawyers...

NYT is absolutely correct about Yucca Mountain

Posted on May 21, 2009
One of today's New York Times editorials points out (here) correctly that the administration's budget for Yucca Mountain, cut almost to the bone, doesn't give anyone the ability to learn about the science of storing nuclear waste. What we need is a real, non-partisan, blue-ribbon panel of scientists to determine what the U...

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