Law Students

Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance...
Or something like that.Let me just say that if, lets say, hypothetically you opened a neat boutique-y dog kennel, then hypothetically you would avoid:a- opening one two blocks from another kennel of the exact same concept ORb- having basically the exact same name as the aforementioned kennel of the exact same concept And, lets say, if you hypothetically opened said dog kennel and did not avoid a OR b, then I would say that you should have a really really big sign telling customers at the front door that you are not the kennel of the exact same concept and almost the exact same name located a mere two blocks away...

A day of firsts
Today was my first day of work. My first day as a non-law-student type grown-up. While I suppose it's not as traumatic as when I was 22 and had my first real job EVER, it was still kind of weird...

Routman's copied lines from wikipedia: enough to walk the plank
An AP story gives the fragments from Wikipedia that led to the allegation of "plagiarism" against Ohio University senior Allison Routman by the University of Virginia:?when the Germans attacked the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa? ?German speaking minority outside of Germany? ?who had been released from a concentration camp?Whether or not this passes the Frank Zappa/weasel test for theft of creativity is less than obvious...

LA Times: Obama Veep Announcement Imminent
Just in from the Los Angeles Times: Sen. Barack Obama's campaign sent emails out today indicating he's very close to announcng his Vice-Presidential candidate and he may make the announcement by text-message and e-mail: An e-mail just sent out says Obama "is about to choose a running mate...

Congratulations!
BISMOW started his new job today. For a variety of boring reasons (i.e. financial and the like) this is a very good thing. He is a lawyer and with the dismal market out there, the fact that he was able to make not only a change but an "upward" one at that is pretty awesome...

KingCast probes a potential conflict of interest in North Country with State Rep/Police Chief John Tholl, HB 1428 and new police abuse.
Let's assume arguendo that there was another case of police abuse in the North Country. Let's further assume that you, as a victim of police abuse have no criminal past with the law; let's assume you're a well-established 40-something professional known by most police to be of sound, mind body and spirit, kind of like Ms...