Law Students

Intellectual property is not a thing
Speaking in workshops and seminars I've often posed a puzzle to wake up the audience. I've asked: What is the most powerful thing in the cave of a cave man when he skins a freshly killed beast using a stone tool? Most guess that the most powerful thing must be the stone tool...

Palins daughter: 17 and pregnant
Santorum added: "You don't want to see [her] obviously, getting involved in sex outside of marriage. That's not a good thing. ... You take something that is not a good thing . . . and you turn it into the best thing possible ...

No Right Way To Do The Wrong Thing
"No right way to do the wrong thing" is an old saying; a Google search doesn't shed much light on its origins, although one website suggests that "no right way to do a wrong thing" is an old Turkish proverb...

Mac Gaudy
I am not sure who I despise more. The people who design gaudy stuff (because they think it is artful) or the self-centered people who pay outrageous sums for this crap. Well, thanks to the wonderful people at Bling My Thing the Mac-niacs can now be chic...

Best Case Name Ever
Asset forfeitures are known as “in rem” actions, meaning that the government is proceeding against a thing, not the owner of the thing. So the “defendant” in an asset forfeiture action is the thing being forfeited...

The Daily Memo - 8/4/08
What, you're saying associates wouldn't love BigLaw if they weren't getting paid mad money? Naaaaah. (Law.com) So wait, this laptop detention thing is a bad thing, you say? (The Legal Satyricon) We got a whole bunch of propositions to vote....