Legal Writing

In praise of piles
Hail the powerful and protean pile! As venerated, useful, and overlooked as the pencil, the pile commands an honored, if humble, position of esteem in law department management. The pile is integral to knowledge management...

U.S. Public Sector Information as an Engine of Growth
Trying to catch up on reading some new reports on open government that have recently appeared. For those whose "to be read" pile is similarly taller than the "already ready" pile. Here's a quick take on one...

Environment - "State breaks silence on 'Easterly's Pile'"
"Easterly's pile" has been the subject of several earlier ILB entries. Today Gitte Laasby of the Gary Post Tribune reports...

The Slush Pile and Self-Publishing
A Friday opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on the "death" of the slush pile is generating some amusing responses around the blogosphere. (The "slush pile" is the name given to the unsolicited and unagented manuscripts that are submitted by authors directly to publishers, movie studios, etc...

Is there a pile-up in the making between deferred '09 grads and the class of '10
Several legal media outlets are discussing (here, here, and here) what might be the coming pile-up between the '09 law grads who are deferred until 2010 (in some cases until 2011) and current 2L students who are just now beginning...

Fall Guy: Fleeing suspect found in leaf pile
Mich. cops use thermal imaging device to rustle restaurant burglary suspect out of leaf pile