Historically, clerks have had a pretty sweet deal. A year spent with a judge increases their attractiveness to law firms; in the past, this translated to big bonuses for going into Biglaw. During the recession, the deal got slightly less sweet, as firms went a little sour on clerks. Over the last m ...

In twin February 4, 2010 decisions, the Third Circuit reached opposite rulings on whether a school violated a student's First Amendment rights by disciplining him for creating a defamatory MySpace page about the school principal. In both cases, a student used an off-campus computer to create the pr ...

Chuck DeVore appeared last night on FOXNews with Glenn Beck talking about the role of government and his race for the U.S. Senate. While reiterating his policy of not endorsing candidates, Beck declared: “You intrigue me.” Beck had Assemblyman DeVore on the program for two segments (th ...

In a long, interesting, and valuable article in the Chronicle of Higher Education Peter Schmidt reviews what he describes as the “increased nuance and complexity” of a “new wave of research on campus diversity.” The new research, he writes, holds the promise of improving how colleges serve students ...

Finally, after several phone calls on behalf of KingCast.net and TOUCH FM 106.1 FM we have an answer. I knew they would do it on a Friday. But the Fish Rots At The Head:We use video podcasting at KingCast.net and Justiceforkids.net to protect the First Amendment and highlight corporate and police ab ...

The Chronicle of Higher Education, in its Feb. 5, 2010 Technology section (or front page of the print edition), has a story "Tablet May Help E-Textbook Market, Publisher Hope," by Jeffrey R. Young. The story is careful to note as wrong previous rumors that Apple has made agreements with textbook pu ...

A random sampling of items k-nocking around in my keppe this morning:1. I bumped into Bob Zarco last week and he was wearing blue suede shoes -- I call them F U shoes.2. When does the filing of a lawsuit constitute "civil extortion" or worse yet, "criminal extortion"?Ask Irvin's lawyer Larry Fried ...

By Justin Silverman I’m not one for local news broadcasts. When I do watch, it’s to enjoy the unintentional humor brilliantly parodied by those like the Onion News Network. But WHDH-TV’s Pete Bouchard recently made me reconsider the comedic opportunities of local news, delivering a ...

Fans of the television show "Boston Legal" will be sad to learn that actor Justin Mentell was found dead near his crashed Jeep near a rural highway in Wisconsin. He played Garrett Wells, an attorney on the popular TV show. Mentell, who was just 27 years-old and a native of Waukegan, Illinois, was ...

Some thoughts here. I loved The Rector of Justin and highly recommend it. There has been much talk of Auchincloss as the chronicaller of the ruling class of NYC but this, perhaps the best of his novels, is also the...