EarthLink said late Wednesday that it is bailing out of a contract to build San Francisco’s free Wi-Fi service. Earlier on Wednesday, the city of Houston announced that EarthLink had agreed to pay a $5 million penalty to the city … Continued
Monthly Archives: August 2007
What is the law school curriculum intended to achieve?
From PrawfsBlog: There are several schools of thought about what the first year of law school is all about. The first is the “skills” thesis. This is the idea that the goal of the first year of law school is … Continued
Justice Not Blind Blog
A new blog I found recently (via BlogCatalog), focusing on law and the use of technology in law: Justice Not Blind. As a current MS Word for Mac user (and hating it!), I’m going to be very curious how the … Continued
Optimal Copyright Law Length is 14 Years
To get back in the spirit of posting, I’d like to note the following story, via Irish law blog cearta.ie: How long should the copyright term be? In Irelend, it’s life + 70 years, as it essentially is in the … Continued
Back to my second year of law school
I’m now in my second-year of law school, and fortunately I’ve managed to enroll mostly in seminar classes, which are much more to my taste than large lecture classes (the traditional law school format, which I find pedagogically unsound). So … Continued
Clearwire Wireless Broadband Review
Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) is a broadband Internet Service Provider with a twist: it’s wireless. The sleek Clearwire modems use a licensed 2.5 GHz technology (not line-of-sight) instead of the standard, unlicensed 2.4 GHz frequency of 802.11 WiFi devices, and in … Continued
9 Myths of Work/Life Balance in Law
PAR’s Mythbusters provides hard data to bust nine key myths about work/life balance in the legal profession: Myth 1: Work/life balance is a women’s issue. Myth 2: Law firms are trying hard, but the problems of retaining women and offering … Continued