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 to introduce students to the fundamental skills of the profession and that they can learn […]
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 editor’s experiment with Pages works out!
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 U.S. after various changes to federal law, partly as a result of industry lobbying and partly as a result […]
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 now I’m in Intellectual Property and Constitutional Law I (both old-school lecture classes), Alternative Dispute Resolution […]
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 my testing, seemed to perform quite well. (Please note: I tested out their service as a customer. I own no stock and received […]
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 work/life balance are too intractable. Myth 3: Law firms lose money on part-timers. Myth 4: You […]
Family-Leave Values
The New York Times has an excellent article in today’s paper, written by Eyal Press, dealing with a new perspective on “family values”: the importance of employees with family responsibilities to have flexibility, including leave, from their employers, and lawsuits that are seeking to enforce this flexibility using a variety of legal approaches: Since the mid-1990s, the […]
5 Steps to Take After a Data Center Failure
In the aftermath of the 365Main data center power failure, it’s important to think about what steps customers (of any data center) ought to take now: Inform customers Check procedures and systems (Re-)consider redundancy and failover Review your SLAs and contracts Learn 1. Keep your customers informed of any outages. Customers can be remarkably forgiving if […]
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