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To Christopher, my brave little buddy

Christopher came into my and my ex-wife’s life from our favorite taco restaurant in 1991 or 1992. Eberly and I were eating at the now-gone Happy Taco in St. Louis, when one of the owners came up to us. “You … Continue reading

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Law Schools as Buggy Whip Factories

Yesterday I posted on Facebook a simple question: What law schools have undertaken serious consideration of the permanent restructuring of the legal market in their mission & strategic plan? Reasonable people may differ on whether the current recession and the … Continue reading

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Law school placement and ABA Accreditation

Interesting and important news. Some deans appear to understand the 1996 ABA antitrust consent decree to mean that ABA accreditation is an empty formality. With increasing demands for accountability throughout higher education, and the scandalous misrepresentation of employment figures by … Continue reading

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Privacy as Misdirection

The story of Ashley Paine, the 24-year-old high school teacher in Georgia who was fired in August 2009 for drinking a Guinness on a vacation in Dublin, is making the rounds again. It is typically told as a story of … Continue reading

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Law Libraries Are Doomed (First in a Series)

From a blog post entitled “The Future of Loose-Leafs?“ Publishers could make their publications more attractive to libraries through innovations that address budget concerns; loose-leafs would seem to be a prime candidate for such innovations. That does not mean the … Continue reading

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