Via Jason Wilson: “Legal employers aren’t hiring very much – that’s the problem.” “Cost is the thing.” “In the next 3-4 months, we are going to see a crisis hit law schools that will be many times greater than the crisis in legal education that prompted the creation of this task force in the [...]
The use of computer automation and software continues to make its presence felt in the legal industry. Much of it is actually rather banal or inconsequential; Twitter for lawyers or some other silly thing. But there is a gradual, continued push to actually develop software that helps streamline the time it takes lawyers to find [...]
A couple days ago Jordan Rushie made a post at the Philly Law Blog entitled Your Website Is Not a Reception Area in response to the ongoing rah-rahs at the ABA TechShow and “lawyer coach” Rachel Rodgers. Rushie states: Ah, the future of law! Technology is going to change everything about lawyering! In the very [...]
I was recently corresponding with a friend and the topic of extra-curricular projects came up. I rattled off a list of 6 or 7 things I’m doing outside of work.1 Bar committees, speaking engagements, article writing, writing a book, etc. All of them, taken with the day-in, day-out grind of being a lawyer, can [...]
So says Dan Harris over at China Law Blog: I remember being a panelist at a Shanghai event a few years ago when someone in the audience asked me if I was ever concerned about offending people with this blog. My response went something like this: No. In fact, I worry about not offending [...]
Scott Greenfield has a post up this morning entitled The Law Professors’ New Clothes, addressing the continuing running in circles of the legal professoriate – offering vague solutions that dont actually address the problems new lawyers are facing today. If I recall correctly, the problems facing law schools involve excessive expense, declining enrollment, declining standards, producing many times more lawyers [...]
In addition to having an over-inflated sense of self-worth, young people today are facing another problem: smartphones. But smartphones are useful tools! But I’m more connected! But I can work from wherever! But, but, but… Yes, all the above is true. Smartphones are incredibly useful tools. I use my iPhone all the time. They can [...]
Over the holidays I received a review copy of Nathaniel Burney’s The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law, an outgrowth from his popular LawComic.net. Having enjoyed seeing the progress of the comic over the past year online, I was eager to get the book in my hands. It is, in a word, excellent. Criminal law is a [...]
Early this month, Kyle P. McEntee, Patrick J. Lynch, and Derek Michael Tokaz, the founders of Law School Transparency, released a paper entitled “The Crisis in Legal Education: Dabbling in Disaster Planning.” The abstract: The legal education crisis has already struck for many recent law school graduates, signaling potential disaster for law schools already struggling with [...]
Surprisingly, Slate managed to highlight something interesting this week in their new history blog. Notes from the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, likely in preparation for a lecture to be given to a congregation of new lawyers. The entirety of the notes can be viewed here. I wanted to highlight a point [...]
Keith writes and speaks on Professional Development, Law, Technology, and Net Culture. Alabama lawyer. Interests: running, food, martial arts, Classics.
