Why Is Lawblogs.net Stealing From Legal Blogs?

by Keith Lee | Legal News

2/25/2015 UPDATE: Lawblogs.net has been shuttered, as per its owner. See this post and the comments for details. The development of the internet has been a wonderful thing for publishing. More people have a platform to have their voice heard than ever before. It...

The Weight Of Old Things

by Keith Lee | zen

I was in the basement with my five-year old son the other day, looking for something among the boxes, furniture, and other assorted cruft that accumulates when you have a home. Basements become a repository of discarded or forgotten items. Items once important, now...

Associate’s Mind Primer For Young Professionals Seeking Mentors

by Keith Lee | Professional Development

Last week I wrote at length on relationships. Specifically, How To Turn A Casual Relationship Into A Real Relationship. In that post, I discussed three broad network categories, noting that all the relationships in your life are not equal. In the post I focused on...

How to Write Requests for Admissions

by Keith Lee | Writing

Requests for Admissions are sort of the red-headed stepchild of the discovery process. Interrogatories and Requests for Production get all the attention in law school and CLEs, while poor Requests for Admissions (RFAs) sit in the corner, never asked to dance. But RFAs...

Social Media Subpoena Guide 2015 Edition

by Keith Lee | Case Law, Social Media

NOTE: The 2017 update to this guide is finally done!! You can download it here. I initially wrote about how to subpoena various social media sites back in 2011. Seeing as it has been a few years I thought it was time to provide an update. It’s worth noting that...

Judges Propose Changes To Warrant Requirements For TOR/Encryption

by Keith Lee | Legal News

Last year at the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States, Judges proposed changes to warrant requirements in the United States, specifically as it relates to concealment of online activity. a magistrate judge with...

A Lawyer’s Duty – Lawyers Respond To #JeSuisCharlie

by Keith Lee | Writing

The horrific shooting in Paris took place while I was on the road. I had been invited over to Emory Law School to talk about blogging. I listened, utterly in shock at the scenario I was listening to on the news. I got to my brother-in-law’s house and read about...

Class of 2013 Job Results: All Schools

by Keith Lee | Law School

I was chatting about the ABA 509 data over in r/lawschool the other day when redditor bl1nds1ght mentioned that he had compiled all the employment data for the class of 2013 from the good folks over at Law School Transparency. He said I could have at it if I wanted...

The Walking Dead: ABA 509 Matriculant Data On All Unranked Schools

by Keith Lee | #data, Law School

Yesterday over at Above The Law, Elie took a look at some of the 509 data I’ve been reporting on these past few days. You know who is doing just fine in the current low-application environment? YALE! Yale is the freaking OG of being Yale. Their business is good....

There Will Be Blood: ABA 509 Matriculant Data On All Ranked Schools

by Keith Lee | #data, Law School

So the ABA is finally getting around to talking about the massive drops in enrollment. Yay! Now for some charts. First, all the schools listed by rank. (Edit: Professor Caron noticed that I had mislabeled Pepperdine red in the below chart, now fixed.) Next, all the...