by Florida Esq | Uncategorized
I graduated from University of Florida College of Law in 2011, and like most of my classmates, I already had my entire career planned out: I would work as an associate for a few years at a small-to-moderate sized firm, climbing my way up the ladder as I built up my...
by Keith Lee | Professional Development
“Alright time to do some work!” Email ping Twitter tweeting Slack pop-pop Phone rings (“I still have one of those?!”) Someone knocks on the door You’ve got those extra files on your desk Looks at the 14 tabs open in Chrome What’s...
by Keith Lee | Book Reviews
A couple weeks ago I was at my local bar association’s annual Bench & Bar conference and had the chance to meet Richard Jaffe, a highly-respected criminal defense lawyer here in Birmingham. We had both been invited to present our books at the conference and...
by Keith Lee | Legal News
Yesterday a legal start-up I had never heard of put up a rather interesting story. LawDeeDa aims to be a social network for lawyers (yes, another one). No comment on their name or business model, but what they shared was troubling. LawDeeDa had been subject to massive...
by Keith Lee | Technology
If you’re a lawyer who spends any amount of time online, you’ll soon discover that the “future of law” has become a cottage industry unto itself. There are professors, pundits, lawyers-turned-consultants, all peddling their version of the...
by Keith Lee | Legal News
Many law students and new lawyers are obsessed with things such as rank, grades, and law review. But (thanks to the Legal Skills Prof Blog) I recently came across an empirical research study on SSRN that shows that those things have very little to do with one’s...
by Keith Lee | #data, Law School
I noticed over at the Tax Prof Blog that the LSAC has begun releasing data on the most recent crop of LSAT information. At the Legal Whiteboard, Jerry Organ dives into the data and found that average scores are declining: Across the 195 law schools in the 48...
by Keith Lee | Book Reviews
This past week, I was pleased to receive a copy of Kevin Underhill’s new book The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance: And Other Real Laws that Human Beings Actually Dreamed Up. I’ve been looking forward to reading it for some time as Lowering The Bar is...
