4 Blocks or 80 Dollars

4 Blocks or 80 Dollars

by | zen

  There is a parking deck right next to our office building. The monthly fee is $80. Cheap, in comparison to most cities. Affordable. Four blocks away from our office building are the bridges going over the railroad tracks that bisect Birmingham. The bidges are...
Dean Mitchell Continues to Bury Head in Sand

Dean Mitchell Continues to Bury Head in Sand

by | Law School

  Just saw this over at TaxProf: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects there will be 74,000 new lawyer jobs this decade, while American law schools will produce more than 400,000 graduates. “It’s not clear to me there’s an oversupply...
What is the “Law School Disaster?”

What is the “Law School Disaster?”

by | Law School

  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...
Customer Service…or Whatever

Customer Service…or Whatever

by | Reputation

My wife and I walked into a local Starbuck’s. It was moderately full but there was only one other couple in line. I placed our order after the couple in front of us (tall, skinny chai; extra hot) and sat down to wait on our order. After our son was done...
Young Lawyer: Are You Really A Failure?

Young Lawyer: Are You Really A Failure?

by | Law School

  By now I presume that everyone has read the op-ed in the New York Times by Case Western Reserve’s law school dean, Lawrence Mitchell, entitled “Is Law School Worth the Money?” In the op-ed Dean Mitchell makes the pitch that going to law school...