I’ve written before about how we might train law students to defuse tense situations in order to improve our ability to hear each other. Last night, as I was listening to our school’s monthly Town Hall meeting, it occurred to
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I’m so tired of snotty personal attacks in politics.
I get it. Politics can be an ugly business. And I wouldn’t want to be a politician these days. Most of the time, I just ignore the vitriol on both sides of the aisle, because I have better things to…
I’m officially “over” law reviews that are entirely student-run.
Let me start by saying that I have a cold and am thus crankier than usual. And let me add that I am not “over” having students work as editors and as staffers on their law reviews. Law review work…
OK, Blogger. I give up.
You’re not letting me update my links, so I’m not posting to this blog any more. My new site is here.
Why the Westin Cincinnati is likely the very worst Westin in the country.
How do we count the ways in which the Westin Cincinnati is a very, very bad hotel?
First, the good news: friendly staff and great location. That, however, is the only good news.
1. Let’s start with safety. There should…
Predicted this in 2012.
The story on Whittier in the NYT is here.
As I said in 2012, “[t]he world doesn’t need as
many ABA-accredited law schools as it has already, just as the world has
figured out that it doesn’t need as…
Well, Jeff now gets to use a Satan emoji to describe me.
How NOT to collect a legal bill.
We used a friend of ours, Mike Cenatiempo, to update our wills. Mike used to work at Shannon Gracey, which is now defunct. We paid our bill in December 2016. We got a “past due” notice from the defunct Shannon…
I have managed to alienate Blogger.
After I got hacked, I tried to change my administrative login credentials to my new email address, but Blogger doesn’t believe me. Let’s just say it’s hard to survive a hacking.
Lessons from being hacked.
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