Archive for the 'lawyers' Category

nutraloaf is the worst - all media agree - but David Gross likes it

June 25th, 2008

My slate piece on nutraloaf is out.  Apparently, in the long long past, the Onion also did a Nutraloaf taste-testing. This actually is a coincidence, though I’m surprised that more people - writers in particular - didn’t taste test Nutraloaf since it sounds so theoretically delicious and yet is sued over so frequently, thus […]


BUSH SIGNS QUILTING MUSEUM INTO BEING

May 10th, 2008

oh, yeah, and federalizes immigration and labor in the CNMI, and gives the CNMI a nonvoting delegate thus undoing all of Jack Abramoff’s hard, expensive, quite possibly illegal work - - and designates the National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States!!
S. 2739 is some big bill


who is loyola 2L?

December 17th, 2007

apparently, we’ll never know, even if he/she is the WSJ’s lawyer of the year
this whole suffering lawyer thing is really quite bizarre.  things really were different when I was in law school.  we all felt so powerful then.  the circumstances were different for us then than they seem to be for a lot of the […]


$150,000 in debt, working for $24 an hour?

December 13th, 2007

you need a law degree to be a paralegal?
it’s not right
on the other hand, here’s the Greenwood kids in a nutshell: I want to go see this movie tonight; my brother can’t go because he’s working late, and anyway he’s not spending any money at all (he calls it a money holiday) till Friday. […]


we always had moo shoo, double feature

December 11th, 2007

good
bad


not very helpful

December 2nd, 2007

I belive it is articles like this one in yesterday’s Washington Post that contribute to this pernicious myth that brand new baby lawyers are swimming in pearls and drowning in job offers.


good one, second amendment

November 22nd, 2007

because what DC really needs is more guns


tropical lawyering

November 13th, 2007

it’s getting to be winter here, and there’s a lawyer job available in Palau


more stories about lawyers

November 9th, 2007

from the Washington CityPaper:
Attorney at Blah
if there’s a moral in this story it is this: go to law school with your eyes open