Month: February 2009

On Friday, Texas state House speaker Joe Straus pronounced himself optimistic that he (and other Dallas legislators) could push through legislation establishing a UNT Law School in downtown Dallas.  A prior…

Congrats to lounge co-host Kathy Bergin, who received a "thumbs up" from the STCL faculty yesterday on her tenure application!It seems like yesterday that I and several of my colleagues…

Tim's post on law review submissions got me thinking about some other issues I've been considering while negotiating this strange career we call legal academia.  Obviously, pre-tenure we're told that…

I have two articles that I’ll be submitting to law journals over the next three weeks or so.   When I first started teaching in 1994, I did not know that…

For weeks we've been hearing news about layoffs at various large law firms.  They've been notable for both their breadth - they're happening in a lot of different shops - ...

WARNING: Some material in this post may trigger profuse sweating, stomach cramps, or hallucinatory flashbacks for readers who did not enjoy Secured Transactions or Bankruptcy courses in law school.   Reader ...

In the last couple of days, we've finally seen a few stories reporting on law school application levels.  It's about time.  It has long been common wisdom that law school…

I missed this story in the NY Times, but it appears that Tropicana is dropping its crappy looking new packaging and returning to a carton you recognize and want to…

According to a story in the reputable law publication, The Recorder, Citibank and Bank of America may get slammed in the bankruptcy of failed law firm Heller, Ehrman, White &…

Congratulations to the latest pair of law professors named to high level posts in the Obama administration.  Jon Cannon, the Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the…