Month: May 2009

We're very pleased to welcome Adam Benforado to the Lounge.  Adam is an Assistant Professor at Drexel Law.  He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, and…

Continuing in our occasional series that comments on newly released books (and some that are back in the news again), I want to call your attention to the latest from…

We've kind of been expecting this story, and I suspect that it's only beginning, but we're now seeing that three big firms - Seyfarth Shaw, Squire Sanders, and Nixon Peabody - are…

So in my continuing obsession about faculty mentoring, I've decided to shift focus to senior faculty mentoring for this week and see if I can solicit any views/advice about what ...

  As I'm sitting here grading trusts and estates exams, I'm thinking again about an exchange from earlier in the semester.... Thanks to Jason Mazzone for raising important questions about…

Ave Maria Law School has been through a lot of challenges in its young life.  The good news is that it has a wealthy benefactor in the person of Domino's…

The Washington Post has a charming portrait of Justice Souter ("Quiet N.H. Home Is Where Souter's Heart Has Always Been"), which includes these three paragraphs:"He never unpacked," said Thomas Rath,…

Many congratulations to Irma Russell, who has just been named dean at the University of Montana's School of Law.  The University of Tulsa's loss is the University of Montana's gain.  From…

The last couple of years, I've looked a little at the aggregate data for peer and lawyer/judge assessments for each of the US News tiers.   This time I'm interested…

In his blog, Morse Code, Bob Morse - the US News Ranking Czar - addressed the swirling conversations in the blogosphere regarding the magazine's law rankings.  He tossed roses to…