Month: June 2009

It took a while, but the Cravath ceiling has finally shattered..  On Friday, the firm announced that the incoming class (2009) would be offered a voluntary one year deferral of…

We're very excited to announce that we have two new permanent bloggers here at the Faculty Lounge: Jacqueline Lipton and Timothy Zinnecker.  Most of you are already familiar with these…

For those of you who don't scour the law school news feed daily - and God only knows what you do with your time - here are three items to contemplate over…

This morning, the National Law Journal noted: "Starting Saturday, at 12:01 a.m. EST, Facebook will allow an estimated 200 million users to select any "usernames," which can include a trademark,…

Yesterday the Treasury Department announced that Kenneth Feinberg would serve as a special master - czar, to many media outlets - supervising executive compesnation for those companies getting tons-o-bux from…

The subtitle of this post is "law professor in Target."  (Or perhaps it should be "law professor loose in Target.")  I delayed my trip to Philadelphia so that I could…

So this week, Microsoft seems to have unveiled its new search engine, bing.com.  I'm told it's supposed to rival and even surpass Google in popularity.  I gave it a whirl…

Martha Minow, a Harvard Law professor since 1981, has just been named the Dean of Harvard Law.  She replaces Elana Kagan.  She is a Yale Law School graduate.  Her bibliography…

Among the many interesting documents that are now up on the Senate Judiciary Committee's website are syllabi for the appellate advocacy classes that Sonia Sotomayor co-taught at NYU (with Adjunct…

Why, why didn't I know about John Hope's 1851 painting, "A Marble Quarry," which is in the Boston MFA's collection? This would have been a great image to use in…