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When Tenure Protects Incompetent Faculty
January 19, 2014
John M. Rothgeb, Jr. (Miami University, Department of Political Science), When Tenure Protects the Incompetent: Results...
January 19, 2014
John M. Rothgeb, Jr. (Miami University, Department of Political Science), When Tenure Protects the Incompetent: Results...
10 Tools To Check Your Online Reputation
January 19, 2014
If you're not worried about your online reputation, you should to be. Following are ten cool tools you can use to check your...
January 19, 2014
If you're not worried about your online reputation, you should to be. Following are ten cool tools you can use to check your...
Essential Keyboard Shortcuts For Google Calendar Power Users
January 19, 2014
The latest in our Keyboard Shortcuts series. Keyboard shortcuts let you access frequently used features with a keystroke, and with your fingers never leaving the keyboard to use the mouse on your computer, saving time and increasing productivity. Many applications have scores or hundreds of shortcuts, but who can remember them all? It can be overwhelming rather than helpful. So, instead of an exhaustive list, we’ve chosen 12 essential shortcuts to more commonly used features and functions....
January 19, 2014
The latest in our Keyboard Shortcuts series. Keyboard shortcuts let you access frequently used features with a keystroke, and with your fingers never leaving the keyboard to use the mouse on your computer, saving time and increasing productivity. Many applications have scores or hundreds of shortcuts, but who can remember them all? It can be overwhelming rather than helpful. So, instead of an exhaustive list, we’ve chosen 12 essential shortcuts to more commonly used features and functions....
Alienation of Affections Suit Against Interloper, Online Dating Site
January 18, 2014
A North Carolina man has filed a suit alleging alienation of affections not only against the man who had an affair with his wife, but also against Ashley Madison, an online dating site that markets to people interested in affairs. The North Carolina legislature restricted heart balm actions to natural persons in 2009, but the plaintiff's lawyer argues that the actions leading to the breakup of the marriage occurred in 2007 and the old law applies. The Charlotte Observer has the details.
January 18, 2014
A North Carolina man has filed a suit alleging alienation of affections not only against the man who had an affair with his wife, but also against Ashley Madison, an online dating site that markets to people interested in affairs. The North Carolina legislature restricted heart balm actions to natural persons in 2009, but the plaintiff's lawyer argues that the actions leading to the breakup of the marriage occurred in 2007 and the old law applies. The Charlotte Observer has the details.
Free Law Project Is Now Even Bigger, Ergo Better
January 18, 2014
I wrote about the Free Law Project here in the Studio back a few months ago. Why wouldn’t I? The Project is all about making public information freely available to the public. You can research and download material from state and federal courts for zip, nada, zilch. More recently, I got an email from Michael Lissner, one of Free Law Project’s founders. He tipped me off to a massive influx of new material at the Project – LawBox made a huge data donation of 1.5 million opinions, opening...
January 18, 2014
I wrote about the Free Law Project here in the Studio back a few months ago. Why wouldn’t I? The Project is all about making public information freely available to the public. You can research and download material from state and federal courts for zip, nada, zilch. More recently, I got an email from Michael Lissner, one of Free Law Project’s founders. He tipped me off to a massive influx of new material at the Project – LawBox made a huge data donation of 1.5 million opinions, opening...
Litigation Funding in the Courts
January 18, 2014
Third-party litigation funding continues to attract investors, as evidenced by relatively new litigation funding firm Gerchen Keller Capital’s recent $260 million capital raise, which brings their total investor commitments to $310 million (as discussed in a January 12, 2013 New York Times article, here). As litigation has become more prevalent, courts have had to grapple with the phenomenon. As highlighted in a recent discovery ruling in a trade secrets lawsuit between Miller U.K. Ltd. and equipment-maker...
January 18, 2014
Third-party litigation funding continues to attract investors, as evidenced by relatively new litigation funding firm Gerchen Keller Capital’s recent $260 million capital raise, which brings their total investor commitments to $310 million (as discussed in a January 12, 2013 New York Times article, here). As litigation has become more prevalent, courts have had to grapple with the phenomenon. As highlighted in a recent discovery ruling in a trade secrets lawsuit between Miller U.K. Ltd. and equipment-maker...
First Google Glass Traffic Ticket Dismissed
January 18, 2014
The first Google Glass ticket has been dismissed by a traffic court in San Diego, according to Julie Watson in The Associated Press. The revolutionary citation was issued in November to Cecilia Abadie who was stopped by the California Highway Patrol for wearing her Google eyeglasses while she drove, and was ticketed for speeding and for being distracted by a video or TV screen. Watson reports the commissioner ruled Abadie was not guilty because the Calif. Vehicle Code requires proof beyond...
January 18, 2014
The first Google Glass ticket has been dismissed by a traffic court in San Diego, according to Julie Watson in The Associated Press. The revolutionary citation was issued in November to Cecilia Abadie who was stopped by the California Highway Patrol for wearing her Google eyeglasses while she drove, and was ticketed for speeding and for being distracted by a video or TV screen. Watson reports the commissioner ruled Abadie was not guilty because the Calif. Vehicle Code requires proof beyond...
More Legal Jobs Than Law Grads in 2016?
January 18, 2014
National Jurist: More Jobs Than Grads for Class of 2016: Is it a good time to apply to law school or not? With law school enrollment dropping, some say it is only a matter of time before the number of legal jobs exceeds the number of graduates. ... [D]ifferent law professors can't agree on the date when supply will drop below demand. Paul Young, a law professor at Appalchian ... predicts that full-time legal jobs will exceed the number of law school graduates in 2017. But Deborah Jones...
January 18, 2014
National Jurist: More Jobs Than Grads for Class of 2016: Is it a good time to apply to law school or not? With law school enrollment dropping, some say it is only a matter of time before the number of legal jobs exceeds the number of graduates. ... [D]ifferent law professors can't agree on the date when supply will drop below demand. Paul Young, a law professor at Appalchian ... predicts that full-time legal jobs will exceed the number of law school graduates in 2017. But Deborah Jones...
Law School Applications Continue to Plummet
January 18, 2014
LSAC, Three-Year ABA Volume Comparison: As of 1/03/14, there are 131,097 Fall 2014 applications submitted by 19,529...
January 18, 2014
LSAC, Three-Year ABA Volume Comparison: As of 1/03/14, there are 131,097 Fall 2014 applications submitted by 19,529...
The Research: Mindfulness as a Debiasing Strategy
January 17, 2014
Three researchers from the INSEAD business school and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania conducted three studies with the goal of reducing bias by encouraging mindfulness. The studies, covered by Psyblog, focused on the economic problem of sunk costs, or the tendency to try to justify past decisions by “throwing good money after bad.” It is a powerful psychological bias that I have written about recently. In the first study, the researchers noted that mindfulness as a trait...
January 17, 2014
Three researchers from the INSEAD business school and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania conducted three studies with the goal of reducing bias by encouraging mindfulness. The studies, covered by Psyblog, focused on the economic problem of sunk costs, or the tendency to try to justify past decisions by “throwing good money after bad.” It is a powerful psychological bias that I have written about recently. In the first study, the researchers noted that mindfulness as a trait...
