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Nurse Properly Fired and Denied Unemployment Due to Facebook Rant
January 19, 2014
Guevarra worked as a staff nurse at Seton Medical Center for 12 years. In mid-May 2011, shortly before she went to work, she posted the following Facebook post: Instead of spending my birthday celebrating, I will be working all night cleaning up feces. I loathe that effin heffer!!! Burn in hell you effed up spawn of satan. I curse you and wish you a lifetime of pain and suffering. That is not enough, right now I would give anything you small you down and pound you to unconsciousness. ‘Tang ina*...
January 19, 2014
Guevarra worked as a staff nurse at Seton Medical Center for 12 years. In mid-May 2011, shortly before she went to work, she posted the following Facebook post: Instead of spending my birthday celebrating, I will be working all night cleaning up feces. I loathe that effin heffer!!! Burn in hell you effed up spawn of satan. I curse you and wish you a lifetime of pain and suffering. That is not enough, right now I would give anything you small you down and pound you to unconsciousness. ‘Tang ina*...
Law Profs Oppose ABA Proposal to Eliminate Tenure as Accreditation Requirement
January 19, 2014
National Law Journal: Law Professors Give ABA an Earful on Tenure's Future, by Karen Sloan: The ABA proposal to eliminate its tenure requirement for law schools drew a hostile reception during the Association of American Law School’s annual meeting in New York over the weekend. An overflow crowd of law professors packed into a meeting room during a panel discussion on Saturday to express outrage over the idea. The ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar billed the discussion...
January 19, 2014
National Law Journal: Law Professors Give ABA an Earful on Tenure's Future, by Karen Sloan: The ABA proposal to eliminate its tenure requirement for law schools drew a hostile reception during the Association of American Law School’s annual meeting in New York over the weekend. An overflow crowd of law professors packed into a meeting room during a panel discussion on Saturday to express outrage over the idea. The ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar billed the discussion...
Crisis in Legal Education or the Other Things Law Students Should Be Learning and Doing
January 19, 2014
This essay reviews the recent criticisms of legal education (costs, loss of job opportunities, content of curricula) and suggests that law students might be better served by studying and learning different things in law school – not only conventional Socratic, doctrinal and even, adversarial clinical education, but organizational development, problem solving, decision making, group dynamics, dispute resolution and dispute system design. The article also contrasts two other professions – one newer...
January 19, 2014
This essay reviews the recent criticisms of legal education (costs, loss of job opportunities, content of curricula) and suggests that law students might be better served by studying and learning different things in law school – not only conventional Socratic, doctrinal and even, adversarial clinical education, but organizational development, problem solving, decision making, group dynamics, dispute resolution and dispute system design. The article also contrasts two other professions – one newer...
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.
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...
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...
