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Enron. Just saying the name sends a chill down the spine. In the minds of investors everywhere, it is the very distillation of corporate malfeasance. On the back of a collapse that cost millions of people billions of dollars, it turns out that “The Smartest Guys in the Room” were nothing more that a collection of [...] Yesterday, I had what I’m convinced is a universal law school experience. Last night, a classmate walked into the atrium outside our Torts class carrying a King Cake. That day at work, one of his clients (from New Orleans) had sent it to him as a thanks for his hard work. Some of us (including me) [...] Last night was one of those nights for me. If you’re a law student – or have ever been one – you know what I’m talking about… a paper due in a week that you have no idea how to write (or research)… 50 pages of case reading staring you down… just received below average grades (in your [...] I wanted to offer a corollary to The Sherpa’s post about the “worth” of a law school education. To frame the debate, let my first offer a little background. I went to graduate school at the University of Chicago immediately after I got out of college. Since I went to an undergraduate institution that did not [...] WSJ’s Law Blog (highly recommended reading) has this post from a former BU Law student, Kirsten Wolf, who graduated $100K in the hole, assuming she would land an “average” job that would net her $85K/year upon graduation. Despite passing the Massachusetts bar, Kirsten wasn’t able to find the mythical “average” job and decided to [...] So, a co-worker asked how long it had been since I had a snow day home from school. It would have been super-cool if I could have said something like, “Man not since the Blizzard of ‘74.” You know, some date that really put some age on me, maybe some gray hair. Actually, my last [...] Just in time for my Torts class’ discussion about Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress comes this lawsuit from Jeb Corliss (this story was posted less than 2 hours before class yesterday) : Jeb Corliss, the professional parachute jumper who tried to leap off the Empire State Building on April 27, 2006, released a short video today [...] |
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