Legal

The Unspoken Life of a Lawyer

by Claire Marie June 22, 2009 Legal

In my second year I took a Law and Literature class to give myself some sort of relief from the typical law school class and to coddle my much neglected theater minor self a little.  It was a good choice:  my professor was dedicated and full of interesting legal references in popular culture and had [...]

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Will We Ever See a Non-Ivy League Supreme Court Justice?

by Sean McGilvray June 18, 2009 Law School

You went to a middle-of-the-road undergraduate school where the focus was more on tailgating in the stadium parking lot than schmoozing over brandy and cigars or whatever the ultra-elite do when they’re not conducting secret meetings to control the world. You got straight As, even though you decided to take the hardest classes. Your law [...]

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My EULA Crisis

by Joshua Auriemma May 17, 2009 Geekery

For the past year or so, I’ve devoted substantial efforts to arguing that many terms within standard Massively Multiplayer Online Game license agreements should be found unconscionable. For those of you who don’t know, I’m spending the summer as a Summer Fellow with the Stanford Law Center for Internet & Society.  CIS hosts many events [...]

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Why Law Students Should Adopt Twitter En Masse

by Joshua Auriemma May 1, 2009 Advice

I was something of a late Twitter adopter on my Legal Geekery persona.  I didn’t really understand how it could benefit me professionally.  Now I urge all law students to get a Twitter account as fast as possible.  Why?  That’s the easy part. There are roughly 1000 people following @legalgeekery.  I’d guess that the breakdown [...]

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A Proposal For A Summer Associate Job Database

by Joshua Auriemma March 12, 2009 Geekery

I have no idea why this doesn’t exist already.  I suspect that quite a few qualified 2Ls such as myself [shameless plug but if you're still hiring, please see my resume (redacted for my privacy)] are still looking for summer work.  BigLaw is essentially done hiring, and in fact, they’re anti-hiring, so my applications are [...]

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