If you’re in law school, perhaps you’ve seen other students show up to class in unnecessarily professional clothes – as if they just landed a great internship, or even a real job. Kudos to them for getting out there and making connections, but if you want to be one of them, you’re going to have to develop yourself and your style. Here are a few tips that law students shouldn’t overlook in today’s increasingly competitive market for lawyers....
They must serve very small portions at the popular Memphis eatery Dish; because clearly, litigation attorney Mark Lambert was still hungry during an evening bathroom brawl with self-employed hair dresser Greg Herbers. So hungry, that he bit Herbers’ on the nose, allegedly removing quite a chunk of his victim’s nostril. The police report states a major part of Herbers’ left nostril was missing. In an even less appetizing detail, Herbers further claims that the shark-like Lambert swallowed the missing portion of his face....
If you’re considering law school, the idea of doing it online may have crossed your mind. Unfortunately, there are no ABA accredited fully online only law programs that will let you get a law degree without changing out of your jammies or at least getting off the couch. Sorry prospective law students, you will have to leave the house. And if you’ve started your research into law school, you already know that, and that not going to an ABA accredited school is taking a big risk with your legal education....
In a petition for review of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) revision of its method of calculating Medicare reimbursements, the petition is denied, where there was nothing unreasonable about HHS’s determination that certain hospital cost items are not wages or wage-related. Read Southeast Ala. Med. Ctr. v. Sebelius, No. 08-5156 Appellate Information Argued January 14, 2009 Decided July 17, 2009 Judges For Appellants: James F. Segroves, Proskauer Rose LLP, Washington, DC...
Yet another student athlete is a victim of a nightclub shooting. University of Southern Mississippi linebacker Martez Smith was shot outside a Hattiesburg nightclub over the weekend. Two of his teammates were also shot in the incident. Smith is paralyzed from the waist down after the shooting and is unlikely to ever walk again. Martez Smith and several other Southern Mississippi players went out to celebrate their upset win over Central Florida on Saturday night, USA Today reports....
Dating between summer associates and law firm attorneys or partners has a certain ick-factor to it. There can be a large age gap and there’s always the power dynamic that can make hook ups a bad idea. In general inter-office dating can be a tricky field to navigate. If it goes poorly, you still have to see that person every day. With summer associates, it gets even messier. In this economy, any summer associate is hoping for an offer....
We hear a lot about immigration law, especially in an election year. But few of us understand how it operates, even inside the system. Now the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the US Government, saying that indigent children who are not represented by an attorney in immigration court should be appointed a lawyer. In the context of that case, a senior immigration judge, John H. Weil, said in a deposition that children as young as 3-years-old could understand immigration law sufficiently to handle a hearing....
Two Southern California teenagers are in custody after being arrested last Friday for robbing a 7-11 convenience store. After being arrested, the pair of teens were linked to four prior robberies at the exact same location as well as a few other robberies nearby. The two seventeen year olds were attempting to make their getaway when they were pulled over by an officer who had been keeping the area under surveillance and was able to respond in under a minute....
A federal lawsuit against the Davis School District in Utah sought to overturn a school policy that prevented a female student from wrestling on her school’s team, and succeeded in doing just that, and more. In addition to being allowed to join her school’s team, the teen will receive a monetary award, and the district will be paying the attorney’s and legal fees. Kathleen Janis was denied the right to wrestle on her middle school team, as the district’s policy required middle school girls that wanted to wrestle to do so with the high school team....
Welcome to our second edition of what is now my favorite advice column ever – #DearFindLaw. A colleague of mine has a sister that is now a summer associate at BigLaw, and she passed on a sibling’s question. The summer associate knew that she wanted to clerk after law school, so she didn’t know how to deal with an offer from her law firm, in the event that she got one....
It’s a new year, and a new semester. Whether you’re a 3L trying to knock out some credits by taking “Shakespearean legal theory” or a 1L wondering how you’ll make it through another semester of contracts, there are always things you can improve upon. Here are a few ideas for things law students can improve upon in the new year: Breakfast, as they say, is the most important meal of the day....
Maybe you’re looking for a job. Have you looked at your LinkedIn lately? C’mon now. This is an online resume, open-ended cover letter, and narrative of your professional life. Unless your name is John Doe, a web search for your name is going to turn up your LinkedIn almost immediately. This is your opportunity to provide something shiny, intelligent, and useful, so that your future employer doesn’t dig further – and find the Facebook page that you should have tweaked....
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was a major overhaul of the federal tax code. For some it will be a boon, but for others, a bust. As you wind down your calendar year, keep in mind a few changes that could affect most individual taxpayers, and their filings. Interest on home equity loans taken out in 2018 and beyond will no longer be tax deductible, unless the loan is used to “buy, build or substantially improve” the home that secures the loan....
In an action challenging a decision by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to deny plaintiff nursing facilities reimbursement for certain bad debt costs, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where it was reasonable for the Secretary to read 42 U.S.C. section 1395x(v)(1)(A) to apply only to reimbursement systems based on “reasonable costs.” Read Abington Crest Nursing & Rehab. Ctr. v. Sebelius, No. 08-5120 Appellate Information Argued February 13, 2009...
In Gutierrez v. G&M Oil Co., Inc., No. G042041, the Fourth District faced a challenge to the trial court’s decision setting aside a $4 million default judgment against a gas station chain caused by the negligence of its in-house attorney, arising from a class action employment lawsuit. The court first resolved the issue of whether in-house attorneys come within the mandatory relief from default or dismissal provision of Code of Civil Procedure section 473, in answering in the affirmative....
In trademark cancellation proceedings, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (Board) decision canceling registration of appellant-Cold War Museum’s service mark THE COLD WAR MUSEUM, finding that it had not proven acquired distinctiveness of the mark, is reversed where: 1) the Board erred in deciding that it could not consider evidence of acquired distinctiveness because appellant did not resubmit the evidence in the cancellation, as the unambiguous language of 37 C.F.R. section 2....
Lauren Willig is just your typical Harvard Law grad who published three best-selling romance novels while she was in law school. No big deal. After all, writing novels while studying law isn’t as hard as writing novels while working as a summer associate – or as a litigation associate – at one of the top firms in New York. Oh, wait. She did that, too. Time If you think that a writing career offers better hours than a legal career, think again....
Traffic tickets may not seem like a civil rights matter, but they were important enough for civil liberties groups to take action in Northern California. The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and others sued the Solano County Superior Court last year for suspending driver’s licenses of people too poor to pay traffic tickets. After a year of litigation and negotiation, the parties have settled the issue. “We were able to work with the court to find a system that will provide notice to people about their rights and ability to pay,” said Raegan Joern, a staff attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid....
Last week, the Federal Circuit granted a petition for a rehearing en banc, in a case that brings up interesting issues of individual, and corporate, liability. Harish Shadadpuri is the president and only shareholder of Trek Leather, Inc., a company that imported men’s suits. Mercantile Electronics, LLC (“ME”) was the consignee of the suits, and Shadadpuri also happens to own 40% of ME’s shares. Failure to “Assist” Under 19 U.S.C. § 1401a, an “assist” includes materials, an item that Shadadpuri failed to include on customs documentation, with the result of lowering the amount of duties paid....
Who knew? Working at a law firm is actually a great job. How do we know this? Because four law firms landed on Fortune’s top 100 companies to work for list: Nevermind how Fortune makes the picks for the list. With all of the stories of mass layoffs and a non-existent work/life balance, it is rather remarkable that any law firms made the list. However, last year, there were actually two more firms on the list: Arnold & Porter and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe....
