New Law Grads Find J.D. Hurts More Than Helps - Today's General Counsel - Today's General Counsel

I'm not sure why anyone would get a law degree and then immediately not pursue legal work. There are vastly better ways to spend three years if you are not interested in being a lawyer. Furthermore, I'm not sure that the market for inexperienced recent college graduates with expensive professional degrees that they are not interested in using is ever particularly strong. I'm not really impressed with this blogger.





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Shocking Testimony! Literally — Lawyer Administers 750-Volt Shock To Witness « Above the Law: A Legal Web Site – News, Commentary, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law Schools, Law Suits, Judges and Courts + Career Resources

I'll confess that I have had a few witnesses that I wanted shock over the years. This is the sort of thing that seems like such a good idea at the time. It reminds me of the time early in my married life when the Bride and I had a serious "plate thrower" of an argument. (Mainly her throwing and me ducking, but still.). At one point, (perhaps because her throwing arm was tired) my bride stomped out of the room. Being the clever and funny person I was, I knew a bit of humor always lightens the mood. For my ill-conceived prank, I placed a cup of water on the top of the door so that when she returned to resume our argument it would fall. She participated in a reasonable recreation of the the last scene from Carrie with a few changes. 1. it was just water not pig blood. 2. She was slightly more upset than Carrie.

In retrospect, there were a lot of things I could have done better.  

Fortunately she has forgiven that youthful idiocy and I've become better about judging a bad idea.

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Hank Azaria Wins Lawsuit Over Funny Baseball Announcer Character

Hank Azaria Wins Lawsuit Over Funny Baseball Announcer Character:



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Attorney Friends Catch Up While Briskly Walking Down Courthouse Steps

This is really what lawyers talk about.

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Are You A Hipster? | Idea Channel | PBS - YouTube

Cultural capital is a great term for this concept.

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Teller Lawsuit to protect Magic Trick

This is an interesting case I just read about in the October 2012 Esquire.  It raises numerous issues including, is a magic trick eligible for copyright? The Teller "trick" really verges on performance art and is pretty impressive. There is still a Youtube video of the Bakardy/Dogge version. Ino link because I don't want to encourage him) It is no where near as artful and I can see the argument that widely selling a cheap knock off would lead to dilution of the Teller original. I'm a big Penn & Teller fan so I have to admit I'm biased. This will be interesting to watch.

Teller v Dogge

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Kids today: Julian Presents "Lego Road Trip" - YouTube

When I was a kid summers were spent sweating, getting bitten by mosquitoes and going to the cheap matinees. Kids today are amazing. Julian is the writer, director and producer of this stop motion short. He spent his summer making movies. This is his latest offering.
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He also was the cinematographer and editor on our 2012 Pearland Film Festival Entry: "Ivory Merchant Present: THE BACHELOR". We won for technical direction--Thanks, Julian. (Yes that is your lawyer acting like an Edwardian dandy so you can see why we did not win for best actor.)

Technology is a disruptive influence. It has radically altered the practice of law but for today, I'm enjoying the benefits it has with regard to the great creativity of our friend Julian.  Enjoy his work.

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