As Above the Law points out today, a law student has taken to Craigslist in search of (I know, I know, the words “taken to Craigslist in search of” rarely portend good things) a paying law job with a sane, ...

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I’ve been a part of this conversation way too often, and the Question never has a satisfactory Answer. Older lawyers (no disparagement intended — to a young lawyer, you’re all older. Also, I hope to be “older” someday, both in ...

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Happy Monday! Here are some law blog posts for you to digest before you head downy ocean for the MSBA annual meeting: Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez has been teaching political science at Texas Tech University and peddling an ...

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Back in March, I wrote about the University of Baltimore School of Law reaching the $15 million plateau in private fundraising it needed to supplement the $92 million in state money it’s receiving for a new law school building. Thursday, ...

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Call this a case of The Magnificent Seven meets All in the Family. Judge Mary Ellen Barbera, the junior jurist on Maryland’s seven-member Court of Appeals, dissented this week from the panel’s decision that police lacked probable cause to search ...

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Business should be brisk at Maryland’s watering holes Friday afternoon beginning at 4:30. That’s when the State Board of Law Examiners will post the pass/fail test results of February’s bar exam on its website. The board says this list, which ...

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Take it easy during final exams, law students. According to a New York Times story from 1900, linked to by blogger Josh Blackman, a Harvard Law School student died “of an abscess on the brain caused by overstudy.” Thornton was ...

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The U.S. News & World Report law school rankings were officially released Thursday. I say “officially” because Above the Law noted the results had been leaked in a Tuesday afternoon blog post. (Apparently I wasn’t paying as close attention to ...

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In a world neutered by political correctness, it’s refreshing when someone has the stones to be painfully honest. Simon Cowell has become a multi-millionaire by doing just that. He’s also doing a service to wannabe professional singers by finally telling ...

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I wrote in yesterday’s paper about the 45th anniversary of the Court of Appeals throwing out the convictions of 12 students, including Chief Judge Robert M. Bell, for participating in a sit-in at Hooper’s Restaurant. I couldn’t include all of ...

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