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So here is something from the email circuits that I thought everyone should see, http://www.anonymouslawfirm.com/ This site is hilarious, absolutely amazing. It is the perfect parody, and so close to the truth it is painful to laugh. There is also a blog and a book by the same guy. http://anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com/

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Thurgood Marshall is today's hero. Some have considered making Marshall a saint, which seems like a great idea to me. His career with the NAACP is the cornerstone of my admiration. While I have often highlighted lawyers who pursue activism rather than litigation, Marshall demonstrates the way in which litigation can serve as a powerful symbolic weapon for the activist. His work on Brown v.

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So here is someone you may have heard of... Jack Abramoff! So Jack was a lobbyist, now a convicted criminal and the center of a still unravelling corruption inquiry. He also happens to be a graduate of the most prestigious law school in the city, Georgetown. Let me tell you, it was a proud day for Georgetown when this guy's career went through the mud... maybe they'll revamp the ethics curriculum

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The Supreme Court special, institutional role is to protect minorities and preserve the democratic process. That's what John Hart Ely says in Democracy and Distrust and the supreme court said in the famous footnote four of Carolene Products. Guess what? The whole thing is bogus and founded on a rosy picture of history. The institutional role of the Court is to create the appearance of of

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The hero for this week is a two-fer. Debs and Darrow were partners at one point, and Darrow represented Debs on at least one occasion, so it isn't a stretch to talk about these two contemporaries in one post. Debs was a union activist, orator, and candidate for the Socialist Party for president of the United States. His career spans from the Pullman strike to the antiwar movement during the

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Is the "Republican Veto" unconstitutional? Speaker Hastert has come up with a clever way to ensure that all House bills are approved by the right-most half of the republican party. His "majority of the majority" rule, functions as a "party veto", permitting any majority of republican house members to veto a bill. "Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's insistence that major legislation reach the House

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So, the purpose of this segment is to highlight a lawyer, past or present, who does great things. Generally I select someone who has chosen not to follow the usual path, and succeeded in creating change. This week's choice is an obvious one: Mohandas K. Gandhi. He obtained a legal educated in England and a member of the bar. He practiced law in England and in South Africa before becoming a

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Alright, here is another Devil's Advocate for you! Though I try in this section to focus on lawyers and law firms, I am going to focus today on a semi-legal consulting firm, IRC. These guys are the basically scum, the entire organization is devoted to helping maintain a "union free environment." They specialize in workforces that have a strong immigrant contingent, so they have lots of

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Well, exam season is winding down, and I promise that this, the much neglected blog, will get a little more attention for a while. Hopefully I can make this a proper habit. So here is a blogin' question - I understand why google cannot give advantages to blogger blogs, but do they really have to ignore them altogether? Can't we at least get an automatic directory spot in google so it recognizes

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First, check out this intense, fascinating short film by the Capitol Area Immigrant Rights Coalition (CAIR Coalition) about immigrant detention. This is a must see if you don't know much about it. Immigration detention video (5 min) Unfortunately, the labor movement has a mixed record on immigration rights. In fact, attitudes about immigration are rumored to be part of the reason the Change to

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So far, we’ve spent a lot of space on this blog talking about attorneys whom we don’t like. As a change of pace, this bit of news caught my eye today and reminded me that attorneys can also do amazing things with the law. I’ve kept up with the news on tax preparation companies who prey on folks who don’t feel comfortable doing their own taxes but can’t afford a personal CPA. They, like the

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Judge Leif Clark of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas signed an order last month in an apparent dispute over the discharge of a debtor in Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In his "Order Denying Motion for Incomprehensibility," Judge Clark ruled on a motion whose title sounds ripped from pages of The Onion: "Defendant's Motion to Discharge Response to Plaintiff's Response to

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They say that New York is the headquarters of the American legal profession, but virtually all the biggest law firms have offices in Washington DC. From a survey of the 200 largest law firms in the US, I found that around 77% have offices in Washington DC. In addition, there is a large specialized portion of the legal profession that only exists in Washington. Administrative law and all the

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1L law firm reception season has been in full swing for several weeks, and I have yet to venture out for a free food/booze/smooze extravaganza. The reviews are, for the most part, positive--the beer and wine are of much better quality than debt-shocked law students can usually afford, and who can resist a nice cheese tray, anyway? Well, I have, so far. I really don’t want to work for a BigFirm,

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Welcome to Lochner's Bakers! This site is named for the (in)famous case Lochner v. New York in which labor regulations were ruled unconstitutional. The State of New York passed a law that limited the working hours of bakers to 60hrs per week and 10hrs per day. Bakers worked in awful conditions similar to coal mines. They often worked all night long in sweltering kitchens with ovens full blast.

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