A 32-Line Justice Breyer 'Question'

Behold!     From oral argument today in Beckles v. United States . H/T Josh Blackman , who helpfully notes here that Justice Breyer's r...

Larsen and Devins on the "Amicus Machine"

Scotusblog has this post by Allison Orr Larsen and Neal Devins on the rising number of amicus briefs, and the heightened focus on obtaining...

Build Your Own Lawsuit With A "Lawgo" Set

I only just learned of this (nearly one year old) article at Legal Cheek, but I thought it was worth sharing. Legal Cheek reports: A Canadi...

Evaluating the Pokemon Go Class Action Lawsuit

Several news outlets have reports on Marder v. Niantic, Inc. , filed July 29, 2016 in the Federal District Court for the Northern District o...

Texas Judge: No Plea Bargains "Involving" Probation for More Crimes than You May Realize

The title of this post admittedly involves a bit of a paraphrasing, but not much. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog has this post on a Texas...

Good Luck on the Bar Exam! (2016 Edition)

During the past week, I noticed that this 2014 post I wrote on bar exam dress codes was getting suspiciously high traffic. I then realized ...

Hutson & Harris: "Don't Eat Your Weed"

From the Wall Street Journal Law Blog , I learned of this excellent video from Will Hutson and Chris Harris of the Texas law firm, Hutson &a...

"Robot Lawyer" Takes On Parking Tickets

The Guardian reports that Joshua Browder calls his chatbot, DoNotPay "the world's first robot lawyer." Browder's creation...

Congratulations to Those Who Passed the California Bar Exam!

Today is the day that those who took the July California Bar Exam learned whether they have passed.  For those who passed, congratulations! ...

Queenan on the Coming "National Plague of Dumb Lawyers"

At the Wall Street Journal, Joe Queenan writes  this column about how law schools' lowering their admissions standards will lead to a p...

Perspectives on a Looming Decline in Bar Exam Passage Rates

As rumblings grow over the possibility of another summer of poor bar exam results, yesterday's New York Times ran this "Room For D...

"Arbitration by Combat"

An article on Game of Thrones , trial by combat, and arbitration that I coauthored with Raj Shah is now available on SSRN. You can download ...

Trial By Combat in New York?

A friend sent me this post by Eugene Volokh commenting on a colorful brief filed by Richard Luthmann, a Staten Island attorney. This parag...

Good Luck on the Bar Exam!

Students across the country are taking, or will be taking, the bar exam over the next few days. California's bar exam begins today and w...

California's Fractional Statutes

One interesting phenomenon I have noticed in a few of California's statutes is the numbering of sections with fractions rather than deci...

Concerns Over the California State Bar's Practical Training Proposal

Paul Caron has this post at TaxProf Blog quoting extensively from a (paywalled) article at The National Law Journal. From the quoted porti...

Settlement in Examsoft "Barmaggedon" Lawsuit

So reports the National Law Journal : Aspiring lawyers who sat for the July 2014 bar examination are eligible for $90 each from software com...

Recent Research on Attorney Happiness and Stress

High levels of stress and depression have plagued the legal community for a long time. I have blogged about this problem previously , and to...

Chemerinsky: California Should Adopt the Uniform Bar Exam

Erwin Chemerinsky, noted constitutional law professor and the dean of UC Irvine School of Law, recently wrote this op-ed in the Los Angeles...

Kerr on The Influence of Immanuel Kant on Evidentiary Approaches in Eighteenth Century Bulgaria

A while ago, I wrote about Adam Liptak's criticism of law reviews, and argued that Liptak's criticism lacked novelty. I also did so...