No Sanctions for Attorney Who Submitted Incomprehensible Certiorari Petition

From the Wall Street Journal Law Blog : The Supreme Court on Monday declined to sanction a Washington, D.C., patent attorney who faced a ra...

A New Round of Bar Exam Criticism

Law school graduates around the country took the bar exam at the end of February. In the exam's wake, commentators are questioning the n...

Florida Man Kills Neighbor, Brings Body to Lawyer's Office

From the incomparable Florida Man Twitter account , I learned of this strange story of a man who claims he killed his neighbor in self-defe...

Robinson on the Rise and Degradation of Criminal Codes

From the CrimProf Blog , I learned about Paul Robinson's essay , The Rise and Fall and Resurrection of American Criminal Codes . Here is...

Some Harsh Words on Dueling

While researching and writing a paper on arbitration by combat and Game of Thrones, I came across the case of Smith v. State , 9 Tenn. 228 ...

Who is to Blame for Declining Bar Exam Passage Rates?

Derek Muller argues in this post that the National Council of Bar Examiners (NCBE) may be more to blame than they are willing to admit. Fro...

I Have Passed the California Bar Exam!

This, of course, changes nothing in my disclaimers  (although once I am sworn in, I will be changing that remark about not being a licensed ...

Amar and Allard on Reevaluating the Bar Exam

At Justia's Verdict, Vikram Amar has this article discussing the decline in performance of the July 2014 bar examinees relative to othe...

Bloomberg Businessweek Decides to Traumatize California Bar Examinees...

...by publishing this article , titled Why Did So Many People Flunk the Bar Exam This Year? It begins: The most recent bar exam test results...