Greedy Links: Take Our Advice Edition
- Legal Current recounts a 60 Minutes piece in which parsing definitions from Black's Law Dictionary figures prominently. 60 Minutes is now officially out of material.
- The New York Times invited a bunch of people to comment on the student debt issue. One more time for the record: we would be in favor of not having any.
- Justice Kennedy spoke to the graduating masses at Stanford about the importance of law and freedom. The response, according to the San Francisco Chronicle: students dozing off.
- The University of Illinois' "Clout List" continues to make news. The WSJ Law Blog says there's a lawsuit brewing over public access to admissions records.
Read on for our handy advice:
Litigation Advice
- Lawyerist has a handy tip to help you avoid handing over metadata in discoverable documents. (Sorry -- this one is kind of practical. We'll work on avoiding that.)
- A reminder from Courtoons: beware those plaintiffs' lawyers.
- Ethics question of the week: should you try to bend the rules on removal, just in case opposing counsel isn't paying attention? Drug and Device Law (via Volokh) wants to know.
- The Am Law Daily says to eat a good breakfast.
- Always write a thank-you note. Or, according to Lateral Attorney Report, don't.
- Always look out for family. If Dad wants to start a second career as an associate, and you own a law firm, hire him. That's what the Connecticut Law Tribune would do, anyway.
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