Underbelly

The 463d anniversary of Jack Cade's rebellion , the prompt for the most famous lawyer jape of all time, infra.   And as good a time as ...

Mr. and Mrs. Buce ventured forth this afternoon to their friendly neighborhood estate planner: after 15 years, time for new wills. We'd ...

I assume Marin anticipated the sh*ststorm s/he ran into with the post dumping on paralegals (ha!  I see it has zero "likes"!), bu...

Being neither a serious nor a second-rate philosopher, I may not be the right person to adjudicate this little dustup : [L]awyers. unlike s...

I had occasion to check on the number of lawyers per capita . state by state. Sure enough, there are the usual suspects --Washington DC ahea...

I just stumbled on this problem in an old ethics opinion issued by the California Bar Association: The attorney was retained to represent a ...

Re my discussion of attorney earnings and job satisfaction the other day, I find that one tiny link from AbovetheLaw.com increases my da...

A commentator at Above the Law writes: I never thought I would see the day where a plumbing degree from Ashworth College (an online institu...

John flags me to the Slate piece this morning , asking why (and whether) so many terrorists are engineers. The answer to "whether...

I'm as impressed as the next guy with the trend among mega law firms to offer prospective (or junior) associates hard cash to just go a...

The headline, from a law recruiting newsletter, makes perfect sense: You Need to Stop Competing and Seeing Differences Between You a...

Harvard professor (and Supreme Court justice) Joseph Story lets out a scandalous truth about practicing law--you don't have to be all th...

Some exam-time cheer: To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seem...

Tom Hanks hates lawyers, and there’s no accounting for taste, I guess. But he adds: They’ve got a crappy job, man. That’s like doing...

There’s an entertaining discussion under way over at Above the Law , about a lawyer who told the (bankruptcy) judge she was “a few French fr...

"Some readers will find this book very readable." --The first sentence of the Preface in Robert B. Dicke, Financial Statement An...