As Lawrence’s post explains, the patterns regarding law firms and law as a business are not new. Still, the comments have asked properly why partners don’t move away from high per partner profits and try and keep associates. The answer to that is complicated to say the least. The trend to megafi...

I too received the comment to which Dave responded. And, I too, promised to say a little bit about the state of the legal job market. Although I think Dave is correct that many others write about this issue quite well, I also note that we have posted several pieces about legal education and shifts i...

Today's Bright Idea comes from Professor Mary Dudziak. Professor Dudziak is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science at the University of Southern California. Her most recent book is Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey (Oxfo...

The film Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten was on cable recently, and I was lucky enough to catch it. First, I love the Clash and Strummer's work in general. The film traces his history, and the story about how he and his views evolved is rather interesting. For example, in one period, Strummer ...

Today’s Bright Idea was along time in the making. David Post of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law and the Volokh Conspiracy began this project more than ten years ago. I am excited David chose to write a piece about his book, In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cybers...

I don’t buy Apple products. I was just starting to change my mind but Apple has managed to annoy me yet again. I wanted an iPhone. My brother noted that and thought he was getting me a gift card for the iPhone. But wait, I am an ATT customer for ten, yes ten, years. Through the Cingular back to AT...

Folks, If you don't know Mike Carroll, fix that. He is currently a visiting professor at American University and an all-around great person. In addition to many accomplishments such as publishing insightful articles and running Carrollogos, Mike is on the board of Creative Commons. He has circulated...

Should we, or can we, stop pretending we know what lies ahead or should we see what we can do when we know that predictability is an illusion? Steven Levitt of Freakonmics fame did a recent interview on NPR about the current economy that points to this question. The part that jumped out at me was hi...

Everything old is new again. Lawsuits regarding music use, confusion over how to make money in the digital age, content and distribution revenue models, all of these issues seem never to go away. They are the chicken or the egg questions for creation and its relationship to making money from creatio...

Now wait. I am not saying Mr. McCain is evil or should not be President. Those may or may not be true statements depending on who one is. But this is a law blog and one of our former guests, Jack Chin, has an article about the legal question of Mr. Cain’s citizenship that has caught some attention...