Another call from the police, another assault in the street that was somewhat unusual as it was given as an injury sustained in the course of a mugging. Despite what the media would have you think I would suspect that the fear of mugging is much worse than the actual rates of muggings. I base this o...

So, did any of you ever share this particular neurosis: when the phone rang in your home, even if (especially if?) you knew who was calling, you had to wait for the second or third ring before you picked it up, because you didn't want to look like you had nothing better to do than sit waiting by...

We had an exceptionally pleasant day last week, far removed from the usual belly aches and drunks that we normally find ourselves attending. 'SCBU transfer - Newham to Oxford' In all the years that I've been in this job I've never had to do a SCBU (Special Care Baby Unit) transfer. Normally it is th...

It is really hard to make decisions about summer employment with the specters of all my academic employment experiences hanging over me. I cannot see what's going on except through a lens of "how employment works" that has been entirely distorted by the academic market. And through tha...

That said, I think I bring a warped perspective to discussions about the employment prospects in law. (Disclaimer: I don't know much about the legal job market yet, not compared to the academic job market, so my comments here are just gut reactions, not reasoned arguments.) Big law firms are ble...

Once more it's the elderly that causes me the most sadness. We were sent to an extremely demented woman in her nineties, she lives with her husband and, while in the kitchen, had collapsed. When I spoke to the husband he thought that she was about to die. Not any more though, she had taken a shine t...

My campus is hosting an inter-school mock trial competition this weekend, and I took part as a witness for one of the two-attorney teams. Given that I've never actually even attended a trial before (except maybe once as a kid, on one of those "let's show kids how the justice system work...

Not the credit crunch, but the sort of crunch you get when two large pieces of metal and plastic try to occupy the same place in the space/time continuum. We are driving under blue lights to a 'male, not wearing any trousers' in the local shopping centre, my crewmate is behind the wheel and I'm nurs...

How is it possible that I am this far behind when it's only the second week of the semester??? (Yeah, I know, hardly the uplifting inauguration post you might expect. I watched Obama take the oath and make his speech with most of my Constitutional Law class, our prof having graciously agreed to ...

Okay, so I'm in the hell of job searching (I say "hell" mostly because I have no idea what I'm doing), and I was looking up a judge who may or may not want summer interns, and came across the following (names changed, of course): IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTFOR THE DISTRICT OF [ot...