Saturday, May 17, 2014
Gino Barrica on self-hating lawyersGino Barrica, responding to yet another article1 cautioning against the pursuit of a law degree: See, I’m not a self-hating lawyer. I’m not one of those who hang my head in shame when people ask what I do and I’m not someone who tells people to run for the hills …Thursday, May 8, 2014
Condoleezza Rice backs out of Rutgers commencementThe Associated Press reports: The school’s board of governors had voted to pay $35,000 to the former secretary of state under President George W. Bush and national security adviser for her appearance at the May 18 ceremony. Any question involving …Wednesday, April 10, 2013
California law school grads suing schools; neither party has a good pointAttorney Michael C. Sullivan, representing California schools in a spate of fraud suits brought by students over shady job-placement numbers: "What I find most ironic is that those individuals advertised themselves to law …Wednesday, April 3, 2013
I originally posted this to one of my old blogs, The Rotten Word, in April 2009. I wanted to publish it here as well because I plan to write a follow-up soon, having graduated in January of this year. Many thanks to Philadelphia litigator Max Kennerly for his advice and kind words about this post …