August 2009
The Archives
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The News
(File) Sharing is Not Caring
Jammie Thomas isn’t the only file-sharer to choose to litigate her defense. While it’s true that most people the RIAA sues for copyright infringement elect to settle (or point out that they don’t own a computer, or that they’re dead), a graduate student named Joel Tenenbaum has just finished litigating his defense in a civil copyright suit against the RIAA.
I think it’s safe to say that it could have gone better.
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The News
The Anonymous Lawyer on Layoffs
In case you haven’t read it by now, the Wall Street Journal’s superb Law Blog featured the Anonymous Lawyer’s take on the lean times facing BigLaw.
We’d also like to take this opportunity to remind you about our “Green Energy” program. The environment has always been something we’ve intended to care about, and now we’ve decided to finally make the bold claims in our recruiting materials a reality. In that spirit—and having no relationship at all to any sort of cash flow difficulties you may have heard we are facing (not true)—beginning this Friday, our building will no longer have electricity.
Read the rest (unless you just got deferred to 2016) here.
Almost Legally
This is (almost) just like law review
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I don't know what's worse. Being too sick to make it to school to turn in your homework, or having to hand-write it in 2010.
