The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the median salary for a law clerk is $39,780 a year. I didn’t clerk because I had a job lined up and figured it would be best to get started. Is clerking a good idea? First, there is the obvious question: do you…
A 47-year-old Lutherville/Essex attorney/magician who – frighteningly – runs a children’s entertainment company in Baltimore County was arrested and charged with flying to Florida to have sex with a 14-year-old boy, It was a “Predators” type deal: the guy was really talking to undercover cops who posed as both the…
We get a lot of traffic on this blog for law students looking to read about their bar results. When the Maryland bar exam results were coming out on Friday, we just got tons of traffic. The traffic has died off naturally but continues strong. Who is it? Surely, it…
New Hampshire provides the latest in reminders that this is not a good idea.
The Washington Post has a good article from a lawyer at Joseph, Greenwald & Laake on the Limited Power of Attorney Act, a new Maryland law that creates new hoops before power of attorney can be transferred.
The South Carolina Supreme Court anonymously admonished a lawyer who had sex with the wife of his client with whom he had three open cases. Our law firm’s general policy on these blogs is not to name names when lawyers screw up (or doctors or anyone else really for that…
The Maryland Court of Appeals agrees with the CSA, reversing a Calvert Court trial court’s finding on no ambiguity in a waivers (yes, with an “s”) of subrogation clause in a form contract governing the construction of a restaurant. You can find the opinion here.
The New York Times has an interesting piece about grade inflation. Apparently, some schools are going back and increasing the GPA of all of its students in an effort to make them more competitive. As an anonymous commenter alludes to on Overlawyered, this is not an awful idea at top…
The U.S. News and World Report law school rankings may be flawed. Wait, we knew that already. But they may be more flawed than we thought. In the much anticipated 2011 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings, 74 schools did not report their employment numbers at the time…
Incredible fact of the day: Of Elena Kagan gets confirmed, every Supreme Court Justice will have attended Harvard or Yale law schools.