Ruin a band with law: On The Basis Of Sex Pistols

Just got back from the Central States #LegalWriting Conference, hosted this year by the Northwestern Law School team. Feeling inspired after a great time in beautiful downtown Chicago w brilliant colleagues. LRW profs are really just the best community.

My soul reason for eschewing practice is and was a general refusal to measure things in six minute increments for any purpose

I’m listening to a conference presentation on teaching students about the business of law practice & the presenter is talking about timekeeping & I’m having a lowkey ptsd stress reaction

A Journal of the All-Hands Meeting

Packing for conferences: Bring all your black clothes and one (1) scarf, any color

i am impressed, karma isn’t usually this fast

Normalize Reposing Things You Like

My 18yo just sent this & my question is, why didn’t we all go to college in Colorado

CHOTINER: Hello, Ms. Rosenberg? This is Isaac Cho… ME: Ends call, hops the first plane to Los Angeles, throws phone into the sea, disappears into the city

Honestly I suspect the administration is inadvertently just training people to ignore them

Wait Demi Moore is 7 years older than Edward Norton

5 years ago he suggested people should inject bleach. We take his medical advice at our own peril

If vodka and prune juice was a cocktail, you'd have to call it the Trotsky, wouldn't you?

I was contacted recently by some law students who needed to do an interview with a practicing lawyer for one of their 1L classes. I gave a few bits of my usual advice, but let me repeat it: spend your summers looking at the senior lawyers at your job and seeing if you want to be them one day. /1

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

Cursed IP

fuck a beet- I’m going to London next week and I’m doing a tasting menu and if there’s beets I’m going to throw it

please don’t fire me for reposting this

lol my sister has questions @cindynorth1.bsky.social

My take on wearables is that most people don’t really like wearing things on their head & face all the time 🤷🏻‍♀️

I've a thought I can't quite articulate, but it's something like: how do you rebuild the system when this regime falls- as it will, eventually - when the thing you need to rebuild is adherence to law, the very adherence to which will prevent you from fixing the things these people broke.

Arresting an American Jewish person for doing social justice work is … well I m sure there’s a word for it

The soft rock of bygone years playing at the ortho office keeps crackling in and out and the temp is just a bit too warm and I wonder if I’ve stumbled into one of the lesser hells

I had dreams about brisket & woke up with Lionel Richie’s “Hello” in my head

I will sponsor one toilet or urinal.

More nature time at my house 🫢

Kansas House Dems have been doing a listening/speaking tour all around the state. Apparently well attended & successful, even in unexpected places. They’re coming to Johnson County on ... Rosh Hashanah. 😭

If I die of heatstroke in this building I’m going to haunt it, istg

My hottest take is that the federal courts’ general unwillingness to enforce Rule 11 is responsible for most of the current shenanigans

More Rule 11 motions should be filed in these cases.

When the judge gives a legal writing lesson mid-order.

Dog walk o’clock. Did Ike notice this coyote in our neighbor’s yard? lol no he did not

“[P]ut fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold…. Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.”

Jessica McClintock is turning in her grave.

oh no Parker Posey’s dress

This is the power of Kansas, no other explanation 🌻

JEFF HILLER BEAT HARRISON FORD

This is a nightmare & it’s fair to ask whether this office is capable of providing effective assistance of counsel to anyone right now. #ksleg cc @coreyryung.bsky.social

Absolutely loved this reminiscence about Melissa Clark’s teenage visit to England—but lord, that chicken needs another 30 minutes in the oven

Folks. If the authorities decide to scapegoat a particular group, truth is irrelevant. This isn’t new. Sincerely, a Rosenberg

Have a peaceful and chill weekend, friends. Shabbat shalom.

just wait til Chris Rufo starts wondering whether we have the operational expertise to control disease outbreaks

Remember that whole COVID mishegoss? That was a lot of bad luck.

Did we do this? Idk. A lot of parenting is luck I think

A lot of kids would cry at what they did to William Wallace, but it'll make them tougher in the long run.

Lawyers are in the peace business. To understand this point, consider the alternatives to legal system-based dispute resolution. Most people don’t think much about that—we’re privileged that we don’t have to.

In Pennsylvania, a praecipe is detailed instructions for making scrapple