Professors Howarth and Merritt are asking the right questions and no court should move forward with the NextGen UBE until we have satisfactory answers. Lest we forget the blunders of 2020 and 2025, "trust us," and "we promise we'll be ready," are simply not enough. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

Teaching is an honor and a privilege, and a role that comes with a great deal of responsibility and people placing their trust in you. That he somehow thinks that stepping back from "public roles" but doesn't consider teaching as being one of those is absurd.

Sitting in the county title office and I overheard this actual conversation: Stranger 1: Are you here to title a brand new car? Stranger 2: Yes. I accidentally drove my car into a brick wall. Stranger 2: Oh my gosh hun! You should buy pre-owned.

I suffer from "reply-all overwhelm syndrome." I will be seeking university accommodations.

Welp, I'm calling it a wrap for this submission cycle. I will withdraw, revise, and resubmit in Spring. I don't know how non-Constitutional scholars survive the fall cycle. Sigh.

We should all question the NextGen exam. www.linkedin.com/posts/antoni...

We’re a “self regulating profession,” and yet it seems like this system does everything in its power to protect against being held accountable by *checks notes* the people in this profession.

Well, looks like it’s hit the regular news now. Hey remember that thing about making the profession look good? New York Bar, this isn’t it.

This week: Bar takers in Hawaii were evacuated mid-exam due to weather. The NY Bar Exam was disrupted by a medical crisis. Will examinees whose concentration and performance were affected receive any remedy? My new article answers this question and explains why. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Adding to my star footnote: All em-dashes are mine.

🚨One of the most terrifying elements of the Trump budget bill is NOT getting enough attention. The Bill will make ICE the biggest policing and incarceration agency in the US. Bigger than the FBI, with more jail space than the Federal Prison Bureau. It’s a budget for a police state.

Last night, I attended the Mound City Bar Association Scholarship Dinner. This evening not only marked the end of my service as Treasurer for the Association, but it also brought me an unexpected honor: the President's Award for Board service.

New York man pleads guilty to posing as lawyer, stealing over $290K from more than 100 clients www.abajournal.com/news/article...

The NCBE's role is not to tell law professors what to teach, according to the NCBE. But adaptations will be required. I really hope a lot of doctrinal professors are paying attention.

Time to start re-thinking law school exam drafting.

This is something every new lawyer will do in practice. Unless they are in civil litigation, no? Good for the DAs and PDs. Not so good for a lot of Big Law folks.

10 jurisdictions will give this test in 2026. A fully computer based exam. Should be easy to do those mini PTs on your laptops, folks. Also, we know reading online poses difficulties for many students.

So the current UBE assesses all of this already, according to the NCBE. But competency 2 is new to NextGen.

Sample tasks for NextGen. See the content scope outline. I don't hate this.

Of course the MPRE won't be replaced. That's a good money maker for the NCBE.

My first EATS Conference. It was fabulous!

Some thoughts regarding the June 2026 release of the NextGen UBE Blueprint.

I'm exactly 6 graded MPTs away from summer freedom.

I asked ChatGPT for feedback on my article draft. It said my piece "reads with intellectual heft and narrative immediacy." Take that Reviewer 2!

#AASE2025 Annual Conference Day 1 Opening Plenary: Getting Unstuck and Becomming Unstoppable.

My writing struggles today make me think that maybe that last draft was *not* actually "two papers instead of one."

Vore dyyrrrrre in every county outside Dallas.

Is an associate prof (w/tenure) still considered junior faculty?

Ohio universities are no longer serious academic institutions.

Lawyers, if you need a reprieve from the doom scroll, please checkout my new article in WashU's Journal of Law & Policy. It is an honor to lead the volume and to have worked with such great student editors. journals.library.wustl.edu/lawpolicy/ar...

The decision a lot of universities face now is whether to: -- have their federal funding pulled because they stood on principle to protect their students and the integrity of their research, or -- have their funding pulled anyway just because they exist, regardless of how cravenly they submit.

Not my usual content, but if there are any GS Cookie Moms following me, I'm 👀 gluten free chocolate caramel cookies, please share your links. 🍪

I cannot overstate how great this panel discussion is. People like @joanhowarth.bsky.social, @professorgriggs.bsky.social, Steve Bracci, and Martin Pritikin are talking about how to license attorneys in a way that’s better for EVERYONE.

I encourage anyone who works in, or whose work is impacted by, legal education to join us for this *gloves off* conversation about Marginalization in the Legal Academy on March 12 at 1PM CT. Register here: lsac-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

If education truly focused on life and career skills, there would be mandatory courses on listserv etiquette that include instruction on when to reply-all and how to remove oneself from a listserv. To fill that gap, I will design such a course. #snark

No good can come from this.

Remember, the Bar Exam is a test of competency (but only when you take it and not give it). #Satire taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog...

Professional responsibility professors rapidly running out of "hypotheticals"

So, they’re going to take away mental health medicine and give everyone guns? What could go wrong?

We are doomed. kansasreflector.com/2025/02/11/k...

My wife just called a Bluesky post a “bleet” and I think that might be a winner.

She said it best.

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

Maybe punishing people who attempted a coup would have prevented them from attempting a coup again. 🤷

Waiting for the Exec Order canceling Black History Month in 3-2-1 . . .

What the hell is wrong with this man's cognition?

I binged watched the first 5 seasons of Suits over winter break. I became obsessed. Then I got to Mike's trial, plea deal, and abruptly canceled wedding, and now I want to sue the producers and writers for emotional distress. I am done with this stupid show. 😡

I physically cannot understand the folks who go through 3 years of law school grind (often meaning six figure debt), claws their way through the bar exam, and makes their way into lawyerhood….only to torpedo it all by using fake AI case cites in practice. A different breed, truly

A colleague described his day as "phone calls and bullshit" and if that isn't law practice in four words I don't know what is