The Blackbook Legal Blog

Hi Everyone, First of all, thanks to Craig for the nice introduction. As he mentioned, I'm a recent law school graduate currently liv...

The Blackbook Legal Blog is delighted to announce that Goutam Jois will be joining our ranks as a contributing editor. Goutam is currently ...

Space Junk. . . . the old rocket clunkers, metal scraps, and dilapidated satellites littering the final frontier. It's an illustration ...

It looks like the incumbents are doing a fantastic job of torpedoing America's confidence in the federal government. From CNN : A major...

So, it's that time of year when Law Revue shows are live. A tipster sent us this video from GW's 2010 show, and we couldn't res...

From the L.A. Times : President Obama will nominate UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wedn...

The NCAA initiated a letter detailing five general allegations of violations against the Michigan football program. Adam Rittenberg at ESPN...

The National Law Journal issued its annual Go-To Law School List , and the results reek of the recession. Even the top schools placed littl...

Walgreen is buying out Duane Reade for $618 million in an effort to gain a leading presence in the drugstore industry. According to the New ...

Just when you think the Iranian government couldn't get any more benevolent, it seems like it thinks its citizens prefer government-run ...

The Romans were wise; when looking at issues, they stressed the need to discern " Cui Bono ?" or "To Who's Benefit?"...

Good news keeps pouring in. . . . LA Times

In Atlanta, pro life supporters are putting a new spin on their ads by reaching out to minorities. Their billboards read, "Black child...

From the Washington Post

For those considering law school, be careful to remember that e-mails like these pop into your inbox from time to time once you take the plu...

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission should be stale news to you by now. The new debate is how the disappointed executive and l...

Historians in Philadelphia were perusing some of the more than 21 million documents in the Historical Society of Philadelphia's collecti...

One of our readers recently made a comment about needing more estrogen on the blog, and that comment provoked a few thoughts that I've ...

Two days after the State of the Union. . . . Thanks, I guess. ESPN .

We can all agree that law school is a costly proposition . But what are we paying for? The degree, the education or some combination of the ...