Oddly enough, lawsuits cost money. Usually lots and lots of money, and for many people it may be difficult, if not impossible to cover the expenses of litigation so you can see it to its conclusion. As a result, an entire industry has formed around this need, providing litigation funding to clients who want to…

Caught this interesting news piece: On June 27, 1995, the Department of Justice(DOJ) filed a complaint formally charging ABA with fixing professors’ salaries and other violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. It charged ABA with furthering “the self-interest of professors instead of improving education,” Hagan said. Although ABA agreed to a DOJ consent decree at…

I wrote a lengthy comment to a post on the Volokh Conspiracy that offered some advice to those about to start law school, and after rereading through it, I felt it was coherent enough to merit posting here (with some grammatical changes). Even though my law school plans have been scuttled this summer, the least…