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Born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, 5 June1732.  Died in Edinburgh July 17, 1790 at age 67. Had he lived to today he would have been 293. read more +

Debating Affirmative Action: Ideology or Data?

The current issue of the Stanford Law Review has an empirical analysis of the impact of affirmative action in law school admissions on black students, written by UCLA Law Professor Richard Sander, which concludes that the "costs of preferential admissions appear to...

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I’ll Drink to That. On Second Thought,…

Which profession is most likely to suffer from stress, depression, and alcohol or substance abuse?  That's right—here's lookin' at you, kid.  According to the FT, alcohol-related deaths in the UK among lawyers are double the rate of the general...

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Whither IT?

Is the US the "spiritual home" of legal technology?  So Legal IT would have it.  What, then, are current and future trends?  (And I promise this is as close as I'll come to the "tennis without a net" custom of New Year...

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I Hope You’re Reading This in English

OK, so this has nothing to do with law firms per se; it's still fascinating (and we're allowed to have recess even while school is in session).  The FT has an analytic/speculative piece comparing the economic performance in the post-WWII period of (a) the US, the...

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“Worldly” Philosophers? Yes.

The world has just learned that Robert Heilbroner, author of the justly famous and best-selling The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, first published in 1953 and still in print, died here in Manhattan last week at age...

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