Blueprint LSAT Blog: Legal Life
The Intersection of Deflategate and Federal Law
Tom Brady lost on appeal. A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit U.S. court of appeals upheld the N.F.L’s right to suspend him four games for deflating balls, reversing a ruling that overturned the suspension last year. Does this mean that the judges have ruled that Brady did indeed arrange for the balls in question
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Faaaaaaaaabulous: Fashion Law and You
Until recently, I didn’t know there was such as thing as fashion law. But it makes sense — what else would the fashion police enforce? Fashion law is in fact real. There’s even a Fashion Law Project at Loyola Law School in (where else) LA. It’s only logical, since the fashion business intersects with the
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Graduate Sues Thomas Jefferson School of Law: Is This the New Normal?
I believe in the market. People generally know what they want and how much it’s worth to them. Or they should. So it’s buyer beware. But around the time of the Financial Crisis—give or take a few years—the market for legal education was dysfunctional, and some think it’s still so. The main issue was that
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Thomas speaks!
My main man Clarence Thomas has been a little cray-cray during the last ten years. He just stopped talking, kind of like Tommy. Many believe he became late Justice Antonin Scalia’s puppet. (By the way, potential conspiracy alert). But this has all changed. We are now pouring one out for Scalia, and Thomas is back.
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Buy low, sue high.
Increasingly in the United States, there is a trend toward third-party litigation financing — in other words, allowing a non-participant in a lawsuit to “buy shares” in a plaintiff’s case. In return for this investment, the company or individual will receive a portion of any settlement or award. Before you read further, does this strike
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Living the Lawyer Dream
One day you will wake up and have a real job. Maybe that has already happened, and you are reading this post from a computer in your sweet cubicle or office. If true, do not be the person that brings stinky food into the office. That is just the worst. Your neighbors can smell it,
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IP, you P, we all P for IP!
Once you get to law school, there are certain things you’re supposed to know: that you won’t get to make or eat delicious tortes in Torts, Bar Review and Bar Review are two entirely different things (one is fun, the other is not; one involves a weekly downing of drinks, the other involves two miserable
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The hills are alive with the sound of music law.
The law and music intersect in lots of ways, and I’m not just talking about the song by The Clash. There’s everything from contract law, which applies to, well, contracts, to the health and safety issues that pertain to live performances. But in today’s world, there are a lot of interesting issues relating to music
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