Recent Posts from Sophistic Miltonian Serbonian Blog©
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1-C-E-R-T-I-O-R-A-R-I
SCOTUS superlawyer Tom Goldstein posted this hilarious sendup of the classic personal injury lawyer TV ad, only this time aimed at clients needing SCOTUS bar appellate counsel. Thx to Tom Goldstein and AbovetheLaw
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“Achieving flow”
Some double entendres should never be put in print. See title, supra. No, the above quote does not refer to what most non-distaff readers might assume. Instead, it actually describes a problem faced by…
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Do as I say, not as I do
If any of you are afflicted with the same degenerate compulsion that I am–the urge to blog–see this excellent/depressing post by Todd Smith at the Texas Appellate Law Blog for why you will likely…
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A little less shade on the Capitol grounds
The big hail storm that hit Austin two days ago will leave at least one lasting scar on one Texas’ most treasured sites. The 22 wooded acress surrounding the Capitol has long been a…
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Changing of the guard at Texas Monthly
The founder and longtime publisher of Texas Monthly, Michael Levy, has announced that, after 35 years, he is retiring from the indispensable magazine he founded back in 1973. An edited version of his farewell…
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Conservative SCOTUS all-stars and least-stars
Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner and his fellow University of Chicago Law School Professor William Landes have authored an article entitled, “Rational Judicial Behavior: A Statistical Study,” which devises a methodology to rank the forty-three…
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PPP and RPL as accurate BigTex/MidTex metrics
A poster over at Greedy Texas got me thinking about what the best qualitative metric of a BigTex vs. a MidTex firm is. They posit that “no one gives a crap” about gross revenue, and…
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From clerk to Chief
The Green Bag (to which Texas’ own Bryan Garner is an adviser) is set to publish a fascinating article by St. John’s professor John Q. Barrett that reveals some endlessly interesting tidbits from the…
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Dynamic Duo
The two best running backs in UT history, and two of the best that ever took a handoff for that matter, played together at a golf tournament earlier this week. Ricky reflected on his…
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Retentionally yours
Ever wondered what the retention rates are at Texas law schools? Glad you asked, Tex Parte Blog just so happens to have the rankings, care of Above the Law: University of Houston Law Center:…