Weekly Law School Roundup #36

This Week: More Good Stuff, Because That's What Law-Student Weblogs Are All About

One More Reason to Hate the FDA  Waddling Thunder reports on Cheesegate.  [Crescat Sententia]

What Would David Giacalone Think?  Would he be thrilled by the haiku, or offended that they make light of the MPRE?  [Mixtape Marathon]

A Short Story With an O Jeremy Twist  A law student does blog fiction.  [Jeremy's Weblog]

To Naked Drinking Coffee: It's the Post That Will Help You Become a Lawyer  And always remember, it's not the crime, it's the cover-up.  [The Electric Commentary]

Calling All 1Ls  If you need a mentor, I've found one for you.  [RawLaw]

On Non-Frontal Nudity, Elmer Fudd, and "Boner Pills"  A voice of reason dissects the Monday Night Football brouhaha.  [Half-Cocked]

A Law Student Goes to the Daycare 20 Questions for Dylan of The Slithery D. [Soupie's BBQ & Daycare]

A Slippery Slope That's Sure to Lead to the Theft of Cable TV Double-dipping at the movies.  [ambivalent imbroglio]

I'd Rather Stick Pins in My Eye than Read this Post  Live-blogging a Legal Writing assignment.  [Matt Schuh Online]

And While We're at It, Here's Another Weblogging Innovation  Don't look unless you're very hungry: Burger-blogging.  [The Prejudicial Effect]

Is It the Next Big Thing?  An enthusiast explains del.icio.us.  [Preaching to the Perverted]

Remember That Post by a Harvard 3L?  It Was a Deadly Mind-Virus Prepared in the Laboratories of Walter Olson  And as a result, yet another  law student is thinking twice about being a lawyer.  [the thin line between optimism and delusion]

Don't Have Enough Hobbies?  I have a new one for you: custom DVD covers.  [A Handful of Sand]

Comments

[David Giacalone]

Mr. Schaeffer, Bard Counsel does not normally work on weekends, but you have pointed to an emergency haiku situation meriting the expenditure of overtime pay. The following reponse has been sent to Ms. Bekah at Mixtape Marathon:

Dear Bekah,

In response to an inquiry from Lawyer-Author Evan Schaeffer, the Bard Counsel has reviewed your MPRE haiku posting.

We are usually pleased when more people are exposed to haiku and never want to discourage haiku appreciation. However, we fear that you did not research the concept before starting this exercise (in MPRE terms, a lack of diligence causing a lack of competence), resulting in a collection of poetry that has very little connection with either the tradition or the current state of haiku. This has caused a misleading lack of candor to the forum and perpetuated the lay misconception that haiku must have 17 syllables and that anything written in three lines of 5-7-5 syllables is haiku -- thus violating your fiduciary duties to your readers. (cont.)

Rather than suspend your poetic license, the Bard Discipline Commission shall require that you read M.D. Welch's 10 Tips for Writing Haiku and dagosan's intro to haiku, and then submit a brief essay explaining why one or two of your efforts might be haiku, but the other "poems" are not.

A quick perusal of your other work product suggests that you will be back in good-standing with the haiku community very soon.

In the future, please present your inquiries with more specificity.

Yours,
Associate Bard Counsel

[Prof. Yabut]

Giacalone is off on some haiku crusade. It is the consensus of ethicalEsq and myself that making light of aspects of the organizational or educational institutions of the legal profession is always appropriate, even if ethics are involved, so long as the interests of clients and the justice system come first in the practice of law.

[Evan]

Comments from not one, but two of Mr. Giacalone's personalities. Not bad for a Sunday!