Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

THE WEEKLY LAW SCHOOL ROUNDUP . . . The Weekly Law School Roundup alternates between The Legal Underground and Thanks, But No Thanks, where you can find this week's Weekly Law School Roundup #159. The next installment will appear here soon, so be sure to check back.

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . ."15 Ways to Ruin a Deposition (Part 2 of 3)."

TWITTERING AGAIN THE PAST FEW DAYS Here are some of my recent Twitter posts. You can follow them all at my Twitter handle, eschaeff. (I'm not expecting anyone to climb on the Twitter, bandwagon, however!)

--I'll be in New Orleans 2/6 - 2/10 for the AAJ (fka ATLA) winter convention. It can't compete with LTNY for buzz, but should be a good time.

--At the KC Star (via Above the Law): Fledgling lawyers start law firm after failing to find jobs. http://tinyurl.com/azt7pb

--At PrawfsBlawg: should students and professors socialize via Facebook? http://tinyurl.com/dmtd8f

--Daughter Lydia just texted me from France to get an answer to a question for her college's "trivia night." Technology is crazy.

--Harlequin giving away books for iPhone's Stanza app. http://tinyurl.com/b2s3ox. Q: where *do* romance readers intersect with iPhone users?

--Idea for mega-bloggers: Make your blog available via Kindle. http://tinyurl.com/bkvqnl. You get royalties too.

--Report: Charter preparing for bankruptcy. http://tinyurl.com/cgc8wk. The excitement about the IPO in St. Louis 8 years ago? Ancient history.

--http://twitpic.com/1b9c1 - Mississippi River, all frozen up near St. Louis, as seen on the way to my office.

--Budding lawyer-novelist? See the Amazon/Penguin contest. http://tinyurl.com/b7ax35. Need help writing? See here: http://tinyurl.com/cwwpr4

--More Congressional Reps than Dems on Twitter. http://tinyurl.com/d6j6l3

--Not good news for St. Louisians--our largest hotel to be auctioned on courthouse steps. (alt. tweet: buy a hotel!) http://tinyurl.com/cpfg5r

--Google Earth 5.0 beta released, apparently "looks incredible." http://tinyurl.com/cbmpm8

--FRCP and other rules available for iphone, cheap. Read more at iPhone JD: http://tinyurl.com/bsrkht

--Well-written Blawg Review #197 at Legal Blog Watch. http://tinyurl.com/dkwjb5

--At the New Yorker, Angell recalls editing Updike. http://tinyurl.com/b5kb6f

--http://twitpic.com/1avbf - S&L "firm meeting" at Starbucks in Ladue MO--and testing out Twitpic.

--From Times-Picayune, att'ys disagree about whether LA law allows for competing class actions in hurricane cases. http://tinyurl.com/aqx4df

--Rookie error from an old pro--why Grisham had to rewrite the first 100 pages of The Associate. http://tinyurl.com/ah8zsj

--Finished my weekly language lesson or "intercambio," an exchange of Spanish for English with a Mexican student living in St. Louis.

--Like legal documentaries? At Sundance, "Crude" concerns a huge class action filed in Ecuador against Chevron. http://tinyurl.com/ah4fnv

--A New York lawyer says no to Twitter in an age of "information overload." A well-reasoned argument? http://tinyurl.com/b7pkbe

--Returning to Buenos Aires in April! My last trip there was in October, when I did a mega-tips--and-photo-post, http://tinyurl.com/cazgrh.

Re-posting my Twitter activity on this weblog is merely an experiment, possibly headache-inducing, inspired in part by the example of Dennis Kennedy.

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Carry the Rules With You On Your iPhone."

The Weekly Law School Roundup #158

As a law professor asks whether law-student weblogs are dying, here's your weekly list of good posts from the past week by law students, some current or almost current, some recently-graduated--

Perplexity The way to better law school grades: less time to study. [Better Together]

Updated! The best way to kill time in class. [Nuts & Boalts]

Epic When law kicks your butt. [Diary of a Law School Mom]

Juggling Advise for non-traditional law students. [Law Ingenue]

Underground Competing for legal jobs. [laughing: with or at you]

Employment A law-school weblog is hiring. [The Shark]

Un-mootable Owning up. [Love Won't Get You On The Bus]

Romance Sex and children. [Starting to Melt]

Expose The death of law-school blogs? [My Legal Fiction]

Networks How law students can meet lawyers. [Law Is Cool]

In Full Lat and Kozinski: the interview. [The Blawgraphy]

Dolls Thoughts on the presidential controversy. [Project Law School]

Hypothetical Kenneth from 30 Rock gets the last word. [terra nullius]

Uncomplicated The questions law firms ask. [Thanks, But No Thanks]

Look for next week's roundup at Thanks, But No Thanks then it's back here the week after that. You can find some other recent roundups in the "At the Law Schools 2" category, as well as sixty or so older roundups from 2004-2005 here. Finally, if you want to know how I choose posts to highlight, see "How I Write the Weekly Law School Roundup." (If you have a law-student weblog that I don't seem to know about or that isn't in my blogroll, please send me an email.)