Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

FROM THE ARCHIVES . . . "The Collected Four-Part Examination of the Lawyer's Briefcase, One of an Ongoing Series of Essays on 'Things Important to Every Lawyer'.

And the other items that are important to every lawyer:

• A Circle of Advisors
• A Giant Brain
• A Satisfying Hobby.

Now read up, and please feel free to mention these essays at The Bar After Work!

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "A Worthwhile Podcast About Intellectual Property."

The Weekly Law School Roundup #168

Here's your weekly list of good posts from the past week by law students, some current or almost current, some recently-graduated--

Argument How to use your 1L classes in your everyday life. [My Legal Fiction]

Summer Getting excited about a job in the DA's office. [Reasonable?]

Practice "This is me preparing for my oral argument." [No. 634]

Poll In fact, many law students are getting jobs. [Sua Sponte]

Scholarship About the Solo Practice University. [Law Ingenue]

Indiscretion Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools. [The Shark]

Hawt Riding shotgun with the cops. [(Formerly) Knocked Up (and in Law School)]

Cleanliness Why cleaning is better than surfing the Internet. [Laughing: with or at you]

Bully Facebook as the new Internet police. [Law is Cool]

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.)

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "A Free Excerpt from My Deposition Book from James Publishing."

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Impeachment During Cross: What Really Matters."

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 #167. The next installment will appear here soon, so be sure to check back.