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MY FIRST HOUSE: THE MOST CASUAL HIGH STAKES PURCHASE OF MY LIFE (PART 3)

by Kate Tellers

• January 23, 2013

In this Wednesday series, Kate Tellers writes about buying her first house. Over text. (Find older posts below.) With the inspection behind us it was time to officially take our house off of the market. To take…

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Heard of the 27th Amendment? Congress Just Violated It… Again

by Eric Fish

• January 22, 2013

Earlier this month, as part of the fiscal cliff deal, Congress gave itself an unconstitutional pay freeze. This was no surprise. For ten of the last twenty years, Congress has frozen its own pay by…

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New Column: This Does Not Constitute Legal Advice

by Life of the Law

• January 18, 2013

We are thrilled to introduce LOTL’s original advice column, This Does Not Constitute Legal Advice. Tune in on Fridays for non-legal, legal advice from real lawyers on real legal questions.  Dear TDNCLA, My fiance is…

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How the New Whistleblower Law Might Help the Administration Keep a Lid on Leaks

by Christine Clarke

• January 17, 2013

The Obama Administration has been notoriously hostile toward leaks and has been accused of doing “more than any modern executive to wage war on whistleblowers.” Why, then, would the Administration go out of its way to not only sign the Whistleblower…

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MY FIRST HOUSE: THE MOST CASUAL HIGH STAKES PURCHASE OF MY LIFE (PART 2)

by Kate Tellers

• January 16, 2013

In this series, Kate Tellers writes about buying her first house. Over text. Once our offer was accepted we hired an inspector to evaluate the condition of our potential new home.  A licensed home inspector provides “a written report regarding…

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How To Bully a Jury

by Rina Goldfield

• January 11, 2013

I served on a jury the first year I could. I was a shy, eighteen-year-old art student. The crime was indecent exposure. Initially, I approached jury duty as a curiosity. I wanted an up-close view…

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My First House: The Most Casual High Stakes Purchase of My Life (Part 1)

by Kate Tellers

• January 9, 2013

In this series, Kate Tellers writes about buying her first house. Over text. This is not how I expected to make the biggest financial decision of my life to date: And so, the same technology…

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May It Please the Court: Revisiting Maira Kalman’s Illustrations of Law

by by Mary Adkins

• January 7, 2013

Sometimes we wish the internet didn’t keep things forever. Other times, we’re glad it does, because we discover treasures. Maira Kalman‘s 2009 illustrated blog And The Pursuit of Happiness is one. A year-long exploration of American history…

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Reflections of a Jailhouse Lawyer

by Juan Haines

• January 4, 2013

I cannot stop thinking about a man who recently asked for my help. He had been in prison for more than twenty-five years and had just been denied parole by the board, which meant he’d…

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Inquiring Minds: Mad Magazine and The Brethren

by Life of the Law

• October 11, 2012

  During my junior year at Columbia, I began to think about my post-college life and wrestled with a decision so many other privileged, Jewish Ivy Leaguers before me had faced: Lawyer or comedy writer?…