If I took down a comment of yours that contained substance, please let me know.
- Kevin
]]>And then the hysteria sets in... The fear from unknown pathways creeps up and seizes people by the throat. Their pulse quickens. Their breath becomes shallow. And their ability to think dissapates while panic wells in the absence of reason.
Yes, I know the fear. I’ve felt it and fought against it, sometimes I’ve succeeded. The only thing that seems to help is information. Who here is a little bit of information.
The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit organization in Washington, DC and they published this report on several areas that the Federal Government will need to expand their hiring in the next few years. And item number 4 on their list is Legal (as in, jobs where it helps to have a law degree).
According to this report, the Federal Government will have to hire over 23,000 people in Fiscal Years 2010, 2011, and 2012. That does include more positions then just "Attorney" jobs, but the Social Security Administration alone is looking to hire 7,500 people in legal-related positions. According to Law Shucks, the bloody carnage of 2009 that sent us all into a tailspin totaled 12,196 people, only 4,633 of which were lawyers (see their year-end report).
Hmm, it looks like the Federal Government alone is going to absorb almost twice the people that BigLaw tossed over the side. Opportunity? I think so, and that’s just in one category.
The report is a PDF in the feed, please peruse it and share it.
On the update front, there has been and will be a lot of work happening behind the curtain. Some issues cropped up and I’m taking advantage of this chance to upgrade a LOT of items.
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Last week, Natalie Morris left us unexpectedly and far too soon. She leaves behind her husband, Tee and their daughter, Sonic Boom.
Tee Morris is a highly creative author and podcaster, a devoted father, and a friend. There is never a good time for a loss such as this, and it sounds so hollow to just say that I am sorry. It does not seem enough.
Please take a moment to let Tee know that you are thinking about him. Please donate to the fund for funeral expenses and to start a trust fund for Sonic Boom, or take part in the coming Boom Effect auction.
Remember Natalie - http://remembernatalie.org/
The Boom Effect Auction - http://www.theboomeffect.org/
Sonic Boom’s Trust - http://teeandserena.chipin.com/tee-and-sonic-boom
Thank you.
And Captain, we’re standing by.
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This is the second in my two-part interview with Thomas Gideon on Hacktivism. This half focuses much more on the activism side as Thomas discusses how he views his role as a technology activist.
For more on Thomas, check out:
The Command Line Podcast - http://thecommandline.net/
Open Media Review - http://openmediareview.com/
Promos:
Tale Chasing- http://www.talechasing.com/ (1:00)
Snark Infested Waters - http://thesnarkyavenger.com/ (43:45)
Below are some links from our discussion:
Rhubarb - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walla
Copynight - http://www.copynight.org/
Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/
Public Knowledge - http://www.publicknowledge.org/
American Library Association - http://www.ala.org/
"Cyberselfish - A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech" by Paulina Borsook
"The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder On The Electronic Frontier" by Bruce Sterling
"Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity" by Lawrence Lessig
"100 Years of Big Content fearing technology - in its own words" by Nate Anderson in Ars Technica
Change Congress - http://change-congress.org/
Thank you, Thomas!
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]]>Thomas was quite gracious in assisting me with some technical issues that I missed in the previous version. I did not realize how much clipping was left in after the conversion to MP3.
The Notes:
I have the honor of honors to bring you an interview with the self-described curmudgeon, hacker and hacktivist - Thomas "cmdln" Gideon of the Command Line Podcast, where he is producer and host. He is an incredibly gifted podcaster, mentor and friend. I asked Thomas to speak about the philosophy, practice and art involved in hacktivism, and its two component pieces: hacking and activism. This is a wonderful discussion defining and describing all three terms, adding a layer of practical application to everyday life.
This is Part One focusing on the first half of the word hacktivism: hacking. A lawyer, or soon to be lawyer, can take many fine lessons from Thomas’ descriptions of how a hacker will task themself to learn everything they can from a certain system, any system. I would say that an attorney would be greatly challenged, but equally rewarded, for looking at our legal system and industry through the eyes of a hacker at law.
For more on Thomas, check out:
The Command Line Podcast - http://thecommandline.net/
Open Media Review - http://openmediareview.com/
News:
"Uniform Bar Exam Drawing Closer to Reality" by Leigh Jones in the National Law Journal - http://tinyurl.com/yz58o3d
Promos:
7th Son: Descent - Buy it on October 27, 2009 - http://jchutchins.net/ (3:15)
Into the Blender Podcast - http://www.intotheblender.com/ (46:45)
Below are some links providing background information for you from our discussion:
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution by Glyn Moody
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling
The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain
Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace , Version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig
Richard Stallman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_stallman
Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org
Jamie Zawinski (JWZ) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwz
John Resig - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Resig
Brendan Eich - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
John Draper - Captain Crunch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper
HacDC - http://hacdc.org/
3D Printing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3d_printing
BarCamp - http://www.barcamp.org/
BarCamp Wiki article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp
Privacy Camp - http://barcamp.org/PrivacyCampDC
Congress Camp - http://congresscamp.org/
Gov 2.0 Camp - http://barcamp.org/Government20Camp
Makerspaces - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makerspaces
Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/
EFF Wiki article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation
The Streisand Effect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striesand_effect
PACER - http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/
RECAP - https://www.recapthelaw.org/
Once again, I apologize for sounding like a farm mouse lost in a tin can. In the future, I might go back and re-record and re-engineer part of that interview. For now, the overall context of the interview is intact and Thomas sounds great.
Part Two discussing activism will drop shortly.
Remember that 7th Son: Descent is coming out in print on October 27, 2009. This is one of, if not the, most explosive podcast novels to ever hit your ears. Now, it’s ready for its hardcover debut!
Thank you, Thomas!
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]]>No new audio for the moment, as I’m working through technical issues before releasing Part II of my interview with Thomas "cmdln" Gideon.
I am dropping into the feed the recent report from the U.S. Goverment Accountability Office (GAO) released on October 26, 2009, discussing the cost and access to law schools. This is just the report itself and I will likely look at it more closely in a future episode. The report is GA0-09-941 and you can find more information on the GAO and this report at their website http://www.gao.gov/ .
I’m going to work on the technical issues in the meantime.
Happy Halloween and we’ll see you next time!
-Kevin
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I have the honor of honors to bring you an interview with the self-described curmudgeon, hacker and hacktivist - Thomas "cmdln" Gideon of the Command Line Podcast, where he is producer and host. He is an incredibly gifted podcaster, mentor and friend. I asked Thomas to speak about the philosophy, practice and art involved in hacktivism, and its two component pieces: hacking and activism. This is a wonderful discussion defining and describing all three terms, adding a layer of practical application to everyday life.
This is Part One focusing on the first half of the word hacktivism: hacking. A lawyer, or soon to be lawyer, can take many fine lessons from Thomas’ descriptions of how a hacker will task themself to learn everything they can from a certain system, any system. I would say that an attorney would be greatly challenged, but equally rewarded, for looking at our legal system and industry through the eyes of a hacker at law.
For more on Thomas, check out:
The Command Line Podcast - http://thecommandline.net/
Open Media Review - http://openmediareview.com/
News:
"Uniform Bar Exam Drawing Closer to Reality" by Leigh Jones in the National Law Journal - http://tinyurl.com/yz58o3d
Promos:
7th Son: Descent - Buy it on October 27, 2009 - http://jchutchins.net/ (3:15)
Into the Blender Podcast - http://www.intotheblender.com/ (46:45)
Below are some links providing background information for you from our discussion:
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution by Glyn Moody
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling
The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain
Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace , Version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig
Richard Stallman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_stallman
Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org
Jamie Zawinski (JWZ) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwz
John Resig - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Resig
Brendan Eich - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
John Draper - Captain Crunch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper
HacDC - http://hacdc.org/
3D Printing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3d_printing
BarCamp - http://www.barcamp.org/
BarCamp Wiki article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp
Privacy Camp - http://barcamp.org/PrivacyCampDC
Congress Camp - http://congresscamp.org/
Gov 2.0 Camp - http://barcamp.org/Government20Camp
Makerspaces - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makerspaces
Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/
EFF Wiki article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation
The Streisand Effect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striesand_effect
PACER - http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/
RECAP - https://www.recapthelaw.org/
Once again, I apologize for sounding like a farm mouse lost in a tin can. In the future, I might go back and re-record and re-engineer part of that interview. For now, the overall context of the interview is intact and Thomas sounds great.
Part Two discussing activism will drop shortly.
Remember that 7th Son: Descent is coming out in print on October 27, 2009. This is one of, if not the, most explosive podcast novels to ever hit your ears. Now, it’s ready for its hardcover debut!
Thank you, Thomas!
Please send in your feedback!
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This episode features hints and tips for 1L’s that Kevin learned from mistakes he made, and other things he saw, while going through law school. There is no handy-dandy list here because a) there is a lazy show notes mood going around, and b) you are supposed to use your ears with a podcast.
I do have to apologize for the sound quality on this one, I tried out a new recording set up but I was not able to filter everything out. You will hear some bugs, my neighbors and a train. Amazing what some people will do to get on this show...
Just doing a fast run through of the news, mentioning the big news of the day use yourself the Google for more details.
Promos:
The Adventures of Indiana Jim - http://podcast.indianajim.net/
FETIDUS - http://www.fetidus.org/
And a big thank you to Chooch and Viv of the Into the Blender and City of Heroes podcasts.
And finally, a very long rant against the idea - or possibly just the execution of this idea - of the ABA’s new Legal Rebels project.
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Kevin has some comments about what is NOT being said about the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. Will partisan politics shape the future Court into a body of individuals who are heavily academic and sheltered from the effects on daily life when they rule on issues of the day?
News bits:
"Finding Debt a Bigger Hurdle Than Bar Exam" - Jonathan D. Glator in the New York Times - http://tinyurl.com/lz3x9u
Good luck to the July Bar Exam test takers!
Promos:
Heaven Part V: War - Mur Lafferty - http://www.heavennovel.com
Crescent - Phil Rossi - http://www.crescentstation.net/
Other Links:
Happy Fourth Anniversary to The Command Line Podcast!!
Check out James Durham’s Great Evil Laugh Contest at FETIDUS.
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Sorry, but no original content from me today. Instead I’m bringing you something another podcast that my listeners will recognize. My friend, Thomas Gideon, produces The Command Line Podcast which discusses the intersection of society and technology. At Balticon 43 over this past Memorial Day weekend, he set up, moderated, and recorded a panel of content creators to discuss how technology is changing the way content is delivered and consumed. This was an incredibly interesting panel to attend and I want you to absorb the discussion and then apply those same questions about content delivery to the legal industry.
I’ve made no edits as the file is almost an hour long as it is.
Enjoy!
The Command Line - TCLP 2009-05-27 Balticon 43: Peer Media v. Broadcast Media
This is a feature cast.
In the intro a heart felt thank you to my good friend, Chris Miller, for his support and advice without which my recent experience at Balticon would not have been anywhere near as phenomenal.
There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.
The feature this week is the recording of the Peer Media vs. Broadcast Media panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Earl Newton, Dave Slusher and Patrick McLean all of whom I owe a debt of gratitude for this great discussion. For clarification, the book Patrick mentions is âAgainst Intellectual Monopolyâ by Michele Boldrin and David Levine. Patrick also sent me a link to an interview with Boldrin which led me to the web site, Against Monopoly, which furthers the discussion with contributions from several other scholars.
The Command Line Podcast - http://thecommandline.net
The Life After Law School Podcast
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Welcome back! Streaming along the RSS pathways from Washington, DC; this is the Life After Law School Podcast. Iâm Kevin and Iâll be your host seeking out survival tips to navigate the intersection between legal education, the legal profession and the business of law. This podcast aims to think about and discuss the legal industry from a different point of view.
I’ve been away from the microphone for a little while, but for good reason. I have a new job!! I’m trying to catch up on what’s happening in the legal world today with a little commentary thrown in.
Promos:
The Adventures of Indiana Jim - http://podcast.indianajim.net/
Nina Kimberly the Merciless - http://www.ninakimberly.com/
Balticon 43 - http://www.balticon.org/
Suggested Links:
Above the Law - http://www.abovethelaw.com/
Law Shucks - http://lawshucks.com/
Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog - http://blogs.wsj.com/law/
Legal Talk Network - http://legaltalknetwork.com/
Solo Practice University - http://solopracticeuniversity.com/
Can’t Stop The Serenity - http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/
Pierce Law Alumni Event
Stories:
"Should Associates Get Paid While On The Deferral Stipend" - http://tinyurl.com/ccndzw
"Deferrals Could Create Pile-Up of Available Associates" - http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202430617666
"Massachusetts Superior Court Rescinds Clerkship Offers" - http://abovethelaw.com/2009/05/massachusetts_superior_court_r.php
"The Myth of Big Salaries (It’s All Marketing)" - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/03/the-myth-of-big-salaries-its-all-marketing.html
"Aren’t Students Doing Cost-Benefit Analysis of Law School?" - http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/03/arent-students-doing-cost-benefit-analyses-of-law-school.html
"From Law School to Solo: Is It Criminal?" - http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/03/from-law-school-to-solo-is-it-criminal.html
"Law School Admission Consultant - Interview" - http://lsatblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/law-school-admission-consultant.html
"Law School Creates Monopolies" - http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/05/law_school_created_monopolies.html
"Change for the U.S. Supreme Court" - http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/2009/05/change-for-the-us-supreme-court/
Come find me at Balticon 43 this Memorial Day weekend in Hunt Valley, Maryland!!
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And yeah, I’m still around. Stay tuned.
Want to be in the next episode of Stranger Things? Send an email to: PutMeInTheShow@StrangerThings.tv
Get your email in soon! The Singularity approaches!
The Singularity will happen live at Balticon 43.
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April 1st is a sad day as it marks the passing of Joe Murphy. While I am a much more recent addition to podcasting, I still feel the loss. No one else could put into words than the people who knew him best and I give hearty thanks to Tee Morris who updated this tribute to Joe.
My name is Kevin and I remember Joe.
From Tee -
No matter how crazy the time or the schedules in life get, we make time to remember; and on April 1st, Jack and I are asking that you remember our fallen friend, Joe Murphy.
For those of you new to podcasting, you might have missed the audio wit and always-clever banter of my friend, Joe Murphy. He was (and still is) an amazing guy, his voice now part of the history of such podcasts, as Wingin’ It, Slice of SciFi, The Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas, and the award-winning The Case of the Singing Sword: A Billibub Baddings Mystery. He was taken from us too soon, and on April 1 we remember him.
Please, syndicate this podcast through your feeds, blog about Joe, tell a friend today about Joe Murphy, show your support in an avatar change, and let your subscribers know that you also remember Joe.
For more information, please check out "Give Us A Minute" at http://www.joemurphymemorialfund.org/ .
Thank you.
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She was also able to have a transcript made of the interview (How cool is that?!?) and she asked if I would like to place a copy in the feed here. Of course I said yes!
The transcript is a PDF file and you can find its home on her blog, Lawyer On! The Contract Attorney’s Blog at http://contractattorneys.wordpress.com/ .
You can also find her on her website, http://lawyerbird.com/ or you can follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/nomadtoes .
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Personal Effects: Dark Art is fiction like you’ve never experienced -- and it deserves an equally innovative book trailer video. This ain’t your father’s book trailer. It’s an ambitious mashup: part trailer, part author blurb. It was assembled on a shoestring budget, though I insist you’d never know.
Co-producer/editor Michael Bekemeyer and I spent months crafting this video for you. It’s the first in a series; expect more "vlurb" installments in the weeks ahead, each featuring testimonials from icons in the horror storytelling industry. We’re rewriting the rules of book promotion. We want you along for the ride.
Click play. Kick it into full-screen mode. Crank it up, and enjoy. And ... if you’re feeling generous ... evangelize.
Please spread the word about this groundbreaking video promotion by embding the video on your blog. Email this page to friends. Tweet it. Facebook it. If you think this video is worthy of sharing, please do what you can to spread the word.
More videos are coming. Personal Effects: Dark Art. In bookstores everywhere this June.
Be afraid of The Dark.
--J.C.
UPDATE: Now available in the ubiquitous YouTube player. (Lower overall quality, but easier to share!)]]>
This episode will be a Library Segment. The concept was stolen from the "B" Show found at Dragon Page: Cover to Cover and was originally going to be a minor segment in each episode here. It turned out that doing a review for each podcast was going to be a bit complicated, so I going to bring it in as a recurring segment on the show.
The books I talk about in this show are:
"Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student" by Martha Kimes and published by Atria Books, party of Simon and Schuster.
The author’s site is www.marthakimes.com
Amazon paperback - http://tinyurl.com/b5yz5q
Amazon Kindle version - http://tinyurl.com/d56ek8
"Legal Research in a Nutshell" by Morris L. Cohen and Kent C. Olsen, published in its 9th Edition by Thomson West.
West’s site - http://tinyurl.com/ckewxk
Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/bxkzvz
"Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little Brown.
Author’s site is http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/index.html
Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/bw48ha
"Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us" by Seth Godin and published by Penguin.
Author’s site is www.sethgodin.com
Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/cxo4oz
"Solo By Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be" by Carolyn Elefant and published by Decision Books of Niche Press.
Author’s site - www.myshingle.com
Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/cy8kqf
Promos in this Episode:
FETIDUS (4:50) by James Durham at www.fetidus.org
Commit Yourself to The Brink (18:01) Personal Effects: Dark Arts by J.C. Hutchins at http://jchutchins.net/site/the-brink/
News:
Lots of lay-off news in the legal world - Check out Above The Law and Law Shucks for in-depth coverage at http://www.abovethelaw.com/ and http://lawshucks.com/ .
"The Disappearing Associate" by Jordon Furlong on Law 21 Blog - http://tinyurl.com/dek8yk
"This is Not a Drill" by Jordon Furlong on Law 21 Blog - http://tinyurl.com/aefqop
"Lawyers As a Public Good" by Jordon Furlong on Law 21 Blog - http://tinyurl.com/cggmy9
"The Credit Crisis & Law School Loans, Take Two: Financing Bar Prep" by Dan Slater on Wall Street Journal Law Blog - http://tinyurl.com/cjjpv2
"A Law Blog Farewell" by Dan Slater on Wall Street Journal Law Blog - http://tinyurl.com/dgyjya
"Oh BigLaw: Why Pay $60k for Lawyers to Do Non-Profit Work When You Could Pay Them to Build a Lucrative Practice?" by Carolyn Elefant on My Shingle - http://tinyurl.com/cnvlar
"How to Use the Bars Revisited: A Practical Guide" by Carolyn Elefant on My Shingle - http://tinyurl.com/c8fzbs
"The Fire This Time: Thoughts on The Coming Law Firm Hiring Crisis" by Aric Press on The American Lawyer - http://tinyurl.com/bt6v8t
"A Coffee Parable" by Jay Shepherd on The Client Revolution - http://tinyurl.com/9tuglv
"The Zen of Stigma in the Legal World" by Kimberly Alderman on Lawyer On! The Contract Attorney’s Blog - http://tinyurl.com/dl4ftq
Shout outs:
Kat Klaybourne - http://twitter.com/klaybourne
Congressman Jason Chaffetz - http://chaffetz.house.gov/
Gabe Acevedo - http://gabesguide.com/ (ahh-say-VAY-though) - Sorry!!
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The bar exam is the one great hurdle that every student dreads. As 3L’s begin to seriously contemplate the summer odyssey that is about to begin, I take the opportunity to offer what tips and tricks I have to help you successfully survive the experience. My tips come directly from my own Misfit experience of taking and passing the bar. I also want to wish the February takers that Luck might be a Lady.
News Bits:
Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist - "Don’t Try to Dodge The Recession with Grad School" - http://tinyurl.com/cuvnw4
The Posse List Blog - "LegalTech: Trends Affecting Contract Attorneys... And Oh Yeah, India (again)" - http://tinyurl.com/adsdz2
Debra Cassens Weiss - ABAJournal - "Law Deans Hate Rankings, but Help Perpetuate Them, Article Says" - http://tinyurl.com/dc64an
American Sociological Association - Press Release on "U.S. News & World Report Rankings Both Discipline and Punish Law Schools" - http://www.asanet.org/cs/press/view_news?pressrelease.id=521
Kimberly Alderman - Guest Post on Build A Solo Practice, LLC - "You Say You Want a (Solo) Revolution" - http://tinyurl.com/dmaz7e
Kimberly Alderman - Lawyer On! The Contract Attorney’s Blog - "Why I Never Applied for a Firm Job" - http://tinyurl.com/depf45
Gabe Acevedo - Gabe’s Guide to the E-Discovery Universe - "Talented, Smart Attorneys to starve rather than Temp, which is why they are so Talented and Smart in the first place" - http://gabesguide.com/?p=2280
Scott Greenfield - Simple Justice - "Science and Law Don’t Mix" - http://tinyurl.com/cm3fdb
New Hampshire Public Defender - http://www.nhpd.org/
Jordan Furlong - Law 21 - "CLE’s Steep Learning Curve" - http://tinyurl.com/aq3pso
Promo - Codename: Starkeeper (3:47) - http://tinyurl.com/c955fu
National Conference of Bar Examiners - http://www.ncbex.org/
BarBri Bar Review- http://www.barbri.com
Micromash Bar Review - http://www.micromashbar.com
Pierce Law’s Office of Academic Success - http://www.piercelaw.edu/academicsuccess/
For more information, a Wikipedia page on Bar Admission - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admission_to_the_bar_in_the_United_States
Promo - Balticon 43 (21:07) - http://www.balticon.org/
Cory Doctorow - Boing Boing - "Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git" - http://tinyurl.com/dz7fad
Kimberly Alderman - www.lawyerbird.com
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I will be attending Balticon this year and its an awesome convention to go to with an excellent podcasting track.
If you’re going to be there, please look me up!!
-Kevin
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This is a newscast catching up on the bits and bytes of news that have been raining down upon us like manna from heaven.
Congratulations to our new President, Barak Obama. I’m just looking for feedback from my recording of his Inaugural Address. Also, keep an eye on www.whitehouse.gov for their new blog.
Kimberly Alderman has a new post on her Lawyer On! Blog http://tinyurl.com/dc8nko
Thanks to everyone who showed their support for Scott Sigler for his final stop on his tour promoting "Contagious" in Washington, DC http://tinyurl.com/boxrhl
Congratulations to Scott Sigler, J.C. Hutchins, Mur Lafferty and Evo Terra for their story in Time.com http://tinyurl.com/dcg75f
Promo - Truthseekers Podcast (3:50) - http://audioaddict.libsyn.com/
TaxProf Blog - "Is the Law Professor Gravy Train Over?" - http://tinyurl.com/7yprq2
The Ivey Files - "We Should Be Ashamed of Ourselves" - http://tinyurl.com/bws386
Forbes - Kathy Kristof - "The Great College Hoax" - http://tinyurl.com/a7vw35
Forbes Sidebar - David Whelan - "Docs in Hock" - http://tinyurl.com/b27qhp
ABA Journal - Debra Cassens Weiss - "Divorcing Law Grads, Stressed Over $190K in Debt, Victims of ’Education Hoax’" - http://tinyurl.com/cpxp7j
ABA Journal - Debra Cassens Weiss - "Law Dean Says Schools ’Exploiting’ Students Who Don’t Succeed" - http://tinyurl.com/akzkos
ABA Journal - Molly McDonough - "Are You the Victim of an Education Hoax?" - http://tinyurl.com/73h3py
Wall Street Journal Blogs - Dawn Jordan - "Nowadays, an M.B.A. Doesn’t Equal Job Security" - http://tinyurl.com/bykrsy
Promo - The Adventures of Indiana Jim (7:45) - http://podcast.indianajim.net/
National Law Journal - Julie Kay - "Contract Lawyers: Cheaper by the Hour" - http://tinyurl.com/892hem
Legal Research & Writing Pro - Lisa Solomon - "A Contract Lawyer by any Other Name" - http://tinyurl.com/cqyo2n
My Shingle - Carolyn Elefant - "The Contract Lawyer Conundrum" - http://tinyurl.com/6vh6tf
Promo - The Signal: Season Five (11:45) - http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/
Working some interviews to come your way!!
Some final items to check on the way out:
Copynight - www.copynight.org
Balticon 43 - www.balticon.org
Farpoint 2009 - www.farpointcon.com
My Twitter: @Baelen
Send your thoughts to Carolyn Elefant at www.myshingle.com
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This promo might run a little long (almost 4 minutes) but it is just so gorgeous that I had to place it in the feed.
Damn you, Holyfield!!
Please let me know if you have any issues viewing this and if you want some more information on the novel and its author, check out the site at http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/
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This is a special edition of an Inaugural flavor. I tested out my new Zoom H2 recorder by taking it with me to the National Mall to bear witness to the inauguration of our 44th President of the United States, Barak Obama. The following recording is of his taking the Oath of Office and his Inaugural Address.
This is what you would have heard standing at the base of the Washington Monument. There is crowd noise, wind noise and a bit of reverb from the time difference of many multiples of sound systems throughout the National Mall.
You can find the full text of his address at CNN at http://tinyurl.com/7buosk
Also, remember that Copynight is coming up, check out www.copynight.org
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This episode discusses how human expectations have driven the costs of certain, high-value assets like housing and education to unsustainable levels. The title and concept come from the book The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. I simply see a similar trains of circumstances relating to new lawyers and their law school debt as the authors lay out between two income families and bankruptcy.
News Bits:
You can also find me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Baelen
"Tournament Without End" by Marc S. Galanter and William D. Henderson
Open Media Review at http://openmediareview.com/
Open Jurist at http://www.openjurist.org/
The Command Line Podcast at http://thecommandline.net/
The Short History of the Billable Hour at the People Law Blog by Rhonda Muir
Other Cites:
Scott Greenfield’s Simple Justice at http://tinyurl.com/5ejex3 and http://tinyurl.com/5o324h
Bill Henderson’s Bi-Modal Distribution at http://tinyurl.com/5csaf4
Malcolm Gladwell’s "Outliers" at http://tinyurl.com/5h2n9b
Promos:
Murder at Avedon Hill Podcast by P.G. Holyfield
In Your Right Mind Podcast by Imagine That! Studios
The Command Line Podcast by Thomas "Cmdln" Gideon
"Contagious" Book Tour by Scott Sigler
The Sigler Stank Tour II celebrating the release of "Contagious" will make its final stop at the Border’s at Bailey’s Crossroads in Falls Church, Virginia. For more information, check out www.scottsigler.com
Copynight is Tuesday, January 27th at www.copynight.org
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Joe Miller of www.joemillerjd.com has an interesting post on what you should consider before diving into grad school to weather the recession. Items to consider include grade inflation, school rankings and your motivations for entering law school.
Carolyn Elefant of www.myshingle.com continues her fight against the professional and social disregard shown to solo practitioners by BigLaw in her new post where she compares large firms and solo attorneys to the famous addage about Fred Astare and Ginger Rodgers.
For all the Twitterers in the crowd, Scott Greenfield of The Simple Justice Blog has an interesting post on the norms and mores of retweeting Tweets. It’s an interesting discussion of what really matters in social media.
The National Law Journal posted a new article by Julie Kay about the life, times and dearth of work for contract attorneys. These are not the type of contract attorneys that we spoke to Kimberly Alderman about, but are the masses of temporary attorneys that BigLaw uses to man their large projects for low-level legal work.
I’m heading back to work on mixing down the next podcast episode which should be dropped into the feed tonight.
-Kevin
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As no else can say it better, I’m including his show notes below. New, original episodes of the Life After Law School Podcast are just around the corner.
The Command Line Podcast
This is a feature cast.
The feature this week is part three of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the future of computing and we got into a fun, far ranging discussion of cloud computing and some of the technical and non-technical issues it raises.
More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.
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The post is "A Short History of the Billable Hour and the Consequences of its Tyranny" by Ronda Muir, Esq. and can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/7jdrew
There are sooo many reasons to love Twitter and getting information like this delivered to your doorstep is just one of them. You can find me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Baelen.
-Kevin
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Happy New Year!! This is the second of a three part end-of-the-year roundtable that I was graciously asked to participate in by my friend and host of The Command Line Podcast, CmdLn. I’m including his show notes below, as he can say is better than I.
The Command Line Podcast
This is a feature cast.
In the intro, I share my review of Ed Piskor’s "Wizzywig Volume 1: Phreak".
The feature this week is part two of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is where we are at with copyright infringement and enforcement. Most recently the RIAA has announced it is stopping its individual law suits. However, they are pressing an unusual criminal case against an individual. The risk of the urge to perfect enforcement is the increasing irrelevance of copyright to the average person.
More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.
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The Command Line Podcast
This is a feature cast.
The feature this week is part one of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the state of copyright, taking into consideration this year’s petitions for exemptions to the DMCA and the defeated Canadian DMCA. We quickly veered into a discussion of generation gaps and norms, however.
More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.
The Life After Law School Podcast
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Thank you for listening and I’ll be back with you shortly!
-Kevin
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An interview with Freelance Attorney Kimberly Alderman, who speaks to us from her location independent practice in Alaska. We discuss what kind of work a freelance attorney tackles, who do they tackle it for, the challenges of working from long-distance and some "old stuff" to boot!
Kimberly’s website is www.lawyerbird.com
And her blogs are:
The Cultural Property and Archaeology Law Blog
Lawyer On! The Contract Attorney’s Blog
Some legal blogs we mentions
Carolyn’s Elefant’s MyShingle
Brian Tannebaum’s Criminal Defense
Scott Greenfield’s Simple Justice
Press Release on ABA Ethics Opinion on Contract Attorneys
Promos:
"I Should Be Writing" by Mur Lafferty
"Doug Update" by The Radio Adventures of Doctor Floyd
"KrakensQuest" by Tee Morris
Thank you to Tee Morris for his troubleshooting help.
Thanks to you, this podcast has constantly been listed as a New and Notable podcast under Careers in iTunes!
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I just have to rework what I had ready when this little curve is over, but I think you’ll like it.
My apologies for the long silence.
-Kevin
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Discussing ways to reach the professional plateau of ten years or ten thousand hours of practice as mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell’s new book "Outliers"
News:
"Homes with Tails" discussion hosted by New America Foundation http://tinyurl.com/6fdjhd
No more Web 2.0 for Louisiana lawers without prior approval http://www.protectspeech.com/
Promo #1 - "The Takeover" by Mur Lafferty - http://zombinc.net/
"Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell - http://tinyurl.com/5h2n9b
"The Perils of Squandering Talent" by Jordan Furlong - http://tinyurl.com/6gw6ym
"Are More Law Firms and Attorneys Moving Away from the Hourly Billing Model?" by the Greatest American Lawyer - http://tinyurl.com/6zqkxy
ABA Overview of Loan Repayment Assistant Programs - http://tinyurl.com/6ervm3
Vermont Rules of Admission - http://tinyurl.com/66s3fd
Promo #2 - "Morevi: Remastered" by Tee Morris - http://www.morevi.net
Thank you’s to The CmdLn and to Tee Morris.
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-Kevin
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A discussion on the effect of where you live on your life and your practice initiated by Richard Florida’s book, "Who’s Your City: How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life." http://tinyurl.com/6h58o6
Announcements:
November Copynight is Tuesday the 25th www.copynight.org
Six Weeks Til Solo taught by Carolyn Elefant at Legal Blog Watch, MyShingle and the Legal Marketing Blawg.
Please help out Dr. Floyd’s Doug Price at http://www.doctorfloyd.com/doug/
See Also:
Direct Link to some "spiky world" maps http://tinyurl.com/2vqvt8
Link to Richard Florida on the Colbert Report http://tinyurl.com/68pfra
Feedback from Jennifer
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I’ll get this up as soon as possible.
-Kevin
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Inspired by Professor William Henderson’s post "How the Cravath System Created the Bi-Modal Distribution" on the Empirical Legal Studies Blog.
See Also Deborah J. Cohen’s article "End of the Road for the ’Cravath Model’?" in the ABA Journal.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog "Barak Obama: The U.S.’s 44th President (and 25th Lawyer-President!)" by Dan Slater
Debate on "Is Success Killing the Internet?" by Jonathan Zittrain
Book Forum "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Michele Boldrin
"Six Weeks Til Solo Practice" taught by Carolyn Elefant
The Solosez Listserv for solo practitioners (mainly)
Meet me at DC Copynights or find/start your own local chapter
Feedback from Carey and Fabiola.
Next Episode will discuss the book "Who’s Your City?" by Richard Florida
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The Life After Law School Podcast is now listed in iTunes! It’s searchable, subscribe-able and everything.
Go ahead and check it out in iTunes. You can preview episodes, download them to your iPod and leave reviews.
Now I need to get back to recording!
-Kevin
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Through the mysteries of the interwebs and the grace of K7, you can now call in your questions, comments and general verbage directly to the podcast. Just remember that comments can (and probably will) be played on the podcast.
The number: (206) 203-0102
So give it a try!
-Kevin
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This podcast is part search, part chronicle and mainly a different point of view of the legal industry than the one normally presented. The present view of the law is dominated by the culture of BigLaw firms which influences bar leadership, legal press, public impressions and the expectations of law students. BigLaw does have its place in the legal landscape and fills its niches very well, its just casting too long a shadow over the rest of the law for other stories to be told.
I want to look at these other stories and other paths or definitions of success in the law. We’ll look at the forces that have shaped the legal industry’s past and present to try and predict where it will go in the future. These questions are geared to young lawyers who are trying to start their career, but the topics will be of interest to law students who will soon enter the workforce and prelaw students who are thinking of going to law school. The three different stages of people all have the same ultimate goal: to become a successful lawyer. Each one has a different point of view of the business of law with different questions that I think will surprise and inform the others.
This is a search for a different model of success, for many models to fit different people in whatever way they seem fit. Lend me an ear.
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Unlike traditional broadcast media which decides what programs to run and when to run them, you as the audience member can choose what programs you wish to watch or listen to and you receive them in your podcatcher as soon as they are placed in the feed.
There is some debate as to where the name "podcasting" comes from. It is commonly thought that it comes from Apple’s iPod which helped popularize podcasts, but others consider it to be a shortened version of Programming On-Demand casting. Like all legends, there is probably a little truth to both stories.
Podcasts are consumed through RSS aggregators, also known as podcatchers. The single largest and most used podcatcher is iTunes which has helped with the popularity of podcasts with Apple’s iPod media players. Or was that the other way around?
Podcatchers:
iTunes
Juice
Doppler
Songbird
Podcast Ready
Zune Marketplace
PodNova
Google Reader
For more information, check out the following resources:
Podcasting Article at Wikipedia
Podcasting for Dummies, 2nd Edition by Tee Morris, Chuck Tomasi and Evo Terra
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I’ve also worked out a number of technical bugs that have held me back. I’ve plugged the pipeline allowing me to convert recordings to MP3, which was such an incredibly easy fix that I’m embarrassed that it held me up. I’ve also figured out answers to my image and music issues. The last technical glitch is ambient noise which is partially dealt with by the passing of the cicadas, but I’m also working on a collapsible rig to assist with that.
Another big bug in everyone’s bonnet is the extremely accelerated rate of change present today. Most of that has to do with the current economic downturn and the resulting media play the economy is getting with the presidential election. Law firms and lawyers are also going through a number of changes due to market forces. The first large change was the amount of chatter generated by Professor Bill Henderson’s blog post on the rise of the bi-modal distribution in salaries. I would like to take more time in the near future to discuss his findings, but for now I’ll just say that the amount of discussion this generated has been eye-opening. But Professor Henderson did not stop there and his posts kept coming and coming. Before we could digest the ideas presented by Professor Henderson, the economy hit us very hard. Firms have broken up, delayed incoming classes of new attorneys, fired dozens of lawyers and then Wall Street blew up. Market forces are in play and they are going to change the way law operates as a business in the same way that market forces drove up associate pay and partner profits. There will be much to discuss.
But the biggest bug has been myself. In late August I started a contract gig that quickly fell into a hard burn of 80+ hour weeks and that just sucked the life out of me. That job is over now, another victim of the credit crunch. While it might happen for a week or so in the future, I do not want to go this long again without placing something in the feed.
You’ll hear from me soon.
-Kevin
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It was a perfect right-left combo. The right cross is my still existing technical issues and the left hook is that I was cut from my job. On the technical side, I’m still lacking artwork and music and while I have answers in the works, they will take some time to work through. I have recorded pieces and episodes, but they basically sound like slop in a tin can. My current studio is my dining room and I have very little defense to the ambient noise all around. That is another work in progress as I have a plan but lack the materials. And the time...
I was cut two weeks ago from my previous gig, which did last a good long time. I was given an hour’s notice on a Friday afternoon and while that doesn’t sound like much, the staff attorneys handled it rather well. I did spend the weekend in the gloom and doom, but early in the next week I was able to secure a new gig. It’s a short term electronic document discovery job with heavy, heavy hours. It’s the heavy overtime that’s currently keeping me from working on my recording issues. But I am searching for further solutions, researching topics and working on the episodes themselves.
My largest concern right now is that time and events are passing before me and the issues I want to tackle are changing rapidly. In order to move on with the overall conversation, I need to bring into this feed what is going on in the world around us. So while I work on the technical issues with the audio podcast, I will blog what’s happening in this feed. While I find that to be a rather insignificant use of the power of LibSyn, it will be a better use than I am currently making of it. Once the podcast is up and running, it will take precedence in the feed but the blog will supplement it.
So instead of tickling your eardrums, I will entrance your eyeballs. Thank you for your patience.
-Kevin
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While I’m working behind the curtain on some of the technical issues, I’d like to post some contact information for your questions, comments and suggestions.
Website: http://lifeafterlawschool.libsyn.com
Email: lifeafterlawschool@gmail.com
Skype: kncrosby
Twitter: Baelen
I’ll be adding other ways to contact in the near future, as well as a regular contact info section in the sidebar. Right now, the technical issues I’m working are including music, including graphics, adding in HTML modules in Libsyn and reducing the ambient noise in my "studio". It doesn’t help that the new family who just moved into the apartment right on the other side of the wall from my rig just *loooooves* Rock Band.
That’s all for now and thanks for keeping your eyes (and ears) open here!
-Kevin
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I’d like to thank you for stopping by and seeing the beginning of this new podcast. I have just activated the account here at Libsyn and would like to thank them very much for their awesome product.
Scripts are being recorded, interviews are being sought and I’m searching for artwork and music to set the mood. Keep coming back and keep an eye on the changes.
-Kevin
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