Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom so good you’ll forget to extinguish your cigarette:
We’ve established the BigLaw model is broken, so the LSAT is likely a little unhip these days too. Professors at UC, Berkeley claim to have created a better, more encompassing measure of one’s lawyer potential. It’s all about what qualities are best-est in a lawyer, what types of lawyers are the dreamiest and assorted hypothetical situations. And instead of being a half-day exam, it’s administered as a slumber party in your friend’s basement using a series of “Would you rather…” questions and “I never…” statements. First one to fall asleep gets their face written on with a Sharpie—and low score. [The New York Times]
Talk of a new LSAT begs the question: Why can’t it be a video game? Objection!: The Game Series exists. Speed and aptitude are put to the test. It’s practically the Zelda of CLE courses. I bet Microsoft is fuming pissed they didn’t rip this one off. [Washington Post]
For his next trick, Bernie will do the expected. Represented by an attorney some wish perished in a Nazi death camp, Madoff will plead guilty tomorrow to mismanaging a dollar here and there—reportedly sans plea deal. Could that be enough to keep his wife, sons and brother from being potential cellmates? [Bloomberg]
Lawrence DeBello: New Jersey Superior Court Lothario. The judge has been charged with romantically and electronically woo-ing a former law clerk. [The National Law Journal]
Don’t screw with the lords of jury duty. Take it from potentially “the first California lawyer ever disbarred for misbehaving while serving as a juror.” [Corporate Legal Times]
No one should tell you that “Great Lawyering” can’t be learned in a book. Even if Oprah doesn’t endorse it. [MSNBC]
