http://firmsusa.com Law Firm Directory Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:55:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Firms USA (www.FirmsUSA.com) Free Online Law Firm Directory. Featuring new content, forums, and web blog! This site is for consumers interested in obtaining legal services, lawyers, and or Professionals interested in the legal profession. This is a portal for citizens to source Attorneys, and Law Firms in the USA. Adding ... http://firmsusa.com/?p=14 (Todd Zywicki) Marcus Cole on why the battle is ideological, not merely financial.  To which I say: “Go US and Barca!” Go to Source http://firmsusa.com/?p=235 (Kenneth Anderson) Over at Balkinization, Brian Tamanaha has a blistering post on law professors failing to take note — or anyway do anything about — the collapse of the job market for students at non-elite law schools in light of the size of law school tuition.  The complaint of the ... http://firmsusa.com/?p=236 (Ilya Somin) Kashmir Hill and David Lat of Above the Law have an interesting Washington Post column urging Justice Clarence Thomas to run for president. I know Lat because he was a year ahead of me in law school. He’s a very smart guy, and I have great respect for ... http://firmsusa.com/?p=237 (David Bernstein) Stumbled across this at goodreads.com. I don’t know who wrote it; only that it’s one of the approximately 50 people who read the book in manuscript form, including colloquium participants at NYU and Georgetown. It’s a nice review, and the good news is that the book ... http://firmsusa.com/?p=238 (David Bernstein) Sixty-nine law school deans have signed a letter endorsing Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. According to the Washington Post, “The letter was signed by the deans of most Washington area law schools, with the exception of those at George Washington and George Mason universities.” The ... http://firmsusa.com/?p=239 (Eugene Volokh) There are still lots of cases undecided. I’m following the ones having to do with incorporation of the Second Amendment against the states, public university nondiscrimination conditions imposed on student groups, disclosure of who signed a referendum petition, the constitutionality of the appointment procedure for the Public ... http://firmsusa.com/?p=240 (Stewart Baker) I just finished testifying on cybersecurity issues to the House Homeland Security committee.  The headline from that hearing is likely to be the bipartisan support that emerged for the broad thrust of the Lieberman-Collins-Carper bill that I blogged about earlier and that I supported at the hearing.  Ranking member Peter ... http://firmsusa.com/?p=241 (Ilya Somin) University of Florida lawprof D. Daniel Sokol has published a very good (and extremely favorable) review of co-conspirator Todd Zywicki’s important recent book Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law (coauthored with Maxwell Stearns), in the Michigan Law Review. Danny writes that the book is “likely to be recognized ... http://firmsusa.com/?p=242 (Eugene Volokh) So holds Blair v. Bethel School Dist., decided Monday by the Ninth Circuit. The result sounds quite right to me: [M]ore is fair in electoral politics than in other contexts. It is common for political bodies to have internal leadership structures and for members of those bodies to ... http://firmsusa.com/?p=243