Mt Hood trying to stay above the smoke…

Lets be honest .It’s not about how you handle it, it’s about what life gives you.

It’s just not feasible to have the state bars administering the exam. Find a way to configure it to be administered by real testing companies, like the accounting and medical boards

David Ziff@djsziff.bsky.social · last wk.

"Dear Applicant, With deep regret, I write to inform you that Washington’s July 2026 administration of the NextGen bar exam has been cancelled. We will not continue tomorrow. . . . We do not have sufficient confidence that the technology issues have been resolved . . . . We sincerely apologize."

Kicked my social media addiction only to realize how overrated IRL is

Instead of shaming the lawyers who get caught using hallucinated citations, maybe we should be shaming the AI instead - we are supposed to trust it

You only ever hear about the subset of lawyers who *get caught* with the hallucinated citations.

Yowzers. I just finished my 20th year of law teaching. Tempus fugit.

I just used Claude to complete all of my NYT games. It’s remarkably good at it. And wow. It’s going to save me so much time.

My colleagues here have named him “David”

🚨 I found a companion case to Summers vs. Tice! 🚨

The Meta /YouTube verdict sure opened the floodgates to the open the floodgates metaphor.

You may be entitled to your own facts, but you aren’t entitled to your own opinions.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I need to also get something else off my chest. I know it’s offensive. But. New Haven pizza isn’t good.

Within 6-12 months, law review articles will go into print before they are written.

Dusting off my gas siphoning kit

I’m calling for a forever moratorium on the phrase “nice to ‘e-meet’ you.”

When I was a Twitter guy I used to worry about what would happen if someone saw my posts - on here, I finally have privacy

When I was a kid we knew the true meaning of pi day - now it’s nothing but a scheme by the calculator industry to push out unnecessary upgrades

This was a lot of fun- I was able to remove my administrative shackles for a hot minute and work on this brief about drip pricing and junk fees.

I am just as flabbergasted as you that Burger King remains in business

As Daylight Savings Time begins, I am relishing all of the daylight I have saved already.

I’m beginning to think that social media has a downside for our society and civic life

Any of you legal aces out there want to help folks prepare for the bar? Come work with me at Willamette Law! willamette.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Willam...

Another (anonymously-given) A+ student gift -

you know a restaurant is going to be fantastic when it has “factory” in its name

Yankee Doodle in New Haven. A legendary lunch counter. Cheeseburger (with a pat of butter) and a hand mixed Cherry Coke. Cheap and greasy … just like me.

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Sunday night timeline cleanse please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there

Shameless self-promotion: my latest YouTube comment has received almost 45 likes and 5 replies (all favorable), vaulting it into position as probably my best ever

My amazing friend and college roommate who is considerably patient with my less than brilliant mind. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Caltech names new president, an astrophysicist who vows to empower 'brilliant minds'

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana will become the Caltech president. He will join the campus from Johns Hopkins University, where he is provost.

latimes.com

For a limited time only, I am offering free downloads of my drip pricing piece. There will be a small academic-fee surcharge, tho. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I wrote about junk fees / drip pricing before it was cool. I do think that there is a legitimate free market justification for an intervention so I think there could be, dare I say it, common ground here -

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 7mo ago

Mayor Mamdani announces a push against "junk fees" and "subscription tricks and traps" through the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.

"Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?" - Ogden Nash