It’s a day ending in “Y,” so the EU is doing something idiotic again. Seriously, I don’t understand how a theoretically enlightened collaborative of liberal-leaning nations can get together and be so pants-on-head stupid about the internet. And yet. Just before Christmas, the civil liberties and home affairs committee of the European Parliament voted for a measure…
On Social Media Culture and the Hellscape of Writing in the Era of New Media
Imagine being hit by a very slow-moving bus. You see it coming. You have time to prepare. There are certain poses you can assume, angles to mitigate the damage, but you don’t quite escape. You still get hit by the bus. Now imagine doing this professionally. Every morning, you go out in that crosswalk and…
Goodbye, LinkedIn, You Were Boring & Useless
I deleted LinkedIn because it was boring and useless and increasingly annoying. I’m actually surprised I let it hang around for so long.
Social Case Comment
The case comment in the age of social networking. A comic by Albert Wang.
The iBaby Generation
What is the deal with babies playing on iPads? What is with these iBabies?
Other Ways We Can Help Waste a Billable Hour
Where else to find Bitter Lawyer in the world, whether on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.
Why I Deleted My Facebook Account
No one can understand why I would ever want to disconnect myself from the (unfortunately) ubiquitous social network. Well, here’s why.
Bitter News, Week of August 22, 2011
Pet legacies, teenage slumber party legal rights, and law schools. Plus,it’s now legal to kill a beaver with a silencer. All in this week’s legal news.
Use Social Networks to Balance Out Your Law School Debt
If you are not one of the lucky ones to get into a public law school and are forced to go to a private law school, you will probably be paying an exorbitant amount of money in tuition. Some law schools are as high as $45,000 per year. To balance out the $45,000 tuition, start…
I Know Why The Caged Weiner Tweets
Full disclosure—pun entirely unintentional—I was once the (horrified) recipient of a (mostly) unsolicited picture text of a man’s junk. In light of the recent prevalence of news coverage on the Wiener2 scandal, I’m feeling as if the universe is calling on me to share my experience, lest any similarly-situated women fall prey to the same…