While I am working on mixing down the next episode, there are a couple of news articles and blog posts that I've become aware of and wanted to share.  It's too late for me to include them in the podcast, but I didn't want to wait to share them.

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

This is just a short bit, but I wanted to get it out there.  I recently received a link through Twitter.  The link was to a post giving a short history of the Billable Hour.  It's an interesting read and while I'll probably work it into an episode soon, I wanted to drop it here for you now.

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