While a murder mystery in a fantasy setting may not be everyone's cup of tea, I like it.  Not only do I like and aim to support author P.G. Holyfield in his endeavor, but this video promo is just beautiful!!

This promo might run a little long (almost 4 minutes) but it is just so gorgeous that I had to place it in the feed.

Damn you, Holyfield!!

Please let me know if you have any issues viewing this and if you want some more information on the novel and its author, check out the site at http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/

The Life After Law School Podcast

This is a special edition of an Inaugural flavor.  I tested out my new Zoom H2 recorder by taking it with me to the National Mall to bear witness to the inauguration of our 44th President of the United States, Barak Obama.  The following recording is of his taking the Oath of Office and his Inaugural Address.

This is what you would have heard standing at the base of the Washington Monument.  There is crowd noise, wind noise and a bit of reverb from the time difference of many multiples of sound systems throughout the National Mall. 

You can find the full text of his address at CNN at http://tinyurl.com/7buosk

Also, remember that Copynight is coming up, check out www.copynight.org

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This episode discusses how human expectations have driven the costs of certain, high-value assets like housing and education to unsustainable levels.  The title and concept come from the book The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi.  I simply see a similar trains of circumstances relating to new lawyers and their law school debt as the authors lay out between two income families and bankruptcy.

News Bits:
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"Tournament Without End" by Marc S. Galanter and William D. Henderson
Open Media Review at http://openmediareview.com/
Open Jurist at http://www.openjurist.org/
The Command Line Podcast at http://thecommandline.net/
The Short History of the Billable Hour at the People Law Blog by Rhonda Muir

Other Cites:
Scott Greenfield's Simple Justice at http://tinyurl.com/5ejex3 and http://tinyurl.com/5o324h
Bill Henderson's Bi-Modal Distribution at http://tinyurl.com/5csaf4
Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" at http://tinyurl.com/5h2n9b

Promos:
Murder at Avedon Hill Podcast  by P.G. Holyfield
In Your Right Mind Podcast by Imagine That! Studios
The Command Line Podcast by Thomas "Cmdln" Gideon
"Contagious" Book Tour by Scott Sigler

The Sigler Stank Tour II celebrating the release of "Contagious" will make its final stop at the Border's at Bailey's Crossroads in Falls Church, Virginia.  For more information, check out www.scottsigler.com

Copynight is Tuesday, January 27th at www.copynight.org

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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

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To finish off the hat trick, I'm dropping in the last of the three-part End-of-the-Year Roundtable hosted by my friend Cmdln on his podcast, The Command Line Podcast, which he was gracious enough to invite me to join.

As no else can say it better, I'm including his show notes below.  New, original episodes of the Life After Law School Podcast are just around the corner.

The Command Line Podcast

This is a feature cast.

The feature this week is part three of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year.  I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen.  The topic of this part is the future of computing and we got into a fun, far ranging discussion of cloud computing and some of the technical and non-technical issues it raises.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.


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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

The Life After Law School Podcast

Happy New Year!!  This is the second of a three part end-of-the-year roundtable that I was graciously asked to participate in by my friend and host of The Command Line Podcast, CmdLn.  I'm including his show notes below, as he can say is better than I.

The Command Line Podcast

This is a feature cast.

In the intro, I share my review of Ed Piskor's "Wizzywig Volume 1: Phreak".

The feature this week is part two of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year.  I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen.  The topic of this part is where we are at with copyright infringement and enforcement.  Most recently the RIAA has announced it is stopping its individual law suits.  However, they are pressing an unusual criminal case against an individual.  The risk of the urge to perfect enforcement is the increasing irrelevance of copyright to the average person.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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