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• Justice Antonin Scalia Says Some of the Best Minds May Be Wasted on Law
  • via Above the Law
  • In an interview with C-SPAN, Justice Antonin Scalia once again graced us with his worldview. As usual, it is as beautiful and terrible as the dawn. The WSJ Law Blog sloughed through the interview transcripts and pulled out this gleaming diam…
• Scalia Worries Gifted Litigators Should Be Doing Something More Productive
  • via ABA Journal Top Stories
  • Justice Antonin Scalia says most lawyers who appear before the U.S. Supreme Court are so brilliant that he worries they should be doing something more productive. Scalia’s observation was made in an interview with C-Span, the Wall Street Jo…
• Justice Scalia Calls for Dumbing-Down of the Legal Profession
  • via Lowering the Bar
  • Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on an anecdote from a set of interviews that all the Supreme Court justices recently granted to C-SPAN. This week is "Supreme Court Week" on C-SPAN, and that should attract more viewers than...
• A Gem from C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week Series Which Starts Sunday: "We're wasting some of best minds" on lawyering - Justice Scalia
  • via Law Librarian Blog
  • Beginning Sunday, Oct. 4, and continuing through that entire week--each night at 9 pm -- C-SPAN will broadcasting Supreme Court Week. Featuring an original documentary production "The Supreme Court: Home to America's Highest Court" as well as…
• Scalia "worr[ies] that we are devoting too many of our very best minds to [law]."
  • via Althouse
  • You're a smart kid. Do you really want to be a lawyer?I mean lawyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and to go on with their lives efficiently and in an atmosphere of freedom. That’s important, but …
• Scalia: ‘We Are Devoting Too Many of Our Best Minds to’ Lawyering
  • via InhouseBlog.com
  • Yes, you read that correctly. The WSJ Law Blog has done a great job digging up this nugget from a recent interview given by Justice Scalia. Head on over to read his full comments. Scalia: ‘We Are Devoting Too Many of Our Best Minds to 
• Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be litigators
  • via Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
  • The ABA Journal reports: Scalia Worries Gifted Litigators Should Be Doing Something More Productive. The article is based on an interview Justice Scalia gave to C-SPAN, as reported last week by the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. When asked about...
• Scalia Lacks a Certain Originalism
  • via PrawfsBlawg
  • I’m not sore that Scalia didn’t credit me. And I’m not going to brag that Scalia is out trolling my old blog posts for intellectual fuel. Hey, you don’t need me to tell you that the nation’s highest court constantly relies on Prawfs…
• Do We Have Too Many Lawyers?
  • via Fight The Hypo
  • I cringe to write this post. Both because it’s a just my thinking out loud and because it’s a bit risky for a law student in search of summer positions to write. But I do so because as someone training to be a lawyer, it weighs he…
• Supreme Court Week on C-SPAN
  • via Legal Current
  • We’ll be watching some special programs on C-SPAN over the next week and we encourage you to as well. “Supreme Court Week” on the network will feature interviews with 11 of the current and living retired United States Suprem…
• Anonin Scalia goes Beat
  • via Kids Prefer Cheese
  • Yes, everyone's favorite Supreme is channeling his inner Alan Ginsberg:Well, you know, two chiefs ago, Chief Justice Burger, used to complain about the low quality of counsel. I used to have just the opposite reaction. I used to be disappoint…
• Scalia: ‘We Are Devoting Too Many of Our Best Minds to’ Lawyering
  • via Thinking on the Margin
  • Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia:I mean lawyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and to go on with their lives efficiently and in an atmosphere of freedom. That’s important, but it doesn’t put…
• Nino Scalia Reinvents The Wheel
  • via Emptywheel
  • From the man conservatives and Federalist Society adherents routinely praise as an eloquent and transformational legal genius and gold standard for their idea of a Supreme Court Justice, comes this precious nugget courtesy of Ashby Jones at t…
• Justice Scalia To Lawyers: Get A Real Job
  • via Below The Beltway
  • Justice Antonin Scalia apparently thinks that too many smart people are wasting their time in the legal profession: [T]wo chiefs ago, Chief Justice Burger, used to complain about the low quality of counsel. I used to have just the opposite re…
• Too Many Lawyers?
  • via Electric City Weblog
  • From my favorite Justice, Antonin Scalia: Well, you know, two chiefs ago, Chief Justice Burger, used to complain about the low quality of counsel. I used to have just the opposite reaction. I used to be disappointed that so many of the best m…
• Too Many Lawyers?
  • via LewRockwell.com Blog
  • Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia thinks we have too many lawyers. He thinks young people should “do something productive” with their lives instead. Here’s Scalia: Well, you know, two chiefs ago, Chief Justice Burger, us…
• Old joke: What do you call a guy who had a "C" average in law school...?
  • via Standing On The Shoulders Of Giant Midgets
  • The ABA Journal points me to this bit from the Wall Street Journal's law blog: in a recent interview, Justice Antonin Scalia was asked by C-SPAN about the quality of the lawyers appearing before the United States Supreme Court. Scalia's respo…