Bad writing doesn't just make you look dumb.

It makes you look "unteachable."  In Michael Skapinker's opinion piece ("If you want a job, learn your it’s and its") in this morning's Financial Times (here), he points out that adults who don't know the difference between "it's" and "its" are demonstrating that they have a learning curve that's too long.  Here's my favorite quote from the article (and don't forget that this opinion piece is from a non-US paper):

Why, then, does mixing up “it’s” and “its” matter when it rarely causes confusion? Because, as Mr[.] Wiens says, if you haven’t learnt the difference by now, what else haven’t you learnt?

So true.  I cringe when people I know can't tell the difference between "it's" and "its", or "your" and "you're", or "there" and "their."  Maybe there's a learning style problem--I hope so, because otherwise I'm looking at people who don't care enough to learn a set of rules that pre-teens are taught.

For those of you thinking about pursuing careers in BigLaw.

See this interview (here).  Hat tip to The Legal Whiteboard's blog and to Bloomberg Law.

Useful information about legal education compiled by TaxProf Blog.

See here.

Cross-posting: top 5 things that law students should know about jobs.

See here.

Joe Nocera on undergraduate rankings.

A lovely piece (here) that applies just as much to law school rankings.

Why writing well matters, part n.

See this news story, especially about the court's reaction to a long, wordy brief.

TaxProf Blog has a great compilation of Bill Henderson's recent work.

See here.