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Now, you might think the SRA is overreacting to those private email exchanges. But according to NYU School of Law professor Stephen Gillers, an expert on legal ethics, the American Bar Association is adopting something similar.
“There are two recent examples of sanctions for sexist comments,” Gillers told me. “There are others. And the ABA is now debating a specific ethics rule on such things to make the prohibition even clearer.”
Law school news. Yes, it’s about Harvard and Yale:
1.
Way, way better than being a Sullivan & Cromwell partner. Good thing that former S&C associate Joseph Tsai ditched the Big Law scene in the 1990s, went off to Asia and ended up in China as one of the founders of the Alibaba Group Services Ltd., the e-Bay of China. The upshot: He’s now worth $5.3 billion,
according to Forbes. Yeah, eat your heart out, Rodge Cohen!
So what does a lawyer who’s hit the big time do with the money? Give it to his alma mater, Yale Law School.
As reported by The National Law Journal, Tsai is giving Yale a whopping $30 million in honor of his father,
Paul Tsai, one of Taiwan’s legal luminaries.
Of course, honoring your parents when you become self-supporting is a very Chinese thing to do. But in most cases, kids do so by buying their parents a Lexus or maybe a condo. Tsai has upped the ante on filial piety.
2.
Someone is drinking a lot of Kool-Aid. I can only assume that they’re taking a page from the Bernie Sanders’s playbook. But instead of merely demanding free college tuition at public institutions, activists at at Harvard Law School are demanding that the school be tuition free.
Reports The NLJ and
The Harvard Crimson:
Members of the group Reclaim Harvard Law published an
open letter Sunday addressed to Law School Dean Martha L. Minow and members of the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—demanding an end to tuition.
According to The Crimson, the activists are proposing that the Ivy League school dip into its massive endowment to cut faculty salaries to fund the idea.
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