Benchslapping Judge Posner

When Judge Richard Posner left the Seventh Circuit to advocate for better treatment of pro se litigants, we didn’t expect to see the legendary jurist penning his own appellate briefs. At the time, Judge Posner planned to write and speak on the subject from afar while setting up an organization to lend an informal hand to pro se litigants that he feels are increasingly denied justice by federal courts so hung up on arcane rules that pro se litigants never receive a fair hearing.

Benchslap Of The Day: Sometimes Less Is More, Counselor Protip: try not to raise 29 issues on appeal.

Many young attorneys like myself never had a “real” job before graduating from law school. Like many others, I enrolled in law school right after obtaining my undergraduate degree, and I entered the workforce for the first time after graduating from law school and taking the bar exam. As such, I never really earned a regular paycheck prior to becoming an attorney.