Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot

You're not letting me update my links, so I'm not posting to this blog any more.  My new site is here .

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2017/09/ok-blogger-i-give-up.html

How do we count the ways in which the Westin Cincinnati is a very, very bad hotel? First, the good news:  friendly staff and great location.  That, however, is the only good news. 1.  Let...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2017/04/why-westin-cincinnati-is-likely-very.html

The story on Whittier in the NYT is here . As I said in 2012, "he world doesn’t need as many ABA-accredited law schools as it has already, just as the world has figured out that it doesn’t ...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2017/04/predicted-this-in-2012.html

Here's why: I was at the Burbank airport earlier this week, returning my rental car, and I heard a running sound.  The next thing I knew, a man (whose weight I've estimated at over 200 lbs--he...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2017/03/well-jeff-now-gets-to-use-satan-emoji.html

We used a friend of ours, Mike Cenatiempo, to update our wills.  Mike used to work at Shannon Gracey, which is now defunct.  We paid our bill in December 2016.  We got a "past due" notice from...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2017/03/how-not-to-collect-legal-bill.html

After I got hacked, I tried to change my administrative login credentials to my new email address, but Blogger doesn't believe me.  Let's just say it's hard to survive a hacking.

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2017/01/i-have-managed-to-alienate-blogger.html

Criminals are smarter than I am. Criminals are more dedicated to their jobs than I am--and I'm pretty darn dedicated. Computers can be used for E-VIL as well as for good. I have very smart, comp...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/12/lessons-from-being-hacked.html

Of course I'm angered and saddened about the increase in hateful speech across campuses (see today's latest story here ).  I don't respect the people who say such awful things.  But I respect t...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/11/i-love-first-amendment-and-i-can-still.html

In October, a B of A ATM ate a check that I was depositing.  I called Customer Service, and B of A  gave me a credit for the check while it was investigating what had happened.  (That was the ...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-i-am-frustrated-with-b-of-a.html

So grateful to you and your fellow servicemembers for all that you do.  Here's today's birthday greeting .

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/11/happy-241st-birthday-to-my-beloved.html

Yesterday, TaxProf Blog posted a story about the closing of Indiana Tech and raised the question of whether other law schools might close as well.  I think more will, and I said so in 2012, in...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/11/about-closing-more-law-schools.html

In today's Financial Times piece : > If one employee offends against a bank’s vision and values, it is >  fault. If 5,300 do, it is the bank’s. Wells Fargo has > pro...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/09/lucy-kellaway-is-correct.html

And here's why .

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/09/urban-meyer-is-one-of-my-heroes.html

Here .  For those of us who have lived through depression, it's hard to explain to those who haven't.  Thanks to folks like Stephen Fry, the Bloggess , and Hyperbole and a Half , it's possible ...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/08/stephen-fry-and-depression-great-read.html

Why is it, that at least one Doubletree, you have set the systems running the televisions (according to the repairperson I met yesterday) to change, at random times, from the channel that I want ...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/07/dear-hilton-corporation.html

On one of our other blogs (here ).

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/07/last-minute-advice-for-bar-exam-takers.html

There's nothing wrong with LVAC .  It's a nice gym, and it's reasonably priced.  But I love Lifetime Fitness , even though there's a huge price differential.  So why did I switch? The fundam...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/07/why-i-quit-lvac-and-switched-to.html

There's nothing wrong with LVAC .  It's a nice gym, and it's reasonably priced.  But I love Lifetime Fitness , even though there's a huge price differential.  So why did I switch? The fundam...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/07/why-i-quit-lvac-and-switched-to_11.html

Steve passed away suddenly, and my heart goes out to his family.  Steve was the dean at UH Law Center immediately before I came on board, and his graciousness and kindness showed what a mensch ...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/07/rip-steve-zamora.html

Here .

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/07/shameless-self-promotion-over-at-our.html

I came away from Liane Jackson's ABA Journal article, $10K prize-winning hackathon team dreams up new compensation model for law firms, doing a happy dance:  not just because I liked the ideas ...

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/06/great-minds-think-alike-about.html

Here . 

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/04/thanks-susan-fortney-for-lovely-review.html

To get a glimmer of this amazing man, see here and here .  May his memory be as a blessing.

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-passing-of-true-mensch-ira-shepard.html

From Above the Law and LawProfBlawg (here ).

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/03/great-advice-for-dealing-with-tiresome.html

See here .  I'm really glad that this program is thriving and that Dad, Jeff, and I have the opportunity to support its growth!

http://nancyrapoport.blogspot.com/2016/03/so-proud-of-rice-university-and-of.html