Month: December 2023

[Author’s note: This will be my last new post until January. Next Monday, December 18, my annual Year Of Lessons From The Tax Court will appear in this space. It….

Miami Herald, From Mom of a ‘Five-Star Family’ to Murder-For-Hire Charge: Donna Adelson’s Dark Fall: Donna Adelson wanted nothing but the best for her children. A former teacher, she worked….

Saturday: This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts Tenured Law Professor Appeals Dismissal Of Civil Rights Lawsuit Over Suspension Following Use Of Redacted Slurs On Exam 15 Year-Old 1L….

Wall Street Journal, Religion and Riches at the Morgan Library: God and Mammon take center stage in two exquisite exhibits at the Morgan Library. “Morgan’s Bibles: Splendor in Scripture” highlights….

New York Times Op-Ed: The Mystical Catholic Tradition of Jon Fosse, by Christopher Beha: I came to the work of the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse — who receives the Nobel….

The Messenger Op-Ed: Universities Must Preserve American Values, by Jim Gash (President, Pepperdine University): It seems every week produces another story of intolerance, hate, or worse on college and university….

New York Times Op-Ed: Campus Antisemitism, Free Speech and Double Standards, by Bret Stephens: The presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania testified before….

This week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week’s list. The #1 paper is #1,100 among 17,889 tax papers in all-time downloads…..

Legal Education: Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), BigLaw Associate Compensation Soars To $240k for 1st Years, $550k For 8th Years Law360, Foley & Lardner Is Third Law Firm To Rescind Offer….

New Orleans Times-Picayune, ‘Once-in-a-Generation Level Talent’: This 15-Year-Old is a New Orleans Law Student and a CPA: James “Jimmy” Chilimigras is a typical first-year law student in many ways. He….