tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post78701491701274497..comments2024-03-28T10:56:31.720-06:00Comments on Outside the Law School Scam: Indiana Tech lawprof andre douglas pond cummings writes fawning law journal article comparing a better-known fellow lawprof with hip hop musician Ice CubeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-79619327506341687072015-12-15T02:16:22.653-07:002015-12-15T02:16:22.653-07:00We serious lawyers deserve a share of the blame, T...We serious lawyers deserve a share of the blame, Tricia, for allowing the "profession" to fall to ruin. <br /><br />Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-6239474778676002872015-12-14T20:40:29.214-07:002015-12-14T20:40:29.214-07:00In response to the comment above, the academy is s...In response to the comment above, the academy is slowly starting to realize that law school is should teach students how to be actual lawyers. Change is slow but it's occurring. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-88986751936889398362015-12-14T10:58:21.111-07:002015-12-14T10:58:21.111-07:00Thank you, Dybbuk, for exposing Dean Cummings'...Thank you, Dybbuk, for exposing Dean Cummings' enormous financial interest in the continued operation of a scam law school. Those poor students in Fort Wayne are forgoing at least a million dollars in wages this year. In return, they are being deceived by a charlatan about what it means to be a lawyer, just so he can put a fraction of their losses in his own pocket.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-41534325980342911522015-12-14T07:40:57.250-07:002015-12-14T07:40:57.250-07:00To me, Cummings, his law review article, the mutua...To me, Cummings, his law review article, the mutual admiration society amongst these so called "professors", and the determined eschewing of the "academy" of anyone with legitimate legal experience, to name only a few symptoms, tell us just how terribly sick is my profession. As a practicing lawyer, I simply despair at the near clownishness of these people. And yet, those that fill the "academy" are still taken so seriously by so many people who should know better. I'm not sure the people highlighted in this article have much to offer high schoolers much less future lawyers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659995537790248686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-59648510355223103842015-12-13T18:36:07.429-07:002015-12-13T18:36:07.429-07:00Mo' Money, Mo' Problems.Mo' Money, Mo' Problems. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-75474874899640342922015-12-12T22:04:56.070-07:002015-12-12T22:04:56.070-07:00Stefancic apparently has no qualifications whatsoe...Stefancic apparently has no qualifications whatsoever to teach law: she hasn't even studied law, for Christ's sake. She probably knows a damn sight less about law than almost any ½L at, say, the U of Iowa. <br /><br />But law is so magical and miraculous that someone who doesn't know shit about it can nonetheless get a job teaching it—particularly if Hubby or Wifey happens to teach at the same institution.<br />Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-67307585626708164382015-12-12T14:16:21.795-07:002015-12-12T14:16:21.795-07:00When it comes to anything uttered or published by ...When it comes to anything uttered or published by law "professors," follow Public Enemy's Flavor Flav when he sung "Don't Believe the Hype!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-32009636468207413312015-12-12T12:25:03.866-07:002015-12-12T12:25:03.866-07:00The flagship law review that I edited would never ...The flagship law review that I edited would never have accepted this ass-licking encomium. Admittedly that publication (which still printed a load of shite) was far more sought after, and got far submissions, than a third-string rag from the U of Minnesota. Even so, there can be no excuse for publishing Dougie Fresh's asinine scribbling. I can only suppose that the editors were eager to pander to Delgado.<br /><br />For that matter, why the hell have Delgado's pretentious, condescending, and downright horrible "Rodrigo chronicles" been allowed to disgrace the pages of law reviews? I couldn't get through two pages of one of them without feeling the urge to vomit. Like that born-with-a-silver-spoon-up-her-ass fake McElroy, Delgado lives vicariously in a low-grade fictional "narrative" world centered on a godlike intellectual (guess who) with a fawning protégé(e). Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-26607240075196314812015-12-12T09:04:11.802-07:002015-12-12T09:04:11.802-07:00I know, dear, I know . . .I know, dear, I know . . .Lois Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04940132718084602679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-58574370216277929712015-12-12T01:12:08.053-07:002015-12-12T01:12:08.053-07:00Using a hand grenade as a metaphor for scholarship...Using a hand grenade as a metaphor for scholarship is peculiar indeed. It suggests that within Dean Cummings resides a psychological imbalance accompanied by a serious moral deficiency. His relentless, belligerent self-assertion is reminiscent of the morally depraved "law and philosophy" professor Brian Leiter, who holds both genuine scholars and legal practitioners in thorough contempt. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-39510083728266950492015-12-11T19:18:01.836-07:002015-12-11T19:18:01.836-07:00Oh, I hadn't thought of that, Lois. I had in m...Oh, I hadn't thought of that, Lois. I had in mind "was spent as an ass".<br />Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-19822637871369156682015-12-11T19:16:18.323-07:002015-12-11T19:16:18.323-07:00And they certainly don't hire them at salaries...And they certainly don't hire them at salaries that can support the payments on their debt. And those jobs don't last long, since their whole purpose is to pad the data on "employment" at the tenth month after graduation. <br />Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-37483774407909836852015-12-11T18:46:29.146-07:002015-12-11T18:46:29.146-07:00Delgado takes the prize, recommending that student...<i>Delgado takes the prize, recommending that students at a TTT get a job writing wills on an Indian reservation. I'm no expert, but I'd wager that on the list of problems on most Indian reservations, the lack of proper estate planning is way down the list.</i><br /><br />One, hilariously enough, the job market is so glutted that even pro bono work writing wills for ungrateful Apache drunks is competitive and can require connections. Two, the tribes themselves are often corrupt and nepotistic (Sensing a theme here). What do you think your odds are of getting an actual paid job are if you aren't a member of the tribe? Third, in case you missed it, hundreds of years of the American government getting behind the tribes and giving it to them up the wazoo means that the tribespeople don't have much money to give you. Especially not enough to pay off your $150,000K loan for that priceless degree from Cow State University.<br /><br />This is why I consider apprenticing for a septic pumping company to be both more remunerative and more spiritually rewarding than going for a bozo J.D. The industry is not glutted, partly because the government hasn't spent decades frantically subsidizing shit pumpers. There is still money there. The economy would have to go off a cliff before people stopped pumping their septic tanks. Furthermore, mobs of adolescent lemmings DON'T aspire to a life of pumping liquid feces out of the ground. Very few people want to do it, and demand is high. This is what you are looking for if you want to get a decent paycheck (And to feel like you are useful and wanted. The psychological drag of being repeatedly told that you are worthless and unwanted is as bad as the debt). Even smelly trades work with a solid paycheck will feel a lot better than decades of worthless, low-paying shitpaper shuffling for clients who don't like you and blame you for their problems. At least customers are happy when they throw a wad of cash at the septic guy and he makes the poop go away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-62238710848470900742015-12-11T08:37:22.554-07:002015-12-11T08:37:22.554-07:00"andre douglas pond cummings’s very brief car..."andre douglas pond cummings’s very brief career as a practicing lawyer was spent as an associate"<br /><br />Cut off the last six letters.<br /><br />----------------------<br /><br />andre douglas pond cum?<br />Lois Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04940132718084602679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-83242186278147807672015-12-11T08:34:29.840-07:002015-12-11T08:34:29.840-07:00Doesn't matter how much they collectively &quo...Doesn't matter how much they collectively "focus." There is only a finite number of entry-level jobs, and a substantially higher number of law school graduates. The only way law schools can increase the number of jobs is by hiring their own graduates, which they're already doing.Lois Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04940132718084602679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-54167887718566257212015-12-11T02:08:00.323-07:002015-12-11T02:08:00.323-07:00So Cummings deserves slightly less than $60 per ye...So Cummings deserves slightly less than $60 per year? Or do we take the cube root of the year as well?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-68865797771955532712015-12-10T23:10:44.298-07:002015-12-10T23:10:44.298-07:00"andre douglas pond cummings’s very brief car..."andre douglas pond cummings’s very brief career as a practicing lawyer was spent as an associate"<br /><br />Cut off the last six letters.<br /><br />"Much of cummings’s 'scholarship' is in the areas of 'Hip Hop and the Law' and Sports Law, practice fields not notably in demand in Fort Wayne, Indiana."<br /><br />Or anywhere else in the world. But that didn't stop Indiana Tech last year, when it had not even 60 students, from letting that fake teach a course on "Hip-Hop and the American Constitution". <br /><br />"According to Indiana Tech’s 990, cummings was paid $204,445 in fiscal 2013."<br /><br />And he was worth the cube root of that figure.<br /><br />Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-80755763061502699352015-12-10T22:15:58.456-07:002015-12-10T22:15:58.456-07:00Hacks getting $200k per year tell their charges to...Hacks getting $200k per year tell their charges to work for poor people. <br /><br />But poor people don't have money to spend on legal services. If they did, they wouldn't be poor. <br /><br />For that matter, poor people don't need much in the way of estate planning. But writing wills on reservations might well involve law beyond the ken even of a reasonably competent lawyer who writes wills all the time, to say nothing of a typical nincompoop coming out of Seattle or Indiana Tech. I pity the Indigenous people set upon by these "lawyers".<br /><br />There's a person named Ice Cube? And he's not even a law professor? That sounds like the sort of thing that Dougie Fresh would come up with.<br />Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-4784376485458235172015-12-10T21:56:14.635-07:002015-12-10T21:56:14.635-07:00Dougie Fresh fancies himself a writer for stringin...Dougie Fresh fancies himself a writer for stringing clichés together, mixing metaphors and mangling grammar along the way.Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-30831624994308421722015-12-10T21:08:57.982-07:002015-12-10T21:08:57.982-07:00Law schools need to focus on getting students jobs...Law schools need to focus on getting students jobs. That should be the top priority. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-69364394988088139472015-12-10T19:51:16.616-07:002015-12-10T19:51:16.616-07:00So you're saying that any flamethrowing needs ...So you're saying that any flamethrowing needs to be eloquent flamethrowing?Law School Truth Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-73557507860278950092015-12-10T19:35:01.263-07:002015-12-10T19:35:01.263-07:00Fine work, Dybbuk, as always. And of course you...Fine work, Dybbuk, as always. And of course you're quite right to reject "narrative as valuable empirical proof of reality". ("Empirical proof" sounds like an oxymoron, but there's no point in discussing epistemology with pea-brained hackademics.) <br /><br />From the summary that you've posted, this piece of scholarshit can apparently be condensed to an attempted syllogism:<br /><br />Major: Critical race theory employs narrative.<br />Minor: Hip-hop employs narrative.<br />————————————————————————————————————————————————<br />Conclusion: Something.<br /><br />That sort of reasoning won't serve one well on the LSAT. Then again, Indiana Tech is, shall we say, flexible about LSAT scores.<br /><br />Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-33509299371763029812015-12-10T18:23:11.573-07:002015-12-10T18:23:11.573-07:00Excellent work! It's almost beyond comprehens...Excellent work! It's almost beyond comprehension how out of touch with reality both Cummings and Delgado are, although Delgado takes the prize, recommending that students at a TTT get a job writing wills on an Indian reservation. I'm no expert, but I'd wager that on the list of problems on most Indian reservations, the lack of proper estate planning is way down the list.<br />And Cummings...there was a very interesting poet years ago who signed his work "e.e. cummings" and his poems are worth reading. The Indiana Tech imposter's drivel, on the other hand, ought not to ever be published.<br />Kudos to you OTLSS for bringing this pretentious nonsense into the light.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-55510229070415777252015-12-10T12:33:19.390-07:002015-12-10T12:33:19.390-07:00Useful scholarship is exceedingly rare. Most anyth...Useful scholarship is exceedingly rare. Most anything truly useful is published as a third party or given away for free on the internet these days. <br /><br />But this...this stuff is indeed another level even compared to the usual barely worthwhile driven that the aristocracy puts out to justify all the government welfare they shamelessly take. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-54624267442002797662015-12-10T12:33:12.050-07:002015-12-10T12:33:12.050-07:00Great parody of law-review drek! And you did it wi...Great parody of law-review drek! And you did it without footnotes! Oops, no law review will publish it!Old Ruster from JDJunkyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01223553546778880542noreply@blogger.com