David Friedman

Is it just me, or are some people on here engaging in attention-seeking behavior?

Those people from you distant past who reach out to you about a minor legal “crisis” and then disappear into the wind…. “Pick-Your-Brain-and-Catch-a-Train” friends

It’s 1pm, and I find it incredibly assuring that the HMO phone advice nurse greeted me with a “good evening” and concluded with a “good night.”

I tried to get Claude to start a doomsday but I ran out of tokens. Now I have to wait until 5:20 am.

I think I should document my NYC 9/11 experiences… before my memories fade and fray at the edges.

It’s this kind of garbage that made me cut my presence and time on these websites by 99%.

I haven’t been on here much in over a year. Did I miss anything? How’s everyone doing?

Mt Hood trying to stay above the smoke…

Lets be honest .It’s not about how you handle it, it’s about what life gives you.

Kicked my social media addiction only to realize how overrated IRL is

Instead of shaming the lawyers who get caught using hallucinated citations, maybe we should be shaming the AI instead - we are supposed to trust it

You only ever hear about the subset of lawyers who *get caught* with the hallucinated citations.

Yowzers. I just finished my 20th year of law teaching. Tempus fugit.

I just used Claude to complete all of my NYT games. It’s remarkably good at it. And wow. It’s going to save me so much time.

My colleagues here have named him “David”

🚨 I found a companion case to Summers vs. Tice! 🚨

The Meta /YouTube verdict sure opened the floodgates to the open the floodgates metaphor.

You may be entitled to your own facts, but you aren’t entitled to your own opinions.

Within 6-12 months, law review articles will go into print before they are written.

Dusting off my gas siphoning kit

I’m calling for a forever moratorium on the phrase “nice to ‘e-meet’ you.”

When I was a Twitter guy I used to worry about what would happen if someone saw my posts - on here, I finally have privacy

When I was a kid we knew the true meaning of pi day - now it’s nothing but a scheme by the calculator industry to push out unnecessary upgrades

This was a lot of fun- I was able to remove my administrative shackles for a hot minute and work on this brief about drip pricing and junk fees.

I am just as flabbergasted as you that Burger King remains in business

As Daylight Savings Time begins, I am relishing all of the daylight I have saved already.

Any of you legal aces out there want to help folks prepare for the bar? Come work with me at Willamette Law! willamette.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Willam...

Another (anonymously-given) A+ student gift -

you know a restaurant is going to be fantastic when it has “factory” in its name

Yankee Doodle in New Haven. A legendary lunch counter. Cheeseburger (with a pat of butter) and a hand mixed Cherry Coke. Cheap and greasy … just like me.

Shameless self-promotion: my latest YouTube comment has received almost 45 likes and 5 replies (all favorable), vaulting it into position as probably my best ever

My amazing friend and college roommate who is considerably patient with my less than brilliant mind. www.latimes.com/california/s...

For a limited time only, I am offering free downloads of my drip pricing piece. There will be a small academic-fee surcharge, tho. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?" - Ogden Nash

The great Hanukkah miracle is ordering enough Chinese Food on Christmas Eve to last 8 nights

Only 2 days left to do all of your forum shopping

Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students

Law school parking lot litter

This is quite a read ctexaminer.com/2025/11/25/b...

“Criminal attempt to commit disorderly conduct” connecticut.news12.com/li-teen-arre...

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