Kevin O’Keefe and I disagree often about whether technology is the solution to all the problems facing law schools and the legal profession. But one thing we both agree about is that too many of the hypesters are snake-oil salesmen. So Kevin pointed me to the National Law Review to take a peek at the bio of the author of a post on the glories of technology for small law.
If your law practice’s viability relies on the Chief Imaginist’s education in “postcolonial and feminist literature with an emphasis on food studies,” you should give serious thought as to whether you’re cut out for law. I thought you should know.
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“There are a number of challenges facing small firms today, especially in the area of personal injuries. One of the biggest challenges remains getting new clients.”
– As he demonstrates his insight into creative and analytical thinking. Whooda’ thunk it?
You know how there are outrage groups who make sure that prominent Badthinkers can’t have a real job? Or at least do their damndest, within the limits of their attention spans?
Maybe the grown ups could do something similar to try to prevent the Terminally Unserious from having real jobs.
“Yeah, I was thinking about your practice software until I saw that your company thinks a background in ethnofeminist food studies is what you want in your Chief Imaginist. Gonna have to pass.”
Hey, a person can dream.
Well, a Chief Imaginist can dream (perhaps more than the Chief Dreamer can imagine).
I guess his training in postcolonial and feminist literature helped him come up with the job title of Chief Imaginist.
(As I write this, I see that “Imaginist” gets underlined with the red squiggle because the website’s internal dictionary does not recognize the word. I fear the day when I will type a word like “Imaginist” and not see the red squiggle because it’s now a part of the vocabulary.)
Everyone knows the name is “PracticePnthr”. You can’t end a company’s name with an ‘r’ without removing the preceding vowel.
I get the suspicion half of marketing print is done by someone who’s recovering from a sharp blow to the head.
Let me guess, you didn’t read the Wikipedia page on Postcolonial Feminism due to the fact that you pay a recently unemployed coal miner to do your billing and you forgot to sign off on the last batch of bills that went out, and the phone has been ringing?
Q is, how smart is this guy and what really is it with the “what” he is selling that bunches your boxers ?
P.S. Who knows in his down time he may be hanging out with Louise and Neil Gorsuch, drinking ouzzo with the Ouija Board out, asking Antoine advice about how to close the originalism loop for good, before Amazon starts providing conciearge service for its sex toy sales in the Whole Foods parking lot.
Well, he graduated MCL from St. Thomas University, has a graduate degree from the University of Chicago, and is Chief Imaginist of something, so he probably makes buckets of money which he can spend on honeys in Miami, where he lives. Meanwhile, I am a fat suburban failure with hairy ears. So I probably shouldn’t be so quick to mock him. Hopefully, you are better qualified to do so.
Way TMI. Way, way TMI.
All feminist literature involves food studies. Cookbooks are a must-have in a Home Ec curriculum.
Don’t be hating on food. I’ve eaten it my whole life.
Especially the kind with recipes that can get you arrested. But they’ve really gone downhill if the new standard is dishes like Burning Stick On A Stick and Bike Lock Soufflé.
Well, now you all have a good reason to sign up for grad school in postcolonial and feminist literature with an emphasis on food studies. Someday you too can be an Imaginist! (I think it should be an “imagineer,” sounds better and is appropriately more like “mouseketeer”).
The odd part is that he’s claiming to have derived a high level of expertise from a single-year master’s program. That is far too short to develop any serious subject matter expertise–much less to develop expertise in “impeccable writing skills and insight into creative and analytical thinking” Nonetheless he apparently managed to get a teaching job, albeit as an adjunct, and albeit at a CC (those poor students!) where his impeccable marketing and writing skills describe his work like so:
Developed a course syllabus and taught lectures
Oriented class structure to improve the students’ reading and writing skills
Evaluated, corrected, and graded undergraduate student papers
Oriented class structure to improve the students’ basic reading and writing skills
That is truly impeccable.
You realize your comment is longer than the post, right?
Well, I got curious about what company would hire him, so then I looked at practicepanther.
It may surprise you to know this but the practicepanther CEO does not appear to be a lawyer.
I think that ‘imagineer’ is already taken – either by Disney or Dreamworks…so there’s that.
Seriously – the gentleman’s job is in content marketing, do you really expect an advanced degree in Physics? Does a Graduate Degree from the University of Chicago ban him from writing about legal marketing? Reminds me of the Teddy Roosevelt speech “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…” Or in other words, instead of pointing out your perceived flaws in someone’s education, maybe get out there and contribute something that could possibly help someone…..
Let me guess, your associate’s degree is in vapid platitudes with an emphasis in mucous studies?
It;s not like criminal defense lawyers “contribute something that could possibly help someone,” as opposed to, say, a content marketeer. Moron.
The “moron” on the end was unnecessary. Avoid redundancy.
Well, the point of this posting seems to be that someone’s formal education can alone make them solely unsuitable to author a legal marketing article or based on the author’s reply, even to have an opinion on a blog post. While, I have not yet earned an associates degree in vapid platitudes nor have I earned an advanced degree from the University of Chicago, the author referenced in the article above is not charging for his opinion. And in the words, of the properly educated blog author, This is free. Legal advice you have to pay for….
First, use the reply button. You’re not special, no matter what your mommy told you.
Second, don’t try to characterize the point of a post. You’re hurt yourself and others who will laugh uncontrollably.
Third. if you had a tiny set of balls, you wouldn’t hide behind an infantile handle. Are you that afraid of being outed as a blithering idiot? If you want to persist, then grow a pair and use your real name.
Fourth, while the marketeer’s “formal education” is unsuitable for anything other than making mocha frappuccinos, he remains subject to the mandate that he not make people stupider, not that has any capacity to do otherwise. You are obviously exempt.
SHG – thanks for the helpful tip, used the Reply button. As far as using real names as SHG also suggested, I guess el purrp, REvers, Not Saying, JAV and PDB, also may not have the tiny balls of a fellow poster who is clearly using his own name, John Barleycorn. Perhaps John Barleycorn, due to his inspired courage and legendary reputation, could remind the blog’s author and other “blithering idiot(s)” of the guidelines laid out by the blog’s author: “I allow thoughtful comments, but please keep yours civil and respectful.”
You’ve just made yourself parody proof and don’t realize it.
But (s)he did give us all an object lesson on how to be passive agressive on the internets. Something I shall bear in mind the next time I feel moved to comment when my feelz are hurt by our gracious host. I will do it with impeccable writing skills…
In fact, first they came for those with impeccable writing skills.
Your feelz will not be hurt by our gracious host, he is a surgeon, not a butcher.
You may end up short of a limb just the same, but it won’t hurt as much.
Smart move to ignore the “making people stupider” part and go straight to Barleycorn. After all, what part of writing about tech and law would suggest someone have the slightest bit of knowledge about, oh, tech and law. Isn’t an emphasis in food studies the perfect background?
And Barleycorn, the blog clown, is definitely the guy you want to turn to here. You are one smart cookie, even if you’re just a n00b trying to play the cowardly idiot shill.
Vitamins for everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp78kGMYTI8
Ease on easy, it’s Friday for crying out loud…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcZhyH-ODd4
P.S. If any of you happen to find that Ouija Board I left outside the club in the alley on Wednesday or Tuesday night let me know will you? Someone returned the dice to the bartender but the Ouija Board is still AWOL.
Cleaning them sticky valves without decent lighting…
Is what it is, guess.
P.S.S. Don’t forget Tammy is covering for Earl on Monday and Wednesday night next week. Should be fun!
We’re gonna need a bigger ‘B’ Ark.
I don’t know which is more bizarre that he has degree in postcolonial and feminist literature with an emphasis on food studies and is therefore an expert in tech and law or this picture
Having learned “impeccable writing skills” a few posts back:
“I don’t know which is more bizarre; that he has degree in postcolonial and feminist literature with an emphasis on food studies and is therefore an expert in tech and law, or this picture.”
The picture is awesome, so does not win the competition you posit.
What do you say when comforting a grammar nazi?
There, their, they’re
So I clicked through: “There are now, even more, incentives for lawyers to become technologically competent due to the amendment to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct passed by the American Bar Association.”
Somebody please update the food studies curricula to point out that the ABA is the legal equivalent of fantasy football. They can pass rules all day long, but they mean nothing.
McLeod in 3 … 2 … 1 …
It’s covered in precolonial lit with an emphasis in flower arrangement. Duh.