Briefs: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, Serial Returns, Facebook at Work, Etc.

The terms that went with the sale of Wu-Tang Clan’s $2 million album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, include this amazing provision:

As Aaron pointed out in our chatroom, “I assume ‘no legal repercussions’ means Bill Murray can murder at will. (As part of the caper.)” Indeed. I think we all know what the album was about, now. The caper started the moment it went on sale. [@eastwes]

Facebook will apparently launch Facebook at Work, with separate profiles tied to companies. If Facebook at Work profiles are silos tied to your place of employment, it doesn’t sound like LinkedIn has much to worry about, but it could be nice to be able to separate personal friends from professional friends. [New York Times]

Although it’s early, there appear to be two notable trends in 2016 law-school applications:

1. Applications appear to have increased slightly (.6% through the end of November).
2. The quality of those applicants (using LSAT score as a proxy) has increased notably (higher LSAT scores are on the left side of the chart, for some reason).

The numbers on which these trends are based probably represent about 25% of next year’s law students, so it’s early to draw definite conclusions. [Excess of Democracy, via @DavidLat]

Can Serial replicate the success of season one? We’ll find out. “Dustwun,” the first episode of season two just dropped. This season’s focus is Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier who was held captive by the Taliban for five years, then released as part of a prisoner exchange for five Taliban prisoners. [Serial]

Every Supreme Court report ever:

[@OrinKerr]

A “legal watchdog” group in Texas has launched an ad campaign to warn the public about auto accident lawyers’ ad campaigns.

[Sick of Lawyers], a legal watchdog group of more than 200,000 people, says the new campaign warns consumers against believing everything they see in a lawsuit advertisement, and that they shouldn’t let a lawsuit advertisement scare or entice them into a lawsuit.

Okay, SOL is a clever acronym. [SETexasRecord.com, via @willhornsby]

I can’t believe I’ve never posted this before, but good news for lawyers in states where courts mandate the use of Courier!

If you must use Courier, try Courier Prime, a Courier variant that doesn’t suck … as much. It is designed for screenwriters, but it will look great in pleadings and memoranda, too. (Ignore the Specimens section; the font doesn’t seem to be loading properly and I’m seeing a default serif font instead of Courier Prime.)

Apropos of our podcast with LegalZoom US CEO, John Suh, comes this news: LegalZoom just bought a UK law firm.

LegalZoom chief executive Craig Holt said the plan is to build “a unique, next generation law firm” that is a blend of technology, lawyers and other expertise. Beaumont Legal is “an important piece of that jigsaw,” he said in the press release.

[ABA Journal]

Fin.

Briefs: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, Serial Returns, Facebook at Work, Etc. was originally published on Lawyerist.