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November 17, 2011
Law Porn: From p-mailing to e-mailing
Recently, law prof Stephen Bainbridge reported that
Today, I'd guess that 67% of the mail I get at the office is law porn [promotional literature from law schools] that goes straight into the recycling bin without ever being read. ... Lately, however, I've noticed a new trend. Snail mail law porn is turning into email law spam.
Speculating that these legal academy spammers probably obtained his email address from AALS, Bainbridge questions whether law e-porn will help or hurt law school reputations for US News peer assessment scores. He closes his Law Porn Morphs into Law Spam post with the following call:
I invite readers on law faculties to send me examples of law spam. I'll post them periodically in hopes that naming and shaming the spammers will do some good.
Well, at least a few trees are being saved by those spammers unlike the p-mailings generated ahead of the upcoming AALS annual meeting. See Vicki Szymczak's (Trying) to go Green post. See also Karen Sloan's NLJ story, Professor's plea: Say no to 'law school porn' ("The National Law Journal contacted a number of law schools to ask what they spend [on mailings]; none responded.").[JH]
November 17, 2011 in Law School News & Views | Permalink