Office Hours blog

What could be better than a fuzzy baby falcon?

Since the Spring semester ended, my near-constant companion has been a baby peregrine falcon, who lives with its mom (and sometimes its dad) near the top of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. The little bird was sick at first but is now thriving. Here’s the baby falcon cam. Turn up the sound […]

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The Four Rules of the Erie Doctrine: don’t stress, let it flow!

The Erie doctrine stressing you out? Don’t. As Fight Club‘s Tyler Durden would say, “Let it slide!” Better yet, let it flow. Here’s a Coggle flowchart for the Erie doctrine. It’s part of the Erie doctrine set in my MBE resources, as well as my JD Erie resources. The flowchart includes numerous issues arising under the Erie doctrine, […]

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Now online: Professor Nathenson’s MBE Civil Procedure resources

Civil Procedure MBE resources now onlineI want to thank so many of you for attending the Civil Procedure MBE review that I provided at St. Thomas Law last week. The videos from last week are now online at my YouTube channel at this playlist.But as you know, it’s not possible to cover everything in four hours. […]

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Civ Pro Reviews galore!

I want to thank everyone for coming to yesterday’s review session. Five hours. Wow. The videos are now all online and publicly available. There are eight (8) videos. Seven of them are from yesterday’s review session and the eighth is a short addendum I did this morning on supplemental jurisdiction. The reason I created the […]

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