Quick Hits (3/16)

Law.com carries some lawyers' accounts of the Atlanta court house shootings.    . . .     The Record (Harvard Law's newspaper) responds accusations that Generation Y has a flabby work ethic.    . . .     A judge and her lawyer-husband were cleared of accusations that they had covered up the suicide of the husband's ex-wife.    . . .     A paralegal revealed that an attorney had never obtained his undergraduate degree, and now the attorney has been charged with an ethics complaint for making false claims to the bar examiners.    . . .     Scott Peterson was officially sentenced to death today.  I work about a block from the court house.  I was in the crowd when the guilty verdict came in.  A huge roar of cheers rose up, and strangers were hugging strangers in exultation.  I was in the crowd when the death verdict came in.  There was cheering, but less than before.  It was frightening to me.    . . .     I was a quarterfinals moot court judge at Boalt Hall tonight, on a case that dealt with the famous (or infamous) In re Wilkins matter, where the attorney was disciplined for a footnote in an appellate brief suggesting that the court below had been result-oriented.  I can't comment before the moot court finals take place, but the students did a terrific job.