Commercial law for entrepreneurs and established companies: Big SVLFs, another bad acronym

Commercial law for entrepreneurs and established companies: Big SVLFs, another bad acronym: "An astonishing thing happened the other day over coffee with a potential client: he brought up this blog, and asked me questions about it. ..."

FamuBookSwap- Another Successful Skoolboy Production

Famubookswap.com is a website created for FAMU College of Law students to buy/sell law school textbooks and more. The website has been a great success and we hope to expand it to other law schools in the near future. If you are interested in adding your lawschool to the site, feel free to comment here. This is a great resource for all law school students.

FAMU BOOK SWAP

Summer Update

Skoolboy is expanding! We are working with other businesses such as Winchelle's Collection. Winchelle's Collection features beautifully crafted custom jewelry pieces. If you are interested, please feel free to stop by the Facebook Page at Winchelle's Collection

In other news: Skoolboy is planning to transition into a website consulting business. We want to recommend individuals to web designers that have been previously verified by us.  We work alongside these web designers to help our customers get the best prices.

Failed Simulation Effect

Read this article about the Failed Simulation Effect which essentially is about how certain students who may seem less qualified get into great schools just because others are unable to imagine themselves doing the same type of extracurricular activity.

Study Hacks

No Parent Left Behind Part 2

We did not make this up. These are real notes from parents from a Memphis school district.



1. Dear school: please ecsc's john being absent on jan. 28,29,30,31, 32 and also 33.


2. Please excuse gloria from jim today. She is administrating.

3. Please excuse roland from p.e. for a few days. Yesterday he fellout of a tree

and misplaced his hip.

4. John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face.

Movie Recommendations for Spring Break! Part 2

The next movie everyone should see is....

A Prophet- It is foreign film with a gangster twist.

Source: RottenTomatoes.com

Consensus: Featuring an impressive star turn by newcomer Tahar Rahim, A Prophet is a French gangster film filled with arresting, immediate details.

Synopsis: At age 18, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is just beginning a six-year prison sentence in this drama from THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED director Jacques Audiard. Though he cannot read or write,... At age 18, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is just beginning a six-year prison sentence in this drama from THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED director Jacques Audiard. Though he cannot read or write, Malik soon figures out the politics of the prison system, giving him a prime spot in the power struggle between two battling groups of prisoners. THE PROPHET reunites Audiard with two of his stars from THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED, Niels Arestrup and Gilles Cohen, as well as that film’s director of photography, Stéphane Fontaine, and its composer, Alexandre Desplat.

Movie Recommendations for Spring Break! Part 1

Long time no Review!

I finally have a little free time, so let me present 2 movies to check out.

Source: RottenTomatoes.com

First recommendation is Ghost Writer, although in limited release, it received a really good rating and is well cast.

Consensus: While it may lack the revelatory punch of Polanski's finest films, Ghost Writer benefits from stylish direction, a tense screenplay, and a strong central performance from Ewan McGregor.

Synopsis: When a successful British ghostwriter, THE GHOST, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister ADAM LANG, his agent assures him it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the... When a successful British ghostwriter, THE GHOST, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister ADAM LANG, his agent assures him it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start—not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang’s long-term aide, died in an unfortunate accident.

The Ghost flies out to work on the project, in the middle of winter, to an oceanfront house on an island off the U.S. Eastern seaboard. But the day after he arrives, a former British cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA—a war crime. The controversy brings reporters and protesters swarming to the island mansion where Lang is staying with his wife, RUTH, and his personal assistant (and mistress), AMELIA. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA—and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind. Was Lang in the service of the American intelligence agency while he was prime minister? And was The Ghost’s predecessor murdered because of the appalling truth he uncovered?

Resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and suspenseful political thriller is a story of deceit and betrayal on every level— sexual, political and literary. In a world in which nothing, and no one, is as it seems, The Ghost quickly discovers that the past can be deadly—and that history is decided by whoever stays alive to write it. --© Summit