It was a GOOD week for…
LAWYER FUN, when Lawsuit (a board game about the legal world) won “Game of the Year” for the fifth year in a row by Creative Child Magazine. Professional Games Inc., maker of the $32.95 game for ages 6 and up, takes players on a turbulent trip through law school, past the bar exam and into the real world of starting up a practice and litigating inside courtroom walls.
Lawsuit’s launched a new blog that discusses legal news for all ages, including cases involving sports, Facebook, healthcare and hit TV shows.
“We want to make learning about the law as fun as possible,” said Tina Nelson, Professional Games’ CEO, who created the game as a Father’s Day gift for her husband to teach their three kids a bit about what their parents do as attorneys.
It was a BAD week for…
LAW STUDENTS WHO DEAL METH, after Jennifer Marie Patterson found out she’s headed from one form of academic prison to an actual prison for the next three years for dealing cocaine and methamphetamine. After graduating from University of Richmond Law School in January, she plead guilty to a drug conspiracy charge just five months later for her hand in dishing out more than a pound of meth from 2007 to 2009.
There is a silver lining to the verdict: She faced a decade behind bars, but her sentence was reduced because she helped investigators. The case played out more like an episode of “Intervention”: hitting rock bottom from dealing rock has helped mend her ways, she claims, and her former law school dean applauded her ability to get out of a hole.
