We were recently tipped off to an interesting phenomenon.

It seems that law students these days aren’t always furiously scribbling notes, praying not to be called on by their Socratic-minded professors, or otherwise becoming the country’s next wave of ambulance chasers and Supreme Court justices. In fact, as we were informed by a close source, many law students who use their laptops in class spend time alternating between paying attention and pretending to pay attention. When they’re not learning of civil procedure, contracts, torts, and legal precedents, they’re reading email, messaging each other, and yes, reading DCist. They are, so we’re told, master multi-taskers.

We really are flattered that so many lawyers-to-be would rather be reading our modest site than mastering the rules of evidence and other stuff that might help them become, you know, lawyers. So to those dedicated law students at Georgetown, George Washington, American, Howard, UDC, Catholic, and George Mason, happy reading!