Just Sayin'

Let me state up front that Michael Coakley is a fine lawyer and I would not hesitate to hire him to represent me in a defamation lawsuit. But if I were the largest law school in the state - the largest in the nation - and were accused by a former student of being little more than a diploma mill, I would make a special point of finding a graduate of my own institution to lead the litigation. (Well, no, even if I believed in its merit I wouldn't file the case at all, for reasons summarized here, but if for some reason I were to file such a case....)