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David Friedman

@profdaf.bsky.social
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Law professor. Law school associate dean. I teach Torts. Oregon guy who is still a Connecticut guy. Personal account.

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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s 1pm, and I find it incredibly assuring that the HMO phone advice nurse greeted me with a “good evening” and concluded with a “good night.”
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I tried to get Claude to start a doomsday but I ran out of tokens. Now I have to wait until 5:20 am.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think I should document my NYC 9/11 experiences… before my memories fade and fray at the edges.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s this kind of garbage that made me cut my presence and time on these websites by 99%.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I haven’t been on here much in over a year. Did I miss anything? How’s everyone doing?
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Mt Hood trying to stay above the smoke…
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Lets be honest .It’s not about how you handle it, it’s about what life gives you.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s just not feasible to have the state bars administering the exam. Find a way to configure it to be administered by real testing companies, like the accounting and medical boards
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Kicked my social media addiction only to realize how overrated IRL is
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Instead of shaming the lawyers who get caught using hallucinated citations, maybe we should be shaming the AI instead - we are supposed to trust it
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You only ever hear about the subset of lawyers who *get caught* with the hallucinated citations.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Yowzers. I just finished my 20th year of law teaching. Tempus fugit.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I just used Claude to complete all of my NYT games. It’s remarkably good at it. And wow. It’s going to save me so much time.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My colleagues here have named him “David”
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🚨 I found a companion case to Summers vs. Tice! 🚨
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Meta /YouTube verdict sure opened the floodgates to the open the floodgates metaphor.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
You may be entitled to your own facts, but you aren’t entitled to your own opinions.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Within 6-12 months, law review articles will go into print before they are written.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Dusting off my gas siphoning kit
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I’m calling for a forever moratorium on the phrase “nice to ‘e-meet’ you.”
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
When I was a Twitter guy I used to worry about what would happen if someone saw my posts - on here, I finally have privacy
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
When I was a kid we knew the true meaning of pi day - now it’s nothing but a scheme by the calculator industry to push out unnecessary upgrades
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This was a lot of fun- I was able to remove my administrative shackles for a hot minute and work on this brief about drip pricing and junk fees.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I am just as flabbergasted as you that Burger King remains in business
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
As Daylight Savings Time begins, I am relishing all of the daylight I have saved already.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I’m beginning to think that social media has a downside for our society and civic life
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Any of you legal aces out there want to help folks prepare for the bar? Come work with me at Willamette Law! willamette.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Willam...
willamette.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com
Director of Licensure
ABOUT WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: Willamette University, founded in 1842, is a nationally-renowned private university enrolling 2800 students across five colleges. Our historic campus, adjacent to the Oreg...
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Another (anonymously-given) A+ student gift -
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
you know a restaurant is going to be fantastic when it has “factory” in its name
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Yankee Doodle in New Haven. A legendary lunch counter. Cheeseburger (with a pat of butter) and a hand mixed Cherry Coke. Cheap and greasy … just like me.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Shameless self-promotion: my latest YouTube comment has received almost 45 likes and 5 replies (all favorable), vaulting it into position as probably my best ever
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
My amazing friend and college roommate who is considerably patient with my less than brilliant mind. www.latimes.com/california/s...
latimes.com
Caltech names new president, an astrophysicist who vows to empower 'brilliant minds'
Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana will become the Caltech president. He will join the campus from Johns Hopkins University, where he is provost.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
For a limited time only, I am offering free downloads of my drip pricing piece. There will be a small academic-fee surcharge, tho. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com
Regulating Drip Pricing
“Drip pricing” occurs where the seller first appears to describe the full price of an offering, however after the transaction has commenced, the buyer discovers
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I wrote about junk fees / drip pricing before it was cool. I do think that there is a legitimate free market justification for an intervention so I think there could be, dare I say it, common ground here -
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
"Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?" - Ogden Nash
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The great Hanukkah miracle is ordering enough Chinese Food on Christmas Eve to last 8 nights
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Only 2 days left to do all of your forum shopping
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
1. Closed book exams 2. Oral defenses of research and more formative assessments on research projects 3. Endorse use of AI where helpful in learning process: for example, my students put class notes into Gemini and created a “Friedman Torts podcast” which they listened to on their commute.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Law school parking lot litter
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is quite a read ctexaminer.com/2025/11/25/b...
ctexaminer.com
Bridgeport Gangster, Stolen Car Kingpin Dead at 72
BRIDGEPORT – Barely a week went by in the 1980s when Thomas Marra’s name wasn’t on the front pages of Connecticut newspapers. He was called the gangster of Bridgeport, the […]
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
“Criminal attempt to commit disorderly conduct” connecticut.news12.com/li-teen-arre...
connecticut.news12.com
LI teen arrested for fake SantaCon event promotion
Police say Emmet Blaney, of Massapequa, promoted fake SantaCon gatherings at different private beach residences, garnering over 600,000 views.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Months of the year (ranked) 12. February 11. January 10. March 9. December 8. April 7. November 6. September 5. August 4. October 3. May 2. July 1. June
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
About 1/3 of the way into the Great Gatsby and I’m beginning to wonder whether this guy is “Great” because i think he is exaggerating his background 1/
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This one is going out to my Corporate/ Biz Associations friends - if a new lawyer did NOT take the basic course in law school but wants a handy way to get up to speed - what references would you have them read?
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I haven’t been here in a bit. I miss some of you people.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Just putting out there that there’s probably a way to make university and law school accreditation a whole lot less resource-consuming while preserving 100% of the accountability.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I moved to Oregon from the Acela corridor almost 20 years ago. One of the best things about living here has been that you can just … live here.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Our public schools are clearly not doing a great job of teaching the business judgment rule and the intricacies of shareholder derivative litigation
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
My new phone arrived!
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