this is one of the reasons where Repositories come in handy

other than writing a query scope (http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#query-scopes) I wouldn't know how to do it

I've written a couple of posts about repositories in L4 if you are interested, http://blog.zenry.nl

I have never tried this, bus i think you should be able to override get method in you mode, smth like this:

class YourModel extends Eloquent {

    protected $table = 'table';

    public function get()
    {
        parent::orderBy('column', 'DESC')->get();
    }
} 

Good thought, but it appears to not work :(

I noticed I did not add return, did you? :D

Tried that, still no

    public static function get()
    {
        return parent::orderBy('column', 'DESC')->get();
    }