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Wacky Defenses to Tax Evasion

Posted on October 23, 2008
For Charles J. O'Byrne, New York Gov. David Paterson's top aide, filing taxes was a taxing task. So much so, that year after year, O'Byrne failed to file, eventually running up a tax debt of $300,000 which he has since...

Defense Lawyers Descend on New Orleans

Posted on October 22, 2008
If the courts seem a bit quieter this week, it is because trial lawyers from all over the United States are convening in New Orleans for the annual meeting of the Defense Research Institute, the organization that is to the...

Update on the War Crimes Conference

Posted on October 22, 2008
It has been well over a month since an array of lawyers, academics and authors met in Andover, Mass., for the Justice Robert Jackson Conference on the Planning for Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals, but the group remains...

How Not to Get Admitted to the Bar

Posted on October 22, 2008
From an opinion of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts this week comes a brief lesson in how to be sure you are turned down when applying for admission to the bar. First, start by verifying that you are properly...

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Who Benefits From Work/Life Balance?

Posted on October 22, 2008
Lawyers love to discuss work/life balance -- that often-elusive pursuit of simultaneous personal and career satisfaction. Law schools stage workshops about it, law firms hype it in their recruitment materials, and lawyers write loads of articles and blog posts about...

Blawg Review #182

Posted on October 21, 2008
This week, David Gulbransen of Preaching to the Perverted perverts Blawg Review #182 into a full-fledged multiple choice Bar Review exam, that you can fill out online. So what's the reason for this exam-themed edition? Well, Gulbransen's celebrating a big...

Economic Downturn Roundup for Law Firms

Posted on October 21, 2008
Here's a roundup of recent news stories on the impact of the economic downturn on law firms: End of the billable hour? Could the billable hour become the next victim of the economic downturn? After all, cash-strapped clients are no...

Lawyer Directories Might Not Work, but Networks Do

Posted on October 21, 2008
Last week, my colleague, Bob Ambrogi posted on Larry Bodine's criticism of lawyer directories as a waste of money at his Law Marketing Blog. Well, if directories don't work, what does? The results of a recent survey by law firm...

Highlighting Innovation Among Lawyers

Posted on October 20, 2008
Ron Friedmann at Strategic Legal Technology directs our attention to the annual Innovative Lawyers edition from London's Financial Times. This collection of articles highlights law firm innovation (no, it is not an oxymoron) in such areas as billing and fees,...

Firm 'Pedals' Unique Practice: Trails-to-Dollars

Posted on October 20, 2008
Three lawyers in the St. Louis office of Lathrop & Gage are establishing themselves as national leaders in a unique niche: rails-to-trails compensation. In 2006, the team won the largest per-mile recovery ever when the federal government had to pay...

Weekend Roundup

Posted on October 20, 2008
Walter Olson on thought patrol. Nothing like a good flame war between blawgers to take the chill out of autumn. Court tosses suit against God. A Nebraska senator's attempt to obtain an injunction against God was dismissed for failure to...

After 18 Years, ACLU Elects New President

Posted on October 20, 2008
The American Civil Liberties Union elected a new president Saturday, choosing Brooklyn Law School professor Susan N. Herman to succeed Nadine Strossen, who resigned in May from the post she'd held since 1991. Herman, a professor of constitutional law, has...

Harvard's Success Secret: Free Coffee

Posted on October 20, 2008
Harvard Law School is in the process of reinventing itself as a more vital, nimble educational institution. And its turnaround is due, at least in part, to free coffee. "As it turns out," explains Dean Elena Kagan, "you can buy...

Law Firms Cut Costs, With ABA Dues and Fancy Restroom Supplies First to Go

Posted on October 17, 2008
Nickel and diming isn't something new to lawyers -- after all, many lawyers do it to clients, all the time. But now, Elie Mystal is reporting at Above the Law that firms are taking their penny pinching in-house. For example,...

Rate the Lawyer's Video

Posted on October 17, 2008
We all know lawyers are suckers for rankings, as evidenced by the myriad lists that rank U.S. lawyers. But here's one that's a little bit different -- a graded review of lawyer videos, sponsored by Technolawyer and written by lawyer/video...

U.S. Treasury Receiving Bargain-Basement Rates for Bailout Advice

Posted on October 17, 2008
Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett, the firm selected by the Treasury Department to advise the government on the $700 billion bailout plan, will collect an average of $113/hour for its service, with its total fee capped at $300,000, reports The New...

Directories Matter: Yes or No?

Posted on October 16, 2008
At his Law Marketing Blog, Larry Bodine offers three good ways to throw away your money: "1. Shoveling bales of cash out of the back of a moving pickup truck; 2. Starting bonfires with wrapped packs of $100 bills; and...

First Thing We Do, Let's Waterboard All the Lawyers

Posted on October 16, 2008
A California attorney is under fire for posting offensive material on a Republican Party Web site linking Sen. Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden and encouraging readers to "Waterboard Barack Obama." Taking credit for the offensive site, according to the...

Judicial Candidates Face Off on Facebook

Posted on October 16, 2008
While some lawyers debate whether to dip their toes into social-networking site Facebook, others are charging through the surf and diving right in. The latest twist in how the legal profession is using social networking comes from Minnesota, where dueling...

Prominent Lawyer's Son Pleads Father's Case

Posted on October 16, 2008
Prominent Texas trial lawyer Fred Baron, founder of the firm Baron & Budd and a major Democratic Party fundraiser, is dying of cancer, and his son has taken up his defense. Andrew Baron wrote this week to James C. Mullen,...

Getting to the Meat of Chief Justice Roberts' Dissent

Posted on October 15, 2008
An experienced police offer more than a dozen drug busts under his belt and intimately familiar with the crime infested neighborhood properly concluded, based on the totality of the circumstances that he had probable cause to arrest the defendant. The...

Who Needs a Mentor, When You Can Have Your Own Posse?

Posted on October 15, 2008
Most lawyers are advised that finding a good mentor is the key to success. And indeed, the legal profession has, more or less, bought into this concept. Some large firms assign mentors to new associates, while a handful of bar...

Are Clients Too Lax on Conflicts, or Is the Government Too Harsh?

Posted on October 15, 2008
Earlier this week, I posted about how banking industry clients have been willing to act flexibly with respect to conflicts of interest so that they can retain certain go-to law firms to shepherd them through the credit crisis. (As an...

Law School Rank and GPA Don't Predict Law Firm Success

Posted on October 15, 2008
A recent study by Kerma Partners, in conjunction with Redwood Analytics, a property of LexisNexis, shows that grades and school rank aren't the best predictors of lawyer success at their firms. (H/T Jeff Yates, Voir Dire). The Kerma study was...

Despite Hoax, $33 Million Verdict Stands

Posted on October 14, 2008
In a post here last February, I wrote about how a blogger based in my neck of the Massachusetts woods brought about the exposure of an international hoax with significant legal ramifications. The blogger, Jane Daniel, started her blog, BESTSELLER!,...

An Immigration Treatise Haiku Contest?

Posted on October 14, 2008
Bewildered blogger Comes upon haiku contest. Fodder for a post. Having missed the initial announcement, I have no idea why the American Immigration Lawyers Association decided to commemorate the arrival of the 11th edition of Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook with...

Judge Defines "Technologically State of the Art Law Firm" in Context of Detainee Case

Posted on October 13, 2008
A military judge ruled that five CIA-held detainees representing themselves pro se are entitled to use of a laptop with at least 12 hours of battery power to review documents produced in their case, but not to other 21st century...

Clients Are Understanding About Conflicts Now, but Will They Remain That Way?

Posted on October 13, 2008
With so many banks involved in various transactions, deals and rescues arising out of the Wall Street meltdown, you'd think that many firms would find themselves conflicted out of representation. But if that were true, you wouldn't see the same...

Blawg Review #181

Posted on October 13, 2008
Though today's most recognizable holiday is Columbus Day, over at her Mediation Channel Blog, Diane Levin is celebrating International Conflict Resolution Day by hosting Blawg Review #181. This issue touches on a variety of potentially conflict-infused topics, from online dating...

Laptops in the Classroom Distract Non-Users More Than Users

Posted on October 13, 2008
To be, or not to be laptop free in the classroom? That is a question that has raged throughout the blogosphere for the past few years. Most of the discussion has centered on whether students who use laptops in class...

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