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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 17:07:51

U.S. Judge: Pro Bono Is Antisocial

Posted on October 13, 2008
Judges sometimes say the darndest things. Take Dennis Jacobs, chief judge of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. At a Federalist Society event this week in Rochester, N.Y., he argued that pro bono work by lawyers is "antisocial" and...

Podcast Potpourri

Posted on October 10, 2008
For those of you who can thank Christopher Columbus for an extra day off this weekend, no doubt you'll want to load up your iPods with an assortment of legal podcasts to occupy yourself and your family on that long...

Lessons for Lawyers in the O.J. Trial

Posted on October 10, 2008
Has any criminal defendant had more of his time in the courtroom televised to the world than O.J. Simpson? For this latest go-around in Las Vegas, where Simpson was found guilty of robbery and kidnapping, was anyone really paying attention,...

Survey Shocker: Lawyers Hate Stress

Posted on October 10, 2008
Just as Captain Renault in the 1942 film "Casablanca" was "shocked, shocked" to learn of gambling in Rick's cafe (as the croupier handed him his winnings), the findings of a new survey are so "shocking" that one wonders why they...

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Lawyer's Romantic E-Mails Will Stay Private

Posted on October 10, 2008
Here is a befuddling court decision about public access to a city attorney's e-mails. First, some background. Joe McNeil was city attorney for Burlington, Vt. Owiso Makuku was a Burlington city planner who resigned to become a consultant to McNeil...

Lawyer Couple Travels the World

Posted on October 09, 2008
Here's an interesting story about Shanna Singh Hughey and her husband Derek, two newlywed lawyers who've just returned from a year-long honeymoon traveling the world. Naturally, the pair brought their laptop and documented their adventures at a blog, One Year...

New Am Law Tech Survey Released

Posted on October 09, 2008
Via Ron Friedmann at Prism Legal, I learned that the 2008 Am Law Tech Survey is out, with a detailed summary at Law Firm Inc. This year, the study revealed that most firm IT directors are grappling with questions like:...

Where the Jobs Are

Posted on October 09, 2008
Even though firms are laying off attorneys, pockets of opportunity remain for job-seeking lawyers -- they just need to know where to look, and also where not to. For example, sending r�sum�s blindly isn't likely to produce many results, particularly....

Connecticut Probate Court on the Verge of Bankruptcy

Posted on October 09, 2008
In this economic climate, we expect courts to be handling more bankruptcy matters, not experiencing bankruptcy themselves. But that's the situation that Connecticut's Probate Court system is facing, reports the Connecticut Post. From the article: [Connecticut's] Probate Court system is...

Lawyers Face Criminal Liability for Failing to Encrypt E-Mail

Posted on October 09, 2008
Apparently, the state of Nevada wants to make sure that "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" -- or at least that any communication about what happens stays secure. Via Larry Bodine's Law Marketing Blog, effective October 1, Nevada law...

High Court Tosses Try to Muzzle Teaching

Posted on October 08, 2008
In a little-noticed order this week, the Supreme Court put an end to a controversial parental-rights lawsuit out of Massachusetts in which two families sought to block the Lexington public schools from discussing homosexuality. The blogger Marry in Massachusetts first...

New Justice Faces Conduct Complaint

Posted on October 08, 2008
Sworn in as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Aug. 1, Michael J. Gableman has been on the job just over two months, but he already faces his first misconduct complaint. The Wisconsin Judicial Commission filed charges against...

The Future of Digital Casebooks

Posted on October 08, 2008
It appears the hefty hardbound casebook survives to see another academic season, but its days may yet be numbered. On Sept. 27, some 40 legal academics and law-book publishers gathered in Seattle for a workshop on the future of the...

Lawyer Wears His Politics on His Web Site

Posted on October 08, 2008
The legal newspaper Minnesota Lawyer and its companion Minnesota Lawyer Blog have been doing great work covering that state's judicial elections, right down to a detailed online election guide. In an intriguing footnote to that coverage, associate editor Barbara Jones...

Promote Your Patent With a Plaque

Posted on October 07, 2008
Here's news of an interesting, just-released tool called Patent Plaque, courtesy of Free Patents Online that allows inventors to conveniently show off their patents at their Web sites, blogs or social media pages. Users simply enter the number of their...

Judges Want More Money, Associates Want Less Stress

Posted on October 07, 2008
What's more important in a job, more money or more time? A pair of news stories today examine this issue from different perspectives. On one end of the spectrum, The Legal Intelligencer reports that yet another federal judge -- this...

Technology, Social Media and the Penal Code

Posted on October 07, 2008
As the public's use of social media applications increases, our laws will eventually require modification to keep pace. For example, recall the still ongoing Lori Drew case. Drew, the mom who harassed her daughter's classmate on MySpace, allegedly leading her...

Yet Another Presidential Election Roundup

Posted on October 07, 2008
I know that I just posted a Presidential Election Roundup just a few days ago, but as election day draws closer, news continues to emerge. Plus, given the limited focus that's being given to issues in the campaign, it's refreshing...

An E-Discovery 'Cooperation Proclamation'

Posted on October 06, 2008
This may come as a shock to some lawyers: Discovery is not intended to be a process that drives up costs and increases delays. But if cost, delay and contention came to characterize the process before the advent of electronic...

Lawyers and Mental Illness

Posted on October 06, 2008
Three lawyers whose lives and careers have been shaped by mental illness are sharing their stories in related events this month in Louisville, Ky., and today's Courier-Journal is setting the stage. By last year, University of Louisville law professor James...

First Monday (Yawn)

Posted on October 06, 2008
Less drama, more work. That seems to be the prevailing view of the docket facing the Supreme Court as it begins its new term. "Compared with the last term, which included historic cases concerning Guant�namo Bay, the Second Amendment and...

Where are the Female Blawgers?

Posted on October 06, 2008
In "Where Are All the Female Law Bloggers?", writer C.C. Holland wonders why there are so few women among the ranks of high-profile legal bloggers. "It seems to be true that the majority of high-profile legal blogs, whether in academia...

Video Depicts a Supreme Embarrassment

Posted on October 06, 2008
I like the Texas Supreme Court because: "Now I have no way to know if my job site is safe, and my boss, he doesn't even have to care." -Bulldozer driver "I like giving insurance companies more and getting less."...

Morality Play

Posted on October 03, 2008
Here's a new way to teach legal ethics: on stage. As the San Antonio Business Journal reports, the San Antonio Bar is taking a new approach to bringing ethics to lawyers, by sponsoring a morality play of a sort entitled...

Presidential Election Roundup

Posted on October 03, 2008
Election Day is just a little more than a month away, and the campaign continues to intensify. So here's the latest roundup of news and stories on law-related issues and the campaign. The Elections and the Supreme Court CNN has...

Lawyer's Disciplinary Record Haunts Her Six Years Later

Posted on October 03, 2008
Two months ago, I posted about Shakespear Feyissa, a Washington state attorney whose past (a never prosecuted charge for sexual assault) has come back to haunt him courtesy of online issues of the school newspaper that reported the incident and...

Updates on Facebook's Top Lawyers

Posted on October 02, 2008
In a post here Tuesday about the new top lawyer at social-networking site Facebook, Theodore W. Ullyot, I noted that some unhappy Facebook users had responded to the news by creating a Facebook group with the unwelcoming name, Demand that...

How to Keep Your Career Above Water

Posted on October 02, 2008
Sure, we're in the midst of a financial crisis of a scale we've rarely seen. But if this is the 100-year flood, your career need not sink like a lead weight. Such is the look-on-the-bright-side advice of career counselor Stephen...

The World's Most Client Friendly Firms

Posted on October 02, 2008
Which international law firms stand out for the client care they provide and the quality of their service? The International Law Office, a legal newsletter publisher based in London, put that question to some 1,500 corporate counsel worldwide and tallied...

Is a Biased Moderator the Same as a Biased Judge?

Posted on October 01, 2008
Fox News commentator Greta van Susteren -- whom we last saw here criticizing the law school grading process -- returns with another controversial statement, this time about the upcoming Vice Presidential debates. Turns out that Gwen Ifill, who will moderate...

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