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By Lisa Stone

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

Supreme Court Revises, but Doesn't Reconsider Child Rape Case

Posted on October 01, 2008
Back in July, my colleague Bob Ambrogi posted about a blogger who picked up on a actual mistake in the Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana, holding that the Constitution bars the death penalty for child rape. The Court...

As Real Estate Prices Drop, Legal Malpractice Claims Rise

Posted on October 01, 2008
Thus far, the decline in real estate prices has been linked to everything from the Wall Street crash and tightening credit markets to lax lending practices by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the resulting low interest rates that contributed...

Slow Day for the Illinois Grievance Committee: Lawyer Reprimanded Over $261 Expense

Posted on October 01, 2008
Let's face it. There are plenty of bad lawyers in our profession: lawyers who embezzle $150,000 from probate clients' trust funds; lawyers who misappropriate tens of thousands of dollars of client funds over a five year period; lawyers who accept...

Thomson Lawsuit Takes on GMU's Zotero

Posted on September 30, 2008
If you've never heard a law school faculty member squeal with delight, then you've never been to a Zotero demonstration. Zotero is a free Firefox extension used to collect, manage and cite research sources. It was developed by the Center...

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IBM Seeks Patent on Absence of Patents

Posted on September 30, 2008
IBM, it appears, abhors an IP vacuum. By way of news-for-nerds blog Slashdot comes word that IBM is seeking to patent a tool for identifying areas within industries in which little patenting activity is taking place -- thus allowing businesses...

Lawyer Loses Ladies' Night Lawsuit

Posted on September 30, 2008
Someone should buy attorney Roy Den Hollander a drink. No doubt he needs one, after a federal judge threw out his lawsuit seeking to put a cork in ladies' nights at New York nightclubs. The self-professed anti-feminist's complaint alleged that...

One Way to Raise Your Facebook Profile

Posted on September 30, 2008
A hot topic in legal marketing circles is whether social-networking site Facebook is a worthwhile tool for legal professionals. Say what you will, Facebook is doing wonders for raising the profile of Theodore W. Ullyot, ever since it was revealed...

Blawg Review #179

Posted on September 29, 2008
The IP.Com team celebrates the 70th anniversary of the ballpoint pen by penning Blawg Review #179. Not surprisingly, this issue of Blawg Review focuses heavily on IP and patent-related posts. But if you don't follow those topics closely, you'll still...

Wall Street and Law Street

Posted on September 29, 2008
The news is packed with stories about how turmoil on Wall Street is impacting Main Street. But what's the effect on Law Street? Not to sound too lawyerly about it, but the answer depends on where you work and what...

User-Friendly Law Firms

Posted on September 29, 2008
In recent years, companies have worked hard to make consumer products -- such as computer software or even an ordinary coffee can -- more user-friendly. So when are law firms going to catch on and start developing and applying ease-of-use...

Chinese Lawyers Pressured to Spill Tainted Milk Cases

Posted on September 29, 2008
Call it a primitive version of tort reform: The Chinese government is pressuring lawyers advising on possible lawsuits against companies responsible for melamine-tainted milk products that have sickened tens of thousands of infants to cease those activities, reports MSNBC and...

RIAA Ruling: Good News or Bad?

Posted on September 26, 2008
The decision this week by a federal judge in Minnesota to order a new trial in the recording industry's case against Jammie Thomas was seen by many as a victory for users of peer-to-peer networks. But was it? Thomas remains...

Survey: In-House Legal Departments Cut Back

Posted on September 26, 2008
Corporate legal departments are cutting back, reducing the number of in-house lawyers they employ and slowing the pace of spending on outside firms. This is the key finding of the just-released 2008 edition of legal consulting firm Hildebrandt International's annual...

SEC Lawyer by Day, Gay Eroticist by Night

Posted on September 26, 2008
Enforcement attorneys at the Securities and Exchange Commission are known for being straight up, but lawyer Scott D. Pomfret's second job gives that notion a whole other meaning. When he's not chasing down securities fraud, he's at his keyboard, pounding...

Hard Times Mean Whiter Juries

Posted on September 26, 2008
Hard economic times cause child-care, transportation and job problems for lower-income people. Those problems make it tougher for lower-income people to serve on juries. If lower-income people are less able to serve, that translates into juries that are not only...

Small Firms Gained in 2007, but What Does the Future Hold?

Posted on September 25, 2008
As with their Am Law 100 counterparts, small firms ranging in size from two to 150 lawyers experienced a banner year of growth, reports a study by Incisive Legal Intelligence's survey group (Disclosure: Incisive Media is Legal Blog Watch's parent...

Reimagining the Supreme Court

Posted on September 25, 2008
The October 2008 issue of the ABA Journal includes this fascinating article by Richard Brust entitled "Supreme Court 2.0," which reviews a list of proposals, ranging from extreme or fanciful to modest or commonsensical, for changing the structure and operation...

Did an SSRN Paper Influence a Sentencing Decision?

Posted on September 25, 2008
Though judges cite law review articles less frequently than they did twenty years ago, don't discount the relevance of legal scholarship just yet. As a recent federal ruling, U.S. v. Dicus (reducing a sentence as a sanction for prosecutorial misconduct)...

Law Bloggers Opine on McCain's Proposal to Postpone the Debate

Posted on September 25, 2008
Though McCain's recent proposal to suspend his campaign and postpone Friday's presidential debate so he can focus on working out the details of the financial bailout in Washington is more of a political than a legal event, law bloggers are...

Plaintiffs Winning Less Often, but Recovering More When They Do

Posted on September 25, 2008
Depending upon whom you represent, there's good news and bad news for employment lawyers. As I posted here last week, fewer plaintiffs -- indeed, just a scant 15 percent -- prevail in federal employment cases. However, as Jonathan Hyman of...

Mass. Wal-Mart Employees Recertified as a Class

Posted on September 24, 2008
Lawyers for some 67,000 current and former Wal-Mart employees in Massachusetts won a major victory yesterday when the state Supreme Judicial Court reinstated their class action for unpaid wages. In Salvas v. Wal-Mart Stores, the SJC ruled that a trial...

Louisiana Lawyers Challenge New Ad Rules

Posted on September 24, 2008
Lawyers in Louisiana went to federal court yesterday hoping to block new lawyer-advertising rules from taking effect Dec. 1. The lawyers, assisted by the public interest organization Public Citizen, allege that the new rules violate the First Amendment and impose...

Blogging as 'Vexatious' Litigation Tactic

Posted on September 24, 2008
Can a lawyer's blogging about his own case constitute sanctionable conduct? That is the argument being made by the Recording Industry Association of America in asking a federal court in New York to impose sanctions on lawyer Ray Beckerman, in...

Wrongful Convictions? Blame the Journalists

Posted on September 24, 2008
Steve Weinberg paints a grim picture of the criminal justice system and its track record of getting it wrong. "There is no definitive research showing the precise scope of the wrongful-conviction problem. It is beyond question, however, that not just...

Lawyers Still Unprepared for E-Discovery

Posted on September 23, 2008
A new study released by Oc� Business Services finds that 39 percent of in-house attorneys and 57 percent of law firm attorneys believe that their companies and clients are not prepared to comply with discovery requests under the 2006 version...

Law Commentator Calls Law School Grades a Fraud

Posted on September 23, 2008
While the law school grading process is most commonly derided by those law students and lawyers who fall on the western side of the bell curve, I rarely hear of law professors challenging the grading process -- until now. The...

Lawyer With Gambling Problem Takes a Gamble on a Lawsuit

Posted on September 23, 2008
Lawyer Arelia Margarita Taveras has a gambling problem. Several years back, she gambled nonstop for days at a time in casinos, losing around $1 million dollars, according to The Associated Press. And more recently, Taveras made a bet that she...

Train-Chasing Lawyers

Posted on September 23, 2008
As with anything else, overuse of technology has its downsides, and nowhere is that more evident than with the recent Metrolink commuter train wreck that left 25 dead and 135 injured 10 days ago in Chatsworth, Calif. Undisciplined use of...

Blawg Review, the OneWebDay Edition

Posted on September 22, 2008
Phew! I nearly missed OneWebDay. Must have neglected to calendar it. Fortunately, Peter Black brings it to our attention via his hosting of Blawg Review #178 today at his blog, Peter Black's Freedom to Differ. As Black, a lecturer in...

Bloggers Offered Insurance, Legal Training

Posted on September 22, 2008
A project spearheaded by the Media Bloggers Association will provide bloggers access to first-of-its-kind liability insurance along with free training in media law. The insurance program, called BlogInsure, will provide coverage for claims against bloggers involving defamation, invasion of privacy...

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