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By Lisa Stone

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

Biden's Ties to Trial Lawyers

Posted on August 29, 2008
My colleague Carolyn Elefant provided a good roundup earlier this week of perspectives on Joe Biden the lawyer. One item she pointed out was the Sunday Washington Post story about two lawsuits alleging that Sen. Biden's son and brother defrauded...

Lawyers, Guns N' Roses

Posted on August 29, 2008
The FBI this week arrested a Los Angeles blogger for posting nine songs from the upcoming and long-delayed Guns N' Roses album, Chinese Democracy. At his blog May it Please the Court, lawyer J. Craig Williams says that one interesting...

A Cover-Up in the Judge Kent Case?

Posted on August 29, 2008
From the department of dubious achievements comes the news that U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent of Texas is now the first federal judge ever to be charged with federal sex crimes. The Houston Chronicle broke the news of the three-count...

Real Estate Deals of the Rich and Lawyerly

Posted on August 29, 2008
My morning review of the headlines brought up a reference to Chicago BlockShopper.com, a site I first wrote about here last year (Site Tracks Sales of Lawyers' Lairs). The site stands out for adding color to the standard names-and-numbers approach...

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Lawyer Sues Women's Studies Department for Discrimination Against Men

Posted on August 28, 2008
When a university offers a women's studies program but no men's studies program, is it engaging in unconstitutional discrimination against men? Yes, says Roy Den Hollander, a New York lawyer who's suing Columbia University, a "bastion of bigotry against men...

Midlife Career Change for Lawyers

Posted on August 28, 2008
Most of the time, we hear younger lawyers expressing dissatisfaction with the legal profession, whether it's a lack of meaningful work or the lack of job opportunities. But even older lawyers get the professional blues. As this month's ABA Journal...

Should Law Students Pay Law Firms for Training?

Posted on August 28, 2008
"If associates get all the benefits of training at my law firm in the first three years, and can't really add much value anyway, why don't they pay us?" That's the question that Dan Hull asks in this provocative post...

Hillary as Obama's Attorney?

Posted on August 27, 2008
The Columbia Journalism Review points this morning to mixed metaphors from the Los Angeles Times in its coverage of Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech last night at the Democratic National Convention. One LA Times article employed what the CJR describes as...

Framing a Digital Bill of Rights

Posted on August 27, 2008
With convention season in full force, is it time to convene a cyber convention to draw up a Bill of Rights for the digital age? TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld thinks so. He is proposing a Digital Bill of Rights, one...

The ILTA Grapevine

Posted on August 27, 2008
Law firm technology wonks are gathered this week in Grapevine, Texas, for the 31st annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, and thanks to some of the bloggers in attendance there, we are all able to hear about it...

Fire Destroys 30 Years of Legal Files

Posted on August 27, 2008
A tragic story today from the Cape Cod Times: Lightning struck a law office in the Cape Cod town of Sandwich, Mass., igniting a blaze that engulfed the building and destroyed 30 years of legal records. The building housed the...

A New CMO for Holland & Knight

Posted on August 27, 2008
Just a few months into his new job as managing partner of Holland & Knight, Steven Sonberg had already started putting his stamp on the 1,100-lawyer firm, the National Law Journal reported last month. That trend continues as the firm...

Lilly Ledbetter's Double Play

Posted on August 26, 2008
The Democratic National Convention started yesterday, and already I've grown tired of the "where else but in America" mantra -- as in "where else but in American can the son of a single mom emerge as the Democratic candidate for...

U.S. News to Step Up Efforts to Stop Law Schools From Gaming the Rankings

Posted on August 26, 2008
We've posted previously, here and here on some of the controversy and criticism surrounding the U.S. News and World Report Law School Rankings, in particular, the system's susceptibility to manipulation. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that U.S...

Litigation as Profit Center

Posted on August 26, 2008
The next time you hear a tort reformer grousing that litigation is ruining the economy, you may want to consider the experience of Columbus, Ohio. As this article describes, litigation -- or more accurately, the Franklin County Courthouse complex where...

Does the Warner Brothers Suit Spell Hari Kari for Hari Puttar?

Posted on August 26, 2008
While the main characters in most movies generally survive through the final credits, in a bit of a plot twist, Warner Brothers is intent on killing off Hari Puttar (or at least the name, if not the actual character) even...

Presidential Race Roundup: Biden, the Lawyer VP Candidate

Posted on August 25, 2008
This past weekend, Barack Obama announced his vice-presidential choice, veteran Senator and fellow lawyer, Joseph Biden. Here's a quick roundup of posts from the blogosphere on Biden's position on various legal issues, as well as how he matches up intellectually...

Another Blogger Gets a Subpoena

Posted on August 25, 2008
So what if Dennis Crouch's highly regarded Patently-O blog narrowly missed being named the ABA's Top Blog on Substantive Law? Crouch was just pinned with a far more prestigious badge of honor: a subpoena in lawyer Eric Albritton's defamation action...

Not Many Law Bloggers Across the Pond

Posted on August 25, 2008
Law blogs may be all the rage here in the United States, but they've been slow to gain traction across the pond, reports the Times Online. In Britain, only a handful of law practitioners maintain blogs -- and the lawyers...

Female Lawyers Still Underrepresented at Firms

Posted on August 22, 2008
The number of female lawyers serving as partners at large firms continues to stagnate, according to a recent report from the American Bar Association, reports the Legal Times. Among the salient statistics: Although women account for about half of all...

Lawyer Scoots to Court

Posted on August 22, 2008
With so many law firms going green, you might think that Gastonia, North Carolina lawyer Brent Ratchford is just trying to be trendy by riding to court on a battery powered scooter. But while reducing emissions has been a by-product...

2008 Shaping Up As a Disappointing Year for Law Firms

Posted on August 22, 2008
A few months ago, I posted that even as law firms celebrated record profits for 2007, they needed to brace themselves for an imminent downturn. And with the first two quarters of law firm financial data for 2008 now available...

Will Technology Displace Lawyers in e-Discovery?

Posted on August 22, 2008
Remember the folk tale of John Henry, the railway worker who went head to head in a contest of efficiency with a steam-drill to prove that man was superior to machine? Henry beat the machine, but worked himself to death...

Two New Salvos in the Tort Debate

Posted on August 21, 2008
Is it broke and does it need fixing? That is the perpetual question about the tort system in the United States. This week brought two further contributions to the debate, one proposing a system of early offers in tort cases...

Size Matters Not in Flashing Case

Posted on August 21, 2008
It is the perennial question: Does size matter? Two clever Houston lawyers argued that it does, at least when facing criminal charges for indecent exposure. Defending a local doctor on charges that he exposed himself to an undercover cop, high-profile...

Porn Star, Hooker, Law Student

Posted on August 21, 2008
Law school is hard enough without having to hold down an outside job. Traci Bryant, a student at a Southern California law school, holds down several. Bitter Lawyer explains: Traci, 38, manages to do more in one week than the...

Boston Libel Judge Resigns From Bench

Posted on August 21, 2008
Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Ernest B. Murphy gained national notoriety when he won a $2 million libel verdict against the Boston Herald in 2005. His notoriety later took a different turn when the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct (CJC) filed...

Is Law Review Selection Biased -- Or Do Fewer Women Submit?

Posted on August 20, 2008
Over at Volokh, conspirator Orin Kerr revisits the question of gender bias in article publication in top law journals. Kerr references a recent draft article by Professor Minna Kotkin which concludes that "a disproportionate number of selected articles were authored...

WhoCanISue Needs to Learn HowCanIAdvertise

Posted on August 20, 2008
I wasn't much impressed with the new lawyer directory, WhoCanISue.com when I posted about it earlier this month. But my opinion has changed -- for the worse -- after reading Larry Bodine's scathing post about the company's marketing practices. According...

Do Good Lawyers Just Sit on the Sidelines?

Posted on August 20, 2008
Dan Hull, who blogs over at "What About Clients?" "What About Paris?", asks whether good lawyers just sit on the sidelines rather than doing something bold to become a great man -- or woman. (As an aside, we know from...

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