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A Call for Social Justice Lawyering

Posted on July 18, 2008
Hearkening back four decades to the civil rights movement, Harvard Law Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. is issuing a call for litigators to revive the passion for social justice that characterized that era. In " Social Justice Lawyering: The Rule...

Changes in Store for 'Above the Law'

Posted on July 18, 2008
Popular legal-gossip blog Above the Law will soon have a new editor in place of David Lat, the former federal prosecutor turned blogger who gained notoriety in 2005 when he was revealed to be the pseudonymous Article III Groupie who...

Misuse of Red Cross Emblem: Another Kind of War Crime

Posted on July 17, 2008
These days, most discussions about war crimes bring to mind current or former Bush Administration officials like John Yoo, or even Vice President Cheney, for their endorsement of the use of torture in military interrogations overseas in violation of the...

What Do Clients Really Think About Outsourcing to India?

Posted on July 17, 2008
I've posted previously, here and here about some of the concerns that law firms have raised about offshoring legal work to India. But truthfully, who cares what the lawyers think about offshoring? After all, they're not paying the bills. By...

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Slate Puts its Convictions on Hold

Posted on July 16, 2008
Just four months after launching its legal blog, Convictions, the online magazine Slate is putting the blog on a sabbatical. The blog's editor, Phillip Carter, an associate at McKenna Long & Aldridge in New York, explained: Over the past four...

Lawyer Sues Google Over Ads

Posted on July 16, 2008
Don't ever mess with a lawyer and his ads. Boston lawyer Hal K. Levitte has filed a lawsuit against Google for placing his ads on parked domain pages, and he is seeking class action certification. Levitte advertised his firm through...

The U.K. Firm Gamers Love to Hate

Posted on July 16, 2008
London firm Davenport Lyons is the talk of some corners of the blogosphere this week, although the talk is not kind. The firm announced that it would be taking 100 British gamers to court for allegedly uploading the game Dream...

Goodwin Focuses on Non-Lawyer Training

Posted on July 16, 2008
The law firm of Goodwin Procter is stepping up its training and development of non-lawyer professional staff. The firm announced yesterday its appointment of Jamie L. Krulewitz to the newly created position of director of professional development and training for...

Dishonorable Achievement: Disbarred for Life

Posted on July 16, 2008
John D. Duncan achieved a dubious milestone this week, becoming the first lawyer ever in Maine to be disbarred for life. The former partner in the Portland-based firm Verrill Dana admitted to stealing $300,000 from clients from 1997 to 2007....

Are Virtual Law Firms Really a New Idea?

Posted on July 16, 2008
For the past news cycle, the blogosphere has been buzzing about Silicon Valley lawyer-entrepreneur Craig Johnson's next big thing: Virtual Law Partners (VLP), an 18-member virtual law firm. The idea behind the firm, according to The Recorder, is that by...

Lawyers Being Rendered Obsolete?

Posted on July 15, 2008
Though $1,000/hour billing rates aren't scaring off large firm clients, the high cost of lawyers' fees, particularly in recessionary economic times, is a major factor driving the growth of pro se representation, reports USA Today. Though many individuals handled legal...

Doctor Rating Site in U.K. Sets Off Controversy

Posted on July 15, 2008
You might call iwantgreatcare.org the Avvo for doctors. Just as Avvo allows clients to rate their attorneys, iwantgreatcare.org invites patients to grade their general practitioner. And just as Avvo has generated its share of controversy and lawsuits, so too has...

Legal Blog Watch Scooped by New Member, New York Personal Injury Attorney

Posted on July 15, 2008
Oh man! Eric Turkewitz joined the Law.com Blog Network just a few days ago, and already, he's scooped me on getting the word out. But then again, what do you expect from one of those aggressive, pushy New York Personal...

Marginally More Family-Friendly Options for Lawyers Than MBAs

Posted on July 15, 2008
A recent study by UC Berkeley associate professor Catherine Wolfram, a member of the Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group, found that MBAs are more likely than MDs, and marginally more likely than JDs to leave the workforce and stay...

Weekend Roundup

Posted on July 14, 2008
Here is a sampling of weekend news reports and blog posts of interest to legal professionals: Red Cross found torture at Guantanamo a year ago, a new book says Blawg Review #168, Bastille Day edition Nevada becomes first state ACLU...

Folo: Global Counsel Awards Announced

Posted on July 14, 2008
We posted here last month about the short list of finalists for the 2008 Global Counsel Awards, an international competition to honor outstanding in-house lawyers and legal departments. Now the winners have been named, with the award for general counsel...

Before You Make That Sex Tape ...

Posted on July 14, 2008
... Read this post at Technology & Marketing Law Blog written by Eric Goldman, assistant law professor and director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law. His basic premise is that online distribution of...

Greenhouse: We Get the Court We Deserve

Posted on July 14, 2008
Only Justice John Paul Stevens has been at the Supreme Court longer than Linda Greenhouse. She has covered the court for The New York Times for nearly 30 years, through 2,691 decisions and countless piles of petitions and paperwork, earning...

U.S. Judge on Blogging, Speech, Cameras

Posted on July 14, 2008
U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner of Boston, who attracted the attention of bloggers and the news media earlier this year when she joined the roster of contributors to the new Slate legal blog, Convictions, shares her thoughts on judicial blogging,...

Publishers Getting Sued

Posted on July 11, 2008
So maybe all of those lawsuits against God are frivolous, but can you sue God's publishers? A Michigan man, Bradley LaShwan Fowler, will soon find out. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Fowler has sued Zodervan Publishing and Thomas Nelson...

Survey Confirms That Social Networking Gains Traction With Lawyers

Posted on July 11, 2008
A just-released survey of 650 lawyers commissioned by legal industry giant LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell and conducted by Leader Networks reveals that almost 50 percent of attorneys already belong to online social networks, and more than 40 percent want to join online...

DivorceDeli.com Lets Users Order McDivorce

Posted on July 11, 2008
So, let's say you want to end the constant beefs with your wife or dump a spouse who's always sneaking a little extra on the side. Now, there's a place to find the help (or helpings) that you need: DivorceDeli.com,...

Offshoring to Americans Overseas

Posted on July 11, 2008
Last week's Wall Street Journal story on Axiom, a law firm cum high-end temp agency that outsources pedigreed, former Biglaw attorneys to corporate law departments on an as-needed basis, attracted plenty of discussion in the blogosphere, with bloggers like Bruce...

Court: Gay Marriage Not Retroactive

Posted on July 10, 2008
In the wake of the Supreme Judicial Court's 2003 decision legalizing gay marriage in Massachusetts, Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, on the very first day that the state allowed same-sex couples to apply for marriage licenses, Cynthia Kalish and...

Boston Lawyer's Debut Novel Wins Kudos

Posted on July 10, 2008
Raffi Yessayan knows a thing or two about crime. He spent 11 years as a prosecutor in Boston, becoming chief prosecutor in the district attorney's gang unit. Apparently, he knows a thing or two about writing fiction as well, given...

Grammar Errors at the High Court

Posted on July 10, 2008
What has happened to quality control at the Supreme Court? First came the news that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., in his dissent in Sprint Communications Co. v. APCC Services, misquoted Bob Dylan, omitting "ain't" from the lyric, "When...

Zittrain, Harvard Tie the Knot

Posted on July 10, 2008
Call it the future of Jonathan Zittrain. The author of the popular book, "The Future of the Internet -- and How to Stop It," has accepted Harvard Law School's offer of a tenured professorship and officially joined the faculty two...

A Proposal to Crowdsource Quality Control at the Supreme Court

Posted on July 09, 2008
The Supreme Court isn't supposed to make mistakes. After all, what recourse does a litigant have when the highest court in the land, the court of last resort, gets an opinion wrong? Yet err the Court did, not just once,...

Breaking the Glass Ceiling With Women's Networking Groups

Posted on July 09, 2008
With women accounting for only about 20 percent of the partners in Chicago's largest firms, female lawyers are taking their career future into their own hands. Rather than simply working hard in the hope that business will come, or trying...

Lawyer's Suit Over Junk Fax Settles for $1.8 Million

Posted on July 08, 2008
Fed up with all the junk faxes he was receiving from New Jersey auctioneer Metropolitan Antiques, Boston solo Evan Fray-Witzer decided to strike back. In 2002, he became the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Metropolitan asserting that...

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