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Fifth Circuit Gives Thumbs Down to Firm's Request for Top Dollar Rates for Travel

Posted on May 02, 2008
Can a law firm charge its full hourly rate for travel time in a bankruptcy matter? Only if it can show that everyone else is doing the same, says the Fifth Circuit in Caplin & Drysdale Chartered v. Babcock &...

How to Guard Your Laptop From a Suspicionless Search

Posted on May 02, 2008
Now that the Ninth Circuit has given border patrol agents the go-ahead to conduct suspicionless searches of travelers' laptops or other digital devices when they enter the country, lawyers need to figure out ways to safeguard confidential and privileged information...

Purina Marks Its Territory

Posted on May 02, 2008
Pet food giant Purina is like a dog that won't give up its bone -- or in this case, its chow. Three years ago, Purina sent a cease-and-desist letter to Chow, Baby!, a Baltimore area pet supply shop and Web...

Many Law Firms Still Unconvinced of the Value of Blogging

Posted on May 02, 2008
Are large law firms blogging -- and if not, why? That's one of the questions addressed in this extensive piece by Alan Cohen in The American Lawyer on blogging trends in Am Law 200 firms. Referencing a March 2008 study...

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An Army of Lawyers in West Texas

Posted on May 01, 2008
In next week's issue of The National Law Journal, reporter Amanda Bronstad looks at the army of roughly 350 lawyers who are volunteering their time in West Texas to represent the more than 400 children taken by the state from...

Help Make The Bluebook Better

Posted on May 01, 2008
If there is something about The Bluebook that makes you see red, here is your chance to weigh in and perhaps change it. The Bluebook, of course, is the Bible of legal citation, the inside-baseball of the legal profession that...

Law Prof Sues Students for Defamation

Posted on May 01, 2008
The New York Times today picks up on a story that has been making its way around the blogosphere for several days, that of the University of Arkansas law professor, Richard J. Peltz, who is suing two of his students,...

Law Day Turns 50, Goes Commercial

Posted on May 01, 2008
As a lawyer who has devoted at least part of his career to the field of labor relations, both as an advocate and as a neutral, I have always had mixed feelings about Law Day. In a post here last...

Am Law 100: 2007 Was a Year to Feast, But Is It a Prelude to Famine?

Posted on April 30, 2008
2007 was a banner year for the nation's top law firms according to the much anticipated American Lawyer 2008 Am Law 100 Report, which hit the streets today. On the positive side, combined revenues for the top 100 reached $64.5...

Did a Question by Volokh About Lesbos Trigger a Lawsuit?

Posted on April 30, 2008
Did an innocent hypothetical by Eugene Volokh give rise to this lawsuit by three residents of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, asking an Athens court to block the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece from using the term "lesbian"...

Decision of the Day Passes into the Night

Posted on April 30, 2008
Today, Robert Loblaw of the acclaimed blog, Decision of the Day announced that he's ending his run. Loblaw's blog went live in November 2005 and since then, he's culled through newly published appellate decisions from all thirteen circuits on a...

Roundup: Legal News Worth Noting

Posted on April 29, 2008
Lawyer denies infiltrating State Farm database. Former federal prosecutor denies wrongdoing in Katrina case. Skycaps and waiters find a legal champion. Clients call Boston lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan "Sledgehammer Shannon." O'Connor to hear cases as visiting judge to Hub court...

Scalia's Write-Hand Man

Posted on April 29, 2008
For all the buzz surrounding the 60 Minutes interview with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, one might overlook the fact that this was not his only interview. For example, NPR's legal affairs reporter Nina Totenberg broadcast a three-part interview with...

Of Virgins and Christians and Net Neutrality

Posted on April 29, 2008
Whatever your position on net neutrality, you have to admit, the debate is getting weird. Witness two items making the rounds of the blogosphere, one tying advocacy for net neutrality to a presidential candidate's supposed denigration of Christians, and the...

The American Lawyer Launches New Site

Posted on April 29, 2008
Tomorrow brings the release of the Am Law 100, The American Lawyer magazine's annual ranking of the nation's largest law firms by revenue. This year, the release will also bring the official launch of the magazine's redesigned Web site. While...

Eight Years of Patent Board Rulings, Down the Drain?

Posted on April 28, 2008
"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may have a major problem on its hands -- the possibly unconstitutional appointment of nearly two-thirds of its patent appeals judges," reports Marcia Coyle in the National Law Journal. The issue dates back to...

India's Biggest Law Firm?

Posted on April 28, 2008
If it were a law firm, MindCrest would be India's largest, with 459 lawyers. According to Canada's Financial Post, the company's founder (an Indian engineer) partnered with two Chicago-based lawyers to create the legal process outsourcer in 2001. India's LPO...

South Korea, Japan and the Jury System

Posted on April 28, 2008
The jury system is a fundamental aspect of America's legal framework, but in other countries... not so much. That's starting to change, however, in places like South Korea and Japan. This February, South Korea held its first-ever jury trial, in...

Foreign Corruption Now Big Business

Posted on April 25, 2008
It's been thirty years since the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and now it's finally bearing fruit as a thriving niche practice area for law firms, according to the Washington Post. From the article: For most of the...

Sharpton Calls Acquittals in Sean Bell Case An "Abortion of Justice"

Posted on April 25, 2008
Reverend Al Sharpton minced no words in denouncing today's ruling by Justice Arthur Cooperman acquitting three detectives in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell outside a strip club a few hours before his wedding, terming the verdict an abortion of...

Student Twitters Himself Out of Jail

Posted on April 25, 2008
Many of my lawyer colleagues have wondered whether there's any value to Twitter, a type of online text message platform where users respond to the single question "What are you doing now?" However, for James Karl Buck, a resourceful student...

Will Gerry Spence's Winning Streak End?

Posted on April 25, 2008
According to his Web site, at 78, veteran lawyer Gerry Spence has never lost a criminal trial. But will this phenomenal streak come to an end in Detroit, where Spence is currently defending Jack Kevorkian lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger against charges...

'Green' Trademarks -- A Sign of More Green From Environmental Businesses

Posted on April 24, 2008
How can you tell that environmental business is the next dot-com? Look no further than the number of green trademark applications filed -- nearly 300,000 in 2007, according to this story at Sustainable Life Media. Use of the word "green"...

Suing for China, the American Way

Posted on April 24, 2008
CNN is discovering the hard way that there's a major difference between Chinese and American visions of justice -- and restitution. As reported in Reuters, a group of Chinese lawyers have filed suit against CNN in Beijing, alleging that derogatory...

On the Other Side of Wrongful Conviction

Posted on April 24, 2008
How does a lawyer get to be a an expert on wrongful conviction? Most follow the conventional route, such as taking lots of classes on criminal law, investigative reporting and forensics in college and law school; volunteering for a clinic...

Law Firms Still Not Relating to Client Relations Management Software

Posted on April 24, 2008
Incredibly, many law firms simply can't relate to the importance of client relations management (CRM) software, according to this article by Andrew Burger, one of today's top stories at CRM Buyer. As Burger puts it: The legal profession is all...

Client Intake: It's About Much More Than Just Checking Conflicts

Posted on April 24, 2008
In the world of solo and small law firms, "threshold law" describes the type of practice where a lawyer takes every case that comes across the threshold. However, even large firms aren't immune from their own form of "threshold law"...

Survey Ranks West Virginia Courts Worst

Posted on April 23, 2008
Congratulations to West Virginia. It's spot stands secure as the worst state in which to be sued. So says Lawsuit Climate 2008, the annual ranking of state liability systems published by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform....

Jet Maker Subpoenas Blog Critics

Posted on April 23, 2008
In the latest case of corporation-versus-blog, the manufacturer of a line of "affordable" jets is seeking to uncover the identity of persons who posted critical comments on an aviation industry blog. Eclipse Aviation has served a subpoena on Google Inc...

Is This Law Firm Ad Unethical?

Posted on April 23, 2008
The Nixon Peabody quarter-page ad that appeared recently in the Wall Street Journal showed a thoughtful-looking man above the headline, "I need lawyers who are more concerned about managing my risks than their own." Below that, the body of the...

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