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By Lisa Stone

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

Court Expectorates Mouthwash Class Action

Posted on February 29, 2008
Two Massachusetts plaintiffs were left with bad tastes in their mouths after the state Appeals Court refused to give class action status to their lawsuits against the manufacturer of Listerine mouthwash. Today's decision in Kwaak v. Pfizer concluded that claims...

Pricey Lawyer Draws Curious Crowd

Posted on February 29, 2008
Over the past three weeks, the legal malpractice trial against law firm Thompson Coburn in a Madison County, Ill., courtroom drew hardly a single spectator. That changed dramatically Wednesday, reports legal newspaper The Record, when gawkers filled the courtroom to...

Will the Constitution Doom McCain's Presidency?

Posted on February 28, 2008
Republican presidential candidate's John McCain's detractors may call him many things, but "un-American" isn't one of them. The Constitution suggests otherwise. Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution says that only a natural-born citizen is eligible for the presidency --...

Supreme Court Justice Recusals Attract Accusals

Posted on February 28, 2008
The possibility of a 4-4 ruling in the Exxon Valdez punitive damages case as a result of Justice Alito's recusal (he holds stock in Exxon) has triggered a discussion around the blogosphere over whether there's a better way for the...

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Are Law Firms Behind the Times When It Comes to Face Time?

Posted on February 28, 2008
In spite of technological advances like e-mail, remote computer access and low cost Web conferencing, it's back to the twentieth century for associates at large firms -- that is, if you accept Hunton & Williams partner Dionne Carney Rainey's conclusion...

Blawgers Help Victim of Lost Bar Exam Find Relief

Posted on February 28, 2008
There's a happy ending for Eric Zeni, one of the victims of last summer's New York Bar exam fiasco which involved the loss of 47 bar exams due to a software snafu. Zeni, whose laptop crashed during the exam and...

Law School Rankings: Off, Off Broadway?

Posted on February 27, 2008
No offense to the author, but here is one play unlikely to be produced on the Great White Way. Jeff Sovern, professor at St. John's University School of Law and co-author of the Consumer Law & Policy Blog, has just...

Dusting Off the Old Debate: Mac v. PC

Posted on February 27, 2008
Not sure why the ABA Journal has ranked the age-old Mac-versus-PC debate worthy of front-cover coverage, but at least the editors had the wisdom to recruit a member of the Law.com blog network, Rick Georges of FutureLawyer, to make the...

Lawyers Crushed by Information Overload

Posted on February 27, 2008
Information overload is crushing white-collar professionals of all ilks, but hitting lawyers particularly hard, according to a LexisNexis survey of workplace productivity published yesterday. Among professionals generally, seven in 10 feel inundated with information and two in five believe they...

Medtronic Hit With Two Huge Fee Awards

Posted on February 27, 2008
It has not been all good news this month for Medtronic Inc. Yes, it won a major victory in the Supreme Court last week when the court ruled in Riegel v. Medtronic that federal law preempted state common law claims...

Lobbying for Lawyers

Posted on February 26, 2008
Lobbying has always been a staple of law firm business here in Washington D.C. where I practice. But increasingly, law firms are grabbing a larger piece of lobbying work, much of which is sheltered from disclosure under the Lobbying Disclosure...

Lawyer Presidential Primary Roundup

Posted on February 26, 2008
With the presidential primaries still moving along, it's time for another roundup of news on the legal issues raised during the race and on the two remaining lawyer-candidates competing for the Democratic nomination. Negotiation Style: Obama v. Clinton With Obama...

Supreme Court to Lower Courts: Admission of 'Me Too' Evidence Is For You to Decide

Posted on February 26, 2008
Today, the Supreme Court decided to let lower courts decide the admissibility of testimony by employees other than the plaintiff regarding workplace discrimination, also known as "me too" evidence, in discrimination cases. The Court's unanimous ruling in Sprint v...

How to Succeed In-House

Posted on February 26, 2008
After my colleague Bob Ambrogi's post yesterday about the ginormous salaries and $100,000 bonuses for corporate counsel, you're probably salivating over the option of moving in-house. But before you start exploring the in-house option, you may want to ask yourself...

For GCs' Salaries, Survey Says: Ka-ching!

Posted on February 25, 2008
With newly-minted lawyers commanding stratospheric salaries, businesses are having to up the ante for top legal talent, enabling chief legal officers at large companies to command median cash compensation totaling nearly $800,000 and general counsel to draw $564,000...

Does a Lawyer's Price Reflect Performance?

Posted on February 25, 2008
Consider this: Taste-testers consistently prefer expensive wine over cheap wine -- even when both wines are actually the same labeled with different price tags. And this: Among consumers given an energy drink and then asked to solve word puzzles, consumers...

How Paralegals Can Stay in the Know

Posted on February 25, 2008
Can you name the country's 10 most influential paralegals? Which famous TV stars began their careers as paralegals? What offbeat tricks do paralegals use to accelerate their careers? The answers to all of these questions will be revealed in June,...

Fishing for Theme, Blawg Review Finds Memes

Posted on February 25, 2008
If Blawg Review was simply about rounding up the week's more interesting blawg posts, it would be work enough. But as the number of weekly installments moves well into the hundreds, the challenge for each week's reviewer to come up...

Bill More Hours, Get More Clients

Posted on February 22, 2008
You'd think that handling cases as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible would be the best approach to generating more business. But as Rees Morrison of Law Department Management shows us in this post, the opposite is true: Billing big leads...

Can Women Litigate and Procreate?

Posted on February 22, 2008
Can a woman attorney successfully litigate and raise a family? That's the question veteran law blogger Nicole Black tackles in her month-old blog, Women Lawyers -- Back on Track. Black discusses an American Lawyer article discussing many of the challenges...

Statistics From Around the Blawgosphere

Posted on February 22, 2008
For fans of statistics, this week's blawgosphere offers a small bounty, with two recently-released studies on (1) law professor blogging and (2) Supreme Court voting trends. Earlier this week, Paul Caron of Tax Prof Blog offered the results of his...

Law Firms Force Employees to Arbitrate -- Is Blogging the Reason for It?

Posted on February 22, 2008
Earlier this year, I identified Above the Law editor David Lat's in-depth coverage of Aaron Charney's discrimination lawsuit against Sullivan and Cromwell based on sexual orientation as a post that rocked the blogosphere. Before blogs, law firms could keep these...

Facebook's Fine Print: Trouble for Lawyers?

Posted on February 21, 2008
Picking up on the growing popularity among lawyers of Facebook as a marketing tool, Brian J. Ritchey at the blog More Partner Income issues a caution. He points to an article this week in Britain's The Birmingham Post warning that...

Trial Lawyers Get Lucky

Posted on February 21, 2008
"Superstition ain't the way," Stevie Wonder warned long ago, but trial lawyers, apparently, didn't listen to Wonder's 1972 hit. Trial lawyers, it turns out, are as dependent on superstitious rituals as pro athletes, writer Mary Flood tells us this week...

Court Dismisses RIAA Class Action

Posted on February 21, 2008
After the RIAA dropped its file-sharing suit against Oregon single mother Tanya Andersen in June, Andersen responded with a class action lawsuit against the RIAA and several record labels for malicious prosecution. This week, U.S. District Judge Anna J...

The Mess in the Minn. AG's Office

Posted on February 21, 2008
Just what is going on in the office of Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson? Over the past week, Minnesota Lawyer newspaper and its companion Minnesota Lawyer Blog have been covering staff attorneys' efforts to unionize -- an organizing campaign complete...

Preemption-Mania at the Supreme Court

Posted on February 20, 2008
The Supreme Court released five opinions today, four of which in one way or another deal with federal-state preemption. Three of the decisions involve classic preemption cases, i.e. whether a statute enacted by Congress overrides a conflicting state statute or...

Law Firms Still Not Sold on the Concept of Selling

Posted on February 20, 2008
As compelling as lawyers are when it comes to selling a client's position at trial or during a negotiation, their powers of persuasion somehow dry up when lawyers are called upon to sell something equally important: their own services. As...

Should Judge Who Jailed 46 Defendants for a Ringing Cell Phone Get a Second Chance?

Posted on February 20, 2008
Should one bad decision by a judge -- O.K., make that one egregiously horrendous decision that resulted in locking up 46 defendants because no one would take responsibility for a ringing cell phone -- cost him his career? The New...

The Law Firm, Circa 2018

Posted on February 20, 2008
What will the legal landscape look like in 2018? Rather than wait ten years for an answer, international law firm Eversheds decided to peek into the future for itself, commissioning a major study entitled "The Law Firm of the 21st...

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