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By Lisa Stone

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Lawyer Loses Libel Case

Posted on February 01, 2008
Pittsburgh lawyer Joseph Hudak says he will appeal after a federal judge this week threw out his libel case against the Erie Times-News newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Hudak sued the newspaper saying five stories it published misrepresented his disputes...

Must Lawyers Still Dress for Success?

Posted on January 31, 2008
Is the way you dress still integral to success? That's the question under discussion at the WSJ Law Blog, in response to this article in today's Wall Street Journal. Not surprisingly, the gap is generational; many older attorneys lament the...

Law Reviews Continue to Cite Blogs

Posted on January 31, 2008
Orin Kerr reports that law reviews and other scholarly journals are citing the Volokh Conspiracy bloggers with increasing frequency. Kerr reports that VC blog citations rose from 14 citations in 2004 to an all-time high of 69 citations in 2006,...

New Service Allows Posting of Documents to Your Web Site

Posted on January 31, 2008
One feature that I've always enjoyed about the Smoking Gun is how the site doesn't just reference documents, but embeds them like this right in the site for all the world to see. Well, now you can achieve the same...

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Presidential Campaign Roundup

Posted on January 31, 2008
As most of you know, two lawyer-contenders, John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani today dropped out of the presidential campaign, leaving two lawyers (Obama and Clinton) standing on the Democratic side, and just one, Mitt Romney, on the Republican side. Even...

The Tallest Lawyer Ever?

Posted on January 30, 2008
I love looking at old photos. When the Library of Congress last week announced its joint project with the photo-sharing site Flickr to post some 3,000 copyright-free historical photos, I started rummaging through the collection right away, looking for photos...

Legal Blogger: Goodbye to All That

Posted on January 30, 2008
All good things must come to an end, and so it is with Bench Conference, Andrew Cohen's Washington Post blog about various matters legal. In a post this morning, Goodbye to All That, Cohen says that he is stepping away...

Scruggs Fallout: Tighter Rules on Lawyer Hiring

Posted on January 30, 2008
The federal indictment of prominent Mississippi trial lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs on charges that he and four others tried to bribe a state judge hasn't done much for the reputation of lawyers in the Magnolia State. One offshoot of the...

Lawyers Do the Darndest Things

Posted on January 30, 2008
Is a full moon shining over the courthouse this week? What else might account for this spate of misbehavior within the legal profession: Illinois: Lawyer takes his fees in booze and Vicodin Connecticut: As convicted child molester pleads for return...

Are Cease-and-Desist Letters Subject to Copyright?

Posted on January 29, 2008
When hit with a heavy handed cease-and-desist letter, many recipients choose to fight back in court -- the court of public opinion, that is. In what's become a common practice (which we've discussed here and here), recipients of cease-and-desist letters...

Hard Times Ahead for Law Firms?

Posted on January 29, 2008
After years of exuberant growth, are law firms now headed for a downturn? That's one of the predictions offered by legal consultancy Hildebrandt and Citi Private Bank in what they describe as their first downbeat Client Advisory since the economic...

D.C. Law Firms Have Highest Per Capita Receipts

Posted on January 29, 2008
Even on the edge of recession, law firms are still doing better than most businesses, at least in Washington D.C. According to this news story, law firms in the nation's capital led the country in per capita receipts of $15,839....

Law Firms Using Social Networking for Training

Posted on January 29, 2008
Last week, at Lexblog, Kevin O'Keefe posted about how corporations have started incorporating social networking sites into the workplace to facilitate collaboration and link employees working at different locations. O'Keefe encouraged law firms to experiment with social networking rather than...

Firm Under Fire for Staged 'News Report'

Posted on January 28, 2008
In a story reminiscent of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's fake news conference last October, a Connecticut law firm and its PR consultant are coming under fire for a staged "news" program airing on public-access TV. The half-hour program features...

School Seeks Fees from 'Bong Hits' Plaintiff

Posted on January 28, 2008
Remember Joseph Frederick? He is the former Juneau-Douglas High School student who made a federal case out of his suspension for displaying the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner during an off-campus, school-sanctioned event. His lawsuit made its way to the....

2L's Sleuthing Makes Man's Day

Posted on January 28, 2008
Brian C. Ascher, a second-year law student at New York University, was eager to put off the paper he had to write on climate change treaties. So when his fianc�, Erika Gunderson, came home New Year's Eve bearing a digital-age...

Must AutoAdmit Case Admit Defeat?

Posted on January 28, 2008
Have the two anonymous female Yale law students who are suing the law school admissions forum AutoAdmit reached a dead end? The women claim in their lawsuit that anonymous postings on the site threatened and demeaned them and interfered with...

Mukasey Headed to Law School

Posted on January 28, 2008
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey is headed to Boston College Law School, not to matriculate but to orate. BC Law Dean John Garvey told students last week that Mukasey had accepted the school's invitation to speak at the school's graduation...

Lawyer Outsourcing Continues

Posted on January 25, 2008
Over at Blawg.com, Bill Gratch comments on this Law.com article, GCs Embrace Outsourced Work. According to the article, more and more in-house lawyers are outsourcing and, more specifically, offshoring legal work, in large part because of substantial cost savings...

Lawyers Drink More Wine

Posted on January 25, 2008
Not only do lawyers like to whine but they also like wine, at least according to a recent study from the United Kingdom. According to this post at Epicurious.com, the study showed that more successful professionals drink more wine. CEOs...

Another Presidential Roundup

Posted on January 25, 2008
Here's a roundup of stories about the lawyer candidates for president and the lawyers involved in the presidential campaigns. Clinton and Obama Law Practice Billing Records Under Scrutiny In an opinion piece at Huffington Post, Karen Russell comments on Barack...

Rate Your Lawyers at Inside Counsel

Posted on January 25, 2008
As my colleague Bob Ambrogi has posted here before, there's no shortage of lawyer-ranking services. Today, Larry Bodine blogs about another ranking scheme sponsored by Inside Counsel magazine that's going on right now: a "rate your law firm" survey for...

Law Prof Lured With Pricey Digs

Posted on January 24, 2008
It was just a few weeks ago that we wrote here about the miserable lot of law professors -- or more accurately about the whining of law professors proclaiming their misery. So now we learn, via The New York Times,...

Gibson Dunn Wasn't Joking Around

Posted on January 24, 2008
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher wasn't kidding when it sued joke-book editor Judy Brown and her publisher in 2006 for a series of books that used jokes by Jay Leno and other comedians without their permission. Yesterday, the firm issued an...

Texas Bar Finds Justice on YouTube

Posted on January 24, 2008
Make a video, three minutes or less, capturing the promise of justice for all and post it to YouTube. That was the challenge to Texans issued by the State Bar of Texas in the first-ever bar association YouTube contest, Lone...

Cyberlawer Wants "Cyberlaw" All to Himself

Posted on January 23, 2008
Eric Menhart is a lawyer who heads Cyberlaw, which holds itself out as a "recognized leader" in matters such as domain name disputes, copyright and trademark. But apparently, Menhart's work isn't as highly regarded by other Internet experts, who have...

Women Judging Women

Posted on January 23, 2008
When we discuss gender equality at law firms, we look for all kinds of reasons why women don't advance, from the billable hour to lack of work/life balance to less-successful rainmaking skills. But could it be that part of the...

A Law Firm Changes Its Clocks

Posted on January 23, 2008
When I first saw this headline from a South African publication about a law firm changing its clocks, my first thought was whether this practice might be the legal profession's equivalent of the investment world's concept of cooking the books....

Five Law Firms Make Fortune's List of 'Best Companies to Work For'

Posted on January 23, 2008
Even with all of the groaning about the horrors of biglaw life, five law firms made Fortune Magazine's annual list of "Best Companies to Work For." As Law.com reports, the five featured firms are: Alston & Bird; Arnold & Porter;...

For Poets Pondering Law School

Posted on January 22, 2008
It is the English major's dilemma: Follow your muse and pursue an MFA or give in to your practical side and go for a law degree? No longer need you choose, thanks to the new JD/MFA joint-degree program offered by...

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