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Local Currencies Emerging in U.S. Towns as Economic Downturn Lingers

Posted on July 21, 2010
An idea popular during the Great Depression appears to be growing in popularity again today as the effects of the financial crisis continue: local currencies. The American Banker reports that in May 2010, people lined up around the block in Ardmore, Penn...

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on July 21, 2010
1) Question: I'd like to find a job in public service that allows me to help the community. I'd also like to make no less than $800,000 per year. Any suggestions? Answer: The Chief Administrative Officer position in Bell, Calif., may be a good fit for you...

Court Finds 'Stolen Valor Act' That Prohibits Lying About Military Medals Violates Free Speech

Posted on July 21, 2010
A federal judge in Denver ruled last week that the "Stolen Valor Act," which prohibits people from falsely claiming they have been awarded military decorations and medals, is "facially unconstitutional." U.S. District Judge Robert E. Blackburn ruled on Friday of last week that the act violates free speech...

Best. College Library Marketing Video. Ever.

Posted on July 20, 2010
By now, the Old Spice ads featuring the "I'm on a horse" guy have surpassed viral and become positively bacterial. (I just made that up. Let's see if it catches on.) In the past week or so, Old Spice Guy (real name Isaiah Mustafa) has been trading personalized towel-clad videos with no lesser a celebrity than my favorite child star/rabid baseball fan Alyssa Milano...

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Stupid Defendant Tricks: Poor Photo-Editing Skills Edition

Posted on July 20, 2010
When you're facing decades in federal prison on various and sundry fraud offenses, I imagine the temptation to use any means necessary to try to shave a few years off your sentence is rather strong. I also imagine that, if you're the kind of person who would use a fake cashier's check to buy a $30,000 car, you might not have the greatest judgment...

Robot Robot & Hwang -- Lindsay Lohan's Next Law Firm?

Posted on July 20, 2010
My predecessor Bob Ambrogi wrote on LawSites yesterday about a faux law firm website that made me smile. Robot Robot & Hwang is apparently the brainchild of Tim Hwang, who, though not actually a lawyer, purports to be the one human partner in the three-attorney firm...

Former Law Librarian Cautions -- Poetically -- Against Blind Faith in Free Internet Research

Posted on July 20, 2010
Via a link on the New York Supreme Court, Criminal Term's Law Library Blog, I came across a very well done parable authored by Jonathan Stock, who retired last year as supervising law librarian for the Connecticut Judicial Branch in Stamford. Stock's "Chambers of the Sea: Who Needs Law Libraries? It's All Free on the Internet...

How to Remind Job Applicants That You're Gonna Check Out Their 'Walls' Online

Posted on July 19, 2010
This morning at the Delaware Employment Law Blog, Molly DiBianca suggests that, though it's not required, businesses that plan to snoop on job applicants via the Internet disclose their intent to do so. And if you're looking for vague language to accomplish that disclosure, DiBianca suggests taking a page from the federal government's book...

Freshfields to Blur the Meaning of 'Associate'

Posted on July 19, 2010
A report this morning on the Legal Week website reveals that Magic Circle powerhouse Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has decided to implement a pilot program among corporate associates in its London office, offering them a veritable cornucopia of "alternative work schemes...

Brooklyn Judge: 'I Know You've Been Sworn ... ' but I Don't Care

Posted on July 19, 2010
Hot on the heels of the Judge Judy profile, TV court is getting some attention from real-life courts. A July 8 opinion out of New York Supreme Court, Kings County (aka Brooklyn) chastised a New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Administrative Hearing Officer for relying in part on a woman's "testimony" from an episode of "The People's Court" in denying her succession rights to her deceased mother's rent-stabilized apartment...

Have Nasty Emails From Opposing Counsel Read to You While You Drive

Posted on July 16, 2010
Today at Lawyerist, Randall Ryder touts a smartphone application for all the "crackberry" (is there a similar nickname for iPhones?) addicts out there who don't want to run afoul of the no-texting-while-driving laws and/or meet their demise in a fiery crash...

Friday Grammar & Style Detour: The Serial Comma

Posted on July 16, 2010
My mission is to watch legal blogs. The Volokh Conspiracy is the number 2 legal blog in all of internetdom, according to the Avvo legal blog rankings. Thus, the following: This morning at Volokh, David Post laments the apparent demise of the serial comma in The New York Times...

Paul Hastings Summers: Get Rid of the Dubble Bubble

Posted on July 16, 2010
Earlier this week, Vivia Chen at the Careerist blog posted a mini-interview with Paul Hastings hiring partner Leigh Ryan. In Chen's series of five (so far) hiring partner interviews, Ryan was the first woman up to bat. I'm not sure why that's significant, but Chen pointed it out, so there you go...

LBW (Canadian) Lawsuit of the Day: Casinos Let Me Keep Losing Money

Posted on July 16, 2010
It's no "improper use of a beer pong commercial," but it's more interesting than the average slip and fall. A Canadian woman has sued the British Columbia Lottery Corporation and two casino owners for letting her gamble away over $300,000 after she had signed a "voluntary self-exclusion" form, pursuant to which she should have been thrown out on her a$$ as soon as she entered the building...

Westlaw Reference Attorneys Now Blogging About Stuff You Can't Find

Posted on July 15, 2010
It's been a while since we welcomed a newcomer to the blawgosphere. So, though we were scooped by the Law Librarian Blog and 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, it seems worthwhile to note that West's (in)famous reference attorneys have started their own blog. It's expressly geared toward summer associates, so I wonder whether it will continue post-August, or just take a nice long hiatus...

TSA Advertising for Officers on Pizza Boxes

Posted on July 15, 2010
The legal job market may not be what it once was, but there is at least one industry so desperate for new talent that it's resorted to placing Help Wanted ads in an unusual place: Yes, the Transportation Security Administration, renowned for enabling all of us to experience the glory of going barefoot in an airport, is looking for a few Washington, D...

Pro-Life High School Students Sue for Return of Confiscated 'Rubber Babies'

Posted on July 15, 2010
And you thought nothing interesting would ever happen again in Roswell, N.M., after the aliens landed. OnPoint News reported yesterday on a complaint (.pdf) filed in federal district court by a group of students at two Roswell high schools who were disciplined for handing out rubber fetuses with attached bible verses on school grounds earlier this year...

Behind the Scenes With America's Favorite (Current) TV Judge

Posted on July 15, 2010
Way back in February, we brought you up to speed on the current status of Judge Joseph Wapner, late of "The People's Court." Wapner was undoubtedly a pioneer, and TPC spawned countless copycat shows, one of which has stood the test of time. I'm talking about "Judge Judy," starring former New York Family Court Judge Judith Sheindlin...

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on July 14, 2010
1) Question: We're not sure whether my fiancee's cousin, Ed, is going to come to our wedding this weekend. If he does, all hell will surely break loose as it always does when Ed is around -- people doing Statue of Liberty shots, multiple trips to the emergency room, photographer's camera thrown in the pool, etc...

Emergency Motion: Lawyer's Wife Unwilling to Accommodate Request to Give Birth After Deposition

Posted on July 14, 2010
The South Florida Lawyers blog jokes that down in Coral Gables, Fla., "women and their narcissistic, ill-timed 'birthing' obsessions" are now starting to impact important things in life, such as deposition dates. In Plaintiff's Emergency Motion for Protective Order filed yesterday, attorney Joe Klock advised the court that today, July 14, "the deposition of Mr...

Riff Offs: Damages Awarded in Rift Over 'Kookaburra' Flute Riff

Posted on July 14, 2010
As you already know, in February 2010, Australian Federal Court judge Peter Jacobsen ruled that the famous flute riff in Men at Work's "Down Under" plagiarized a popular nursery rhyme about a kookaburra written in 1932. The nursery rhyme is called "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree," and, as you can hear for yourself, the Men at Work song pretty clearly borrows the riff...

Bubble Assault? Let's See the Raw Footage

Posted on July 13, 2010
The following video of a police officer threatening to arrest a protester at the G20 summit in Toronto for blowing bubbles, and that same protester subsequently being handcuffed and thrown in the back of a paddy wagon, has been posted all over the internet: I first found it at Law is Cool...

Hezbollah Rocket Attack Victims Sue Al-Jazeera in SDNY

Posted on July 13, 2010
Yesterday, victims of Hezbollah rocket attacks and relatives of those who were killed in such attacks filed a lawsuit (.pdf) in U.S. District Court in New York against the Al-Jazeera TV network. The plaintiffs allege that Al-Jazeera, in 2006, broadcast live video of rocket attack sites inside Israel, in violation of Israeli law, in order to aid Hezbollah in hitting its targets...

That Depends on What Your Definition of 'Case' is

Posted on July 13, 2010
Nevada's Indigent Defense Commission is tasked with making sure that the state's system for providing counsel to criminal defendants who cannot afford to retain their own lawyers is adequately staffed and running as smoothly as possible. It's a Sixth Amendment thing...

Tobacco Industry Fighting Potential Ban on Minty-Fresh Cigarettes

Posted on July 13, 2010
Back in September, a ban on certain "flavored cigarettes" went into effect. It is now illegal to produce or sell coffin nails containing delicious tastes such as: "strawberry, grape, orange, clove, cinnamon, pineapple, vanilla, coconut, licorice, cocoa, chocolate, cherry, or coffee...

Monday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on July 12, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: We're about to get the annual chicken hot wing-eating contest underway! Can you point me to a hot wing-eating disclaimer for contestants? Answer: Can't vouch for it but here's one from the Grille 33 Challenge...

Corporate Cost-Cutting Drives Change in Contract Attorney Model

Posted on July 12, 2010
The contract attorney model is beginning to morph into something that looks quite a bit different, The Legal Intelligencer reports (via Law & More). For many years, the contract attorney model typically worked as follows: A law firm's client would have a need for a large document review...

Reason No. 157 Why People Hate Lawyers: Ridiculous Website Disclaimers

Posted on July 12, 2010
You invest the time and brainpower to figure out that you want to visit a law firm's website. You go to the effort to find the website and try to check it out ... and you are immediately greeted with this pop-up on the homepage: Don't blame the law firm (Maltzman Foreman), however...

University of Texas Plans to Rename Dorm Named After Former Klan Leader

Posted on July 12, 2010
The University of Texas has decided it does not want to have a dorm named after a former Ku Klux Klan leader after all. Earlier this year, an article by Tom Russell published by the Cambridge University Press detailed the resistance by UT administrators and regents to integration in the 1950s and 1960s following landmark segregation rulings by the U...

Score One for the Little Guy: Pro Se Defendants Beat Toyota in 9th Circuit

Posted on July 09, 2010
Here's a heart-warming story to start off your Friday. A couple of auto brokers from Mission Viejo, Calif., decided to fight a trademark battle with Toyota, sans attorney, and won. As reported in today's Recorder, Lisa and Farzad Tabari initially hired a lawyer when they were slapped with a cease-and-desist from the Japanese auto giant insisting that they stop conducting business using URLs buy-a-lexus...

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