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Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on June 16, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm working the register at Dunkin' Donuts. I'm pretty sure this guy just said "Give me the money, I have a gun." But he may have said, "Give me a honey bun...

Trend Watch: Employee-Customer Fights at the Wendy's Drive-Through Window

Posted on June 16, 2010
What is it about the drive-through line at Wendy's that is causing so much drama lately? What's up with all the fussin' and fightin,' people? Should drive-through employees receive combat pay? Let me recap what I've seen in just the last month or so. May 4, 2010: At a Wendy's drive-through in Cumberland County, N...

Please Rob Me: Cruise Line Edition

Posted on June 16, 2010
An unexpected perk of writing the LBW column is that I'm becoming quite the expert on the many different ways people inadvertently say, "Please Rob Me." There is the use of Foursquare, of course, to announce when you're not home; listing a funeral or wedding in the newspaper, which will allow industrious robbers who read the newspaper to hit your house while you are mourning at the funeral or living it up at the wedding reception; and even using an answering machine to say you're "not home" (according to an old Family Circle magazine article)...

Will the Traditional Concept of an 'Office' Be Dead Within 10 Years?

Posted on June 16, 2010
Over at Seth's Blog, Seth Godin does his standard, masterful job of re-thinking big-picture issues with a post today entitled, "Goodbye to the Office." Godin looks briefly at the history of the "office" as a necessary destination at which work is performed, and concludes that the concept is probably on its last legs...

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A Car Rental Company by Any Other Name . . .

Posted on June 15, 2010
From this morning's New York Law Journal comes a report on a case decided by a New York trial court, holding that Zipcar, the "car-sharing" service currently operating in 50 cities and 100 universities around the country, is shielded from vicarious liability for accidents involving its vehicles...

iPad, SchmiPad -- Get Your Favorite Lawyer a Pillow Tie

Posted on June 15, 2010
Lowering the Bar this morning features a new "it" item for lawyers forced to endure interminable conference calls: the Pillow Tie. It is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: And it comes in a surprising array of colors and styles. The makers of the Pillow Tie promise that "when you rest your forehead on the soft, woven fabric, you will not be left with any incriminating lines from the pew in front of you, nor will you have to lay your face in someone else's drool an [sic] a communal airplane pillow...

Oil Spill Expose of the Day: Foreign Registration of Rigs

Posted on June 15, 2010
Via Cruise Law News comes a link to a lengthy Los Angeles Times article exploring the practice of oil companies registering their drilling rigs in exotic foreign lands to avoid, to the greatest extent possible, oversight by U.S. authorities. The Deepwater Horizon was registered in the Marshall Islands, and some experts quoted in the article assert that the foreign registration resulted in a dual command structure -- both a drilling expert and a sea captain having some command authority -- that likely contributed to the extent of the disaster because the captain felt he needed to consult with the drilling manager prior to taking action...

FTC Public Affairs Office Must Be Overstaffed

Posted on June 15, 2010
The Federal Trade Commission has some stuff going on that should be keeping its staff pretty busy. For example: As we noted a few weeks ago, it's engaged in a follow-up study about the advertising of foodstuffs to kids. Chairman Jon Leibowitz was making the cable news circuit this weekend, explaining that the "discussion draft" (...

Monday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on June 14, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I need a divorce but I really don't feel like spending much time with the lawyers. Can't I just do this all on my iPhone? Answer: Not quite, but the new DivorceApps will get you started...

Blawg Review #267 Hits on Blogging, Facebook, Twitter and More

Posted on June 14, 2010
Over at the Spam Notes blog, Venkat Balasubramani (pictured) wrote last week's Blawg Review # 267 with a social media theme. Venkat hits on a number of interesting current topics, some of which do not even involve Scott Greenfield. Among the non-Greenfieldian topics: Why people are quitting Facebook...

Plain English for Lawyers: 'Exactly What You Are Supposed to Do'

Posted on June 14, 2010
A flurry of posts in the blogosphere last week provided a great reminder for young lawyers about legal writing: Just say it. In Plain English. The recent posts on this subject were sparked by author and innovator Seth Godin, who wrote here that "the problem with just about every lame speech, every overlooked memo, every worthless bit of boilerplate foisted on the world" is that people love to write, talk and bullet without really saying anything...

Law Professor Supports Scambloggers, Calls for Colleagues to 'Wake Up to Casualties of Our Enterprise'

Posted on June 14, 2010
Over at the Balkinization blog, support for the growing legion of Scambloggers who want to keep you from going to law school has come from an unlikely source: St. Johns University School of Law Professor Brian Tamanaha (pictured). Tamanaha, the Chief Judge Benjamin N...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on June 11, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I am a nun living in a convent. What is this weed growing in our garden and why do the pigs like it so much? And why are our porters being arrested? Answer: Sometimes police find an acre of marijuana growing in the gardens of convents and have to ask nuns some questions and arrest some porters...

Wile E. Coyote v. Acme Company: From the Docket

Posted on June 11, 2010
Did you know that there is an extensive docket of materials available online in the long-running Wile E. Coyote v. Acme Company case? As anyone over the age of 30 probably knows, Mr. Coyote for many years attempted to use Acme products in his pursuit of an elusive Road Runner...

Warning: This Motorized Go-Cart 'Moves When Used'

Posted on June 11, 2010
Bob Dorigo Jones, senior fellow for the Foundation for Fair Civil Justice who for 13 years has hosted the annual "Wacky Warning Labels Contest," has rolled out his finalists for 2010. They are as follows: * "Never operate your speakerphone while driving," warns a label on a product called "Drive 'N' Talk...

Take the Lousy Law (or Non-Law) Job Now? Or Wait It Out?

Posted on June 11, 2010
Earlier this week, the Labor Department released a gloomy monthly jobs report showing that in May, only 41,000 private jobs were created. The New York Times reports that this was far short of the expectations that 150,000 to 180,000 jobs would be created...

Thursday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on June 10, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: My girlfriend won't have sex with me until we're married, but I'm not ready to take the plunge just yet. Any ideas? Answer: Have you thought about pretending to get married by having a fake official perform the ceremony? That might be a work-around for you (and it is less risky than having a robot perform the ceremony)...

Legal Blago Watch: Judge Clamps Down Early on Tweets, Arm Waving, Facial Gestures and More

Posted on June 10, 2010
The trial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is just two days old and already it's looking like one to keep a close eye on. First, Judge James Zagel ordered Blagojevich not to tweet post to Twitter yesterday as his corruption trial got underway...

NYT Bans the Word 'Tweet,' LBW Bans the Word 'Glee'

Posted on June 10, 2010
The Awl reports that Phil Corbett, The New York Times' "standards editor," issued a memorandum yesterday attempting to ban NYT writers' use of the word "tweet." For those of you who have just emerged from a 12-month-long trial, "tweet" has become a popular term to describe the act of posting something on Twitter...

Reverse Graffiti: A Cleaner, Probably Legal Form of Advertising

Posted on June 10, 2010
Not too many small business owners confess to The New York Times that they do not even know if their product is legal, but GreenGraffiti founder Jim Bowes did just that earlier this week (via Consumerist). Bowes' Dutch marketing firm, GreenGraffiti, places advertisements on public property, but does so in a most unusual way: it power washes corporate logos and messages onto dirty sidewalks...

Real Life 'Glee' Groups Would Be 'Breakin' the Law, Breakin' the Law'

Posted on June 09, 2010
I (sort of) watched my first (and second) episodes of the latest biggest-thing-since-sliced-bread prime time show, "Glee," last night. Chalk it up to extenuating circumstances. I admit that it didn't once occur to me to ponder the copyright implications of a bunch of high school kids singing and dancing along to some of the most popular, funkiest tunes of the modern era (see, I really did watch)...

Plaintiff's Exhibit 1: Your Facebook Wall

Posted on June 09, 2010
Bloggers, tech nerds and law geeks have been buzzing about a decision coming out of the Central District of California a few weeks ago, addressing the question of whether information maintained by social networking sites like Facebook can be subpoenaed for use in civil litigation (as opposed to merely used unofficially to gain a tactical advantage)...

Law Librarians Still Concerned About Who Dominates Market in Paper Legal Research Materials

Posted on June 09, 2010
We -- like many other legal bloggers -- have often written about competition between online legal research providers, both the "Wexisberg" big boys and the so-called "second tier." But coverage of law books these days seems to focus more on how they can be used in home decor...

Lawyer Disbarred After Racking Up 55 Misconduct Allegations

Posted on June 09, 2010
Making a name for yourself in the legal community is undoubtedly hard. But Scott H. Fisher, a (former) attorney in Menasha, Wis., seems to have distinguished himself in the two-plus years he practiced bankruptcy law. Via Lowering the Bar and the Legal Profession Blog, comes the story of Mr...

Citi Ain't Paying for Summer Associate Time

Posted on June 08, 2010
Nate Raymond reports in today's New York Law Journal that Citigroup has put all of its outside counsel on notice that it will not pay for summer associate time. Not for a single, solitary hour of it, thank you very much. The article notes that summer associate time has increasingly been written off over the past several years, either at the insistence of clients, or because no partner in his right mind would let his client see a bill purporting to charge over $1,200 for a law student to "review class outline...

'Geezer Bandit' Still on the Loose in California

Posted on June 08, 2010
Our own Bruce Carton has been dutifully maintaining the "Legal Blog Watch Checklist for Bank Robbers" since last December. In the first installment, he included this suggestion: Acknowledge your physical limitations: Let's face it, not all wannabe bank robbers are spring chickens...

Soon to Be Lawsuit of the Day: 'Sorry Ma'am, Grave's Full'

Posted on June 08, 2010
We're all well familiar with the airlines' policies of overbooking flights, counting on the fact that some percentage of passengers won't show up. But when you're dealing with burial plots rather than economy seats, it's a pretty good bet the person who reserved is gonna come a'callin' at some point...

9th Circuit Rules Private Federal Prison Employees Subject to Bivens

Posted on June 08, 2010
Yesterday, the Law Memo blog posted a link to a 9th Circuit decision, Pollard v. GEO Group, holding -- contrary to what other courts of appeals have ruled -- that federal prison inmates may recover damages under the Bivens doctrine from employees of private corporations running those prisons pursuant to contracts with the Bureau of Prisons...

Sign of the Times: Law School as a Path to Reality TV

Posted on June 07, 2010
Mark Bennett, on his Defending People blog, posted yesterday about a Houston Chronicle interview with Erica Rose, a rising 3L at the University of Houston Law Center. Ms. Rose (pictured, left) is no ordinary law student, however. She's a Houston socialite, offspring of a well-known local plastic surgeon, and already has two reality shows under her belt: "The Bachelor" and a new VH1 show, "You're Cut Off...

Legal Blog Watch Undercover: Texas Traffic School -- The End

Posted on June 07, 2010
Welcome back, readers. Hope you had a good weekend. And I certainly hope you didn't get caught speeding anywhere in Texas. If you're not sure why, see Part 1 and Part 2 of this hard-hitting investigative report. Caught up? Now for the conclusion. Shortly after we finished watching the quaint old video starring Coach, we were booted out of the annex building that we had been promised...

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