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Another Primetime Law Firm Show for Attorneys to Mock

Posted on May 25, 2010
Just after "The Deep End" was confirmed to have been mercifully canceled, we all need to brace ourselves for another lawyer show. The Wild Wild Law blog is reporting that CBS will be airing a "comedic drama" based on the Las Vegas firm Cristalli and Saggese...

Hurry Up With That 'No Tweeting' Rule!

Posted on May 24, 2010
Back in February, we brought you news of a new model jury instruction cautioning jurors that tweeting about a case was a no-no. At Lowering the Bar, Kevin took a quick look at tweets about jury duty, and the results were predictable in demonstrating that the instruction is regrettably necessary: yo i was in jury duty two weeks ago...

Individual and Group Blawgers Debate Merits of Individual and Group Blawgs

Posted on May 24, 2010
Does the utility, entertainment value or thought-provoking quotient of a legal blog necessarily depend on whether it has a single author or is a group effort? As with everything else, people are entitled to their opinions. And some law blogger heavyweights apparently have some such opinions...

Impossible and Impractical Ideas for Fixing Continuing Legal Education

Posted on May 24, 2010
The TechnoLawyer Blog today features a post by Marin Feldman entitled "The Case Against Today's MCLE System." Feldman, reacting to the biannual request from the New York Office of Court Administration for fees and confirmation that she has been a good little attorney and attended the requisite hours of CLE, laments that attending classes, for most lawyers, is considered a necessary evil...

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'L.A. Law' Meets 'Jail' -- Disbarred Attorney 14 Months Into 'Coercive Confinement'

Posted on May 24, 2010
Today, CNN is scheduled to air video of its interview with Richard Fine, a (now disbarred) attorney who has spent more than 14 months in the L.A. County Jail for contempt of court after he refused to provide certain financial documents pursuant to a court order in connection with a fee award in a case Fine lost...

Twitter Lessons 'For and From the AmLaw 100'

Posted on May 21, 2010
I have read many posts about "Twitter for Lawyers" over the past 12 months or so, but a new one from myCorporateResource is the best and most informative I've seen. Entitled "Twittering Classes: Lessons For and From the AmLaw 100," the article takes a detailed look at the state of Twitter-usage among big firms (see The American Lawyer's Am Law 100 2010 list) and offers sophisticated advice on what firms should and should not be doing...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on May 21, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I just got my Ph.D. in biochemistry. Do you think I can get "BIOCH" as my vanity license plate? Answer: Don't even bother trying. That's been banned as profane...

Abolish the Blue Book? Or Could We Automate It?

Posted on May 21, 2010
Ilya Somin, an associate professor at George Mason University School of Law, says it's time to abolish the "Blue Book." For those of you who did not have the pleasure of attending law school or serving on a law review, the Blue Book is a dastardly creation that attempts to create a uniform and hyper-complex method by which lawyers are expected to cite to legal authority in briefs, articles and so on...

My Belated Write-In Entry in the '140-Character Novel' Contest

Posted on May 21, 2010
Via this post on the WSJ Law Blog I learned of an interesting competition held by the Texas Bar that challenged lawyer-authors to write the best "140-character novel," i.e., the length of a Twitter post. The Law Blog says the contest, which closed May 1, was the brainchild of Texas lawyer Michael Maslanka and was open to all U...

Louisiana Tries to Protect the Kids ... From Feeling Bad

Posted on May 20, 2010
The Volokh Conspiracy reports today that the Louisiana legislature is poised to pass a "cyberbullying" bill making it a crime to use the Internet to "embarrass, or cause emotional distress to" anyone under the age of 17. Volokh's examples of people who could be locked up under the terms of such a law are striking, and would be laughable, were they not seemingly plausible: A girl who sends her under-17-year-old boyfriend an e-mail telling him what a schmuck he is for having cheated on her, and hoping that he feels ashamed of himself...

Ban Lives Up to His Name, Takes Texting Prohibition Global

Posted on May 20, 2010
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday prohibited all U.N. employees from texting while driving. The rule, applied to all U.N. personnel, is apparently part of a broader movement (which includes the U.S. Transportation Department and advocacy group FocusDriven) to enact a true global ban on the practice...

Lohan to Jail? Can't Wait to Hear the E-Trade Baby's Take

Posted on May 20, 2010
Oh, Lindsay. (Wait, is she gonna sue me for using her name?) Lindsay Lohan's "stolen passport" drama, which resulted in her missing a court date today, has apparently been resolved. After reports that she wasn't making legitimate efforts to get a replacement passport, the Huffington Post reproduced an email purportedly from Lohan indicating that she would be receiving a new one, and pleading with somebody, anybody, to get her on a private jet home to L...

Barbie Car DUI and Blawger Balance

Posted on May 20, 2010
This morning, the Kentucky DUI Defense Lawyer blog has a post about an English gentleman who was convicted for DUI after he was pulled over driving a tricked-out pink electric Barbie car for toddlers. It's good for a chuckle, especially if you click through to the article from the Telegraph, which has stereotypically wonderful British quotes like where the defendant, Paul Hutton (a former RAF officer) says, "I was very surprised to get done for drink-driving but I was a twit to say the least...

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on May 19, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: It's prom night, baby! My date and I are going to sneak a few drinks before the dance, then have the night of our dreams. Yeah, we're underage, but what's the worst that can happen? Answer: Well ...

Hershey's Tells Court This Brownie Pan Looks Waaaaay Too Familiar

Posted on May 19, 2010
The Legal Intelligencer had an interesting article yesterday about Hershey Co.'s recent trademark infringement case against Williams-Sonoma Inc. Hershey's beef with Williams-Sonoma concerns the sale of a particular brownie pan. Hershey has sought an injunction to block any further sales of the pan, arguing that it "unlawfully trades on the goodwill and reputation Hershey has established through its use and promotion of that product configuration trademark...

Welcome to the Blawgosphere: Entertainment & Media Law Signal

Posted on May 19, 2010
On May 4, 2010, Canadian law firm Heenan Blaikie launched an interesting new blog called, "Entertainment & Media Law Signal." The blog draws on the expertise of members of the firm's Entertainment Law Practice, which advises clients involved in all entertainment media including film, television, theater, video games, new media and music...

Openbook: When 'Please Rob Me' Does Not Cause You Enough Personal Damage

Posted on May 19, 2010
Now that your geo-location tweets on Foursquare ("I'm not home! I'm the new Mayor of the Bora Bora Starbucks, enjoying my $1 'Mayor's discount'") have led to the robbery of your home thanks to the helpful folks at "Please Rob Me," what's next? Thanks to Openbook, the "Please Rob Me" of Facebook, the possibilities are now endless...

Woman Sues Canadian Cellular Provider for Revealing Affair in Bill

Posted on May 18, 2010
Via Overlawyered comes this story from the Toronto Star, about a woman who claims that Rogers Wireless ruined her life. The woman, Gabriella Nagy, had a Rogers cellphone account in her maiden name. The bill came to the address she shared with her husband, who was the named account holder on the home's cable service, also provided by Rogers...

Lawyers: How Much Do You Hate Keeping Track of Your Time?

Posted on May 18, 2010
I ask because Rees Morrison at the Law Department Management Blog had an idea. Granted, it's an idea that even he thinks is pretty terrible, but he put it out there, so here goes. This article from The Economist contains a discussion of some of the technologies being used by employers to monitor freelance and offshore workers...

Losing Sister Decides Life's Too Short to Continue Lottery Dispute

Posted on May 18, 2010
Back in March, we brought you the story of Rose Bakaysa and Theresa Sokaitis, the two elderly Connecticut sisters who were fighting it out in court over whether an agreement between them to split all gambling winnings was still in effect at the time Bakaysa won part of a $500,000 jackpot playing Powerball in 2005...

President's Aunt Granted Asylum

Posted on May 18, 2010
President Barack Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, who first made headlines when it was revealed just days before the 2008 election that she was in the U.S. in violation of an order of deportation, has now been granted asylum, and will be allowed to remain in the country...

Monday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on May 17, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I am a 69-year-old woman, and I am admittedly a really bad driver. Like, possibly, historically bad. I've tried hundreds of times to get my license and failed every time...

Subway Says Other 'Footlong' Sandwich Sellers Violating Its Trademark

Posted on May 17, 2010
"You are hereby put on notice to cease and desist from using FOOTLONG (TM) association with sandwiches. You must immediately remove all references to FOOTLONG (TM) in association with sandwiches." If you sell sandwiches that happen to be, oh, 12 inches long, and you dare to refer to said sandwiches as being a "footlong," then Subway would like to have a word with you...

What Is Candy in Washington State? You Have No Idea

Posted on May 17, 2010
No matter how bad it gets for you at the law firm today, just be happy you are not the person who must sort out the the new "candy tax" for your store in Washington state. The concept of a candy tax seems simple enough until you ask, well, what constitutes candy? Don't worry -- Washington state has it all figured out for you: ?Candy? means a preparation of sugar, honey, or other natural or artificial sweeteners in combination with chocolate, fruits, nuts, or other ingredients or flavorings in the form of bars, drops, or pieces...

Discussions of Facebook Privacy (or Lack Thereof) Burning Up Blogosphere

Posted on May 17, 2010
"Facebook privacy" discussions and complaints are dominating the blogosphere lately. Legal bloggers (such as "Ken" from Popehat) and countless others are writing daily about why they are reluctantly leaving Facebook. As Ken writes, staying on Facebook requires either (1) that I abandon the notion that I have any control over who sees, and profits from the use of, my data, or (2) that I engage in an increasingly tedious and difficult struggle to figure out, and exercise, the diminishing amount of control that Facebook is willing to give me over the privacy of my data...

Dershowitz on Wrongness, Law, Truth and Goldman Sachs

Posted on May 14, 2010
If you haven't read Kathryn Schulz's interview with Alan Dershowitz at Slate, you should. It's the first in a series of interviews about "wrongness," which is the subject of Schulz's book, "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error." (The interview is actually posted in two parts, and I've linked to the second, which deals more directly with error and its effect on law...

A Texas Lawyer You Don't Want to Mess With

Posted on May 14, 2010
Now this is why I moved to Texas. According to Texas Lawyer, medical malpractice attorney Carolyn M. Barnes was arrested Tuesday for shooting at a census worker who knocked on the door of her house. Barnes told the worker, Kathleen Gittel, to leave, but Kathleen didn't have enough pep in her step, so Barnes fired off five rounds "in [Gittel's] direction...

Lucky Bad Guys of the Day: Ali Abdul-Akim and Marcus Ayala

Posted on May 14, 2010
If you find yourself riding with a couple of your buddies around the Brooklyn neighborhood where your brother was recently murdered, wearing a bulletproof vest, with a loaded handgun in the glove compartment, well, I'm comfortable calling you a "bad guy...

New Face of the Cola Wars: Industry Takes on Soda Tax Proposals

Posted on May 14, 2010
Everybody loves a showdown about controversial legislation. No, we're not talking about the Arizona immigration law debate, but the several local proposals to tax sodas and other sugary delicious drinks. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come out in favor of Governor David Paterson's proposal for a state tax of one cent per ounce...

Thursday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on May 13, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Man, this soccer team stinks! Why did I even bother spending the time and money to come out to watch this game? It's already 3-0! Answer: If they give up one more goal you may be entitled to a refund...

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