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Posted about 3 hours ago via Duets Blog
I have been critical in the past of some of Apple's apparent trademark gaffes (here, here, and here), but I do like the company's products--I own two Apple computers and two iPods. (This represents great progress for me. In college, those of…
Posted about 3 hours ago via Brian Leiter's Law School Reports
We'll be posting soon a new study of the scholarly impact of law faculties at the ranking site which looks at citations to faculty scholarship for the period 2004-through very early 2010. The top ten (factoring in per capita mean...
Posted about 4 hours ago via Law Librarian Blog
In Canada, courts are wrestling with whether court-ordered payment of attorney expenses should include online legal research costs. Yes, they do things differently up north (including citation to numbered paragraphs in a vendor-neutral protoco…
Posted about 5 hours ago via Law.com - Career Center
Within the big pyramid that is the law firm are many little pyramids, each topped by a rainmaker, notes the Rodent. And it's vital that an associate cultivate one of these "pharaohs" who will advocate for him or her. An orphan associate is an …
Posted about 5 hours ago via Law.com - Career Center
The role of general counsel is evolving fast. Top lawyers aren't just legal advisers anymore: They're now business partners, strategists and even risk managers, to some degree. At two separate conferences on Wednesday, GCs discussed the new re…
Posted about 10 hours ago via SCOTUSblog
On Monday the Court called for the views of the Solicitor General on two petitions arising from the same ERISA case, Amara v. CIGNA Corp. Both petitions raise questions regarding the proper remedy for misleading or inadequate disclosures relat…
Posted about 11 hours ago via TalkLeft
Don't Republicans have anything better to do? Now they are attacking Attorney General Eric Holder because he didn't disclose during his Senate confirmation hearings that he signed onto three Amicus briefs for Jose Padilla, the accused enemy co…
Posted about 11 hours ago via TalkLeft
If you're going to be a police crime lab technician whose drug-testing work can put people in jail, it's probably not a good idea to be stealing and sampling the merchandise, i.e., the seized drugs. Deborah Madden, age 60, a San Francisco …
Posted about 13 hours ago via Nuts & Boalts
As pointed out by a reader, the Ninth Circuit has published its decision in Newdow v. Rio Linda Union School District. In an opinion by Judge Bea, the court upheld the use of the words "under God" in the pledge of allegiance. Judge Reinhardt w…
Posted about 13 hours ago via ACS Blog
Pushback continues over conservatives' attacks on Department of Justice attorneys who represented military detainees accused of terrorism before entering government service. The New York Times "Room for Debate Blog" includes comment from acros…
Posted about 14 hours ago via ACS Blog
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorsed a compromise to decrease the federal sentencing disparity for possession of crack versus powder cocaine today. Considering Sen. Dick Durbin's bill to eliminate the 100-to-1 sentencing ratio,…
Posted about 14 hours ago via Crime Scene KC
This isn't a crime story, but I know a lot of our readers have been following this case: A federal appeals court says that saying the Pledge of Allegiance is not a government endorsement of religion, despite the words "under...
Posted about 15 hours ago via ABA Journal Top Stories
Because its "ostensible and predominant purpose was to inspire patriotism, the "under God" phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance doesn't violate the Constitution's establishment clause, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ru…
Posted about 15 hours ago via Innocence Blog
In a column in Amstatnews, the Membership Magazine of the American Statistical Association, Cliff Spiegelman makes the case for national forensic science reform and appeals to scientists to join Just Science-a growing coalition formed to build…
Posted about 16 hours ago via My Shingle
A few weeks back, I posted about several innovative business models that might work for small law firms. Along those lines, yesterday's online issue of Time Magazine offers eight quick and decidely twenty-first century tricks to grow a busin…
Posted about 16 hours ago via ACS Blog
By Sonia Katyal, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law &Eduardo M. Pealver, Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School Fifty years ago, on Monday, February 1, 1960, Ezell Blair, Jr., Franklin McCain, Joe McNeil, and David R…
Posted about 16 hours ago via Legal Blog Watch
Lawyerist has a reminder this morning about how important it is to avoid inadvertently picking up clients. More specifically, advising on the use of a non-engagement letter in situations where, for one reason or another, after a mutual testing…
Posted about 16 hours ago via Overlawyered
This one has rap and animation. Tags: chasing clients Related posts Ive always thought people would be very concerned if they knew what we were doing (0) YouTube lawyer ads (3) Willie Gary marketing tactics (2) William Shatner lawy…
Posted about 16 hours ago via Larry Bodine Law Marketing Blog
The LMA today inducted 3 people into its Hall of Fame: 1. Silvia Coulter of Hildebrandt Baker Robbins in Boston – she is a former CMO of three AmLaw 100 law firms, founder of LSSO. She has a book coming out this fall: Client Relati…
Posted about 17 hours ago via SCOTUSblog
Seven different cert. petitions by or against tobacco companies, growing out of a single D.C. Circuit opinion last spring, were filed at the Court last month. All concern penalties imposed on the companies under the Racketeer Influenced and Co…
Posted about 17 hours ago via Legal Blog Watch
Getting a non-attorney's perspective on lawsuits filed in the nation's courts is not a radical idea, is it? After all, in theory it's your average Joes and Janes who, many years and tens of thousands of dollars down the road, will be asked to …
Posted about 17 hours ago via JD Journal
White & Case, which has been tagged with numerous departures during the past few months, announced it has added five new partners this week. Promoted to partner in the firms global banking practice were Jeremy Duffy in London; Moscow-based Iri…
Posted about 18 hours ago via Overlawyered
I expand on my earlier post in today’s Washington Examiner, including my skepticism of the conventional reporting on the James Sikes incident. Michael Fumento is also on the case on his blog and in the LA Times; see also Richard Schmid…
Posted about 18 hours ago via ABA Journal Top Stories
Equity partners at the nations top law firms didnt have to take much of a financial hit last year, thanks to layoffs of associates and staffers. Legal consulting firm the Zeugheuser Group crunched the numbers, charting financial results report…
Posted about 18 hours ago via ABA Journal Top Stories
The House of Representatives voted 412-0 today to approve the first of four articles of impeachment against New Orleans District Judge Thomas Porteous. The article found the judge was engaging in misconduct by not disclosing his relationship w…
Posted about 19 hours ago via Lawyer2Lawyer - Law News and Legal Topics
In the second part of Lawyer2Lawyer on the Google Books Settlement, attorneys and co-hosts J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Attorney Jonathan Band and Attorney Cindy Cohn, Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation , to tak…
Posted about 19 hours ago via Hospitality Law Blog
An interesting case; the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) found that "KHORAN" for wines is disparaging: thettablog.blogspot.com/2010/03/precedential-no-9-divided-ttab-panel.html.
Posted about 20 hours ago via Larry Bodine Law Marketing Blog
I haven’t been to an LMA meeting in 5 years, and this one in Denver is a very pleasant surprise. Many longtime and senior members of the marketing profession were there. There is great networking – I barely made it 30 feet into th…
Posted about 20 hours ago via BLOG.LEGALWRITING.NET
2. I wish I had known that becoming a good legal writer would take years.I thought I was a good writer in college. I also thought the basic training I received in law school would enable me to write well in practice. I was wrong.I just finishe…
Posted about 20 hours ago via Above the Law
The past few weeks have brought a fair amount of news about King & Spalding. Some of it has been good -- e.g., adding talent from Orrick. And some of it has been bad -- e.g., getting benchslapped (and disqualified from a case) by the Federal C…
Posted about 21 hours ago via Above the Law
Cornell's use of Andy "The Nard Dog" Bernard to promote its law school was a questionable decision. Alumni are saying it makes their toolish reputation even worse and some are calling for someone at the law school to be fired. After news outl…
Posted about 22 hours ago via ABA Site-tation
Body: Here's a sampling of the most recent technology articles published by the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center: Smart Phone buying guide The popularity of smart phones has skyrocketed in the last few years, and lawyers have rapidly in…
Posted about 22 hours ago via Above the Law
An ATL favorite, Quinn Emanuel, is making a change to its firm name. From the Quinn press release: John B. Quinn announced today that the firm he and Eric Emanuel founded 25 years ago will change its name, and henceforth be known as Quinn Em…
Posted about 23 hours ago via ADR Prof Blog
I am linking here to a blog post from a practitioner fed up with standard clauses and standard problems. As he writes: Todays issue of the New York Law Journal contains my article The AAA Standard Arbitration Clause: Room for Improvement. Clic…
Posted about 23 hours ago via salon.com
Earlier this week, a new poll and accompanying"strategic analysis" was released by Democracy Corps (the Democratic firm founded by James Carville, Stan Greenberg and Bob Shrum), co-sponsored by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner ("GQR")and the "centris…
Posted about 24 hours ago via Freedom to Differ
These are some of the things I've been tweeting about today:another interesting post on techdirt ... "how does copyright apply to your kids' monster drawings?" http://j.mp/aZB3eytrying out google reader play (and imagining how cool it would …
Posted 1 day ago via Build A Solo Practice @ SPU
Beyond the usual internet concerns about inadvertently establishing an attorney-client relationship or giving advice on inadequate information, online networking can create ethical risks that might not be readily apparent. This post highlights…
Posted 1 day ago via Larry Bodine Law Marketing Blog
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door, as 2010 Small Firm Rainmaker of the Year Christopher Marston knows well. He offers soup-to-nuts service to entrepreneurs and startup businesses. Originate! newsletter selec…
Posted 1 day ago via Inter Alia
Gee, two e-discovery blogs in two days. This one is called EDD: Issues, Law and Solutions, and it takes "an objective look at e-discovery best practices, e-discovery in law, and the peripheral issues surrounding the new technologies being de…
Posted 1 day ago via Duets Blog
Puffing, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is defined as: The expression of an exagerrated opinion -- as opposed to a factual representation -- with the intent to sell a good or service. Puffing, as a legal principle, has recently receive…
Posted 1 day ago via The Legal Workshop
Improving the quality of the judiciary is a noble cause. I welcome the participation of social scientists in the endeavor. But it is an open question whether social science can meaningfully contribute. Left to their own devices, social scienti…
Posted 1 day ago via Inside Higher Ed
Why is a somewhat pathetic fictional character among the distinguished lawyers honored on its Web site?
Posted 1 day ago via Charon QC
Judges fear prisons will burst under new rules The Times reports: “Britains leading criminal judges warn that a shake-up of sentencing guidelines could push prison overcrowding to crisis levels. They fear that the Sentencing Council, wh…
Posted 1 day ago via Robert Ambrogi's LawSites
Join me tomorrow and Friday at the Massachusetts Bar Association Annual Conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Tomorrow, I am chairing a plenary session at 1 p.m., "Social Media for Lawyers: How to Boost Your Practice and Avoid Pitfa…
Posted about 21 hours ago via Discrimination - Justia BlawgSearch.com
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has reversed himself and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on anti-gay discrimination. Last week, Cuccinelli sent a letter to public colleges and universities in Virginia demanding that they rescind policies the …
Posted 1 day ago via SCOTUSblog
Effective February 16, 2010, the Court adopted revised Rules of the Supreme Court. A complete copy of the updated rules can be found here. The revisions, which are summarized in this memorandum from the Court, include: - A reduction in the num…
Posted 1 day ago via The Rainmaker Blog
The next group of Rainmaker Retreats are just around the corner. These information-packed law firm marketing seminars are designed to give small firm and solo attorneys the information they need to go back and develop legal marketing strategi…
Posted 1 day ago via Innocence Blog
Illinois exoneree Dean Cage will appear on "Dr. Phil" tomorrow, March 11, in a third installment about wrongful convictions. The host will be checking in with Cage and the victim who misidentified him over a decade ago. She first identified …
Posted 1 day ago via Adam Smith, Esq.
About a week ago, I wrote about the American Lawyer's release of its annual "Diversity Scorecard" and pointed out what I thought were some shortcomings in its analytic technique.At the end of that column, I offered you all the chance...
Posted 1 day ago via Brian Leiter's Law School Reports
This is the penultimate version of an essay that will appear in the special 'legal theory' issue of the National Lawyers Guild's Guild Practitioner. It is written with a non-specialist audience in mind, so may be of interest to some...
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