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Posted about 3 hours ago via Althouse
"The Rules Committee meeting turned into mass confusion": Democratic Rep. Sander Levin [said] "We're going to be amending the law"... [Democratic Rep. Henry] Waxman added, "We change current law, and the current law will be the Senate bill on…
Posted about 6 hours ago via Overlawyered
The defendant wasn’t at trial and didn’t have a lawyer, and plans to appeal; the judgment might as well be for $73 gazillion, as the ex-husband is already in contempt of court for failure to pay spousal support. (Greensboro News-R…
Posted about 7 hours ago via Althouse
Is that a clue that something really devious is going on? Article I, Section 7 clearly states that bills cannot be presented to the president for signature unless they have been approved by both houses of Congress in the same form. If the Hous…
Posted about 8 hours ago via Bag and Baggage
Video archives for TWiL are available at blip.tv and ODTV. Also, TWiL is on Twitter and Facebook, if you're so inclined. This WEEK in LAW on Facebook
Posted about 9 hours ago via Business Law Prof Blog
Over at Simple Justice, criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield points out some problems with my fine/jail alternative to shaming corporate defendants: Fines don't cut the mustard ... the people who run corporations aren't the people who have…
Posted about 10 hours ago via Overlawyered
Business Insider and the NYLJ have details. Tags: Bernard Madoff Related posts Unpersuasive claims of victimhood dept. (0) Names in the news (0) Mel Weiss invested with Madoff (2) Markopolos’s case against Madoff (2) March 2 r…
Posted about 17 hours ago via Law.com - Career Center
Whether you're interviewing for an out-of-town job, or interviewing with a law firm or company with several offices, you may have to combine interview stress with the added stress of travel. Consultants Valerie Fontaine and Roberta Kass have s…
Posted about 17 hours ago via Law.com - Career Center
Under interim U.S. Attorney Benton J. Campbell, the Eastern District of New York has landed a wide range of major, high-profile cases, but Campbell still maintains a lower profile than many other top prosecutors. "I prefer to toil in anonymity…
Posted about 17 hours ago via Legal History Blog
The Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society announces the 2010 Jerome I. Braun Prize in Western Legal History. The prize, named in honor of a NJCHS past president, will be awarded for the best unpublished article-length manuscript on the leg…
Posted about 17 hours ago via Legal History Blog
Quantitative Legal HistoryEmpirics and the Rule of Law in the Antebellum Judiciary, by Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina Law School, is up on The Legal Workshop website of the Duke Law Journal. It commences:This symposium asks ho…
Posted about 18 hours ago via Legal Theory Blog
Steven Menashi (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted The Undead Constitution (Policy Review, No. 157, pp. 76-82, October & November 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: A review of Cass R. Sunstein, A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the...
Posted about 18 hours ago via Legal History Blog
A press release heralds the appointment of the legal historian John Fabian Witt as the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at the Yale Law School, here.
Posted about 19 hours ago via Lawyers, Guns & Money
Thank you, Russia: Russian state-owned aerospace group United Aircraft Corp. plans to bid for a U.S. Air Force tanker contract, teaming up with a U.S. partner, a lawyer representing UAC said March 19. “They’re going to announce Mon…
Posted about 20 hours ago via Media Law
The Plymouth County district attorney's office has found that selectmen in Rockland, Mass., violated the open meeting law in the process of hiring a full-time accountant, The Patriot Ledger reports. A town accountant search committee also viol…
Posted about 21 hours ago via Gamso - For the Defense
How many times must a County Supervisor be arrested before he decides he should sue?Exhibit A: Don Stapley. Yvonne Wingett gives the history in today's Arizona Republic.In November 2008, a grand jury indicted Stapley on 118 counts related to …
Posted about 21 hours ago via The Rainmaker Blog
March Madness is upon us. Office productivity has taken its seasonal dip as employees call in sick and spend work time scanning the internet to keep up with the progress of their NCAA basketball tournament brackets. This is a good time to as…
Posted about 22 hours ago via Balkinization
Professor and (former Judge) Michael McConnell writes a sequel to his previous op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, reiterating his argument that use of a self-executing rule in the House of Representatives is unconstitutional. As McConnell note…
Posted about 22 hours ago via ABA Journal Top Stories
One day a week, the drug court in Pinellas County, Florida, focuses exclusively on women. Funded by a $900,000 federal grant, the "Ladies Day" program encourages women, who officials say are more open to talking about themselves and accepting …
Posted about 23 hours ago via Legal Theory Blog
Ellen P. Goodman & Anne Chen (Rutgers University - Law School, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University - Information Society Project) have posted Modeling Policy for New Public Media Networks on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Dramatic tran…
Posted 1 day ago via ABA Journal Top Stories
A hard-fought 15-year court battle by the late celebrity model Anna Nicole Smith and her heirs over the estate of the Texas oil billionaire she married when she was 26 and he was 89 may have finally ended in complete defeat of her claims. The …
Posted 2 days ago via Above the Law
It's time for Above the Law to start living in the now. We've been growing and growing, building on a platform that is so 2006. It's time for us to embrace the brave new world of 2010. We're making two changes that we hope will make reading a…
Posted 1 day ago via Avvo Blog
We’ve moved onto Round 2 of Avvo’s Lawyer Madness!! See who has advanced – and especially check out the schools in all capital letters – they received the most votes in Round 1 to be brought into the c…
Posted 1 day ago via JD Journal
Squire Sanders Public Advocacy, the lobbying affiliate of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, has added Brian P. Woolfolk as a principal with SSPA and as of counsel of the firm. Woolfolk is the co-founder of boutique lobbying shop Mattox Woolfolk. He a…
Posted 1 day ago via White Collar Defense and Compliance
A useful lesson drawn from a recent Tenth Circuit case: don’t hesitate to use the common law “rule of completeness” in an effort to admit verbal statements, such as those memorialized in transcripts of plea allocutions or gra…
Posted 1 day ago via ACS Blog
By Maurice Belanger, Director of Public Information, National Immigration Forum This weekend, tens of thousands of activists will be in Washington demanding that Congress fix an immigration system that is dysfunctional. What's this about? …
Posted 1 day ago via SCOTUSblog
Ruling in a case sent back to it by the Supreme Court nearly four years ago, the Ninth Circuit Court decided Friday that the estate of the late topless dancer and model, Anna Nicole Smith, is not entitled to any of her claim for tens of millio…
Posted 1 day ago via Legal Blog Watch
At 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, Greg Lambert has crowned Casemaker king of the second tier when it comes to state case law content. Lambert's competition started with a field of four: Casemaker, Fastcase, Google Scholar and LoisLaw. (He excludes th…
Posted 1 day ago via ABA Journal Top Stories
Baffling prosecutors and upsetting victims, an Ohio judge has ordered four teenage victims of sexual assaults to take polygraph tests—after their alleged attackers have already been found delinquent, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer. C…
Posted 1 day ago via SCOTUSblog
The Supreme Court is expected to have decisions on pending cases on Tuesday of next week, but probably not on Wednesday. Orders will be issued on Monday. In the meantime, the Court has changed the hour of the two arguments that were scheduled …
Posted 1 day ago via Legal Blog Watch
Sunday night, some yahoo got on the PA at a Walmart store in Washington Township, N.J., and made the following announcement: "Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now." It is still unclear whether the gentleman was a…
Posted 1 day ago via Innocence Blog
Seven years ago this week, Julius Earl Ruffin was officially exonerated after spending more than two decades in prison for a rape he did not commit. Ruffin's case illustrates not just the dangers of mistaken eyewitness identification, but the …
Posted 1 day ago via Northwest Real Estate Law Blog
Authored by: Craig Gannett and Clayton P. Graham Landowners and developers across Western Washington will be affected by floodplain map revisions that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) plans to carry out in the coming months. The…
Posted 1 day ago via ACS Blog
Matthew Yglesias, a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and a blogger at the organization's ThinkProgress, chatted with ACSblog about increased use of the filibuster and other delaying tactics to scuttle the president's jud…
Posted 1 day ago via Legal Theory Blog
David S. Olson (Boston College Law School) has posted First Amendment Based Copyright Misuse on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We are at a crossroads with respect to the under-developed equitable defense of copyright misuse. The defense may go the...
Posted 1 day ago via Legal Blog Watch
We're all lawyers here, and understand that sometimes you have to jump through a hoop or two to get things accomplished, even if you might have a legitimate beef. But sometimes, you read about a court opinion that makes you say, "Seriously?" T…
Posted 1 day ago via That's What She Said
Litigation Value: No liability (or sales leads) per se. However, the seeds of workplace discord have been planted, leaving open the possibility that they will take root and blossom into future legal problems. Sales personnel are lording it ov…
Posted 1 day ago via New York Personal Injury Law Blog
A number of posts have now appeared in the legal blogosphere about moving blogs to new platforms and potentially re-naming them. Marketing folks like to call that re-branding.I'm one of those people wrestling with a move. Blogger is forcing m…
Posted 1 day ago via ABA Site-tation
Body: Once upon a time simple advice could be followed to avoid computer viruses such as "Don't open e-mail attachments from strangers" or "Be careful what you download from the Internet." Well, things are more complicated now: you can get v…
Posted 1 day ago via Stark County Law Library Weblog
This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Despite my insistent advice to create a law blog, many of my law-talkin' friends refuse to do so. I have written posts onwhat you should write about, how often you should blog, and...
Posted 1 day ago via Stark County Law Library Weblog
Podcast description from the site: "On this edition of The Landy Law Letter, host John L. Torvi, from the Herbert H. Landy Insurance Agency of Needham, Massachusetts welcomes Dan Reed, Second Vice President of Travelers Bond & Financial Produc…
Posted 1 day ago via Stark County Law Library Weblog
This post was written by Dennis Kennedy: "My friend Wendy Werner recently talked me into writing an article on "succession planning" for computer systems, online materials and digital assets for the newly-released issue of the Law Practice Tod…
Posted 1 day ago via Lawyer2Lawyer - Law News and Legal Topics
In every city and town in America, there has been an overwhelming reaction to the political gridlock in Washington D.C. over healthcare, economic recovery, taxes, Afghanistan (almost everything). So why cant the lawyers in Congress who special…
Posted 1 day ago via CYB3RCRIM3
This post is about a recent decision from the Court of Appeals of Arizona: State v. Damper, 2010 WL 711802 (2010). Marcus Damper was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, nineteen-year-old Cartina …
Posted 1 day ago via Gamso - For the Defense
I hope they get some solace in this, but the reality is they probably wont," the prosecutor lamented. "The reality is theyll never get their loved ones back. The promise of Casonya and Esme is gone forever and thats just a horrible tragedy for…
Posted 1 day ago via My Shingle
Biglaw has its annual and closely watched profits per partnership or PPP extravaganza, while Above the Law devotes an entire category to biglaw associate salaries and cuts. But where can lawyers considering solo or small firm practice get a s…
Posted 1 day ago via Inter Alia
Today's blog covers one of my favorite topics - law practice management. Jeff Krause's Practice Management Blog is the self-titled blog of - you guessed it - Jeff Krause, a practice management consultant based in Wisconsin. Most of the posts…
Posted 1 day ago via Temporary Attorney: The Sweatshop Edition
Just when things were quieting down in crazy document review land, this nonsense pops up. Apparently, Michael Layman (staff attorney 007) solved the espionage crime of the century over at Wilmer Cutler when he caught an international super sp…
Posted 1 day ago via Media Law
On Beacon Hill and in municipal buildings across the state, government officials are getting the message that e-mail can be a double-edged sword, writes State House reporter Dan Ring in The Republican of Springfield.
Posted 1 day ago via Media Law
"The state's Open Meeting Law requires that meetings of governmental boards and committees be conducted in sessions open to the public, with few exceptions which are strictly limited. The goal of the law is to eliminate as much of the secrecy …
Posted 1 day ago via BLOG.LEGALWRITING.NET
Suppose you've prepared a motion, filed it, and shown up for the hearing. When you stand up, the first thing the judges asks is "What are we here on?" You might wonder why the judge hadn't read your motion beforehand. A possible answer is t…
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