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Posted about 3 hours ago via Charon QC
After years of difficulties with Dizaei, he was finally ‘nailed and jailed’ yesterday for abusing his police powers. Described by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson as a ‘criminal in uniform’ The Sun c…
Posted about 4 hours ago via Law.com - Career Center
Who's getting hired? What practice areas are showing particular strength? Are law firms picking up partners who've been laid off? These were just some of the issues on the agenda during a roundtable discussion involving the chairs of three top…
Posted about 5 hours ago via Overlawyered
Under a proposed bill in the New York legislature, the owners of (say) Marilyn Monroe’s estate would be entitled to prevent the use of her persona in advertising for many years to come. [Trademark Blog] Tags: New York, right of public…
Posted about 6 hours ago via Overlawyered
The WSJ Law Blog interviews the well-known author (The Death of Common Sense, The Collapse of the Common Good), Covington & Burling lawyer, and founder of Common Good. I praised the hardcover edition last year. Tags: Philip K. Howard Rela…
Posted about 6 hours ago via Law.com - Newswire
New York federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff grilled attorneys for the SEC on Monday about a proposed $150 million settlement that would bring an end to two actions against the Bank of America Corp. stemming from its $50 billion takeover of Merrill Ly…
Posted about 6 hours ago via Lawyers, Guns and Money
Marc Thiessen. It would almost be funny to see such a classic example of ye old War on Analogy, except that when it's in defense of a torture regime you had a hand in perpetuating and justifying it's not remotely funny.
Posted about 6 hours ago via Adjunct Law Prof Blog
What happens if a party fails to answer a NLRB complaint? The facts will be uncontroverted and the NLRB will issue a default judgment. This obvious rule of law applies equally to pro se litigants who are judged under a...
Posted about 6 hours ago via Althouse
The smugness and condescension of these women is irritating as hell, but please watch, so we can talk about this:There's no balance, with Meghan McCain in lieu of Elisabeth Hasselbeck. McCain is way too eager to win the love of liberals. She s…
Posted about 6 hours ago via Digital Media Law
About 60 pilots for scripted network primetime programs will be shot under AFTRA contracts this year, while few or perhaps none will be produced under SAG jurisdiction, according to sources close to the two unions, who spoke on condition of …
Posted about 7 hours ago via ADR Prof Blog
The University of Oregon School of Law is pleased to host this year’s installment of the ADR Works-in-Progress Conference. We’ll be gathering in Eugene, Oregon, October 15-16, 2010. Lots more information soon. (No, Andrea, no detai…
Posted about 10 hours ago via ABA Journal Top Stories
Updating traditional rules banning jurors from talking about a case outside of deliberations before it is resolved, a committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States has added provisions addressing e-mail, cell phones, social media s…
Posted about 11 hours ago via TalkLeft
Charlie Sheen and his wife Brooke Mueller appeared in court in Aspen today. Sheen was advised of his rights on a complaint (pdf) charging felony menacing and two misdemeanors, third degree assault and criminal mischief. All three counts c…
Posted about 11 hours ago via Above the Law
We first heard about this months ago -- back in September, from another speaker at the Lavender Law conference. We didn't mention it at the time, though, since we're not that comfortable outing people. But now that the cat has been let out of…
Posted about 12 hours ago via ABA Journal Top Stories
The ABA will study how a variety of organizations rank law firms and law schools. The debate in the ABAs House of Delegates about the measure proved to be the most contentious of any resolution it considered today. Resolution 10A, passed by a …
Posted about 12 hours ago via Legal Theory Blog
Robert K. Vischer (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - School of Law) has posted Whn is a Catholic Doing Legal Theory Doing Catholic Legal Theory? (Seton Hall Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: What does...
Posted about 13 hours ago via Legal Blog Watch
Every year, in the days leading up to the Super Bowl (that's right, I called it the Super Bowl, what are you gonna do, NFL?), mainstream media outlets run stories on the various and sundry prop (that's gambler lingo for "proposition") bets ava…
Posted about 13 hours ago via Above the Law
"I used to be a bank robber." That's an attention-grabbing lede for a personal essay for a law school application. Or: "The Supreme Court granted my very first petition for cert. And then ruled in my favor unanimously." Shon Hopwood, 34, c…
Posted about 13 hours ago via Innocence Blog
A bill that would address the causes of wrongful conviction and help innocent parolees seek exoneration is stalled in the Ohio House of Representatives, seven months after passing the Senate. The measure would require that law enforcement agen…
Posted about 13 hours ago via Legal Blog Watch
The confluence of law and technology is a topic of constant interest among attorneys, discussed in one form or another at almost every large professional gathering. At the ABA's 2010 Midyear Meeting, held Friday in Orlando -- because what coul…
Posted about 14 hours ago via TalkLeft
Dr. Conrad Murray has been charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. The press release from the LA District Attorney's office reads: Dr. Murray "did unlawfully, and without malice, kill Michael …
Posted about 14 hours ago via Legal Blog Watch
Who knew that, on my first day, I would be presented with the opportunity to, once and for all, dispel the myth that property and land use law is, by definition, imbued with Ambien-like, slumber-inducing characteristics? Professor Ngai Pindell…
Posted about 15 hours ago via Crime Scene KC
Dr. Conrad Murray's lawyer says his client will plead not guilty. If he's found guilty, he could be sentenced to four years.
Posted about 16 hours ago via The Rainmaker Blog
We have been through a rough time during the past year or two across the country. The economic downturn has many attorneys increasingly concerned with how the tough economy is affecting their practice and their ability to focus on their law f…
Posted about 16 hours ago via Blawg Review
The Trial Warrior Blog hosts of Blawg Review #250. Antonin Pribetic is well-regarded for strategic blogging about trial advocacy and international litigation and arbitration. A litigator, he draws inspiration from Sun Tzu and the Art of War, a…
Posted about 17 hours ago via Overlawyered
Arizona vs. Florida eateries: “Two US restaurants are battling in court over who originated the medical disaster theme of serving food unhealthy enough to put diners in hospital.” [Telegraph, SlashFood] Tags: restaurants, tradem…
Posted about 17 hours ago via Nuts & Boalts
Rob banks. From the New York Times:Shon R. Hopwood was not a particularly sophisticated bank robber. We would walk into a bank with firearms, tell people to get down, take the money and run, he said the other day, recalling five robberies in r…
Posted about 17 hours ago via The Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. Supreme Court, without explanation, recently granted the NRA's request to give its attorney time at oral argument in a huge case pending later in the term. The court sliced the lead attorney's time by a third and gave it to the NRA an…
Posted about 18 hours ago via New York Times
While in prison, a former bank robber transformed himself into an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner.
Posted about 18 hours ago via Robert Ambrogi's LawSites
The Judiciary/Media Committee of the Supreme Judicial Court is considering revisions to the Guidelines on the Public's Right of Access to Judicial Proceedings and Records. In order to evaluate whether the guidelines should be amended or expand…
Posted about 19 hours ago via Counsel to Counsel
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.Clearly Shakespeare was not giving advice about marketing when he wrote those lines in Romeo and Juliet. What you call your business can have a great impact on…
Posted about 19 hours ago via Legal Theory Blog
It is my very great honor to give the McGlinchy Lecture today at Tulane University Law School. Here is a description of the lecture series: The McGlinchey Lecture was established in 1996 by the law firm of McGlinchey Stafford, to...
Posted about 19 hours ago via SCOTUSblog
The following is an essay for our Race and the Supreme Court program by Abigail Thernstrom, vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Ms. Thernstrom is the author, most recen…
Posted about 20 hours ago via Nuts & Boalts
A recent column in the San Fransisco Chronicle begins, "The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walk…
Posted about 21 hours ago via Conflict Zen
I’m planning my schedule of spring conflict resolution seminars and retreats in New England and would love your input before I reserve facilities. Which combination of days would work best if you wanted to attend one of my two-day events…
Posted about 21 hours ago via My Shingle
Don't get me wrong - I'm a fan of social media when used ethically and responsibly. Heck, I've got a book on social media for lawyers with Niki Black that's coming out at the end of next month. As a shy person myself, I understand the appeal…
Posted about 22 hours ago via Build A Solo Practice @ SPU
There is a lot of discussion about unbundled legal services, the breaking down of a given legal process into 'parts'. Each part can be delegated to a lawyer to handle and paid for by the client or the client can handle themselves based upon th…
Posted about 23 hours ago via Freedom to Differ
It was apparently the most open secret of the Prop 8 trial in San Francisco. The presiding judge, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is gay. The San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate has the full report, and the article cites many so…
Posted about 24 hours ago via Larry Bodine Law Marketing Blog
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Posted 1 day ago via Inter Alia
The Asset Protection Law Journal helps "individuals and businesses take advantage of asset protection laws." It's published by Kenneth Laino, of the Cleveland firm Schneider, Smeltz, Ranney & LaFond. He's discussing business protection, cred…
Posted 1 day ago via The Legal Workshop
The Supreme Court has recently declared several categories of prisoners, such as juvenile and mentally retarded offenders, to be categorically ineligible for capital punishment under the Eighth Amendment. If these death ineligible offenders no…
Posted 1 day ago via Charon QC
Fresh from supporting the ‘Kill a burglar’ wheeze conjured up by Chris Grayling and David Cameron last week - Dominic Grieve, Shadow Overlord on Everything to do with Law, has a new plan to grab votes from the outraged classes of B…
Posted 1 day ago via Lowering the Bar
An Australian judge has ruled that the group Men at Work plagiarized the flute riff in the song "Down Under" from a children's song written in 1932. The ruling means that the Men will have to pay royalties, although the...
Posted 1 day ago via The Wall Street Journal.
Democrats gearing up for a possible Supreme Court vacancy are divided over whether Obama should appoint a prominent liberal voice or go with someone less likely to stoke opposition.
Posted 1 day ago via salon.com
(updated below) Fox News, April 6, 2006: Hundreds of protesters gripped Mexican flags as they marched for immigration reform in the past few weeks, but they say a display of cultural unity is being mistaken as a lack of loyalty to th…
Posted 2 days ago via SFGate Features: Gay & Lesbian
The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay. Many gay politicians in San Francisc…
Posted 2 days ago via Brian Leiter's Law School Reports
Antony (R.A.) Duff, one of the most influential philosophers of criminal law in the world, and a longtime member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stirling in the U.K., has accepted a half-time appointment at the University...
Posted 2 days ago via New York Personal Injury Law Blog
Maybe someone that knows Latin can help me. I'm looking for the proper way to write "Let the Lawyer Beware!" much the way the buyer must beware (caveat emptor). An online dictionary tells me that consultus is the Latin for legal expert, and f…
Posted 2 days ago via Legal History Blog
Ongoing today, far from snowbound Washington, D.C., is an Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference, held at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace (right) of the University of San Diego. The line-up for the conference, organized by USD Law's Ce…
Posted 2 days ago via Freedom to Differ
These are some of the things I've been tweeting about today:reading the wall streeet journal law blog "on rush limbaugh, obama, libel law and the harvard law review" http://j.mp/8Zh33feither way, i can't wait for this tv show ... "can nikki …
Posted 3 days ago via Duets Blog
The Super Bowl is much more than a football game to determine a champion; it is a cultural phenomenon. One of the most important elements of Super Bowl Sunday isn’t the on the field action; it is the commercials on television during the…
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