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Posted about 6 hours ago via ABA Journal Top Stories
A Florida lawyer has sued the lawyer rating website Avvo, claiming it engages in “punitive, coercive and manipulative business practices” that are “beyond unfair.” St. Petersburg lawyer Larry Joe Davis Jr., a board-certified h
Posted about 7 hours ago via Crime Scene KC
In Ohio, a daycare worker was found guilty of drugging her young charges so they'd fall asleep and she wouldn't have to, you know, work so hard. (She used melatonin, a diet supplement, in case you are looking for pointers.)
Posted about 7 hours ago via Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol With the new academic year upon us, this is a reminder for anyone teaching antitrust/competition law or economics to recommend this blog to their students as a daily read to see the latest in scholarship...
Posted about 8 hours ago via Duets Blog
Whenever I return from a trip from California, I am always surprised at the number of people who ask whether I visited the palace of hamburgers known as In-N-Out. I’m not much of a burger fan, so my trips to that establishment are rare. …
Posted about 9 hours ago via Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol UCL is pleased to announce CPD course starting on 8 October on Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law: The Regulation of Innovation About this course: The course illustrates the connections among innovation policy, co
Posted about 10 hours ago via Law Librarian Blog
Monterey College of Law has launched a pilot program with BAR BRI that provides iPads to student who enroll in the BAR BRI supplemental curriculum program. Students use the iPads while attending school and in preparation for the California Bar...
Posted about 12 hours ago via Overlawyered
Now see if you can guess how one man has managed to play the system given that generous policy [Tyler Cowen] Tags: Germany Related posts Wrongful birth reaches Germany (11) Woman’s DNA showed up at 39 crime scenes (1) Vioxx roundup, Janu…
Posted about 12 hours ago via Legal History Blog
Two “new book discussions” on the fall schedule of the United States Studies Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars here in Washington are of special interest to legal historiansMae Ngai, Professor of Histo…
Posted about 13 hours ago via Overlawyered
Jon Hyman at Ohio Employment Law spots a potentially significant ruling, and has a followup. P.S. The topic is also discussed on Thursday’s John Stossel show, with guests Katherine Mangu-Ward of Reason and Steve Lonegan of Americans for Prosper
Posted about 14 hours ago via Law.com - Newswire
Allergan has agreed to pay $600 million in criminal and civil penalties and plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of "misbranding" its drug Botox as part of a global settlement with the federal government over off-label uses of the drug. As pa…
Posted about 14 hours ago via Law.com - Newswire
Patent practitioners say the Federal Circuit's decision that whistleblowers have standing to sue companies that falsely label their products as covered by patents probably won't save cases filed based on the bare fact that products contain fal…
Posted about 15 hours ago via Court Raps Judge Over 'Moral' Views in Adoption Case
The Georgia Court of Appeals has rejected the reactionary views of a family court judge who ruled that a foster parent could not adopt a child because her out-of-wedlock relationship with a man was “immoral.” Judge David Ro…
Posted about 16 hours ago via Balkinization
Recently, a district court in California held that state’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. A district court in Boston also held unconstitutional the federal Defense of Marriage Act. I share Jack’s skepticism about the li…
Posted about 16 hours ago via JD Journal
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, added two new shareholders to the firm’s Orange County office. Both employment litigators, Andrew J. Jaramillo and Mich…
Posted about 16 hours ago via TalkLeft
Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate (and Tea Party Fave) Dan Maes admitted today his claim that he worked undercover on a gambling and drug investigation while a police officer in Liberal, KS, which led to his firing, was either techni…
Posted about 16 hours ago via JD Journal
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, has added Christopher Thomas and Angelica Ochoa as Shareholders, John Combs as Of Counsel, and Jocelyn Campanaro as an Associ…
Posted about 17 hours ago via JD Journal
Nationally recognized boutique health law firm, The Health Law Partners, announced the opening of its office in Atlanta, Georgia. Daniel B. Brown will serve as the office’s Managing Shareholder. Mr. Brown has over 20 years of health care…
Posted about 17 hours ago via Overlawyered
Forwarded by Pete Warden with the comment, “This post sums up why I’m a pretty liberal guy *and* a strong supporter of Overlawyered.” Tags: Netherlands, swimming Related posts June 2000 archives, part 3 (0) Welcome Dutch read…
Posted about 17 hours ago via Legal Theory Blog
Thaddeus Hoffmeister (University of Dayton School of Law) has posted Jurors in the Digital Age on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Improper use of new technology by jurors inside and outside the courtroom has become so pervasive that commentators have...
Posted about 19 hours ago via ABA Journal Top Stories
In the latest example of a snowballing trend among BigLaw attorneys, three partners at Seyfarth Shaw have left the well-known Chicago-based firm to establish a smaller suburban firm that will, they say, offer clients quality corporate legal services
Posted about 19 hours ago via Above the Law
If you are a current midlevel associate at a top firm, that means you survived the worst of the Biglaw layoffs. In fact, it probably means you survived while friends and colleagues were having their careers ruined. That should make you happy, …
Posted about 19 hours ago via Charon QC
Stig court case: BBC loses battle over Ben Collins book BBC: The Stig has never removed his helmet on the show The BBC has lost a legal fight to stop publication of a book which reveals the identity of Top Gear’s driver The Stig. The High Court
Posted about 19 hours ago via Seckler Legal Coaching
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun…Ecclesiastes Alternative Fee Agreements have been getting a lot of attention in the legal profession as of late. The Zeitgeist, at leas
Posted about 20 hours ago via Discourse.net
One of the big stories of the day is buried in my newspaper, on the inside of the Metro section: 3 amendments kept off Florida ballot. Yes, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that would-be Amendments 3, 7 and 9 will not be on the November ballot, but Am
Posted about 20 hours ago via Legal Theory Blog
Caroline Anne Forell (University of Oregon - School of Law) has posted What’s Reasonable?: Self-Defense and Mistake in Criminal and Tort Law (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: A terrified homeowner, Rodne
Posted about 20 hours ago via Althouse
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Posted about 21 hours ago via Ask the Lawyer @ Dear Esq.
I have satisfied a Stipulation in Lieu of Foreclosure. I would like a letter to that effect for my files but I'm being told the case is closed and no letter will be sent. How might I go about obtaining a letter?
Posted about 21 hours ago via The Volokh Conspiracy
(Orin Kerr) I don’t know whether to laugh or cry that the comment thread to my post from yesterday, The Ultimate Legal Blog Comment?, is now at 314 comments.
Posted about 21 hours ago via Legal Ethics Forum
It now appears (see below) that the Law Society of Manitoba was aware of the incident with the client, but did not do anything, perhaps because the client had not brought a complaint? That may clear the law firm of...
Posted about 21 hours ago via ABA Journal Top Stories
A number of law students see their third year as something of a waste of time—and money. But Roger Gordon, 43, is walking the walk. The third-year student at Georgetown University Law Center has taken a leave of absence to appeal to the U.S. Su
Posted about 21 hours ago via The Volokh Conspiracy
(Kenneth Anderson) Could anyone point me to a link giving a basic, plain language discussion of the difference between forum and jurisdiction in American law? Something that I could use with a group of non-US lawyers — clear, not too lon…
Posted about 21 hours ago via Sentencing Law and Policy
This new story from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, which is headlined "Federal judge may remove himself from public defender cases," reports on an interesting federal criminal justice brouhaha. Here are the basics: A federal judge today issued an opini
Posted about 22 hours ago via Innocence Blog
When an innocent defendant goes on trial, the skill, dedication and resources of his or her defense attorney can mean the difference between an acquittal and a wrongful conviction. A report released today by the Innocence Project examines the …
Posted about 22 hours ago via Above the Law
The new school year is off to a rocky start at Cardozo and NYU Law. One school is dealing with a rash of anti-Semitism, while the other can’t seem to execute basic building maintenance. If you had to guess which school was dealing with h…
Posted about 23 hours ago via ACS Blog
An evangelical Christian lobbying group and a far right-wing candidate for Nevada attorney general have lodged a sweeping lawsuit against the health care reform law. Joel Hansen, the Independent American Party candidate, and the Nevada F…
Posted about 23 hours ago via 3 Geeks and a Law Blog
As my good friend Jason Wilson told me a few minutes ago, "it is a sad day for legal publishing." As we mentioned back in April, Thomson Reuters was shutting down its Banks Baldwin operations in Ohio and "after it closes, the work will be shif…
Posted about 23 hours ago via Bag and Baggage
Episode 75Show Notes. Video archives for this WEEK in LAW are available at TWiT.tv, on YouTube, and ODTV. TWiL is on Twitter and Facebook, if you're so inclined. Please also rate the show in iTunes. This WEEK in LAW on Facebook …
Posted about 23 hours ago via The Faculty Lounge
It looks like I'm getting to substance more quickly than I expected. I received a call from a reporter today on a legal ethics issue, I'd love to hear comments from the collective wisdom of the blogosphere. Here are the...
Posted about 23 hours ago via Sentencing Law and Policy
The title of this post is the headline of this piece in the New York Law Journal, which gets started this way: A judge's warning that a defendant could be subject to deportation if he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor...
Posted about 23 hours ago via The Volokh Conspiracy
(Eugene Volokh) I’ve been using this word a lot in my first-semester Criminal Law and Torts classes, and finally one student had the nerve to ask me what it meant. I thought everyone knew, but just as a fish is said to not perceive the water in
Posted about 23 hours ago via The Rainmaker Blog
Social media...is it a fad or a fundamental shift in the way we communicate and market? Every time you turn on the television, advertisers are encouraging you to “become a fan on Facebook” or “follow us on Twitter”̵…
Posted 1 day ago via Legal Blog Watch
Do you go to college in Mississippi? Do you like hearing lawyers blather on and on about obscure legal issues that likely have little if any relevance to you? Then you're in luck. Because the Mississippi Court of Appeals (pictured, left) is st…
Posted 1 day ago via ACS Blog
By Hank Greely, a professor of law and genetics at Stanford University, and director of both The Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Stanford Interdisciplinary Group on Neuroscience and Society. I was shocked last week when I learned t…
Posted 1 day ago via Legal Blog Watch
It was big news last week when Northwestern Law School Dean David Van Zandt announced he'd be stepping down to take over as president of the New School. In today's Corporate Counsel, David Hechler explores the law-school-dean-to-university-president
Posted 1 day ago via 3 Geeks and a Law Blog
[Note to those visiting 3 Geeks for the first time: Check out this week's Elephant Post on 'Rightsizing'] There have been a number of us in the law library field that have taken an "Inside Look" at the Westlaw facility in Eagan, Minnesota. We …
Posted 1 day ago via Legal Blog Watch
All the cool kids are suing Facebook for something or other. We are, by now, all familiar with the lawsuit in which some guy claims to be the 84 percent owner of the company (thanks to Above the Law for the latest update on that suit). This morning,
Posted 1 day ago via CYB3RCRIM3
This post is a recent decision of the Virginia Court of Appeals in which the court parsed the meaning of one provision of Virginia’s statute criminalizing the possession of child pornography. The case is Chapman v. Commonwealth, __ S.E.2…
Posted 1 day ago via The Wall Street Journal.
Arbitration was once known as a faster, cheaper, better way to settle disputes. But has the process become as bogged down as conventional litigation?
Posted 1 day ago via Stark County Law Library Weblog
This post was written by Jim Hassett: "In the business bestseller The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande makes a powerful case for the value of this simple project management tool. As the book jacket notes, "The volume and complexity of knowledge...
Posted 1 day ago via Stark County Law Library Weblog
This post was written by Allison Shields: "A lawyer recently faced a situation in which she had agreed to represent a client at a hearing, had collected the fee in advance and made arrangements to meet the client at another location...
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