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Blawgger Ronda Muir and her unique approach to Practice Management

Posted on August 25, 2009
1. In what capacity does your blog serve the legal community? I am a specialist in organizational development for law firms and law departments. I have an expertise in lawyer personalities, which in this industry has a major impact on how their organizations work...

Interview with Bonnie Shucha

Posted on February 12, 2009
The stuffy old style of running a library has definitely changed. In order to keep up with today?s fast-paced lifestyle and technological innovations, law librarians have to continuously be on the cutting edge. The consequence of falling behind the times could land your small library in heavy debt and into closing...

Interview with Dan T. Frith

Posted on February 12, 2009
Virginia lawyers Dan Frith and Lauren Ellerman have over 25 years of combined practice experience and are dedicated to the hard work necessary to bring skilled and experienced representation to their clients. Dan and Lauren blog frequently about medical and professional negligence cases, wrongful death claims, and nursing home abuse and neglect...

The Rescue Plan and Other Posts

Posted on September 30, 2008
Professor Adam J. Levitin authored a post, Congress to Homeowners: Drop Dead, at Credit Slips which noted [a] draft of the bailout plan is out. And it contains nothing substantive for financially distressed homeowners. And, after the vote, What Now? Life After the Bailout Bill - Doom, Gloom but Also Opportunity as Lawmakers Pick Up the Pieces...

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Carl Icahn

Posted on September 24, 2008
With markets in turmoil, it is hard not to check the financial headlines throughout the day.  Beyond the headlines, I have been finding some informative reading among weblogs.  One to which I have subscribed is investor Carl Icahn's The Icahn Report.   Whether you agree with his views or not, Mr...

The SEC and Short Sales

Posted on September 23, 2008
With the continuing turmoil in the market, lawyers continue to post on a variety of related topics.  To wit, Thomas Gorman of Porter Wright has offered hist thoughts, via SEC Actions, on the recent moves by the Securities and Exchange Commission concerning short sales: The SEC?s Bold Step Into The Markets Mandates Quick Follow Up Measures SEC Modifies Its Emergency Short Sale Rules And Suggests They May Be Extended   Technorati Tags: short sales,sec,security and exchange commission,shorts

Monday Morning Headlines

Posted on September 22, 2008
Headlines across the blawgosphere this Monday morning, September 22, 2008: Microsofts Patent Tax - Patent Prospector Jureeka! - Legal Writing Prof Blog Sexual Harassment Guide for Employees - Los Angeles Sexual Harassment Attorneys Muslim Arbitration Tribunal sets up 5 Sharia courts in UK...

Government Steps in with AIG - Blawgosphere Reacts

Posted on September 17, 2008
Lots of commentary on the happenings on Wall Street these days.   News about faltering insurance giant AIG is the latest hot topic.  Interested?  Dive into the topic via any of the links noted: AIG...US Government To The Rescue! Post Mortem - Structured Settlements 4Real We Bought Ourselves an Insurance Company - Concurring Opinions Whats the Law of the A...

Topics Across the Blawgosphere

Posted on September 16, 2008
Law Firm Merger Mania: The Heller / Mayer Merger Is Off - Above the Law UCLA fires up election blog featuring expert analysis of presidential campaign - idealawg Jay Hein on Hiring Rights and the Future of the Faith-Based Initiative - Blog From The Capital Patent Profile: Allele Biotech Announces Issuance of siRNA Patent - Patent Docs Anti-Cybersquatting: The Problem of an Eminent Domain Name - Conglomerate U...

Law School Rankings - 2008 Z-Scores

Posted on September 09, 2008
For anyone interested in the topic of annual law school rankings, Professor Tom Bell recently posted the 2008 edition of his z-scores via this post, Z-Scores in Model of 2009 USN&WR Law School Rankings, at MoneyLaw.  U.S. News & World Report publishes scores for each of the hundred or so schools that it ranks highest, and offers some of the data that goes into calculating those scores...

Marquette Laws Adds Faculty Weblog

Posted on September 03, 2008
Marquette Law has recently added an official Faculty Blog, which makes five (official and unofficial) weblogs from the school.  Check them out via any of the links below: Indisputably Faculty Blog Shark and Shepherd Truth on the Market Workplace Prof Blog

Headlines Across the Blawgosphere for Monday August 18th

Posted on August 18, 2008
Perusing my feed reader over the last couple of days, more than a few headlines caught my eye.  Here are a few you may find worth the click-through. Virginia Keeps Unconstitutional Laws On The Books - Legal Juice Carl Icahn on Shareholder Activism - Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog SHOULD GEEK SQUADS BE INFORMANTS? - Ride the Lightning: Electronic Evidence Another Settlement In The Auction Rate Securities Market - SEC Actions Blog Trafficking in Counterfeit Labels Renders Alien Inadmissible to Stay in United States - Seattle Trademark Lawyer Financing the Olympic Games--Posners Comment - The Becker - Posner Blog Changing Sex in Corporate America - Transgender Workplace Diversity Secularism and the Rule of Law in Turkey - Law Librarian Blog Layoffs Under New York Civil Service Law - Adjunct Law Prof Blog Contracts Remedies: The Expectation Measure of Damages; The Proof Requirement - Law Study Systems Loophole in regulations results in a freeze on approval of new bus companies - Administrative Law Prof Blog

ABA Criminal Justice Section Annual Supreme Court Review

Posted on August 12, 2008
Hat tip to Dean Ellen Podgor for the heads up, A Review of the Recent Supreme Court Term, posted at White Collar Crime Prof Blog. Professor Rory Little (Hastings) moderated the recent ABA Criminal Justice Section Annual Supreme Court Review. Speakers on the panel were: Robert Dean, Katherine P...

Wall Street Journal Law Blog Looking for Case Studies re: Judicial Criticism

Posted on August 07, 2008
Just a quick heads up... On Friday, the Law Blog will moderate a panel at the annual ABA program entitled, ?Judicial Criticism: Judges Under Fire.? We were looking for current case studies to discuss on the panel, when the following news of fall-out from the Viacom-Google battle came across our desk...

More Monday Morning Headlines Across the Blawgosphere

Posted on August 04, 2008
Some headlines across the blawgosphere for a Monday... Legal Theory Lexicon: Strict Construction & Judicial Acitivism - Legal Theory Blog Disputes over Unpaid Sales Commissions and Bonus Payments: When Does a Mere Expectation Become into an "Earned" Wage? Part I -Performance-Based Employment Compensation as a Unilateral Contract -  California Labor & Employment Defense Blog IMMIGRATION AND FAITH - Greg Siskind's Blog An Expert Copyright Lawyer Tells It Like It Is - Patterico's Pontifications Althouse: Half Right - Discriminations Montana Enacts Digital Billboard Moratorium - Law of the Land New Structured Settlement Law in Louisiana - Cerebral Palsy Law Blog Student-Edited Law Reviews in Europe - Edublawg

Bar Exam Week!

Posted on July 30, 2008
Here I am caught up in my own work and life and I totally forgot that it is Bar Exam week.   Thankfully, other blawgs have not, including Above the Law, which includes a growing thread of comments on the topic via the post Bar Exam Open Thread: So How Was Day One? (Earthquakes aside...

Monday Morning Headlines

Posted on July 28, 2008
  Some interesting headlines across the blawgosphere this morning... Thats Right: When Youre in a Hole, Keep Digging - Korea Law Blog Employee Fired For Calling Cops On Shoplifter- Legal Juice NLRB General Counsel Memo on Political Advocacy _ Adjunct Law Prof Blog The SEC Files Another Insider Trading Case Based On International Trading - SEC Actions Blog Tax Shelters - White Collar Crime Prof Blog How many points is INFRINGEMENT? - Likelihood of Confusion Law - More on "Who Killed Chandra Levy?" - The Indiana Law Blog Social Security Benefits Do Survive Divorce - VA Family Law Blog

Blawgosphere Covers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Posted on July 14, 2008
As might be expected, lawyers and commentators involved in Banking and Security Law are writing about yesterday's announcement from the Fed: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System announced Sunday that it has granted the Federal Reserve Bank of New York the authority to lend to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should such lending prove necessary...

Footnote 17

Posted on July 09, 2008
A blog post from Rick Hasen at Election Law Blog has been making the rounds this week across the blawgosphere and in the legal press.  The post, A Warning About Litigant-Funded Research in Supreme Court Cases, highlights a footnote in Justice David Souter's opinion in EXXON SHIPPING CO...

Back from the 4th Headlines...

Posted on July 07, 2008
Across the blawgosphere this morning, here are some of the topics being discussed: China: The Peoples Republic Of Capitalism - China Law Blog The important point that Kennedy v. Louisiana proves about Boumediene v. Bush - BeldarBlog Providence Journal summarizes the lead paint ruling - Point of Law ACS Week in Review: June 27 - July 3, 2008 - ACS Blog U...

Headlines Catching Eyes Across the Blawgosphere

Posted on June 25, 2008
Some eye-catching headlines across the blawgosphere this morning: Court Overturns Fathers Decision to Ground 12-Year-Old Daughter - Lowering the Bar The Cocktail Party Question - Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer Is A Full Labor Relations Privilege Developing? - Adjunct Law Prof Blog Hillary Clinton Returns to Senate Amidst Cheers - TalkLeft This Is the Subprime Mortgage Smackdown? - White Collar Crime Prof Blog State of Florida to Buy US Sugar While US Sugar ESOP Litigation Continues - Pension Protection Act Blog Law Librarianship as an Alternative Career for Attorneys - WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library Oil Spills, Waste, Shipwrecks and Liability: Case C-188/07 - by EU Law Blog Smokers Need Not Apply at Rogers Towers - The Legal Beat   Technorati Tags: blawgosphere headlines,blawgosphere

U.K. Law's Fast Fifty

Posted on June 24, 2008
Legal Week has an interesting piece this week entitled 'Fast Fifty' Tracks U.K. Firms' Top-Growth Sites. This year's Intendance "Fast Fifty" benchmarking of the 50 fastest-growing law firm Web sites is further proof of how the legal sector is stepping up its online operations...

Two Years of Law School

Posted on June 23, 2008
Interesting note this weekend, Law School in 2 Years (Same $$?) ? Assessing Northwestern?s Program, on Northwestern's coming two year law program Here is a snippet on the subject from the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog: Is the plan, spearheaded by Dean David Van Zandt, an innovative break with the conservative, time-honored traditions of law school? After all, how much law is learned in that third year? Or, as Chicago?s Professor Stone suggests, is the two-year program an ?irresponsible? ploy that risks churning out substandard lawyers? Here are the details of the program, according to Van Zandt: Tuition: Don?t expect to save money...

Law Professor Goldstein Travels Through China

Posted on June 17, 2008
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog has given some space to NYU law professor Brandt Goldstein, who is on a Ford Foundation travel grant speaking at several Chinese universities. Professor Goldstein has begun reporting back on some issues of interest to the legal world, including the state of legal education in China...

Blawg Book Highlighter #32: Legal Fictions: Short Stories About Lawyers and the Law

Posted on June 16, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #32: Legal Fictions: Short Stories About Lawyers and the Law I find it curious that with all of the lawyer-authors out there, the well-known ? Scott Turow, John Grisham, Lisa Scottoline, David Baldacci, and the lesser-known ? Randall Hicks, David Ellis, Laura Caldwell, myself, to name just a few ? why there aren't more anthologies or compilations of their works...

Graduate Certificate in Law Firm Management

Posted on June 09, 2008
Hat tip to Silvia Coulter at The Legal Compass for pointing out George Washington University's Graduate Certificate in Law Firm Management.   The Graduate Certificate Program in Law Firm Management is a challenging, highly interactive education experience for lawyers and other law firm administrators who want to broaden their skills and career opportunities...

Monday Morning Headlines

Posted on June 02, 2008
Interesting Headlines Across the Blawgosphere this Morning... Ten New Law Schools In The Works! - Adjunct Law Prof Blog Mankiw Makes the Case for McCains Corporate Tax Cut - Truth on the Market The "Early Show" addresses internet prescriptions - poorly - Internet Pharmacy Law Lawdable Quotes: Immanuel Kant - Fastcase - Accelerated Legal Research Democratic Rules Committee Decides Florida, Michigan - Wise Law Canadian Blawg Britany Spears mentally incompetent to appear in probate court - Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog Common Good "Boundaries of Litigation" forum - Point of Law Technorati Tags: blawgosphere headlines,blawgosphere

Blawg Book Highlighter #31: Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges

Posted on May 24, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #31: Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges The conservative wing of the U.S. Supreme Court seems to be spreading its wings these days in a surprisingly public fashion: by penning books. It?s rare when we, the people, hear from the nine men in black...

Blawg Book Highlighter #30: The Whole Truth

Posted on May 17, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #30: The Whole Truth David Baldacci would be on most any short list of best-selling lawyer-writers. Right up next to Scott Turow, Lisa Scottoline, John Grisham and Phillip Margolin. His latest, The Whole Truth, debuted at No. 1 in the New York Times Best Sellers List and currently stands at No...

Legal Research in Canada

Posted on May 16, 2008
Hat tip to Legal Writing Prof Blog for pointing out a slick "how-to" guide for performing legal research in Canada recently posted to LLRX. Doing Legal Research in Canada, written by Ted Tjaden, is an online guide to doing legal research in Canada. The guide provides information and links to print and online resources and is aimed primarily at researchers outside of Canada needing an overview of Canadian legal research...

Headlines Across the Blawgosphere - May 12, 2007

Posted on May 12, 2008
Some recent headlines across the blawgosphere...  The Looming Polar Bear War - Earth Jur 1.0  San Diego Lawsuit Brings Attention to Food Contamination - San Diego Injury Lawyer Blog  Option Backdating: A Flawed SEC Complaint Raises Questions About the Enforcement Program And Its Direction - SEC Actions Blog  Happy Mothers Day - Legal Writing Prof Blog  Case o' The Week: It Pays to Discover, Chapman - Ninth Circuit Blog  Romney Speech on Religion 2...

Client Profitability

Posted on May 06, 2008
Ron Paquette, an analyst at Redwood Analytics, recently penned an interesting two-parter which has been posted to More Partner Income: Client Profitability: What Is The Cost Of Partner Time? and Partner Cost and Client Profitability (Part II)

Blawg Book Highlighter #29 - Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century

Posted on May 03, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #29: Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century Columbia University law professor Philip Bobbitt is a rare breed of Democrat. While he, like many of his Democratic counterparts, supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he is different than most in that his support hasn?t wavered...

Headlines Across the Blawgosphere

Posted on April 30, 2008
If your feed reader is anything like mine, it is increasingly jammed with interesting posts on myriad subjects.  Here are some headlines that have caught my eye this week: SEC's Corporation Finance Recommends Changes to Cross-Border Tender Offer Rules - Securities Law Prof Blog Wikipedia Ethics Event, May 15 at SCU - Technology & Marketing Law Blog Rethinking Waiver Provisions - AdamsDrafting $24...

Justice Scalia Speaks

Posted on April 28, 2008
CBS has posted 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl's interview of United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, including some video snippets.  See Justice Scalia On The Record. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog commented on the interview last night in its post Scalia to Stahl: End of Term ?Usually a Disappointment? ...

Blawg Book Highlighter #28: The Law of Second Chances

Posted on April 19, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #28: The Law of Second Chances Florida seems to be a breeding ground for alligators and crime fiction writers. John D. MacDonald. Carl Hiassen. Randy Wayne White. Tom Corcoran. Bob Morris. Tim Dorsey. All have helped to paint with words a dark side to the Sunshine State...

Coverage of Harry Potter Trial Continues

Posted on April 17, 2008
For those so inclined, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog has been posting an interesting series of dispatches, commentary and analysis from the trial Warner Bros. and Rowling vs. RDR Books aka the Harry Potter trial. Here are some links to jumping off points: Day One of the Harry Potter Trial: Rowling Holds Her Own Harry Potter Lexicon Author Breaks Down on the Stand Judge in Potter Trial Calls on Parties to Settle   Notes from the Potter Trial: After a Partial Settlement, the Defense Digs In Potter Case: IP Lawyer Calls It a Toss-Up Potter Trial: On Last Day, Defense Outshines Rowling Technorati Tags: harry potter,warner bros...

The Importance of Cost in Law School Rankings

Posted on April 16, 2008
In the National Law Journal article What Law School Rankings Don't Say About Costly Choices, authors William D. Henderson and Andrew P. Morriss suggest that [s]ome students should consider lower-ranked schools that offer more grants, better opportunities...

Madisonian Delivers on Legal Education

Posted on April 09, 2008
If you have not stopped by Madisonian.net recently, you may want to take a moment to do so.   Penned by a collection of law professors and guests, this blawg continues to deliver intriguing posts loosely focused on and around the topic of legal education...

Multilocal Management

Posted on April 08, 2008
Bruce MacEwen, writing at Adam Smith, Esq., posted this week on the topic of global management of law firms, a timely subject in this era of globalization.  In his post, Global Management: Central or Local?, Mr. MacEwen noted: Multilocal? That's the new McKinsey coinage intended to lend new intellectual luster and heft to the perennial management-theoretical challenge of how to manage multinational firms...

Headlines Across The Blawgosphere

Posted on April 07, 2008
It is one of those mornings where, in scanning the latest headlines across the blawgosphere, so many posts look interesting that I am not just not sure where to jump in. Here are a sample that leave you with the dilemma I faced: Kryptonite Copyright - ACS Blog Trade Secret Jury Verdict : EMS Gulf Coast, LLC v...

Blawg Book Highlighter #27: Baby Crimes

Posted on April 05, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #27: Baby Crimes Prominent adoption attorney Randall Hicks cut his writing chops in the non-fiction realm with his well-received Adopting in America: How to Adopt Within One Year (2004), which Publishers Weekly called ?a nuts-and-bolts, practical guide to the entire process of adopting a child...

Non-Equity Partner Tiers at Law Firms

Posted on April 01, 2008
Jim Cotterman at Altman Weil recently wrote about Non-Equity Partner Tiers at his weblog, Cotterman on Compensation.   Mr. Cotterman's post included a reference to an academic paper on the subject.   The paper, written by Indiana Law Professor William D...

Starbucks, Commercial Law and the Perfect Coffee Pledge

Posted on March 31, 2008
I am halfway through, and thoroughly enjoying, a book covering the origins and subsequent growth of Starbucks and the United States love affair with coffee drinks.   Entitled Starbucked, the book is well written and recommended for aficionados of coffee and entrepreneurship alike...

Blawg Book Highlighter #26: Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk

Posted on March 29, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #26: Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk The Patent and Copyright Clause of the US Constitution was proposed in 1787 by James Madison and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. In Federalist #43, Madison wrote, ?The utility of the clause will scarcely be questioned...

More SCOTUS: Hall Street v. Mattel

Posted on March 28, 2008
In other U.S. Supreme Court news, attorney Todd Smith, writing at Texas Appellate Law Blog, pointed out The Buzz on Hall Street v. Mattel, another important Supreme Court decision a bit lost in all of the screaming Medellin v. Texas headlines.   Check his post for a collection of cross links and information specific to Hall Street, which he will be continually updating...

Blawgosphere Covers Medellin v. Texas

Posted on March 28, 2008
As might be the expected, the blawgosphere had lots to say about this week's United States Supreme Court decision Medellin v. Texas. A sampling of headlines... VIENNA CONVENTION: More on Medellin SCOTUS decides Medellin, checks executive power, and limits the reach of the ICJ Don't Take The Bait Medellin and the CISG Texas Win Could Cost American Lives   If none of the above headlines catch you eye, you can always try your own searches of the blawgosphere via Blawg's homepage as well...

Google and White Spaces

Posted on March 26, 2008
The National School Board Assocation's longstanding (and very well done) weblog, BoardBuzz, nicely summarized this week developments in Google's wished-for plan for white spaces. Back in December, Google joined a coalition of technology companies, public interest and consumer groups, civil rights organizations, think tanks, and higher education groups to launch the Wireless Innovation Alliance to promote the benefits that "white spaces" can bring to consumers...

Chicago Cubs Hootenanny

Posted on March 22, 2008
Spring is in the air (snow in the Midwest notwithstanding).  Which means Opening Day is getting closer by the minute.  With that in mind, Chicago-based author, lawyer and Blawg guest blogger Randy Richardson is taking a break from his normal Saturday Book Highlighter to share this friendly heads up for any and all Chicago Cubs fans gearing up for another season of believing...

U.K. Sees Growth in Third Party Funding for Litigation

Posted on March 21, 2008
Interesting article in Legal Week, External Funding Booms as Litigators Plot Upturn, concerning the growth of third party funding in the United Kingdom. Eight out of 10 of London's top law firms are already using or assessing external funding for litigation and arbitration cases, it has emerged, marking a dramatic move of third-party funding into mainstream practice...

Oral Arguments: What do I do if I don't know the answer to a judge's question?

Posted on March 20, 2008
Another example of why I love the fact that law professors are such active participants across the blawgosphere... Hat tip to Kentucky Law Review for pointing out a recent post from Louisville Law Professor Ariana R. Levinson, Legal Writing Tip - Answering Questions at Oral Argument...

Slate Goes Live with Convictions

Posted on March 19, 2008
Hat tip to Blawg's Book Highlighter writer Randy Richardson, for pointing out Slate's new weblog focused on the legal world, Convictions.  Convictions is clearly a collaborative effort along the lines of Between Lawyers, The Volokh Conspiracy and Concurring Opinions...

Snippets: Patent Litigation Charted and a Law School Leadership Roundtable

Posted on March 18, 2008
A couple of posts that caught my eye this morning: Professor Dennis Crouch, writing at Patently-O, has posted an interesting chart depicting the Number of Patents in Litigation: Over the past two decades, the number of patents being litigated has risen dramatically...

LinkedIn

Posted on March 17, 2008
Last year, I remember thinking to myself that there were a lot of lawyers adding profiles to LinkedIn, an online professional networking website.  And, that many of these same lawyers were ones that had never struck me as being particularly "tech-savvy...

Blawg Book Highlighter #25: In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer

Posted on March 15, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #25: In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer Technorati Tags: robert bennett,bill clinton,trial lawyer,monica lewinsky Former President Bill Clinton blurb?s Robert S. Bennett?s new memoir, In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer, calling it a ?great read? that is ?written with poignancy and persuasion...

Two Views on Big Law Associate Churn

Posted on March 11, 2008
Technorati Tags: big law,associate churn,associates,law firms,corporate counsel,associate attrition Bruce McEwen, writing at Adam Smith, Esq., recently highlighted an article appearing in this month's American Lawyer, The Lost Generation?, in his post Process or Passion? The article looks at associate churn at big law firms: Demoralized and dispirited, big-firm associates are defecting in droves...

Blawg Book Highlighter #24: Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment

Posted on March 08, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #24: Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment I've lamented before the failure of most law schools to expose students to non-judicial writings, citing Scott Turow's "10 Books to Read on the Law" as examples of books that should be required reading in law schools...

Grow Your Weblog - Don't Forget the Links

Posted on March 06, 2008
Susan Ward, director of marketing and communications at Carlin & Ward, has penned a nice article on linking for the New Jersey Law Journal.   The article, Top Blogs Hit All the Right Links, is posted to  Law.com. Some bullet points from the article: While it takes time to build a cache of relevant posts, blog placement can be achieved through relevant content, and inbound and outbound links to other sites...

Cool Online Tool: Scribd

Posted on March 04, 2008
Ran accross a really cool online tool this week, iPaper from Scribd: Scribd is a free, web-based, document sharing community and self-publishing platform that enables anyone to easily publish, distribute, share, and discover documents of all kinds. E-books, presentations, essays, academic papers, newsletters, photo albums, school work, and sheet music are just a few of the different kinds of documents you can publish and share on Scribd...

Banned from Facebook: One Lawyer's Story

Posted on March 03, 2008
Interesting post this morning, Facebook Banishment and Due Process, from Professor David Solove at Concurring Opinions: Recently, I [Solove] was talking with David Lat, author of the blog Above the Law, and he was complaining about being banished from Facebook...

RSS and Competitive Intelligence

Posted on February 28, 2008
Dennis Kennedy's column in the March edition of the ABA Journal, Really Simple Competitive Intelligence, offers an interesting, quick read on using Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds for competitive intelligence purposes. Especially useful is that Mr...

Monday Morning Headlines...

Posted on February 25, 2008
Some headlines from my feed reader catching my eye this morning: Political Activity Under the NLRA - Workplace Prof Blog Cyprus Trademark Law and Registration Process - IBLS Speaker's Corner James Otis argued Paxton's Case 137 years ago today - FourthAmendment Blog General counsel need to know the legal positions and actions of companies with shared directors - Law Department Management Legal Outsourcing Trends and Forecast - Strategic Legal Technology

Blawg Book Highlighter #23: Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons that Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players

Posted on February 23, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #23: Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons that Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away and know when to run. You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table...

Senator McCain and the Presidential Public Financing System

Posted on February 22, 2008
Law Professor Rick Hasen, writing at Election Law Blog, posted an interesting piece yesterday (Sen. McCain in Legal and Political Pickle Over FEC Letter) concerning a decision from the Federal Election Commission "barring [Senator John] McCain, at least temporarily, from withdrawing from the presidential public financing system for the primary season...

Continuing Down the Path to Free

Posted on February 19, 2008
A recurring theme I have written about on occasion in the past is the growing power of "free."   That is, companies, nonprofits, and even individuals compiling and posting legal-related materials online and for free. That theme reappeared this morning in an article posted to Law...

CIGNA Case, Blawg Review, More Monday Headlines...

Posted on February 18, 2008
Some interesting headlines from the blawgosphere this morning... Compelling Decision From Court in CIGNA Cash Balance Class Action Case - Pension Protection Act Blog Blawg Review #147: Bike riding through Iowa - idealawg Which Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Are You? - Random Ramblings About Life and Law School Law firms get set to sue investment banks - Times Online Law Report Back to Rick - Mirror of Justice The Frugal Lawyer - Bargain Your Way to Wealth - FutureLawyer

Blawg Book Highlighter #22: The Appeal

Posted on February 09, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #22: The Appeal On the Amazon.com sales page for John Grisham?s foray back into thelegal thriller, The Appeal, there?s an open letter from the authoraddressed to Amazon Customers. He writes: ?After a short hiatus, I am delighted to be back on familiar turf...

Law School to Offer Joint U.S. - Mexico Law Program

Posted on February 08, 2008
I read with interest a post at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, Law School Dean Hits Road to Help Students Get Jobs, concerning new efforts by University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Dean Mark Gordon to create a new cross-border program for students...

A Blawg Makes Library of Congress

Posted on February 04, 2008
Hat tip to Legal Pad for pointing out (Library of Congress Highlights Privacy 'Blawg' ) the recent news that law firm Proskauer Rose's Privacy Law Blog has been added to the Library of Congress' historical internet archive.   From Proskauer Rose's press release on the subject: Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 750 lawyers worldwide, is proud to announce that its Privacy Law Blog (privacylaw...

Blawg Book Highligher #21: Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture

Posted on February 02, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter # 21: Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture At my law school graduation party, one of the gag gifts I got was an ambulance that made a "real" siren sound. The joke, of course, was that I was about to embark on a career as an ambulance-chaser...

Legal Industry Forecast Downbeat

Posted on January 31, 2008
As noted by a number of sites within the blawgosphere this week, Hildebrandt and Citi have released their annual Client Advisory.  Whether the report specifically applies to your practice or not, it is interesting reading. If you have time to read it for yourself, you can get the pdf version via The Wall Street Journal's public site by clicking here: Client Advisory...

John Grisham and Legal Influence

Posted on January 30, 2008
In light of John Grisham's new book, The Appeal, The Wall Street Journal Law Blog posed an interesting question this week in the post John Grisham & Judicial Elections: [John Grisham] is clearly trying to influence the legal system. What impact has he had on it through his books? For better, for worse? According to the WSJ Law Blog's post, the question arises from the storylines of Grisham's books and Grisham's other writing and commentary...

Headlines Across the Blawgosphere

Posted on January 28, 2008
Headlines across the blawgosphere this morning: Sixth Circuit Notes Split Re Whether 18 U.S.C. whether § 3583(i) Nevertheless Contains an Implicit Sworn-Facts Requirement - Split Circuits Ribstein on Unincorporated Firms - TRUTH ON THE MARKET Merged law firms take on name Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP - Show Me Blawgs Rep...

Blawg Book Highlighter #20: See You in Court

Posted on January 26, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #20: See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation There's an old lawyer joke that asks: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: Three. One to climb the ladder. One to shake it. And one to sue the ladder company...

Article: Outsourcing - Offshoring Legal Work

Posted on January 25, 2008
Interesting article today on the Law.com network entitled GCs Embrace Outsourced Work.  The article discusses some of the latest developments in outsourcing and offshoring legal work to low cost providers worldwide.  A few bullet points from the article: For Scott Rickman [attorney at Del Monte], the question is: Why pay big-firm associates $200 an hour to do document review when you can ship it out to India for $25 an hour? While many are still undecided or tentative, market researchers are bullish...

Tuesday Headlines of Interest

Posted on January 22, 2008
Some interesting headlines coming across my reader over the last couple of days. MLK Day Blawg Review #143 - A Public Defender The Secrets of Successful (and Unsuccessful) Mediators - mediator blah...blah... Meg Whitman to Leave eBay - Conglomerate Axed NY BigLaw Associate Calls Firing Religious Discrimination - Adjunct Law Prof Blog NPR forecasts $100 million in Podcast Ads - Law is Cool Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might be a Bad Idea (For Most Law Schools) - Balkanization Sheller v...

Blawg Book Highlighter #19: The Case of Abraham Lincoln

Posted on January 19, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #19: The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder and the Making of a Great President Four years before he was elected the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was drawn into a sensational murder trial...

Minter Ellison's Technology Driving Revenue Growth

Posted on January 15, 2008
In the post More Australian Law Firm Innovation, Ron Friedmann at Prism Consulting highlighted an interesting article in Lawyers Weekly (The A-Bomb of Differentiation) involving the law firm Minter Ellison. [T]he Adelaide office [of Minter Ellison] invested $5 million in case management and other software to enable it to handle - profitably - high volume work such as ?banking, claims management, franchising, leasing, medical negligence and workers compensation...

Monday Morning Headlines

Posted on January 14, 2008
Blawg headlines catching my eye this morning... Insolvency law reform: corporate insolvency information for directors, employees, creditors and shareholders - Australian Regulatory Compliance Review FBI Name Checks - A few options to resolve delays - Visa Lawyer Blog The University of Chicago Law Review, Issue 74:Special (Commemorating Twenty-five Years of Judge Richard A...

Blawg Book Highlighter #18: The Good Liar

Posted on January 12, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #18: The Good Liar A month ago, I put the Highlighter on David Ellis' latest legal thriller, Eye of the Beholder. I mentioned that I met Ellis at the Love is Murder mystery writing convention in Rosemont, Illinois, back in February 2006...

Weblogs and Networking: M & A Law Prof Moves to NYTimes

Posted on January 11, 2008
In yet another example of the networking power of weblogs, Wayne State Law School Professor Steven Davidoff, who posts at M & A Law Prof Blog, noted this week (M&A Law Prof to the New York Times DealBook) that he is taking his blogging efforts to a larger stage, the New York Times DealBook: I'm very pleased to announce that I will now be blogging full time with the New York Times DealBook as the Deal Professor...

LexisNexis Acquires Redwood Analytics

Posted on January 09, 2008
Another software product making inroads into the large law firm user base has been acquired by LexisNexis.  This time around, Redwood Analytics.   If the plan at Lexis is to ultimately integrate all of the third party software applications it is adding to its portfolio, it faces a very interesting (and large) challenge...

Patents: Monsanto Co. v. McFarling

Posted on January 08, 2008
Another post from my RSS reader that caught my eye this morning was Kevin Noonan's comprehensive post Supreme Court Fails to Grant Certiorari in Monsanto Co. v. McFarling.    Posted to Patent Docs, Mr. Noonan starts by noting: Once recombinant cells were deemed to constitute patentable subject matter by the U...

Chinese Labor Laws Update

Posted on January 08, 2008
Multiple "Best of" award winner China Law Blog has a couple of interesting recent posts on changes to China's Labor Laws.  China's New Labor Law: Compliance Comes Easy  NPR On China's New Labor Law -- Low Tech Getting "Difficult"

Blawg Book Highlighter #17: Snitch: Informants, Cooperators and the Corruption of Justice

Posted on January 05, 2008
Blawg Book Highlighter #17: Snitch: Informants, Cooperators and the Corruption of Justice Right and wrong. Good and bad. Black and white. Guilty and innocent. That's how politicians, the news media and Hollywood tend to draw the world we live in. But it's rarely that clear cut, as Ethan Brown illustrates in his new book, Snitch: Informants, Cooperators and the Corruption of Justice (PublicAffairs, December 2007)...

Friday Headlines

Posted on January 04, 2008
Some interesting headlines coming into my RSS news reader this morning... Paralegals With IT Skills are Hot Commodity - ParalegalGateway's Weblog The Scourge of the Billable Hour - Slate No Appellate Jurisdiction Where Appeal Taken While Contempt Motion Still Pending...

Althouse's Favorite 2007 Quotes

Posted on January 03, 2008
Law Professor Ann Althouse ended 2007 with a post covering her collection of favorite quotes from the year.   Some real nuggets in there... Here's where I pick out all my favorite quotes from the things I've collected on this blog over the past year.

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