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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...

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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...

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...

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