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Last Entry: August 25, 2009 at 12:52:40

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...

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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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