Legal Commentary

I for one am Reddy for International Women's Day.

Posted on March 08, 2010
Nicole Black hosts this week's Blawg Review #254 at her Sui Generis blog. As she notes, today is International Women's Day and March is National Women's History Month. While recent history concerning the development of women's rights and opportunities is encouraging, Black and the bloggers she gathers in this week's edition of the carnival of legal blogging point out that there's still some distance to go; topics include glass ceilings in law and technology, gender biases in alternative dispute resolution, and neutrality in political reform...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (260)

Posted on March 05, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of UsefulArts.us (from Tuesday, March 2; link good at time of posting):INTA, the International Trademark Association, is a group of nearly six thousand trademark professionals in 190 countries...

A Round Tuit (21)

Posted on March 03, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

From South Florida Lawyers to Nicole

Posted on March 01, 2010
Like spring break itself, this week's spring break themed Blawg Review #253 is over all too soon. Hosted by the South Florida Lawyers blog, this week's edition of the carnival of legal blogging highlights the liability associated with downloading music, the issues raised when a Killer Whale lives up to its name, and the implications of anonymity and assumed names online...

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TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (259)

Posted on February 26, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Bild (via Deadspin) (from Thursday, February 25; link good at time of posting):A switched-off mobile phone spelt the end of speed skater Patrick Beckert?s Olympic dream.....As an Olympic substitute he would have been able to take the place of Italy?s injured athlete Enrico Fabris in the 1,000-metre event...

A Round Tuit (20)

Posted on February 24, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

I am not a Frankenstein. I'm a Fronkensteen.

Posted on February 23, 2010
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What a filthy job. Igor: Could be worse. Frankenstein: How? Igor: Could be raining.Young Frankenstein (1974)These days, practicing law, at least in some larger firms, is a filthy job... with rain. Jordan Furlong has long been amongst the more astute observers of the skewed economics and broken business models of many BigLaw firms and this week he hosts Blawg Review #252 at the Law Firm Web Strategy Blog...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (258)

Posted on February 19, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of CNN (from Thursday, February 18; link good at time of posting):A man on Jazz Air, a regional airline in Canada that also serves U.S. cities, was reportedly kicked off a plane earlier this month because of his strong body odor...

A Round Tuit (19)

Posted on February 17, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

The Host with the Most

Posted on February 16, 2010
It takes a small army of people to mount a successful Winter Olympics (and even more when Mother Nature is uncooperative) or to host a successful Winter Olympics-themed Blawg Review. While their hometown manages the former, the attorneys of Clark Wilson LLP accomplish the latter with Blawg Review #251, hosted this week at their Canadian Trademark Blog...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (257)

Posted on February 12, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Saturday, February 6; link good at time of posting):Communication skills were clearly lacking in a woman who police said tried to rob two Memphis credit unions.....

A Round Tuit (18)

Posted on February 10, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

The way of the Samurai is "Bushido"; the way of the attorney is "Bullshito".

Posted on February 09, 2010
Some weeks, it's tough to find any virtue in the legal profession; some weeks you can find seven of them, as Antonin Pribetic does this week in Blawg Review #250, hosted at The Trial Warrior Blog. Pribetic enlightens us on both the Samurai of days gone by and the legal warriors of the present day...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (256)

Posted on February 05, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The Detroit Free Press (from Monday, February 1; link good at time of posting):A 62-year-old Independence Township man hosting an outdoor winter party in his backyard was rushed to the hospital Sunday night after the explosive backpack he rigged to power him on a sled exploded, police said...

A Round Tuit (17)

Posted on February 03, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

I got away scot-free last week, but this week I returned to my roots. Well, someone's roots anyhow.

Posted on February 02, 2010
Blawg Review is off to a great start this year, with five very strong editions right out of the gate. I posted about the first few before spending much of last week away from the online world. During that week away, I did take some time to read the excellent Blawg Review #248 at The Scots Law Student blog, celebrating poet Robert Burns' birthday; if you've not yet seen it, you certainly should...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (255)

Posted on January 29, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Ananova (from Thursday, January 28; link good at time of posting):A US man found guilty of stealing a Porsche was re-arrested after police learned he had driven to court in a stolen Lexus.Tony Van, 37, a hairstylist from San Francisco, was caught out after seven tiny Yorkshire terrier puppies escaped from the Lexus 4WD...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (254)

Posted on January 22, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of TMZ.com (via Brian Cuban) (from Thursday, January 21; links good at time of posting):The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office just charged [Courtney] Ames with receiving stolen property -- Lindsay Lohan's stolen necklace...

A Round Tuit (16)

Posted on January 20, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

King me.

Posted on January 19, 2010
Chaotic at times but inclusive of all, led by a man of vision, and dedicated to a worthy objective. Yes, that describes the campaign for civil rights led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others during the 1960s; it also is an apt description of this week's Blawg Review #247...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (253)

Posted on January 15, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of BoingBoing (from Tuesday, January 12; link good at time of posting):Hapodi, the French agency that's in charge of the country's new anti-piracy scheme (if someone you live with is accused of three acts of infringement, your whole household is taken offline and added to a list of address to which it is illegal to provide Internet access) has been accused of pirating the font used it its logo...

A Round Tuit (15)

Posted on January 13, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

You'll find this week's Blawg Review predictable.

Posted on January 12, 2010
Jay Shepherd hosts this week's Blawg Review #246 at his The Client Revolution blog. The second review of the new year is a great time for predictions about 2010 and beyond; Shepherd obliges with predictions about the death of hourly billing, the prospects for laid-off attorneys and the firms which laid them off, and the passage of the heyday of traditional legal information providers...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (252)

Posted on January 08, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Telegraph.co.uk (from Monday, January 4; link good at time of posting):More than 5,000 people were kicked off BeautifulPeople.com for losing their looks over the holiday season.The site, which has a strict ban on ''ugly people'', said it had thrown out more than 5,000 members from around the world who had put on weight...

A Round Tuit (14)

Posted on January 06, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

May Darth Vader QC be the most evil barrister you encounter today.

Posted on January 04, 2010
I always look forward to Charon QC's Blawg Reviews, as each one is not only rich with links to the best recent legal blogging in Britain and America but also reads like a great conversation with a widely-read and endlessly-entertaining friend. I can state this with some confidence as I've enjoyed many great conversations with Charon and he is, in fact, a widely-read and endlessly-entertaining gentleman whom I'm honored to count as a friend...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (251)

Posted on January 01, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The Smoking Gun (from Monday, December 28; link good at time of posting):In a colossal screw-up, the gossip web site TMZ today published a photo purporting to show John F. Kennedy frolicking on a yacht with a harem of naked women--except that the image actually appeared as part of a November 1967 Playboy photo spread, The Smoking Gun has learned...

A Round Tuit (13)

Posted on December 30, 2009
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

Blawg Review is like a box of chocolates...

Posted on December 28, 2009
The anonymous and always-enigmatic Editor of Blawg Review (not pictured above) offers a "sampler" of each of the past year's editions of the carnival of legal blogging in this week's Blawg Review #244. For obvious reasons I was reminded of those Whitman's Sampler chocolates I used to see around Christmas and Valentine's day; those boxes of chocolates are also an apt metaphor for Blawg Review itself...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (250)

Posted on December 25, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of MyFoxBoston.com (via Diane Levin) (from Tuesday, December 22; link good at time of posting):A North Shore man who became an activist for tougher drunken driving laws after his son was killed by a drunken driver has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading to sufficient facts to driving while intoxicated...

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