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Dog Bite Law: Top 7 Ways to Save Your Pet From Euthanasia

Posted on February 05, 2010
A friend of mine approached me quite distressed yesterday, and his situation has left me a little distressed as well. His dog bit his neighbor. The dog was on a leash at the time on his own property, but reacted aggressively when the neighbor tried to approach him...

Trying a Case and Winning It: The Jury Perspective Method

Posted on February 04, 2010
We generally win cases, and many have asked how it?s done. While this advice may appear to be directed to attorneys, it?s actually for our clients. Everyone gets emotionally involved in a case, and that?s one of the main reasons to hire a lawyer. Plus, lawyers know the Court?s procedures, and they can take [...

Barack Obama Death Threats: Walter Edward Bagdasarian

Posted on February 04, 2010
Internet forum enthusiasts started becoming more cautious in rallying political comments by use of the World Wide Web after a Southern California citizen was charged after posting hostile and racially prejudiced comments online. Walter Edward Bagdasarian, a resident of La Mesa, California, blatantly made online threats during the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama...

His Pants Are On Fire: How Judge Roy Pearson Sued Cleaners

Posted on February 03, 2010
We learned about the lawsuit by a Washington D.C. administrative law judge named Roy Pearson against his diabolical neighborhood dry cleaners (Custom Cleaners), who allegedly lost or stole or set fire to or irradiated or otherwise acted tortiously towards a pair of pants that he dropped off for cleaning four years ago...

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Conneticut Attorney Louis Pepe Says Legal Websites Break Law

Posted on February 01, 2010
Attorney Louis Pepe, a Connecticut attorney and Chair of a Connecticut Bar Task Force examining non–lawyer legal information web sites, believes that these web sites are breaking the law by providing legal services in a state in which they’re not licensed to practice, as reported in the Connecticut Law Tribune...

Digital Economy Bill: Secretary of State Secondary Legislation?

Posted on January 26, 2010
A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I’ve ever seen. Secretary of State Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now under debate in Parliament...

Law School Dress Code: Jeans & T-Shirts or Suits & Tie?

Posted on January 22, 2010
The first time this concept occurred to me, I was packing my bags for law school and my mother was staring at my clothes as I packed them. I asked her what was wrong and all she did was ask me whether that was all the clothes I was going to take with me...

Top 5 Law Student Summer Clerkship Rejection Letters

Posted on January 21, 2010
Almost every law student experiences a healthy dose of rejection when they are searching for a summer job. Since I am not ranked in the top 10% at a top 10 school, nor do I have close family connections to set me up with a nice summer clerkship, finding a job requires a little more [...

Greenwashing Lawsuit: Koh Sues Windex & Shout Maker

Posted on January 14, 2010
Koh v. S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., 2010 WL 94265 (N.D. Cal.) Koh sued for violations of California?s UCL, FAL, and CLRA, along with common-law fraud and unjust enrichment based on SCJ?s alleged ?greenwashing? of Windex and Shout. In 2008, SCJ began to sell Windex in packaging that prominently displays the Greenlist label, and it?s used [...

Value Billing vs Hourly Billing: Which Way is Best For You?

Posted on January 13, 2010
I promised David at EthicalEsq that I would respond to this post of his today. In a response to my previous post on value billing, David argues: There are a lot of problems with the billable hours system, but most of them are the result of abuses rather than of the inherent nature of using hourly [...

Family Members and Fraudulent Transfers: Getting Fancy With Deeds

Posted on January 02, 2010
You are about to get sued and you own a bunch of property. What do you do? First, here’s a caveat: if you transfer the property to someone else in the face of litigation, then you run the risk of entering into what’s called a fraudulent transfer, which would likely be set [...

Sacha Baron Cohen Sued By Victim of Bruno Prank

Posted on December 30, 2009
Sacha Baron Cohen, who was repeatedly sued by people who were unhappy with the way he depicted them in “Borat – Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (a group that includes most people who were depicted in “Borat”), has now been sued by someone unhappy with his depiction in [...

Cloud Computing: Truly Beneficial or Highly Overrated?

Posted on December 29, 2009
Current processing trends seems to embrace the concept of Cloud Computing, also known as SaaS (Software as a Service), rather than the traditional locally installed and hosted PC application. Are SaaS applications truly beneficial, or a passing trend that savvy users should avoid? DeskTop Business Solutions supports and maintains both platforms — a locally [...

Book Review: The View from the First Chair by Martin L. Grayson

Posted on December 28, 2009
In his book “The View from the First Chair: What Every Trial Lawyer Really Needs to Know,” Martin L. Grayson defines a trial as follows– [N]othing less than a six-dimensional merry-go-round-jigsaw-puzzle-demolition-derby all playing out in your mind while you sit relatively passively at counsel table, trying to concentrate on 12 things at once while listening [...

Legislative Action & Massive Bailouts: United States & Japan Strategies

Posted on December 18, 2009
A few short years ago, there was a country experiencing significant prosperity. The flow of credit within the economy was fluid, stock prices were at all time highs, and many people were becoming wealthy in due part to real estate speculation and appreciation...

How the Elder Law Society Ruined My Job Interview

Posted on December 16, 2009
A few weeks ago I had an interview with a Personal Injury firm. The interview began with me talking to a young associate who graduated from my school a few years ago. After discussing the firm and my qualifications, he brought one of the partners in to meet me...

How the Slumping Economy Has Hurt Law Firms

Posted on December 15, 2009
A careful analysis of the recently released National Law Journal 250 reveals some surprising trends. The NLJ reports that the nation’s largest 250 firms (by lawyer headcount) shrank by 4%. Yet, when broken down by geography (see figure below), nearly half of the losses (2,096) were concentrated in the 45 firms headquarters in [...

Viacom?s General Counsel Michael Fricklas Gives Lecture to Yale Law Class on DRM

Posted on December 14, 2009
Michael Fricklas, Viacom’s General Counsel, gave a lecture to a Yale Law class in which he confessed that suing people for copyright infringement felt “like terrorism.” He says that this was bad strategy on the entertainment industry’s part, as was “bad” DRM...

Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences: Harvard Law Review

Posted on December 12, 2009
?SALMS? is a recently formed group whose acronym stands for: Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences. They are interested keeping the law school community informed about research in the mind sciences that has profound implications for law and policy making...

Leaked E-Mails From DigiProtect & Davenport Lyons on Cease & Desist Letter Costs

Posted on December 02, 2009
Having forced tens of thousands of P2P users to pay up for costly pre-settlement notices, a number of European law offices and and anti-piracy companies suddenly find themselves on the other side of the gun: The German scene news site gulli.com asked local authorities to start criminal investigations against a well-known anti-piracy law office...

Pharmaceuticals Summary Judgment: Graceway v. River?s Edge

Posted on November 16, 2009
Graceway sells prescription benzoyl peroxide, Benziq, for treating acne. River?s Edge markets a benzoyl peroxide product, Benprox, created specifically to compete with Benziq. They?re both available as a 5.25% wash and 5.25% and 2.75% gel. Graceway sued over River?s Edge?s allegedly false and misleading promotion of Benprox as ?generically equivalent or otherwise substitutable? for [...

10 Rules for Law Firm Retreats: How to Maximize Productivity, Usefulness, and Fun

Posted on November 11, 2009
Whether your next law firm retreat takes place at a tropical location or in the firm?s conference room, there are several things to keep in mind to make it productive, useful and fun. Here are my Ten ?Rules? for law firm retreats. Feel free to add your own in the comments...

Vanity Fair Test Applied to the Lanham Act to Activities Abroad

Posted on November 07, 2009
I think this is an unusual decision, so if you know of similar ones, please send them along. A Southern District of New York court last week denied reconsideration of its refusal to dismiss a 43(a) false advertising claim arising from activities in Germany...

ReachWorks SecureVend Makes Second Life DRM: Can It Stop Content Theft?

Posted on November 04, 2009
A post on the Second Life blog Shopping Cart Disco pointed me to a new vendor system that hope to be able to stop a large part of the content theft and copyright infringement in its tracks. The new system, entitled ReachWorks SecureVend, changes the way people buy goods in game and makes it more difficult [...

Top 5 Tips For Dealing Successfully With Police Officers

Posted on October 23, 2009
I have had more opportunities to deal with police officers than most people, both as a collaborator on certain justice initiatives, as an adversary defending clients, and as a motorist with a penchant for fast cars. I also have several friends ?on the job? (I?ve been watching Law & Order, yo) with whom I?ve had [...

Invasion of Privacy With a Hidden Camera: Employer and Employee Law

Posted on October 05, 2009
Hoping to capture an evening intruder who surfed the Internet and viewed pornography on a work computer, a company installed a hidden camera to monitor the computer. The hidden camera was not turned on during the day when the employees were present – just at night in the hopes of catching the culprit...

Criminal Confused for an Attorney: How Ronald Tackman Escapes From Prison

Posted on October 03, 2009
Ordinarily – despite what so many of you are probably thinking right now – it is not that difficult to distinguish between lawyers and criminal suspects. Really. But I guess what we learn from this story is that it’s mostly because of the suit...

Using Internet Apps to Run, Manage, and Grow a High Volume Law Firm

Posted on September 29, 2009
Businesses have data to manage, documents to produce, and customers to invoice. Law firms are no different. I run my own traffic defense law firm. It?s a high-volume practice area, which means I have lots of clients at any given time. There are lots of client contracts and invoices going out and coming back from [...

Depression in the Legal Profession: Lawyers are the Most Likely to Be Depressed

Posted on September 24, 2009
Depression is a dangerous disease, and lawyers are more prone to it than members of any other profession. Consider these numbers: A 1990 study at Johns Hopkins University found that of 28 occupations studied, lawyers were the most likely to suffer depression, and were more than 3...

Puerto Rican Government Bans 5 Books for High Schoolers

Posted on September 22, 2009
The Department of Education of the government of Puerto Rico recently eliminated five books from the eleventh grade curriculum of the public school system: Antología Personal, by José Luis González; El Entierro de Cortijo, by Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá; Mejor Te Lo Cuento: Antología Personal, by Juan Antonio Ramos; Reunión de Espejos: An Anthology of [...

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